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Jan 17 2009

Stats show IT venture investments worst Q4 decline in a decade

Saad Ali Abbasi 

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A report carried out by VentureSource shows how the venture capital investments in IT companies went down by 40 percent in the fourth quarter – making it the worst decline in a decade. IT venture capital shows a plunge of $2.18 billion in Q4. Whereas software companies which the biggest part of IT venture investments saw funding falling to $4.73 billion.

Venture investments in communications and networking-related startups fell to $1.68 billion in 2008, and Web-related information services saw a drop to $513.2 million, in Q4.

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