Second Quarter Venture Capital Report By Money Tree; NVCA ...

Second quarter 2011 stats from the July MoneyTree-NVCA report came out Wednesday. the data could get tongues wagging about Internet and other bubbles, but the NVCA?s own analysis runs counter to that view.

While Q2 Internet investment was the highest in 10 years [like that's a bad thing], the numbers are nowhere near the 2000 bubble inducing levels. In the first quarter of 2000 venture capital firms pumped in $13.6 billion split between 977 companies.

This year?s Q2 Internet investment total was split just 275 ways, and the total pot was $2.3 billion. the comparison is part of the reasoning behind the NVCA insisting that current Internet investing is overall pretty healthy. if anything the numbers could be viewed as too low for good health, but certainly it isn?t the classical bubble model, usually denoted by a stampede for tulips.

Also noteworthy in the report are the sector results for medical devices and biotech [life-sciences]. the space once ruled the entrepreneurial field but has taken a backseat for funding the Internet and other areas for some time. But the sector is showing strong signs of life which many are prematurely also decrying as a bubble.

Q2 saw a significant jolt into the life-sciences category with $2.1 billion split by 212 deals. the numbers are an improvement, but isn?t that what we?re hoping for? They are certainly not bubble type numbers considering, as the NVCA points out, that a large percentage of life-sciences deals this year are later stage.

Truth is VCs are more worried about exiting with portfolio companies already on board rather than in scooping up all the newbie bio-techs with just a hint of value.?Bubbles? what bubbles?

Second Quarter Venture Capital Report By Money Tree; NVCA

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Source: http://www.business4noobs.com/second-quarter-venture-capital-report-by-money-tree-nvca/

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