{"id":14507,"date":"2010-03-10T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=14507"},"modified":"2010-03-10T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:15:01","slug":"venture-capital-firms-caught-in-a-shakeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2010\/venture-capital-firms-caught-in-a-shakeout.html","title":{"rendered":"Venture-Capital Firms Caught in a Shakeout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; The technology bubble popped a decade ago, but the venture-capital industry that helped finance the boom stayed largely intact. Now venture-capital firms are going through their own brutal culling.<\/p>\n<p>Venture firms are struggling to raise new cash, hampered by poor investment returns and a difficult economy. Last year, 125 venture funds in the U.S. collected $13.6 billion, down from 203 funds that raised $28.7 billion in 2008 and down from 217 funds that raised $40.8 billion in 2007, according to data tracker VentureSource.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703915204575104221092909884.html?mod=quicklinks_nextbigthing\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; The technology bubble popped a decade ago, but the venture-capital industry that helped finance the boom stayed largely intact. Now venture-capital firms are going through their own brutal culling. Venture firms are struggling to raise new cash, hampered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14509,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507\/revisions\/14509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}