{"id":2779,"date":"2011-01-12T10:29:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T15:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2011-01-12T10:29:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T15:29:33","slug":"2010-venture-fund-raising-drops-to-seven-year-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=2779","title":{"rendered":"2010 Venture Fund Raising Drops to Seven-Year Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CashMoney_200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-291\" title=\"CashMoney_200\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CashMoney_200.jpg\" alt=\"Loose bills of multiple=\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CashMoney_200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CashMoney_200-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dowjones.com\/pressroom\/releases\/2010\/01122011-4QVCFund-0102.asp\">Dow Jones LP Source<\/a>, venture capital (VC) companies in 2010 raised $11.6 billion in 119 funds, a decline of 14 percent compared to the $13.5 billion raised by 133 funds in 2009, and the lowest amount raised in seven years. VCs have been among the traditional equity funders of start up science and technology companies.<\/p>\n<p>The drop in fund raising was particularly steep in the fourth quarter of 2010, where 15 funds brought in $2.4 billion, a 48 percent decrease compared to the same quarter in 2009. The decline in VC fund raising reflects a similar weakness in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dowjones.com\/pressroom\/releases\/2010\/01122011-4QPEFund-0101.asp\">broader private equity markets<\/a> that include VCs. According to Dow Jones LP Source, 336 private equity funds raised $86 billion in 2010, down 16% from 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Late-stage funds &#8212; those that provide financial support for newer companies with more of a track record &#8212; were the only bright spot in the report. Eight late-stage funds raised $1.5 billion in 2010, a 68 percent jump from the $887 million raised by nine funds in 2009. In the fourth quarter of 2010, late-stage funds raised $390 million, nearly tripling the amount raised during the same period in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Among the early-stage VCs, 73 early-stage funds brought in $4.8 billion in 2010, a 12 percent drop from 2009. Multi-stage funds, that support early- and late-stage companies, accounted for the majority of venture capital raised in 2010, with 38 funds collecting $5.4 billion, down 26 percent from 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=1435\">Fewer Venture Funds Raise More Capital 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>According to a report by Dow Jones LP Source, venture capital (VC) companies in 2010 raised $11.6 billion in 119 funds, a decline of 14 percent compared to the $13.5 billion raised by 133 funds in 2009, and the lowest amount raised in seven years. VCs have been among the traditional equity funders of start [&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":[74,23,24,19],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-equity","tag-investment","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","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=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}