PricewaterhouseCoopers issued its Second Quarter MoneyTree Report today. The report shows a very modest increase, just 3%, in venture fundings nationally over both last quarter and last year's second quarter.In the second quarter of 2006, the report indicates that venture fundings increased to $6.4 billion from $6.2 billion (coincidentally) both last quarter and during last year's second quarter, reflecting an increase of just 3%.
This puts us on a pace to do about $25 billion in venture funding, which would be the best year since 2001's $40.8 million, but meaningfully above the last four years, confirming my sense that this is the best venture funding market in years--though not yet rising to the level of the hey day.
The Utah data, however, shows a remarkable drop in fundings. Utah's relatively small venture market does not lend itself well to quarterly data flows; there are simply too few deals to spot meaningful trends. That said, we are not on pace to come close to 2005 levels of funding without some big deals in the last half of the year.
Click on the graphic above to see the list of deals reported for Utah in the MoneyTree Report.
Futhermore, we need to see what the MountainWest Capital Network publishes about quarterly data before we draw any final conclusions about deal flow in Utah.
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Posted by: Corey | July 28, 2006 12:01 PM | Permalink to Comment