Fund Raising down 24%, Investment up 29% year to year Q3 2010 vs Q3 2011 – what?!
It’s enough to drive anybody crazy when you see Dow Jones report the ups and downs in VC fund-raisings & financings. Is it perhaps the lag effect that is the most revealing metric this time around? VCs are either going to run out of money to invest, or they see something fund raisers don’t. You be the judge. Read the Oct 12 Post below and then come back to this one and let me know your thoughts.
http://www.dowjones.com/pressroom/releases/2011/10212011-USVC-0164.asp