RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – North Carolina-based companies raised a total of $956.3 million in venture capital investments in 2017, a 35 percent increase over 2016’s $706 million.
While 2015’s $1.3 billion remains the largest venture capital investment year in recent memory, 2017’s uptick could mean the sharp drop in investments during 2016 was an anomaly, not the beginning of a downward trend. However, trends take years to bear out, so only time will tell whether 2017 is part of an upward trend or a standalone increase.
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