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State-by-State Venture Capital Investments Q2 2006

July 27, 2006 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

He are state-by-state venture capital distributions for the second quarter of 2006, with a comparison to the first quarter, courtest of the PricewaterhouseCoopers, National Venture Capital Association, Thompson Financial Money Tree.

California, of course, attracted the lion’s share (and a few other animals, too) of the funding, cornnering nearly $3 billion of the $6.3 billion invested in the quarter, getting ever closer to the point that it gets more than all the other states combined. This quarter it was 46%. Massachusettes was a distant second with 10.5%.

The rest of the top ten include Texas and Maryland, each with 5.3%, Washington 4.9%, Pennsylvania and New Jersey each with 3.9%, New York 3.6%, North Carolina 2.4% and Illinois with 2%.

By:
George Lipper
National Association of Seed & Venture Funds

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