Web 2.0 investments in the Northwest climb

Posted by Rick Turoczy on March 18th, 2008 · Filed under Portland, Start-up, Web 2.0

According to a recent report by Dow Jones VentureSource, investments in Pacific-Northwest-based Web 2.0 ventures grew to $140M in 2007, up from $35M in investments in 2006. The number of deals in play more than doubled.

Further:

[O]verall Web 2.0 investments in the U.S. grew to $1.34B… [T]here were 178 Web 2.0 deals in the U.S. for 2007, up 88% in dollars over 2006.

(Hat tip Northwest Innovation)

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  • Dow Jones on Web 2.0 | Techvibes Blog said on Mar 18, 2008 at 3:44 pm:

    [...] today Rick Turoczy mentioned a report from Dow Jones VentureSource that concluded that investment in Web 2.0 start-ups may be peaking. [...]

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