One challenge holding back venture-backed companies outside the U.S., said Breyer, was the ability to scale.
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Many venture-backed companies assume they can escape the gravity of historic valuation ranges, and an anecdotal few may accomplish the feat.
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By contrast, most venture-backed companies now either go public or get sold after a median time of 9.4 years, according to VentureSource.
Technology firms logged 26 IPOs, including the biggest two deals by venture-backed companies last year: the stock debut of Intercontinental Exchange and OptionsXpress.
Last year, 61 venture-backed companies went public in the U.S. China claimed 22 of the total, with such fliers as Youku, HiSoft.
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Last week Dow Jones released a report about how venture-backed companies with senior female executives are more likely to be successful than those without.
Meanwhile, last year saw 330 merger and acquisition transactions involving venture-backed companies, about even with the year earlier and up from 317 in 2000.
In each of the four areas I mentioned, there are venture-backed companies that are growing by creating new, cost-effective ways to access quality health care.
There are also plenty of venture-backed companies that have decided to stick it out until the market warms up again to the idea of riskier investing.
To initially determine the value of companies, we used the first-day market capitalization of venture-backed companies at the time of their IPOs or their acquisition price if purchased.
Comparing 28, 000 venture-backed companies who raised funds between 1980 and 2006, Tian studied whether venture firms could use technology to monitor investments just as well from a distance.
Last year, 22 companies withdrew registrations to go public, according to Thomson Financial, many of them venture-backed companies in the tech or life sciences fields seeking to list on the Nasdaq market.
Technology firms logged 26 IPOs, including the biggest two deals by venture-backed companies last year: the stock debut of Intercontinental Exchange and OptionsXpress (nasdaq: OXPS - news - people ).
According to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), venture-backed companies accounted for 10.4 million jobs in 2006, up from 9.4 million in 2003 and 8.7 million after the Internet bubble burst in 2000.
Despite the uptick in venture-backed companies filing for initial public offerings in the fourth quarter of 2010, the overall tepid IPO market has made it difficult for venture firms to post positive returns and to find exits.
Venture-backed companies that include more women on their executive management teams are more likely to succeed than companies with men-only executive suites, according to Women at the Wheel: Do Female Executives Drive Start-up Success, research conducted by Dow Jones.
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The survey of more than 330 VCs and 180 CEOs of U.S.-based venture-backed companies found the industry in a generally upbeat mood. 51% of the VCs say they expect venture investment to rise in 2011, while 24% expect dollars invested to be flat with 2010.
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The sixth annual survey, based on more than 500 responses collected between Nov. 30 and Dec. 9 about equally split between venture-capital professionals and CEOs of venture-backed companies in the U.S.- also outlines a growing optimism gap between technology companies and those in the medical and clean-technology sectors.
Other research has shown that venture-backed companies run by women have annual revenues 12 percent higher than those by men and that organizations that are the most inclusive of women in top management positions achieve a 35% higher return on equity and 34% higher total return to shareholders.
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But if the majority of companies face down rounds, then venture capital-backed companies in general are having trouble.
Therefore, exits of venture capital-backed companies tell us something about the health of the industry.
From 1990 to 2005, a study found that 25 percent of venture-backed public companies in the U.S. including Google, eBay, Yahoo!
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Many venture-backed private companies have become attractive targets for larger publicly traded companies that have run up against too much competition from private equity funds to buy older growth companies.
Potentially, the most disruptive to the current triangle are the dozens of venture-backed growth companies that are trying to leapfrog the leaders by introducing the next generation of marketing solutions.
Data collected by the law firm Cooley LLP and presented in their publication Venture Capital Report provides a picture of the kind of fund raising rounds venture-capital backed companies are experiencing.
As Light in the Box moves toward going public in the U.S. at a time when few venture-backed Chinese companies are getting out of the gate, it helps to have a strategy that Wall Street can grasp.
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The move puts the Michigan company among a growing number of venture-backed American companies in the alternative vehicle space to land in China, where the government provides incentives for the development and purchases of all-electric and electric hybrid cars.
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The shocking statistic to emerge from the most recent Rock Health digital health investment report was the relatively small amount of new dollars that went into venture-backed EMR companies in 2012, suggesting a reluctance to compete with established players, notably Epic.
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His rationale: venture-backed clean tech companies need to be efficient with their capital, and that means turning to a third party to build their wares.
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