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Great article by my colleague.
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http://nvca.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=88&Itemid=584
AARP Innovation@50+:
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http://nvca.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=88&Itemid=584
AARP Innovation@50+:
http://www.aarp.org/technology/innovations/innovation-50-plus.html
2014 venture capital_review_aarp_holtzman.pdf
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Fastest Growing Regions for VC Outside Silicon Valley
1. Contacts:
Emily Mendell, National Venture Capital Association, 610-565-3904, emendell@nvca.org
Clare Chachere, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 512-867-8737, clare.chachere@us.pwc.com
Lisa Peterson, Porter Novelli for PricewaterhouseCoopers, 512-241-2233, lisa.peterson@porternovelli.com
FASTEST GROWING REGIONS FOR VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT LIE
OUTSIDE SILICON VALLEY
Venture Capitalists Finding Opportunities in “Unexpected” Pockets
New York, March 11, 2008 – While Silicon Valley and New England remain the country’s
leading regions for venture capital investment, they are not the fastest growing, according to The
MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association
(NVCA) based on data by Thomson Financial. In the last ten years, smaller pockets in non-
traditional venture capital regions have enjoyed impressive growth in the number of companies
funded each year. Included in this ranking are areas such as New Mexico and Pittsburgh, which
have not had a strong venture capital presence in the past but have recently shown notable signs
of growth. Additionally, the ranking included larger metropolitan areas such as Seattle, Los
Angeles, and the Washington DC metro area, which have been quietly growing their venture base
over the last ten years. None of these up-and-coming areas were included in the top five regions
for total venture capital investing in 2007, but that could only be a matter of time, suggests Mark
Heesen, president of the NVCA.
“Venture capital growth is extremely organic. Once a critical mass of companies is funded in a
certain region, a new ecosystem will develop,” Heesen says. “It is very magnetic in the sense that
start-ups breed innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs who, in turn, attract venture capitalists. For
regions that don’t have a large, indigenous venture investor base, it is important to give outside
VCs a reason to visit. These unexpected regions are making venture capitalists stand up and take
notice.”
The analysis focused on the ten-year growth rates for regions across the country and ranked the
fastest growing areas based on number of companies funded, excluding areas that had under $100
million in investment in 2007.
2007 1997 % Change
No. of
Comp
Total
Investment
No. of
Comp
Total
Investment
No. of
Comp
Total
Investment
New Mexico 21 128.26 3 27.03 650% 375%
Pittsburgh/Tristate 44 198.17 12 32.32 267% 513%
Seattle 132 1253.41 65 403.2 103% 211%
Los Angeles 124 1146.04 73 459.41 72% 155%
Washington DC
Metroplex 180 1282.16 105 558.24 71% 130%
2. The following offers some insight and fast facts about each of these regions:
New Mexico at a Glance: 2007 Venture Investment
The state of New Mexico experienced significant venture capital investment growth in the last
year, fueled largely by interest in clean technology and alternative energy. The area is part of the
larger Southwest region that also has seen increased deal flow in the last several years.
"New Mexico has long been a world leader in its concentration of technology research and
development - over $6 billion in R&D spending in 2007 alone, spread across a dozen national
laboratories, public research universities, corporate laboratories, and independent think tanks,"
said Trevor Loy, managing partner of Flywheel Ventures. "Much of that innovation is
concentrated in sectors of growing interest to venture capital investors - such as energy, advanced
materials, water treatment, optics, and high-performance computing. In parallel, policymakers in
New Mexico have dramatically improved the business climate for entrepreneurship, including a
particularly successful State Investment Council program that augments market-driven
investments made by local and out-of-state venture investors. Coupled with the creative character
of the 'Land of Enchantment' and its unique lifestyle advantages for entrepreneurs, the rapid
growth of venture capital-funded entrepreneurship is a natural outcome."
Top industries: Clean Technology, Life Sciences, Semiconductors
Most Active Investors: Verge, Flywheel Ventures, EPIC Ventures
Stage of Investment: 52 percent of the companies were Seed/Early stage
Largest Investments: Advent Solar, MIOX Corporation, Aspen Avionics
Pittsburgh at a Glance: 2007 Venture Investment
Once a region that relied primarily on traditional industries such as steel, Pittsburgh has the
opportunity to further develop its innovation economy through venture capital investment. Like
many regions, Pittsburgh saw substantial increases in venture capital investment during the
technology bubble, but has since been building sustainable growth in the area of life sciences and
other scalable sectors.
According to Dean Miller, managing director at Novitas Capital, “We have completed six early
stage investments in Pittsburgh in just the last three years across life sciences, clean technology
and software. Several of these investments are based on technology spun-out of the local
universities and medical centers. The academic and clinical powerhouses of the University of
Pittsburgh ("PITT"), the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ("UPMC") and Carnegie
Mellon University ("CMU") produce significant amounts of primarily government-funded
technology across multiple disciplines. CMU is a world leader in Computer Science and
Robotics; UPMC is ranked nationally as one of the top medical centers in a host of clinical areas
such as transplantation oncology and CNS; and PITT's research spans both biomedical and
engineering fields in medical devices and drugs. Most importantly, these three entities work
extremely well together and all serve as value-added partners for our companies."
Top industries: Life Sciences, Software, Clean Technology
Most Active Investors: Innovation Works, Draper Triangle, Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse,
Novitas Capital
Stage of Investment: 66 percent of the companies are Seed/Early stage
Largest Investments: Millennium Pharmacy, Logical Therapeutics, BPL Global
3. Seattle at a Glance: 2007 Venture Investment
Seattle benefits from a strong bench of local venture capital firms that have embedded themselves
in the start-up community. It does not rely on a single industry to carry investments. Rather, it is
very diverse, investing in both traditional venture capital areas as well as cutting edge investment
sectors such as biotechnology and clean technology.
“Venture investing in the Pacific Northwest is an even greater opportunity than when I started 25
years ago,” said Chad Waite, managing director at OVP Venture Partners. “One of the things that
grows well here is the entrepreneurial spirit. That, combined with the resources and scale of
some local, establishment technology giants, means the start-up scene continues to be vibrant
year after year. I love being in the midst of a region I truly consider an epicenter of innovation,
creativity, talent and productivity.”
Top industries: Software, Life Sciences, Media and Entertainment
Most Active Investors: Ignition Partners, Madrona Venture Capital, OVP
Stage of Investment: 42 percent of the companies were Seed/Early stage
Largest Investments: Imperium Renewables, Telecom Transport, Dexterra
Los Angeles at a Glance: 2007 Venture Investment
Los Angeles is one of the strongest regions in the country for media and entertainment
companies. It offers a great deal of promise for innovative young companies operating at the
intersection of telecommunications, Internet and consumer entertainment. It also has a great deal
of activity in the alternative energy and clean technology spaces.
Steve Krausz, general partner at U.S. Venture Partners explains, "As technology has begun to
transform media, entertainment and consumer trends, Southern California and Los Angeles, in
particular, has become a center of innovation. Venture capital investment has increased to the
region in response to this dramatic new opportunity to re-invent large existing industries. Los
Angeles has a unique, creative workforce. When coupled with the state's favorable
entrepreneurial and innovation policies which helped grow Northern California into the well
known capital of U.S. venture activity we expect to see a continued flow of venture capital into
the region."
Top industries: Media and Entertainment, Software, Clean Technology
Most Active Investors: Clearstone Venture Partners, US Venture Partners, Draper Fisher
Jurvetson, Redpoint Ventures
Stage of Investment: 41 percent of the companies are Seed/Early stage
Largest Investments: Amp'd Mobile, Ceres, Vantage Media
Washington D.C. Metroplex at a Glance: 2007 Venture Investment
The Washington DC Metroplex region has many attributes that help foster a strong venture
capital ecosystem, including a strong population of technologists and entrepreneurs, a group of
indigenous venture capital firms, and clusters of innovations in areas such as Southern Maryland
and Northern Virginia.
Much of the D.C. region's entrepreneurial culture is uniquely rooted in three main components of
government-based activity, said Roger Novak, founding partner at Novak Biddle Venture
4. Partners. “First, the entrepreneurs bred by federal laboratories and agencies create opportunities
for VCs who understand the nuances of building companies around talent and innovations spun
out of a government lab. Second, VCs are increasingly drawn to local companies' ability to sell
sophisticated technologies that address some of the government's and industries' toughest
challenges. With D.C.-area venture-backed companies like Blackboard and AOL spawning new
companies and, in some cases, new clusters, the region is likely to remain attractive for many
years.”
Top industries: Software, Life Sciences, Telecom
Most Active Investors: Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Columbia Capital, Grotech, New
Enterprise Associates, Valhalla
Stage of Investment: 37 percent of the companies were Seed/Early stage
Largest Investments: Bravo Health, BillMeLater, Gridpoint
While these five regions represent the fastest growing, there are many other areas of the country
that have enjoyed significant venture capital investment growth in the last ten years. In fact, 25
of the 50 states experienced double digit growth from 1997 to 2007.
"Silicon Valley and New England are well-known for their entrepreneurial spirit. However, VCs
have been encouraged to look to other markets for talented individuals with great ideas and solid
business plans, in part because the cost of doing business is less in these alternative markets,"
explained Tracy Lefteroff, global managing partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers venture capital
practice. "Another reason VCs are likely drawn to these markets is the quality of talent coming
out of prominent universities and corporations as well as the opportunities for academia and other
large corporations in the region to spin out new companies. These factors provide ample
investment opportunities as well as a capable employee base to staff those opportunities."
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