Venture capital activity for 2014 was a hard act to follow. But 2015 has not disappointed so far, with fundraising and investment continuing at an historic pace. A total of $20 billion was raised by U.S. venture capital firms in 1H 2015, with large and small micro-VC funds continuing to increase their share of the VC market. On the investment side, while deal count is down, dollar volume is up: A new post-2000 record $7.1 billion was invested in early-stage deals in Q2 2015 and seed-stage activity is up. And in Q2, there was heavy investment of angel seed capital, along with $2.2 billion of angel and seed capital deployed across 763 rounds. PitchBook Data, Inc., PitchBook 3Q 2015, U.S. Venture Industry Report.

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