CrunchBase Reveals: The Average Successful Startup Raises $25.3 Million, Sells For $196.8 Million Most investments fail but the few successful ones more than make all the money back — or so startup investors hope. But what sort of returns do these profitable exits bring in? According to a new analysis of all the exits listed in CrunchBase, the average successful company has raised $25.3 million, a
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