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Meanwhile the share of venture money going to clean energy continues to increase, to 12.5 percent of total
venture activity in the United States last year, reported CleanEdge, a company that researches and publishes on the sector.
The dollar volume of REIT
joint venture activity surged 50 percent in 2015, according to a new EY research report...
As a result of this analysis, 21 new firms joined the top 100 firms for this report.2 The majority of these firms operate outside of the U.S., which is in line with the growth
of venture activity we are seeing in both Europe and Asia.
The
Canadian venture activity in 2014 not only reflected an increase of 21 percent over 2013, it was the biggest total in more than a decade, according to the Thomson Reuters» data.
Venture capital funding hit its highest point since 2001 in the first quarter at $ 9.99 billion across 888 deals, according to CB Insights» «
Venture Activity Report» published Thursday.
The latest quarterly reports from the oil and gas players with stakes in the highly prospective Perth Basin indicate strengthening prospects on the back of a rising oil price and planned
joint venture activity.
Much of
the venture activity in edtech in the US posits that edtech will look more like SAAS companies in other sectors, high growth driven by a stable low cost of user acquisition relative to life time value.
Payments to contractors stopped several years ago while not a single dollar was contributed to the Joint
Venture activities.
And even professional services firms bearing a closer resemblance to law firms, such as the big banks, have been ramping up
their venture activities in recent years (particularly in fintech) and launching startup incubators and accelerators.