U.S. Venture Capital Investment 1995-2010 and Investment by State 2010

U.S. Venture Capital Investment 1995-2010 and Investment by State 2010
U.S. venture capitalists invested $21.8 billion in 2010, a 19.4 percent increase over 2009 and the first increase in venture investment since 2007, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and PricewaterhouseCoopers Moneytree Survey. The growth in activity affected nearly every industry, particularly clean energy software and Internet-specific companies. Early stage investments, though not seed stage investments, grew by double-digits as did first-time financings. Venture capital (VC) returns also have begun to improve for the 3, 5 and 10-year horizons, according to the Cambridge Associates and NVCA. SSTI has prepared two tables: one showing U.S. VC dollar investment, per capita dollars, deals and average deal size from 1995-2010, and another with 2010 totals by state, share of the national total, deals per million residents and dollar amount per capita. Read more …

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