socalTECH
MAY 21, 2009
The Angel Capital Association reported this week that investing activity by angel investments groups dropped by nine percent between 2008 and 2007, and 40 percent of angel groups expect overall investment to decrease again this year. Individual group totals were not broken out.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 24, 2014
I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. I have huge confidence in the companies that I’ve backed that are still active. years ago.
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socalTECH
JANUARY 20, 2009
Venture capital fundraising activity dropped significantly in Q4, according to a report released Monday by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The report, which tracks the fundraising activity of venture capital firms, found that there was $3.4 billion raised in Q4 of 2007.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. They also make M&A activity more difficult and with lower outcomes. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008.
socalTECH
JANUARY 23, 2009
PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3 billion was invested in 3,808 deals in the fourth quarter of 2008. billion and 407 deals in 2008. in 37 deals in 2007. billion in 818 deals, down from $7.3 in 10 deals.
socalTECH
JUNE 8, 2011
But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. It looks like a lot of your execs have background at Active Network? Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. As part of that, I built a ton of relationships at Active.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
Zac Brandenberg: The company was founded in late 2007 by Adam and Donna Powell. They launched this business in 2007, with the concept of building another virtual world and large scale game. So, we refocused in late 2008 and early 2009, and launched Island Paradise in August of that year. How did the firm start?
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