Venture investments in the United States in the second quarter were set at the level of the mid-1990s
translation of the article by Erick Schonfeld from www.techcrunch.com
July 20, 2009
Venture investments in startups launched in the United States in the second quarter of 2009, according to the latest MoneyTree Report , published by the PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, stabilized at $ 3.7 billion. Of course, this is still only half of what was a year ago (in the second quarter of last year, investments amounted to 7.2 billion US dollars), but 15% more than a quarter earlier , in which the lowest point in recent years was reached. , 5 billion US dollars. As a result, venture capital investments today are at the level of the mid-1990s, and this, seriously speaking, is not bad at all.
The average transaction increased slightly and amounted to about $ 6 million, an increase from 5.3 million a quarter earlier. In contrast to the previous quarters, when investors preferred to invest in already operating businesses, funds once again revived, ready to communicate with startups from the very early stages of the project.
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However, the revival, so to speak, has not yet reached the Internet sector. Transactions in it in this quarter amounted to only 524 million US dollars, down from 593 million in the first quarter of 2009 and 1.7 billion dollars a year earlier. The technology sector, too, is not experiencing a renaissance, having declined to 911 million a year ago, to today's 274 million US dollars. Most of the deals were made in the biotechnology sector and the development of medical technology, investment in which jumped to 88 million and 628 million US dollars, respectively.
Please note that the article uses data from only one source (mainly from Thomson Reuters). TechCrunch has slightly different numbers, and in CrunchBase we take into account data on transactions for about twice the amount. We will soon share this data.
July 20, 2009
Venture investments in startups launched in the United States in the second quarter of 2009, according to the latest MoneyTree Report , published by the PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, stabilized at $ 3.7 billion. Of course, this is still only half of what was a year ago (in the second quarter of last year, investments amounted to 7.2 billion US dollars), but 15% more than a quarter earlier , in which the lowest point in recent years was reached. , 5 billion US dollars. As a result, venture capital investments today are at the level of the mid-1990s, and this, seriously speaking, is not bad at all.
The average transaction increased slightly and amounted to about $ 6 million, an increase from 5.3 million a quarter earlier. In contrast to the previous quarters, when investors preferred to invest in already operating businesses, funds once again revived, ready to communicate with startups from the very early stages of the project.
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However, the revival, so to speak, has not yet reached the Internet sector. Transactions in it in this quarter amounted to only 524 million US dollars, down from 593 million in the first quarter of 2009 and 1.7 billion dollars a year earlier. The technology sector, too, is not experiencing a renaissance, having declined to 911 million a year ago, to today's 274 million US dollars. Most of the deals were made in the biotechnology sector and the development of medical technology, investment in which jumped to 88 million and 628 million US dollars, respectively.
Please note that the article uses data from only one source (mainly from Thomson Reuters). TechCrunch has slightly different numbers, and in CrunchBase we take into account data on transactions for about twice the amount. We will soon share this data.
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