{"id":353,"date":"2010-04-20T20:57:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T03:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2010-04-20T20:57:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T03:57:54","slug":"source-of-vc-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/source-of-vc-in-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Source of capital for VC funds in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of venture capital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oldest and most reliable partners\u00c2\u00a0was hard to  find\u00c2\u00a0in 2009, according to an annual survey that examines where the  private equity asset class receives its capital.<\/p>\n<p>Endowments and foundations saw their share of the overall venture  capital pool fall to 3.2% in 2009 from 13.1% in 2008<\/p>\n<p>The cutback partly contributed to the venture capital industry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/venturecapital\/2010\/01\/08\/the-great-venture-capital-fund-raising-slump-of-2009\/tab\/article\/\">fund-raising  slump<\/a> last year. Venture firms raised $13 billion in 2009, down  54.6% from the $28.7 billion raised in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/venturecapital\/2010\/04\/16\/where-venture-capitals-money-came-from-in-2009\/\">Where Venture Capital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Money Came From In 2009 &#8211; Venture Capital Dispatch &#8211; WSJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright caption-alignright\" style=\"width: 359px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/media\/venturecapital_E_20100416123005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"239\" \/><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of venture capital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oldest and most reliable partners\u00c2\u00a0was hard to find\u00c2\u00a0in 2009, according to an annual survey that examines where the private equity asset class receives its capital. Endowments and foundations saw their share of the overall venture capital pool fall to 3.2% in 2009 from 13.1% in 2008 The cutback partly contributed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/source-of-vc-in-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Source of capital for VC funds in 2009<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,22],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lp","tag-vc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}