Nineteen venture-backed companies went public during the first quarter of this year, raising $1.5 billion and reflecting the highest number of such IPOs in Q1 since 2007, according to numbers released today by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Thomson Reuters.
“Between having a stable stock market and having investors who are becoming more encouraged about the IPO market in general, by the quality of the companies that are registering to go public," says Mark Heesen, NVCA’s president, "there is more optimism today than we’ve had in a long time,” At this point, the rest of the year looks promising for IPOs, he suggests.
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