Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group has just raised a $300 million fund that was “heavily oversubscribed,” Managing Director Matt McIlwain tells peHUB.

(Reuters) – Mobile, biotech and e-commerce all have one thing in common: they are among the next wave of startups that have caught the eye of venture capital.

In the past year, social media companies such as Facebook, Zynga, Groupon and LinkedIn have stolen the limelight as the fastest growing space for venture funds.

Still, they make up just one area, and even a minority percentage, of investment for a number of venture capital funds.

“Social media companies are leading the charge, capturing people’s fantasy,” Axel Bichara, a partner at Atlas Venture, told a panel at the Reuters Global Technology Summit Venture Capital in New York on Wednesday. “If you look at venture capital companies as a whole, it’s a really broad and deep