News: Portfolio 2008

Fastest Growing Regions for Venture Capital Investment Lie Outside Silicon Valley

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Steve Krausz, general partner at U.S. Venture Partners explains, "As technology has begun to transform media, entertainment and consumer trends, Southern California and Los Angeles, in particular, has become a center of innovation. Venture capital investment has increased to the region in response to this dramatic new opportunity to re-invent large existing industries. Los Angeles has a unique, creative workforce. When coupled with the state's favorable entrepreneurial and innovation policies which helped grow Northern California into the well known capital of U.S. venture activity we expect to see a continued flow of venture capital into the region."

 

Top industries: Media and Entertainment, Software, Clean Technology

Most Active Investors: Clearstone Venture Partners, US Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Redpoint Ventures
Stage of Investment: 41 percent of the companies are Seed/Early stage
Largest Investments: Amp'd Mobile, Ceres, Vantage Media

 

Washington D.C. Metroplex at a Glance: 2007 Venture Investment

 

The Washington DC Metroplex region has many attributes that help foster a strong venture capital ecosystem, including a strong population of technologists and entrepreneurs, a group of indigenous venture capital firms, and clusters of innovations in areas such as Southern Maryland and Northern Virginia.

 

Much of the D.C. region's entrepreneurial culture is uniquely rooted in three main components of government-based activity, said Roger Novak, founding partner at Novak Biddle Venture Partners. “First, the entrepreneurs bred by federal laboratories and agencies create opportunities for VCs who understand the nuances of building

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