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Software VC Funding Accounts for Almost 30% of Q2 2006 Investments

<font face="TimesNewRoman"><p align="left">PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association <a title="MoneyTree Q2 2006" href="http://www.nvca.org/pdf/MoneytreeQ22006.pdf" target="_blank">announced</a>&nbsp;the results of this quarter's MoneyTree Report, citing the highest investment level since 2002.&nbsp; First-time financings reached a five-year high.</p><p align="left">Software investments accounted for&nbsp;almost 30% of the investments made in Q2 2006.&nbsp; Software and Internet-Specific funding combined accounted for close to 35% of the $6.3 Billion invested in this quarter.</p></font> 10 application/xml false MoneyTree NVCA PricewaterhouseCoopers software VC funding Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 rdvorak false true false false true 174197 false false true false false false true 125364 blog blogsite/Updata/web