VC Spotlight - Q1 2013

Venture Capital Data
2012 First Institutional Rounds
Deal Terms

Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, PC compiles a comprehensive database of venture capital transactions that have closed within New England, New York and New Jersey. VC Spotlight^SM periodically features an analysis of first institutional venture capital investment activity. This report is a definitive source of information on emerging companies receiving their first institutional financing and the venture capital firms that provide it.

Our financing data includes a wealth of detailed information of interest to both startups and venture capitalists alike including specifics on pre-money valuation, liquidation preferences, dividend rates, participating investors, and distributions across industries and region. For more information on the data we can provide, contact Joe Martinez.  

The information reported above is the result of an analysis of data gathered from a variety of publicly available sources for 96 companies that closed their first institutional round of financing in 2012.

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