{"id":1269,"date":"2010-10-01T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2014-07-18T21:48:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T01:48:03","slug":"vc-mergersacquisitions-rebound-ipos-drop-in-q3-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"VC Mergers\/Acquisitions Rebound, IPOs Drop in Q3 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CircleBenjamins_Photos8_200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142\" title=\"CircleBenjamins_Photos8_200\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CircleBenjamins_Photos8_200.jpg\" alt=\"$100 bills in a circle (Photos8.com)\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CircleBenjamins_Photos8_200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CircleBenjamins_Photos8_200-150x149.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photos8.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The number and value of U.S. disclosed venture capital (VC) exit deals in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvca.org\/index.php?option=com_docman&amp;task=doc_download&amp;gid=646&amp;Itemid=93\">third quarter of 2010<\/a> showed a mixed pattern compared to the second quarter of 2010, with more mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;As) of VC-backed properties, but somewhat fewer initial public offerings (IPOs) of company stock. Exit deals &#8212; either M&amp;As or IPOs &#8212; represent the transactions that generate returns for VC investors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/\">Thomson Reuters<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvca.org\/\">National Venture Capital Association<\/a> compile and report these data collected by Dow-Jones VentureSource.<\/p>\n<p>The third quarter of 2010 had 104 VC-backed M&amp;A deals compared to 97 in the second quarter, and significantly more than the 69 deals in the third quarter of 2009. The 27 M&amp;A deals that disclosed their value totaled more than $3.8 billion in the third quarter, 31 percent more than the previous quarter and well more than double the $1.4 billion total value of deals a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Most (82) of the 104 M&amp;A deals involved information technology companies, with the other 22 split between life science (14) and non-technology (8) companies.<\/p>\n<p>The number of venture-backed IPOs, however, dropped from 17 in the second quarter to 14 in the third quarter, with their total value easing from $1.27 billion in the second quarter to $1.25 billion by the end of September 2010. But the 14 IPOs in the third quarter 2010 well outpaced the 3 IPOs a year earlier &#8212; there were only 12 VC-backed IPOs in all of 2009. The $1.25 billion value of IPOs in the third quarter of 2010 also more than doubled the $572 million value of the three deals a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>More than half, 8 of the 14, IPOs involved information technology companies, with the remaining 6 divided between life science (4) and non-technology (2) companies.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=141\">Science Sectors Help Power 2Q Jump in Venture Financing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number and value of U.S. disclosed venture capital (VC) exit deals in the third quarter of 2010 showed a mixed pattern compared to the second quarter of 2010, with more mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;As) of VC-backed properties, but somewhat fewer initial public offerings (IPOs) of company stock. Exit deals &#8212; either M&amp;As or IPOs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,24,122,12,19],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","tag-equity","tag-investment","tag-ipo","tag-merger","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18231,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/18231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}