A comparison of growth in traditional search funds raised over time, by country

redacted‌ and I are obviously interested in how the search fund scene is evolving in Brazil, given we're raising a fund, and I often compare and contrast Brazil with Australia given my roots there.

It occurred to us that it would be interesting to compare the evolution of a number of the key and emerging countries, and the release of the latest reports from GSB and IESE provided the stimulus.

Here's the result:

Almost all data is derived from the GSB and IESE studies, with a couple of missing dates sourced from searchfunder.com and google. The second and thrid graphs are just a zoom on the first, so that the data for countries other than the US & Canada is easier to read.

This is more or less a repost from my recent post on LinkedIn but we've included new data series, for Germany, France and Italy, in addition to the series that were already posted for the US & Canada, UK, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Australia.