Venture investments in China reached $1.27 bln in 2004

Venture investments in China reached $1.27 bln in 2004 by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- Annual VC investments in China reached $1.269 bln in 2004, exceeding the $1 bln mark for the first time, according to Zero2IPO. The IC industry received $424 mln, or 33.4% of that investment.

Investments in Indian companies up 487% in Q3 2005 by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- Indian investments increased 487% to $528 mln in Q3 2005, up from $90 mln in Q3 2004, according to Venture Intelligence India. Venture capitalists and private equity investors invested in 28 companies in Q3 2005, up from the 8 firms in Q3 2004.

$5.39 bln of venture capital funds raised in Q3 2005 by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- Investments in US venture capital firms jumped 62% in Q1-Q3 2005 over Q1-Q3 2004. VCs raised some $17.3 bln, surpassing the total for all of 2004 in just three quarters. In Q3 2005 45 firms raised investment funds worth $5.39 bln, up 11.6% from the $4.83 bln that 54 firms raised in Q3 2004, National [...]

$6.1 bln raised by venture capitalists in Q2 2005 by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- Venture capitalists raised more venture money in the first half of 2005 than they did in all 2003, and the $6.1 bln they raised in Q2 2005 bests any single quarter since 2001, the New York Times says.

219 Internet startups funded on the first half of 2005, average deal at $7.1 mln by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- Venture firms funded 219 Internet deals in the first half of 2005, while the total for 2004 reached 413 deals, according to Thompson Financial Venture Economics research firm. The average size of Internet deals is also on the upswing, climbing to $7.1 mln in the first half of 2005 from $6.6 mln 2004.