Venture Capital Firms Awarding Innovators

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Venture Capital Firms Award Innovators

Entrepreneurs are still winning big in 2011. Venture capitalists invested $7.5 Billion in Q1 of 2011 in 738 deals.

Every year, Venture Capitalists award innovative IT and product businesses funding to carry out their dreams and we have provided a list, ranking VC firms by the number of early-stage deals made in 2011.

Venture Capital rankings are based on the number of deals to companies in the startup and early stages of development made by VC firms in calendar year 2011. Companies in the startup stage of development may have been in business for only a few months. Companies in the early stage of development generally are seen as operating less than 24 months. These Venture Capital fundings represent the first time a company has received financing from a professional VC firm in exchange for equity.

Venture Capital:

Venture capital comes from professionally managed funds that have between 25 million to 1 billion to invest in emerging growth companies. The goal is to push companies to perform to at least $25 million in sales in five years.

Institutional venture capitalists uasually demand significant equity in a business and the earlier the investment stage, the more equity is required to convince an institutional venture capitalist to invest. The range of initial funds typically available is between $500,000 and $10 million.

While Institutional venture capitalists are choosy, this is an appropriate source of funding for a limited number of superb companies demonstrating elite innovation and development.

Top Venture Capital Firms of 2011 Based on Deal Activity

This list shows the Top Venture Capital Firms in 2011 based on how many deals that were made.

23 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
20 New Enterprise Associates
14 500 Startups
14 First Round Capital
14 Sequoia Capital
14 SV Angel
12 Charles River Ventures
11 Bessemer Venture Partners
11 Spark Capital
9 DAG Ventures
9 Founder Collective
9 General Catalyst Partners
8 Andreessen Horowitz
8 Benchmark Capital
8 MDV – Mohr Davidow Ventures
8 Polaris Venture Partners
8 True Ventures
7 Austin Ventures
7 Google Ventures
7 Greylock Partners
7 Index Ventures
7 Intel Capital
7 Lightspeed Venture Partners
7 Lowercase Capital
7 RRE Ventures
7 Trinity Ventures
7 Vantage Point Venture Partners

More on Venture Capital

Institutional venture capitalists often demand significant equity in a business. The earlier the investment stage, the more equity is required to convince an institutional venture capitalist to invest. The range of funds typically available is $500,000 to $10 million.

Ease of Acquisition: Difficult. Institutional venture capitalists are choosy. Compounding the degree of difficulty is the fact that institutional venture capital is an appropriate source of funding for a limited number of companies.

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