VENTURE CAPITAL AGGREGATED VENTURE CAPITAL ACTIVITY PITTSBURGH MSA *

Transcription

1 $ VENTURE CAPITAL Aggregated venture capital activity is another important indicator of regional economic vitality. This section illustrates venture capital investments in southwestern Pennsylvania companies across five industry clusters. AGGREGATED VENTURE CAPITAL ACTIVITY PITTSBURGH MSA * > In the past two years, 61 small businesses in the Pittsburgh MSA raised more than $343 million in 70 venture rounds. Information Technology-related industries raised the largest amount of investment during the two-year period ($127 million), followed by: Healthcare ($126 million), Consumer Goods & ($48 million), Business and Financial ($40 million), and Industrial Goods and Materials ($3 million). > In February 2013, the National Venture Capital Association named Pittsburgh as one of the top 15 cities in America for startups. The organization cited 30 years of progress and a strong ecosystem, including the impact of Carnegie Mellon University and Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority $343 Million (reported) 82 $393 Million *Data from Dow Jones VentureSource

2 PITTSBURGH MSA VENTURE CAPITAL ACTIVITY TOTAL VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT TOTAL INVESTMENT ($ MILLIONS) BUSINESS & FINANCIAL SERVICES HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY SEGMENT CONSUMER GOODS & SERVICES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL GOODS & MATERIALS 0

3 TOP VENTURE CAPITAL DEALS AQUION ENERGY COHERA MEDICAL AVERE SYSTEMS ALUNG TECHNOLOGIES KNOPP BIOSCIENCES BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL SERVICES $40.37m Business and Financial Component - Business and Support - Construction and Civil Engineering - Financial Institutions and > In the two-year period, 10 small businesses raised $40.37 million through 13 venture rounds. Notable strategic investors such as Salesforce.com, and nationally recognized investment leaders Rincon Venture and ff supported this industry segment (reported) 13 $40.37 Million (reported) 11 $94 Million Atmosferiq Cardeeo Inc. Civic Science Hireku (Resumator) PoweredAnalytics RedZone Robotics SnapRetail Thread Tristar Investors Wonday Adams Capital Birchmere ff Venture Capital Fourwinds Capital Idea Foundry New Atlantic Rincon Venture Salesforce.com Smithfield Trust Undisclosed Venture Investors

4 HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY SEGMENT $125.76m Healthcare Cluster Component - Biopharmaceuticals - Healthcare Systems - Medical Devices and Equipment - Medical Software and Information Technology > In the two-year period, 18 regional businesses raised more than $125 million through 18 venture rounds (reported) 18 $ Million (reported) 26 $136 Million Aethon Inc. ActivAided Orthotics Accel Diagnostics ALung Inc. Applied Isotope Inc. BodyMedia Inc. Carmell Therapeutics Cernostics Cereve Cohera Medical Cognition Therapeutics Complexa Foundation Radiology Hometown Oxygen Pittsburgh Knopp Neurosciences Precision Therapeutics Stemnion TreatSpace Allos Arboretum Ariel Savannah Angel Ascension Birchmere Blue Tree Allied Angels Bradford Capital Comcast DQE Enterprises Draper Triangle Enhanced Capital eplanet Capital InCube Medicis Mitsui & Co. Nexus Medical Novitas Capital Oxford Finance Corporation Pacific Venture Group CONSUMER GOODS AND SERVICES $47.57m Consumer Goods and Component - Consumer Information - Media and Content - Retailers - Food and Beverage - Household and Office Goods - Personal Goods > In the two-year period, nine Pittsburgh-area small businesses raised nearly $48 million through 11 venture rounds Brewing Company AutoRef Inc. Duolingo FutureDerm ModCloth The College People LLC Thorley Industries Tunessence Inc WebKite (reported) 11 $47.57 Million (reported) 13 $40.3 Million Accel A-Grade Investments First Round Capital Floodgate Harrison Metal Capital New Enterprise Associates Norwest Venture T-Venture Holdings Union Square

5 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY $127.05m Information Technology Component - Consumer Electronics - Data Storage - Electronic Components/ Devices - Electronics and Computer Hardware - Semiconductors - Software > In the two-year period, 21 Pittsburgh businesses secured more than $127 million in financing through 25 venture rounds. Software firms represented more than half of the venture rounds during the period. Accipiter Systems Aquion Energy Avere Systems Inc Branding Brand LLC Crystalplex Corp. HeadRight Games LLC Hyperactive Medallion Analytics Software Metis Secure Solutions NoWait Inc. Kextil (reported) 25 $ Million (reported) 20 $63 Million NoWait Inc. RessQ RoommateFit Inc. Safaba Translation SolePower The Efficiency Network Think Through Learning TowerCare Voci Inc. Wombat Security Adams Capital Advanced Technology Ben Franklin Technology, Southeastern PA Birchmere BlueTree Allied Angels Bright Capital Carnegie Mellon University Crunch Fund Eastern Advisors Capital Group LLC Foundation Capital Gentry Insight Venture Kleiner Perkins Lightspeed Venture Menlo Newlin Investment Company Norwest Venture Osage Pittsburgh Equity Sand Hill Angels SFJ Tenaya Capital Inc. Undiclosed Venture Investors INDUSTRIAL GOODS AND MATERIALS $2.93m Industrial Goods and Materials Component - Materials and Chemicals > With a deep history in the advanced materials industry, the region saw three small businesses secure nearly $3 million in financing through three venture rounds (reported) 3 $2.93 Million (reported) 5 $16 Million ATRP Solutions Inc. Liquid X BioSafe Newlin Investment Company Undisclosed Venture Investors