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In mid-July, we’ll be issuing our Q2 2010 venture capital activity report (here is the Q1 2010 venture capital activity report). With 2 of the 3 months of the quarter behind us, we wanted to highlight a few interesting observations the data is revealing by comparing the first 2 months of Q1 vs. Q2. Below are the early winners & losers in the quarter.
Continue reading “Q2 2010 Venture Capital Preview – Winners: NY, Seed VC, eCommerce, Solar and Losers: Mass, Healthcare, Series A” »
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CB Insights data on private companies is used by various media partners – one of them being Xconomy. On a regular basis, we provide a list of lesser known and generally smaller deals to our friends at Xconomy. In case you missed their monthly posts, here is a recap of many of the the New England equity deals uncovered over the past few months.
Continue reading “Massachusetts and the Greater New England Area’s Under the Radar Financing Deals” »
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Private companies pulled in over $500 million in funding this past week, setting up the second quarter for a strong finish. The geographic breakdown of the week’s funding saw the usual suspects of California, Massachusetts and New York, returning once again to the top three positions. The top 5 funding league table was rounded out by Texas and newcomer Michigan. Texas has made several showings in our weekly top 5 listing over the past few months, and currently ranks fourth in total cumulative funding over the past fourteen weeks. Interactive charts on the past week’s dealflow are below (may take a second to load). To see profiles on the private companies receiving funding in the last week, logon to CB Insights.
Continue reading “Private Company Financing Dealflow – 101 Companies Raise $516.3M (Week of June 19, 2010)” »
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Within the software sector, healthcare focused software has been showing increasing life over the last three quarters as the graph below demonstrates.
Continue reading “Healthcare IT & Software Venture Capital Investment Showing a Pulse. Massachusetts Provides the Adrenaline.” »
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Venture capitalists and angel investors are not the only ones engaged in investing in early-stage companies. To spur entrepreneurship, CB Insights also track state-run innovation grant programs which are ‘investing’ in early-stage, scalable companies. The investment from these state-run programs comes in the form of grants primarily since the goals for these state-driven programs is job creation and local economic development versus equity investment returns.
Over the last five quarters, the following five states have done the most investments in early-stage, scalable innovative companies:
Continue reading “Top Five States Providing Grants to Entrepreneurs to Spur Early-Stage Innovation (And Many are Off the Beaten Path)” »
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Private company financing picked up momentum last week with an increase in both deal volume and funding, as deal volume was up more than 20%. California was the top-funded state this past week, followed by newcomer Wisconsin. The top 5 funding league table was rounded out by Massachusetts, New Jersey and Vermont. This was the first week that Vermont has made it to the top of the weekly table and the third return for New Jersey this year. New York failed to make a Top 5 appearance in our funding table for the third consecutive week, but did have the third highest number of deals last week. Interactive charts on the past week’s dealflow are below (may take a second to load). To see profiles on the private companies receiving funding in the last week, logon to CB Insights.
Continue reading “Private Company Financing Dealflow – 129 Companies Raise $423.4M (Week of June 12, 2010)” »
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Payments companies of all types, whether they are technologies to foster mobile payments, virtual goods payment enablers or payment platforms for social networks, have been a hot area for venture capital over the last several quarters. Investment in payments companies has grown for three straight quarters starting in Q2 2009 on both a deals and dollars basis.
Data on the venture capital investment trend in payments is given below over the last five quarters.
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Private company financing cooled off last week with a decline in both deal volume and funding, the lowest level of financing we have seen in the past six weeks. California and Massachusetts were the top-funded states this past week, followed by Pennsylvania, Texas and Minnesota. Texas ranks in the top 5 for a second straight week and both Pennsylvania and Minnesota funding reached a twelve week high. It should also be noted that New York once again failed to make a Top 5 appearance in our funding league table; however, the Empire state did have the second highest number of deals last week. So it would seem that deal activity is strong but financiers are making smaller bets. Interactive charts on the past week’s dealflow are below (may take a second to load). To see profiles on the private companies receiving funding in the last week, logon to CB Insights.
Continue reading “Private Company Financing Dealflow – 105 Companies Raise $375.8M (Week of June 5, 2010)” »
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As we’ve noted in our quarterly venture capital reports of the last several quarters, healthcare companies have consistently led the VC sector league tables. Within healthcare, the medical device industry has been the primary area of growth from a venture capital investment perspective.
Peeling back medical devices one more level down to CB Insights’ sub-industry level, we see the growth in medical devices has been driven by strong venture capital investment growth in surgical devices as can be seen in the data below.
Continue reading “Venture Capital Investment in Medical Devices Is Quite Surgical” »
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With the cost to build an internet business coming down, are venture capitalists increasingly making smaller seed investments in internet companies vs. traditional Series A investments? Based on recent data compiled by CB Insights, seed investments in internet companies are becoming more prevalent when it comes to early stage investing.
The data below illustrates the increase over the last 3 quarters in the % of seed deals vs Series A deals.
Continue reading “Is Seed the New Series A for Internet Venture Capital Investments? Does that Mean More Deals and Smaller Checks?” »
