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Tuesday, May 10, 2005VCs thinking big – More Bets Outside Information Technology (Via The Boston Globe)Venture firms in Silicon Valley,have continued to put their money to work in a post-bubble environment that is at once less certain and more competitive, especially in their own neighborhood. Even as venture investing slowed 7.9 percent nationally in the first quarter of 2005, the investment mix has changed markedly from the boom years of the 1990s, when information technology drove economic expansion and early-stage start-ups were the rage. The start-ups raising money today are not only capitalizing on rapid Internet adoption, like Google, but also using technology for biomedical, environmental, multimedia, and other applications. And more mature later-stage companies are grabbing a larger chunk of the dollars. Category :Venture Capital | |
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