Venture capital investment continued to trend upwards in the first quarter of 2014 with $10.74 billion raised by U.S. based companies, up 18% from the fourth quarter of last year and the most raised since the first three months of 2001.
Venture investment was flat last year, but fourth quarter numbers from Dow Jones VentureSource signaled growing investor confidence. The latest VentureSource data show that continuing with a much stronger first quarter – 44% higher than the first period of 2013 when equity financing for U.S. venture-backed companies was $7.48 billion.
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