The second quarter of the United States venture capital scale of 13.1 billion US dollars

According to foreign media reports, data from financial information service providers Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association show that in the second quarter the scale of venture capital in the United States 13 billion U.S. dollars, a new high since the Internet bubble burst in the early 20th century.

In the second quarter of this year, the number of venture capital investment transactions in the United States was 1,144, with total venture capital investment of 13 billion U.S. dollars, setting the highest level in the quarter after the first quarter of 2001. In the first quarter of 2001, venture capital investment in the United States was $ 13.1 billion. Although venture capital investment in the second quarter was comparable to that before the dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000s, there was not much start-up in the second quarter that received new venture capital investment. Venture capital investment is mainly for larger companies, and mostly for the latter part of the enterprise investment. Crowe, of Norwest Venture Partners, said that the investment in the later stages of business has risen and the direction of the investment has changed.

Compared with the first quarter of this year, venture capital investment transactions increased by 13%, total investment increased by 34%. In the first half of 2014, total venture capital investment in the United States reached 22.7 billion U.S. dollars, the highest since the first half of 2001. The two largest venture capitalists are Uber and Lyft for automotive services, with $ 1.2 billion and $ 250 million each. Both companies, plus flash storage company Pure Storage and biopharmaceutical company Intarcia Therapeutics, a photo-sharing site Pinterest, became the top five venture capitalists in the second quarter.

In the biotechnology field, the industry hit a record high in venture capital investment last quarter with a total of 22 investment transactions and a total investment of 1.8 billion U.S. dollars. Currently considered a "boom in biotechnology," IPO enthusiasm is on the rise this year. Jeff Grabow from Ernst & Young said there have been many IPO activities in the past year and a half, leading venture capitalists.

For venture capital investment transactions and the number of transactions, the software sector hit the best level in 2000 in the second quarter. In the second quarter, the software sector received a total of 6.1 billion U.S. dollars of venture capital investment, with 454 investment transactions. In the second quarter, venture capital investment in consumer products also hit the best level since the dot-com bubble burst in the early part of this century. The number of venture capital investment transactions was 58 and the total venture capital investment was 553 million U.S. dollars. Jeff Knovewe said that innovation is spreading to all sectors of the U.S. economy, and that has fundamentally changed.

Although venture capital investment reached $ 13 billion in the second quarter, which is already the best result since 2001, it still lags far behind the $ 28.4 billion it invested in the quarterly venture capital market in early 2000. However, Bobby Franklin, chief executive of the American Venture Capital Association, said that while it was less than what it was then, the significance of venture capital in the second quarter could not be overlooked. (Tianmenshan)