{"id":2629,"date":"2011-01-03T10:39:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T15:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2014-07-18T21:47:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T01:47:12","slug":"ipos-mergers-for-venture-funded-companies-gain-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=2629","title":{"rendered":"IPOs, Mergers for Venture-Funded Companies Gain in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1304\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Calculator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1304\" title=\"Calculator\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Calculator.jpg\" alt=\"Calculator keys (Investor.gov)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Calculator.jpg 300w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Calculator-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Investor.gov)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The number and value of exit deals &#8212; where enterprises backed by venture capital (VC) become financially self-sustaining &#8212; increased sharply in 2010, compared to 2009.\u00a0 The compilation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dowjones.com\/pressroom\/releases\/2010\/01032010-USExits-0096.asp\">Dow Jones VentureSource <\/a>shows 514 exit deals took place in 2010 a 25 percent increase, with those deals netting $39.3 billion, a jump of 72 percent compared to 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Both annual numbers for 2010 are still down, however, compared to pre-recession levels. In 2007, VC-backed companies recorded 613 deals, bringing in $69.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers of both main types of exit deals &#8212; initial public offerings (IPOs) and mergers &amp; acquisitions (M&amp;As) &#8212; increased in 2010. The 46 IPOs in 2010 represent more than a five-fold increase over the 8 IPOs in 2009. IPOs in 2010 brought in $3.4 billion compared to $903 million in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, 445 M&amp;A transactions took place, a 17 percent increase, raising nearly $34 billion, a gain of 62 percent compared to 2009. While it took a little less time in 2010 for a VC-backed company to achieve liquidity through an M&amp;A deal in 2010 &#8212; median of 5.2 years in 2010 compared to 5.5 years in 2009 &#8212; it took somewhat longer to get liquidity through an IPO. It took enterprises backed by VCs a median time of 8.1 years in 2010, up from 7.9 years in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=1269\">VC Mergers\/Acquisitions Rebound, IPOs Drop in Q3 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number and value of exit deals &#8212; where enterprises backed by venture capital (VC) become financially self-sustaining &#8212; increased sharply in 2010, compared to 2009.\u00a0 The compilation by Dow Jones VentureSource shows 514 exit deals took place in 2010 a 25 percent increase, with those deals netting $39.3 billion, a jump of 72 percent [&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":[74,23,24,122,12,19],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","tag-entrepreneurs","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\/2629","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=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18230,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/18230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}