Nearly $60 billion in venture capital was deployed to the U.S. entrepreneurial ecosystem in 2015 to help grow innovative startup companies providing products and services ranging from cyber security technologies to online lending marketplaces to Web-based educational courses and everything in between.
Many of these companies and their predecessors are making great strides in advancing innovation around the globe, but that’s only a small part of the venture capital story and its impact on our lives, our society and our economy.
