noneed.info » were-announced http://noneed.info Know it all, on time Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:48:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Venture Exits Might Be Down, But Total M&A Activity Is Definitely Picking Up http://noneed.info/2009/10/02/venture-exits-might-be-down-but-total-ma-activity-is-definitely-picking-up/ http://noneed.info/2009/10/02/venture-exits-might-be-down-but-total-ma-activity-is-definitely-picking-up/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:30:34 +0000 giuscamc http://noneed.info/2009/10/02/venture-exits-might-be-down-but-total-ma-activity-is-definitely-picking-up/ The value of venture-backed exits (which is almost entirely M&A these days) might be down about 50 percent in the third quarter, but total M&A activity (including public companies) is seeing a noticeable uptick. We ran some numbers on Crunchbase , which keeps track of all announced acquisitions , and in the third quarter $31.8 billion worth of acquisitions were announced, double the amount from the second quarter and up fourfold from the $7.6 billion low in the fourth quarter.

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