Deal making surged to a record last year. Expect another rise in 2012 as investors search for the next Facebook.

They say that everything is big in Texas. And that must include late-stage venture deals, too. Two companies based in the Lone Star State ranked in the Top 10 of largest “venture” deals done in the third quarter, according to a MoneyTree Report. As my colleague Mark Boslet already reported today, venture deal activity took [...]

Investment dollars inched higher in the first quarter as venture capitalists favored later stage deals and returned with interest to cleantech and life science, according to the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters.

U.S. venture firms put $5.9 billion to work in the first three months of 2011, a 13% rise from Q1 2010 and a 5% increase from the fourth quarter, according to the report.

By most measures, cleantech venture investing reached a respectable total just shy of $4 billion last year. The precise calculation was $3.7 billion, according to the MoneyTree survey released last month by the National Venture Capital Association, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Thomson Reuters (publisher of this blog). That is unless you are at Ernst & Young and [...]

Venture investing regained its footing in 2010 as a two percent rise in fourth quarter funding led the full year’s total to an annual increase for the first time since 2007. The year saw U.S. venture capitalists put $21.8 billion into 3,277 startups, a 19% increase from 2009. First time financings, a key measure of [...]

Not surprisingly, it was another down quarter for deal activity. But no one’s apparently pointing any fingers at the angel investors, who seem to be dominating the news lately. Venture capitalists invested $4.8 billion in 780 deals in the third quarter of 2010, according to the MoneyTree Report released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National [...]