According to Dow Jones VentureSource, estimate values of venture capital financed enterprises was up 19% in Q4 2010 versus the same period in 2009. Overall for 2010 (all quarters) the estimate values were up 23% over 2009 totals. The venture numbers significantly beat the Dow U.S. overall index for total stock market gains. Those numbers were plus 12% for Q4 and plus 17% for the year 2010 respectively.
Overall for 2010 $28.5 billion was invested by VCs in 2,874 deals. While representing a 17% increase for the year, it also represented an 8% increase in the number of companies that were backed. This is significant in that detractors from the view that the venture capital environment is currently much friendlier have pointed to total number of companies getting financing as down or flat.
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Author:Joseph Wise
