Venture Capital Investments in U.S. Fall 10.2%
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Apr 20, 2012
758 companies received $5.752 billion in venture capital backed investment in the first quarter, down from $6.407 billion invested in the same period last year according to the National Venture Capital Association.
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1Q 4Q QOQ% 1Q YOY% % of
2012 2011 Change 2011 Change Total
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----------Dollar Amounts are in $ Millions----------
Total $5,752 $6,566 -12.4% $6,407 -10.2% 100.0%
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Software $1,647 $1,764 -6.6% $1,197 37.6% 28.6%
Biotechnology $780 $1,275 -38.8% $911 -14.4% 13.6%
Industrial $778 $884 -11.9% $1,043 -25.4% 13.5%
Media and Entertain $687 $498 38.0% $660 4.0% 11.9%
Consumer Products $418 $294 42.1% $145 188.6% 7.3%
Med. devices/equip. $399 $377 5.9% $602 -33.6% 6.9%
IT Services $347 $449 -22.6% $603 -42.4% 6.0%
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1Q 4Q QOQ% 1Q YOY% % of
2012 2011 Change 2011 Change Total
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Semiconductors $199 $315 -36.7% $311 -35.9% 3.5%
Telecommunications $172 $129 33.3% $189 -8.7% 3.0%
Networking $67 $69 -3.6% $119 -43.8% 1.2%
Financial $55 $99 -44.1% $130 -57.3% 1.0%
Computer Peripherals $48 $142 -66.2% $56 -14.5% 0.8%
Retailing $48 $95 -50.1% $16 196.5% 0.8%
Business Products $48 $24 101.1% $20 139.7% 0.8%
Electronics $36 $91 -59.8% $320 -88.6% 0.6%
Healthcare $18 $60 -69.4% $61 -70.1% 0.3%
Other $4 $3 48.0% $24 -81.4% 0.1%
See next page for number of deals.
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1Q 4Q 3Q 2Q 1Q 4Q
2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010
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---------- Number of Deals (by industry) -----------
Total 758 844 876 1015 834 848
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Software 231 238 263 267 212 251
Biotechnology 99 111 96 120 104 108
Med. devices/equip. 76 99 112 139 88 83
Media and Entertain 72 73 74 94 84 80
IT Services 69 97 79 87 80 75
Industrial 58 58 75 90 77 72
Consumer Products 32 24 27 35 28 26
Semiconductors 26 32 26 26 24 24
Telecommunications 21 26 34 30 36 31
Business Products 15 11 15 25 19 18
Electronics 12 10 20 19 19 14
Networking 11 8 7 23 17 14
Financial 10 14 11 17 16 15
Computer Peripherals 9 14 9 14 7 17
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1Q 4Q 3Q 2Q 1Q 4Q
2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010
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Retailing 7 11 10 19 8 6
Healthcare 6 13 11 8 11 9
Other 4 5 7 2 4 5
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SOURCE: National Venture Capital Association
http://www.nvca.org
To contact the reporter on this story: Stephen Rose in Washington at srose31@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Marco Babic at mbabic@bloomberg.net