Interesting recent Q1-2005 numbers from this week Paris VentureOnce LP conference:
- Venture capital investment in Europe hit a three-year high in the first quarter reached EUR880.3 million, up 19% from the first quarter of 2004 while round sizes were the highest on record
- Total number of deals falling from a year earlier to 200, down 27%.
- The median deal size was EUR3 million, twice the size of deals a year earlier and the highest figure since VentureOne started recording the data in 1999.
- Rise in the size of first-round deals to EUR2.6 million
- Later rounds doubled to EUR4 million, the highest figure since the third quarter of 2000
Good summary presentation can be found here
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