Venture Capital
Clean Tech
Venture capital investment in clean technology investment hit its highest point in 2006, as investors poured $2.9 billion into start-ups, according to data from the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based industry tracker, the Cleantech Venture Network. The 2006 total is a 78% increase over the 2005 investments totaling $1.6 billion and a 140% increase over 2004 investments [...]
Boston VCs
North Bridge Venture Partners, one of the few big Boston-area venture firms to operate out of a single office, has opened a branch on the West Coast.
The Waltham, Mass., firm now lists a second location on its Web site, in San Mateo, Calif., south of San Francisco. Whether this signals a shift in strategy for [...]
IPOs 2006
The venture-backed initial public offering market saw solid gains in 2006, as the value of such offerings neared $4 billion. And despite a slowdown in the number of VC-backed M&A deals, their total value remained on par with last year, thanks in large part to Google Inc.’s acquisition of YouTube Inc.
There were 56 completed IPOs [...]
