Despite hiccups in the IPO and M&A markets, venture capitalists were still mighty busy in 2011. Investors in privately-held companies sunk $30.6 billion in 3,051 companies last year, the largest dollar and deal total in the past 10 years, according to a report out today from CB Insights.
Just by comparison, in 2010 VCs invested $23.7 billion in 2,792 deals. The boom in venture capital investing led CB Insights to predict that the “bubble talk will shift into overdrive.”
Perhaps that’s the case in New York or California or Massachusetts, each of which saw upticks in fourth quarter investing over the previous period in 2010.
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