Venture capital financing dip both nationally and locally in the last quarter of 2011, according to data from two surveys published Friday.
Seattle area companies received a total of $ 131.5 million in VC 35 deals last quarter, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Although it does most of the transactions since the second quarter of 2009, the number of dollars being invested is 20.6 percent from the third quarter and 13 percent below the fourth quarter of 2010.
A rival survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree report, and the national venture capital Association, which counted 24 Washington-based company transactions involving combined value of $ 88 million; numbers, as well, that’s down from the third quarter and fourth quarter of 2010. (Two using the methodology of the survey is somewhat different to track transactions and break them down by different geographic.)
According to the MoneyTree, Washington, ranked sixth in the nation in terms of number of transactions last year, with 114; It’s just as much as in 2010, when the country was also ranked sixth.
However, the amount invested had fallen from $ 649.7 million in 2010 to $ 541.8 million last year. In other words, a Washington company received 1.9 per cent of all tracked by MoneyTree VC money last year, vs. nearly 2.8 per cent in 2010.