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: Legal Pad | LARecession hits venture capital funding hard, with some hopeful glimmers
By Richard Binder
Story in the LA Times today says the recession has pummeled venture capital funding down to pre-dotcom boom levels. This, of course, is no surprise to most California firms. But the article goes on to shed a little positivity on the subject, suggesting that the lack of funding may weed out those companies who ultimately don't deserve the capital. And, according to Ernst & Young's Mike Schoenfeld, some SoCal numbers are up from the end of 2008: total funding to Los Angeles firms rose 35% to $150 million from the fourth to first quarter, and six of the eight largest deals were in the healthcare sector involving five California companies.
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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).
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