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Venture-Net Partners specialize in private equity offerings for start-up and
other early-stage ventures.
Our Mission
Our mission is to facilitate the capitalization and development of viable business opportunities from start-up through a successful initial public offering or acquisition by a publicly-traded company. Our Market
During calendar year 2007, U.S. venture capital funds invested a total of $29.4 billion in 3,813 deals, an increase of 10.8 percent over 2006 levels and the highest total dollar amount since 2001 according to The MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data from Thompson Financial.
Despite the financial turmoil precipitated by the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
fueled sub-prime mortgage fiasco of 2008, total U.S. venture capital activity
still exceeded $28 billion for the year.
Following the election of the least market liberal president in U.S. history,
venture capital activity in the United States plummeted with approximately $3.2 billion invested in Q1 2009,
$3.7 billion in Q2 and $4.8 billion in Q3.
Total activity of U.S.-based venture funds is now projected to top out for 2009 at
less than $16 billion, about half that of 2008 and substantially less
than during any calendar year of the past decade.
Still, some, like Tracy Lefteroff, managing partner of the venture capital
practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, see the upturn in Q3 investments as a move
in the right direction,
"The increase in venture capital investing this quarter is
very encouraging. We're likely to see the pace of investing continue to
strengthen over the next several quarters.”
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