The high point of President Medvedev's stay in the United States will be his visit to Silicon Valley - an area in northern California known for its high-tech companies, venture capitalists and forward-looking entrepreneurs.

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As we outline in our paper in the July issue of Nature Biotechnology, LS venture investing dramatically outperformed Tech venture investing over the past decade.

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This list below of most highly valued venture-backed tech IPOs of 2012 was compiled by a prominent venture firm and looks accurate from my checks.

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Following these kind of valuations assigned to companies, huge money started pumping into venture capitalists and tech companies.

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