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Useful Stats: VentureEconomics Makes Available VC Stats by State, Metro Area
VentureEconomics, a division of Thomas Financial is now providing online summary information for their quarterly survey of venture capital activity. Until now, findings from the surveys, which are conducted in partnership with the National Venture Capital Association, has only been available by purchase.
The summaries provide a level of detail that should be attractive to many tracking venture capital investments by region, state, or 20 different metro areas. For each state, data for total investments and number of companies are provided for the past ten years (1991-2001) and the most recent nine quarters (second quarter 1999 through second quarter 2001). SSTI has prepared the accompanying summary table presenting the VentureEconomics 1991-2000 total venture capital investments and number of companies for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Current quarter information for each state is further described by industry/technology sector, by stage, by county, by state of funding source, by state of companies receiving money from venture capital firms located within the state, the most active firms in the state, the companies receiving investment, and venture backed IPOs in the state for the past ten years and the most recent quarters.
Detailed deal information is available for the three most recent quarters (fourth quarter 2000 through second quarter 2001).
Similar information is provided for 20 broad metro areas, defined by area code. This definition presents some problems, however, in that some metro areas encompass much larger regions than are traditionally defined by the other metropolitan statistics or media markets. For example, the "Pittsburgh & Ohio metro area" includes the area codes serving the major Ohio cities of Cincinnati, Columbus (but not the Columbus suburbs and southeastern Ohio), Cleveland and much of Northeast Ohio. With the exception of Pittsburgh and the surrounding area code, the western half of Pennsylvania and the northwest quadrant of Ohio are omitted.
The VentureEconomics statistics can be found at http://www.ventureeconomics.com/statshome.htm
Our thanks to Digest reader, Douglas Petty of the Great North Alliance in Minneapolis, for drawing this resource to our attention.
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