Morning Report: All signals point up today, something that we should note for posterity.

Our cycle of quarterly coverage of all things venture capital is at an end, which means that I have the high pleasure of recapping dozens of charts and thousands of words into something short and digestible.

Here, we’re going to find out how hungry parent companies are to provide liquidity to their very own CVCs. However, for context, let’s first determine which CVCs see the most exits via acquisition.

Morning Report: Equifax sheds 21% of its market cap since it disclosed the hack.

Looking at the number of exits produced and the total dollar volume those liquidity events commanded, the European startup scene has shown growth over the past year.

Is fundraising and exiting seasonal? To attempt an answer, we dug into Crunchbase data to see if this summer was indeed an unusually slow period.

Is it red states or blue states that account for most of the funds raised by startups from venture capitalists, seed funds, and angel investors? That’s what we’re going to attempt to answer today.

Last weekend, Crunchbase News explored which U.S.-based schools mint the most unicorns. While digging through the alma maters of VC-backed entrepreneurs, we found another interesting phenomenon: some of the most-heavily-funded companies in Asia happen to have founders who went to schools in the U.S.