Some Bright Spots and Some Gloom

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Next week, John Taylor, the NVCA’s director of research is set to talk in Florida about the 2012 outlook.Here are some of the takeaways from our talk, and from Heesen’s presentation in San Diego: —The VC industry continues to contract.Venture capital investments in U.S. startups peaked in 2000, when VCs sank $99 billion into emerging companies of all kinds.—VCs are raising more capital from their limited partners, but it isn’t enough to sustain current investment levels.As a result, Heesen says he expects venture investments in U.S. technology and life sciences companies to decline in 2012.

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