The survey showed a sharp decline in funding in the first quarter. Blood dries starapov. Venture capitalization declined sharply in the first quarter, according to a recent survey of entrepreneurs conducted by. by. MoneyTree. To be published today. In New England from January to March, the company received investments worth 375.7 million. Doll. The U.S. which is 55 % less than a year ago for the same period and 51 % less than in the fourth quarter. ... The deterioration reflects the collapse of the national venture capital financing,. deepening of the recession, financial crisis and other factors that complicate the venture firms get new money from investors and virtually impossible for private companies to enter the initial public offering (IPO).
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Within the limits of U.S. companies have received about 3 billion. Venture money in the first quarter, a decrease of 61% over last year in the first quarter and 47 % lower fourth-quarter results. This is the lowest in the scale of New England and the United States as a whole from 1997. The survey was based on data collected. Thomson. Reuters.
Biotechnology and software are two of the most attractive sectors for funding and in New England and the United States as a whole. In New England biotechnology closed 40% of transactions, and software 25%. But investments were slow, only 67 deals signed venture deals in New England for the last quarter is less than last year more than half.
Only four companies have raised more than 20 million. USD. and more: BioVex Group Inc. , -based company for production of vaccines received 40 million. USD. ; Proteon Therapeutics Inc. company for the production of renal and vascular disease, broke into 25 million. USD. ; Genocea Biosciences Inc. The company earlier stage of the Cambridge vaccine production took 23 million. USD. ; Ze-Gen Inc. The company is developing fuel- waste was 20 million. USD.
But other firms engaged in green forms of energy were not so lucky. Once in the U.S. was 1.1 billion Connected. USD. in clean energy in the first quarter of 2008, venture capital firms confined 154 million. USD. last quarter.
Noubar Afeyan (Noubar Afeyan) Managing Partner of Flagship Ventures, a Boston company, said that this sector has blown up like a dot-com bubble in the past. ...
Although John Taylor (John Taylor), Vice - President of the National Venture Association (National Venture Capital Association), said. that in the second quarter performance of venture funding will be better t. to. Some deal is rumored to have been moved from the first quarter to the second. ... Taylor, ...
Source:. http://www. boston. com/business/articles/2009/04/18/little_ventured_for_start_ups /.
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