NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- 2014 was a very good year for companies that got their start with private funding, or venture capital. Some 738 companies either went public or were acquired outright last year -- up 43% from a year ago, according to The 2014 Venture Capital report by CB Insights, which runs a venture capital database. The total valuation of these so called exit deals reached about $131 billion, up 28%.
