venture capital returns
Filed in archive Venture Capital by tj on July 25, 2004
siliconvalley.com has interesting facts about VC return:
"For the first time since 2000, the one-year return on venture capital investments posted a double-digit annual gain as of March 31. The return on all venture funds was 15.7 percent. Funds investing in the riskiest early-stage start-ups still recorded a loss, but later-stage fundings gained more than a third. Only over a five-year horizon did venture investments outperform public stocks."
| 1-YR | 3-YR | 5-YR |
VENTURE FUND TYPE
| Early/seed fundings | -2.9% | -19.8% | 47.1% |
| Balanced fundings | 20.5% | -9.4% | 17.5% |
| Later-stage fundings | 38.0% | -6.9% | 7.1% |
| All venture funds | 15.7% | -13.3% | 22.0% |
STOCK INDEXES
| Nasdaq index | 48.7% | 2.7% | -4.1% |
| S&P 500 index | 32.8% | -1.0% | -2.6% |
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