Capturing the Growth of Venture-Backed Companies
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Private, venture-backed companies are no longer just early-stage startups. They’re global innovators, scaling fast and staying private longer. From AI to space tech, many of today’s most transformative companies aren’t listed, leaving a significant gap for public-market investors.
The MSCI All Country Venture-Backed Private Company Indexes are designed to bring structure, transparency and access to this formerly elusive, rapidly evolving asset class.
What’s inside the paper?- How MSCI identifies and tracks top private firms backed by venture capital
- Why traditional benchmarks have fallen short in capturing the rapid growth in this space
- How the MSCI All Country Venture-backed Top 50 Index has stacked up against global public equity markets
Date range is Feb. 28, 2023, to May 30, 2025. Returns are gross total return in USD.
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