Below is our recent data on private company funding trends for the week ended June 5, 2010 and a couple of other interesting data points. Do let me know if any questions or if we can be of assistance in any way.
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Slowest Dealfow Week in 6 Weeks - 105 Pvt Cos Raise $375.8M (Week of 6/5/10)
After a slew of strong weeks of private company financing activity, the week ending June 5th saw financiers take a break. Cali and Mass held strong. NY dipped on a dollars basis but held strong on deals indicating smaller deal sizes. An unusual suspect, Minnesota, entered the top five during the week as well reaching a twelve week high. Interactive charts to dissect the dealfow by week and by geography are available in the post.
Take me to Interactive Funding Charts & Data
Medical Device Investment Very Surgical. The healthcare sector has been the big dollar winner amongst venture capital investments for the last many quarters. We'd previously highlighted that this uptick has been driven by medical device investment. We dove a bit deeper into the medical device industry to look at it by CB Insights sub-industries and noticed that surgical devices are the primary driver of the increase in medical device venture investment over the last 6 years. To see how the data for various medical device sub-industries stack up against one another, click the link below.
See How Surgical Medical Device VC Investment Has Grown
GigaOm and Chris Dixon Comment on Our Seed vs. Series A Data.Our Seed vs. Series A data stimulated a fair amount of conversation on Twitter (btw, we're @cbinsights on Twitter) and in the blogosphere. Check out some of the commentary offered by GigaOm which features our data and some commentary from angel investor Chris Dixon in the article entitled "Seed Deals Account for 26% of Early Stage Web Investments".
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Payday. Venture Capitalists Increasingly Investing in Payments. Payments companies as tracked by CB Insights are seeing increased investment activity by venture investors. A variety of virtual goods payment enablers, mobile payment companies and payment platforms for social networks have been the beneficiaries in the new payments uptrend. Is the payments industry investment uptick one that will strengthen and what does it mean for the incumbents in the payments space. |