Report: U.S. venture funding rises nearly 11 percent in 2007
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Venture capital funding in the U.S. rose nearly 11 percent last year, in part driven by investments in clean technology and Internet-related companies.
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Investor's Business Daily - Investors pumped $10.75 billion of new money into stock funds in July. But most of it went to world equity funds, while U.S. stocks saw outflow of $4.11 billion.
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Premiums for employer-sponsored health plans rose an average of 11.2 percent in 2004, the fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth, according to a study released Thursday by the Washington, DC-based Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and
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The cost of providing health care to employees has risen 11.2 percent this year, according to an authoritative national survey reported Thursday.
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The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 4 percent in the second quarter, as strong business investment led the fastest pace of expansion since early last year, the government reported on Thursday.
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Venture capital firms raised $5.54 billion in the third quarter, a 78 percent spike in fund-raising over the second quarter. That huge increase is already stirring worries
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Venture capital investments in the region continued to climb in 2007, as companies drew more funding than at any point since the technology bubble exploded.
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Venture capital financing climbed 7 percent nationally last year, as investors shook off three years worth of jitters and funneled capital to new technology companies in nontraditional fields and niche markets, according to a projection by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Reversing three years of declining investments, venture capital firms plowed nearly $21 billion into emerging companies in 2004, according to the MoneyTree survey being released this morning.
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The U.S. economy grew at an annual  rate of 4 percent in the second quarter, as strong business  investment led the fastest pace of expansion since early last  year, the government reported on Thursday.
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The number of U.S. workers claiming  an initial week of jobless aid rose 11,000 last week, broadly  in line with expectations and signaling a still-healthy job  market, a government report showed on Thursday.
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Swarming to the next new thing Over the past four years, venture capitalists have tossed huge amounts of cash at "green-tech" startups. The green, er, field has become saturated with speculative funding, rivaling even the two mainstays of Valley vulture capitalists: IT and life sciences.â¦
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Even amid all the market turmoil, 2007 is shaping up as a decent year for mutual fund investors. International stock funds are up 8.3 percent, and US stock funds are up 4.6 percent.
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* Increases of 6 to 7 percent in premiums -- and more in small firms.
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Internet advertising revenues in the United States grew 37 percent in the first half of this year, reaching a new high of $7.9 billion.
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U.S.-based venture capital investments reached their highest point last year since 2001, with software remaining the strongest category, according to The MoneyTree Report, released this week by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).
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When Paul Brewer, co-founder of high-tech security company ObjectVideo, gave speeches to business school students about how to find funding, he used to focus about 80 percent of his talk on the art of landing venture capital. Now he spends most of his time on how to attract federal government funding, especially through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The managers of the program are more daring than venture capitalists, said Brewer, because they are more likely to fund an idea at its inception, before it has proved anything.