Much has been written lately about the shrinking venture industry, but the number of active investors isn’t really declining.
Although it is down from the dot-com bubble and took a dip during the financial crisis, in the last two years the number of venture firms making equity investments in U.S. companies has hovered just under 1,000, according to Dow Jones VentureSource, with 998 firms making deals in 2011 and 987 making deals in 2012.
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