June 2005

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By TR Staff and Freelance Writers

Tech Finance
Valuing Venture Capital Investments

For the first time in five years, median valuations of companies receiving venture capital increased last year. Companies already shipping products showed the largest gains; in 2004, their median valuation was one-third higher than in 2003. Overall, though, valuations were still only about half of 2000's high. Health-care companies have suffered the least, their median valuation declining less than a fifth since 2000. But information technology companies have plummeted.