Entries tagged "NVCA"

What is the difference between 4B and B? What's the difference between the startup ecosystems of Silicon Valley and the Washington Region? 0B of cash invested since 1995.  Region  Total Invested $ % of Tot Silicon Valley 4,982,422,400 34.21% New England ,886,136,600 12.00% NY Metro ,031,940,200 8.33% Southeast ,960,796,700 6.47% LA/Orange County ,791,224,000 6.43% Texas ,459,483,500 5.45% Midwest ,012,304,300 5.00% DC/Metroplex ,784,175,600 4.58% Northwest ,019,941,600 3.89% San Diego ,839,895,400 3.67% Colorado ,783,578,300 2.92% Philadelphia Metro ,322,572,900 2.65% SouthWest ,749,248,000 1.62% North Central ,726,799,200 1.61% South Central ,285,416,600 0.42% Upstate NY ,037,316,200 0.38% Sacramento/N.Cal ,334,596,100 0.25% AK/HI/PR 5,002,300 0.11% Unknown 3,587,600 0.02% Grand Total 0,706,437,500 100.00% Source: Source:  PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree™ Report, Data: ... Read More

863 US companies raised .9B dollars in Q1, down 14% from the 1,013 companies that raised .7B in Q4 2012.  DC jumped from 10th place to 8th, largely on the strength of the 4M raised by distressed Living Social (0) and M for Intrexon (See: The DMV has 2 of... Read More

13 years ago in 2000, 635 Venture Capital funds raised 6 Billion (with a Big B). In 2012 1/3 that number, 206 funds raised B. Last quarter 35 funds raised B. The least amount of funds to raise any money since the third quarter of 2009 when 32 companies raised... Read More

Any way you look at it VCs are suffering an exit dearth. For Venture Capitalists Q1 2013 was an exit nuclear winter. Down in numbers and significantly down in dollars. IPOs raised 0M in Q1, down from .4B in Q4 2012 which wasn’t a banner year either. VCs count on exits... Read More

The 4th quarter 2012 was a weak quarter for raising VC money in the DC Region. In money terms Q4 was a 0M drop from the third quarter and M less than the same quarter 2011. A total of 39 companies received money in Q4 versus 48 in Q3 and... Read More

According to the National Capital Venture Association 2012 was a great year for companies raising capital in the Software industry and a horrible year for companies raising money in Financial Services. The Numbers Sector Dollars Deals % of  $ Software ,717,826,600 433 37% Media and Entertainment 7,891,100 176 15% Biotechnology 8,267,100 73 6% IT Services 0,981,700 108 9% Industrial/Energy 3,986,700 68 6% Medical Devices and Equipment 5,794,900 62 5% Consumer Products and Services 6,046,800 79 7% Telecommunications 9,056,700 35 3% Semiconductors ,748,800 12 1% Healthcare Services ,335,000 15 1% Electronics/Instrumentation ,165,900 11 1% Retailing/Distribution ,790,500 22 1% Computers and Peripherals ,450,000 10 1% Business Products and Services ,443,500 12 1% Networking and... Read More

DC Ventrure Capital Investing is back to 1995 pre-dot.com bubble. How does that compare to the national numbers? The DC Trend isn't that far off of the national trend. Source: National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and PWC Money Tree ... Read More

Venture Capital Investment was off slightly by Billion dollars this year from .5 Billion in 2011 to .5 Billion in 2012. Regionally Silicon Valley retained their supremacy and dominance garnering Billion or 41% of the total. In fact the next 5 regions together didn’t quite equal the Silicon... Read More

No DC area Venture Capital firm made the list of the top twenty deal doers for Q3. Silicon Valley-based NEA a large DC reginal precence came in tied for 2nd place completing 29 deals in the quarter.  Grotech, the top pure local VC deal doer for Q3 completed 8 deals... Read More

The DC region remained the 8th highest funding region in the country this quarter as it has been for at least the past 8 quarters. 47 DC companies raised 6M in Q3. That’s the highest number of companies receiving funding since 50 companies raised 2M in Q2 2010. Last quarters funding... Read More

  How has risk tolerance changed by DC Venture Capitalists in the last 3 quarters? In Q4 2011 Virginia's CIT made 1 seed stage investment as did Maryland's DBED fund.  Last quarter CIT made 2 seed stage investments and New Atlantic Ventures made 1.  No DC firm made a seed stage... Read More

If you've been feeling like DC Venture Investors have an aversion to risk, last quarter's investments appear to bear that out.  In Q2 of 2012 DC Venture Capital firms were weighted to more mature expansion and later stage deals. No DC VCs invested in seed stage deals last quarter and... Read More

2 VCs with offices in DC woke up in Q2 of 2012. Boulder Ventures (Based in Boulder with offices in the DC region) made 2 total investments after 3 quarters of no investments and Updata who made 2 investments last quarter after 2 quarters of no investments. JMI continued a string... Read More

DC area Venture Capital participation investment in area companies represented 25 of the total 49 investments made in 33 local startups last quarter.  While on a percentage basis the 51% local transactions was only 2% higher than the prior quarter, on a deal basis there were 8 less local investors... Read More

The DC region had a not-so-hot, quarter in terms of area companies closing Venture Capital financing and you can't blame Virginia for that.  The Old Dominion carried the region raising 79% of all capital in the region versus Maryland's paltry 2nd place 13%. Here's the breakdown:     The Deals Company Ind Raised ST Stage Round Near Infinity Corporation  SW  ... Read More

The numbers don't lie. Here's the data as reported by VCs to the National Venture Capital Association reported by PWC MoneyTree and Reuters. Not all VCs report yet this is data and not notional. Numbers do not include pure Angel deals. ... Read More

The second quarter of 2012 saw Venture Capital investment rise by a Billion dollars over the prior quarter but was down a Billion over the same quarter of 2011.   Deals Dollars Q2 2012 898 7,044,491,600 Q2 2011 1,057 8,006,233,900 Difference -1,955 -961,742,300       Q2 2012 898 7,044,491,600 Q1 2012 809 6,043,837,500 Difference 89 1,000,654,100 Regionally Silicon Valley continues to outperform the next 8 regions combined in total investment dollars. The DC Region... Read More

When raising money, the trend is your friend. In the last 10 years, according to Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) money poured into Software and Biotech. Lately, no surprise the industrial/energy sector has heated up. The losers Business Products & Services, Networking Equipment and Telecom.... Read More

Q1 was a good quarter for venture funding in DC as venture capitalists reported investing 3M in 40 DC regional companies according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). That was a M increase from Q4 of last year and a .5M increase over Q1 2011. Nationally the numbers were down.... Read More

According to PWC MoneyTree, VCs in this government town are more risk averse then their bureaucratic government counterparts.  Actually it’s ex-Core Capital executive turned Energy Department Lending Czar, Jonathan Silver who took the fall for the government’s investment in Sylindra and proved government bureaucrats may have more tolerance for risk than... Read More

VCs based in DMV or with Offices in the DC region made over 270 investments last year with 90 investments made right here in their own backyards.  These firms made 68 investments in Q4 23 of those investments going to work in companies around the beltway. Last quarter... Read More

What DC regional companies closed on VC funding in the 4th quarter? Well according to the NVCA and PWC Moneytree there were 45 deals concluded with a total value of 9M. That ranks the Capital Region 8th, in dollars invested and 5th in deals of the regions tracked. Of the companies... Read More

How about that #10 undisclosed funded by undisclosed.  Seems kind of incestuous. CompanyStateAmountInvestorsDropboxCA $  250,000,200 Accel Partners,Benchmark Capital,Goldman, Sachs & Company,Greylock Partners,Index Ventures,Individuals,Institutional Venture Partners,RIT Capital Partners PLC,Sequoia CapitalBetter PlaceCA $  200,012,800 Ofer Hi-Tech,UBS Capital Corporation,Undisclosed Firm,Undisclosed Firm,Undisclosed Firm,Undisclosed Firm,Undisclosed Firm,VantagePoint Capital PartnersWhaleShark MediaTX $  150,000,000 Institutional Venture Partners,J.P. Morgan... Read More

2011 was a slightly off year for Venture-backed exits.  The first 2 quarters started out strong and well above 2010 levels only to drop off in the final two quarters.  In the first half of last year there were 36 IPOs well above the first half number from the prior... Read More

According to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters, Q3 was a big ouchie for venture capital firms.  In fact, only 5 venture-backed companies provided liquidity via IPO exits last quarter. This was down 77% from the 22 companies going public in Q2.  The last quarter was a heart breaker for venture capital managers who were... Read More

What has the DC VC world been up to lately? Well according to the PWC MoneyTree survey, the venture capitalists with offices in the DC region have continued to steadily invest.  At least that is true for the VCs who still exist.  According to prominent blogger and venture capitalist Mark Suster, in... Read More

According to the PWC MoneyTree Survey, 44 DC companies closed venture funding in Q2, which was an increase of 6 deals over the 38 companies funded in Q1 but less than the 51 companies funded in Q2 of 2010.  The total amount of money invested was a new recent high... Read More

Venture capital investment for Q2 2011 reached .5 billion spread over 966 deals, according to the MoneyTree™ Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA); the data was provided by Thomson Reuters. This is a 19% increase over the .3 billion and 814 deals closed in Q1.While... Read More

The DC region jumped from 6th place in dollars invested in local companies byVCs for the 2nd quarter of 2011  according to the MoneyTree™ Report fromPricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters.  In Q2 DC surpassed Texas and the Southeast who consistently garnish more cash then the... Read More

(as seen in Tech Cocktail)The numbers are out for venture capital fundraising for Q2 2011, and, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the data confirms the queasy feeling that entrepreneurs raising money have felt in their guts this year.In Q2 2011, only 37 funds raised money, which is the 2nd... Read More

(as seen in Tech Cocktail)The 2nd Quarter was a bright spot in an otherwise stuck-in-the-doldrums economy as 22 venture-backed companies opened with IPOs for a total value of .5 billion, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).   Q2 was the strongest quarter in dollar value since Q3 2001.M&A... Read More