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April 30, 2010
Survey: Valley VCs Are Done Being Done The Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index is a quarterly survey of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area produced by researchers at the University of San Francisco.
The latest report says, “An improved exit environment is increasing liquidity opportunities for venture firms and providing better returns to limited partners …. Further, disruptive market opportunities are being exploited by venture-backed firms, making them attractive acquisition targets by corporations who may have cut their R&D budgets … and are now flush with cash.” (source: The New York Times - Subscription Required) |
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April 16, 2010
VC dips in Q1, but biotech still leads the pack The biotech industry raised almost $825 million in 99 venture capital deals in the first quarter of 2010, according to data released by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. Biotech boasted the highest level of funding for all industries in the quarter, but it's a sharp drop-off from 2009 levels ( chart ). 2010 investing dropping 26 percent in dollars and 21 percent in deals from the prior quarter to $1.3 billion going into 160 deals, when $1.1 billion went into 115 deals. (source: Fierce Biotech) |
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April16 , 2010
Venture Capitalists Continue to Take It Slow The venture capital industry seems to need a bit longer to recover after last year, when Silicon Valley froze in response to the economic uncertainty. Though there have been some recent signs of a thaw and a sense of new activity and optimism in the Valley, it turns out that investment in start-ups in the first quarter was down. (source: The New York Times - Subscription Required) |
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April 14, 2010
Deal Outlook Is Rosy Ahead of Tulane M&A Conference Deal-makers are feeling good about their business again ahead of Tulane University Law School's annual Corporate Law Institute in New Orleans, which begins Thursday. (source: The New York Times - Subscription Required) |
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| April 13 , 2010
Start-ups Win With Plans to Displace Disposables Companies that provide environmentally sensible alternatives to old, destructive forms of lighting, batteries and paper goods won top awards at a business-plan competition held this weekend in Washington, D.C., by the William James Foundation , an organization that encourages socially responsible for-profits. (source: The New York Times - Subscription Required) |
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March 12, 2010
Support Network Seeks to Grow Biotech Companies Dr. Boris Pasche had worked for years with a battery-operated device to treat insomnia, but as he followed his research, he discovered that electromagnetic radiation from the apparatus might slow or stop tumor growth in some cancer patients, and he thought he could perhaps build a business around the idea. (source: The New York Times - Subscription Required) |
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March 5, 2010
New York Isn't Silicon Valley. That's Why They Like It The two dozen or so people arranged around wooden tables, warming their hands and bellies with steaming mugs of coffee and plates of homemade biscuits, looked like just another Sunday brunch set in New York. But members of this group had braved knee-deep snow to gab about cutting-edge ideas and as they introduced themselves the roll call sounded like a Who's Who of digital start-ups: Foursquare, Hot Potato, Six Apart, Flickr, Flavorpill, Trust Art, Vimeo. (source: The New York Times - Subscription Required) |
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January 29, 2010
I.P.O. Market Begins to Regain Its Luster The I.P.O. pipeline in the United States is filling up as companies once afraid of braving the capital markets are now lining up to for initial public offerings. A fair number of these companies, especially in the financial industry, are looking to spin off businesses at lucrative prices. (source: The New York Times - Subscription Required) |
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December 23, 2009
After Dry Year, Start-Ups Are Poised to Get Cash After a dismal 2009, venture capitalists are preparing to ramp up their investments, injecting much-needed cash into start-ups. Some venture-capital firms have loosened their purse strings in recent weeks and are starting to invest new money. That has resulted in several deals, such as last month's $52 million infusion into social-networking advertising and software company RockYou Inc. and the $57 million invested in online textbook-rental service Chegg Inc. (source: The Wall Street Journal - Subscription Required) |
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December 16, 2009
Appetite for M&A Transactions is Surprisingly Healthy UBS Investment Bank and The Boston Consulting Group today published their 2nd annual M&A survey of European CEOs and senior executives. The survey is believed to be the most extensive of its kind in Europe. Responses from 166 CEOs and senior executives from across c.700 companies and 22 industries suggest that CEO appetite for M&A is surprisingly healthy. One in five companies (19%) expects to announce a significant deal (annual sales €500m+) in 2010. This compares with a more usual figure of 10% of companies doing significant deals at this point in the M&A cycle. (source: The Boston Consulting Group) |
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| December 7, 2009
Healthcare Deals are still out there There was tremendous consolidation in healthcare during the first three quarters. While we tracked the big ones, such as Pfizer Inc.'s acquisition of Wyeth, Merck & Co.'s acquisition of Schering-Plough Corp. and Roche Holding AG's buyout of biotech group Genentech Inc., the middle market was coming together as well. (source: The Deal - Subscription Required) |
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September 10, 2009
IPOs: A new path to recovery In 1991, when the U.S. economy was climbing out of a moderately deep recession, the sectors that led the recovery on the IPO front were business services, tech, retail and healthcare. It's looking rather different this time around, says a report from Renaissance Capital's IPOHome.com. It's all about investment vehicles and private equity firms looking for liquidity. (source: The Deal - Subscription Required) |
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August 13, 2009
Asia - An astonishing rebound Asia's emerging economies are leading the way out of recession; now they must make their recovery last. IT NEVER pays to underestimate the bounciness of Asia's emerging economies. After the region's financial crisis of 1997-98, and again after the dotcom bust in 2001, outsiders predicted a lengthy period on the floor—only for the tigers to spring back rapidly. (source: The Economist - Subscription Required) |
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