The Center for Venture Research is a multidisciplinary research unit of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. The Center's principal area of expertise is in the study of early stage equity financing for high growth ventures. The Center for Venture Research, since its inception in 1984, has undertaken and published numerous studies in the area of early-stage equity financing of entrepreneurial ventures. The Center has appeared on CNBC, MSNBC, National Public Radio, NHPTV's NH Outlook, and has been quoted in several publications including, Inc., Forbes, Fortune, Red Herring, Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Financial Times. In addition, the Center has presented its research in academic and practitioner forums in the United States, Asia, Australia and Europe, in testimony before Congressional Committees, and in briefings for several government agencies and scholars from the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, Asia and Africa.
Jeffrey Sohl - Director of CVR, and Dan Innis - Dean of WSBE, meet with delegates from Japan to discuss the US Angel Market
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Mass. IPOs don’t create many angel investors
The Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire found there were about 318,000 active angel investors in the United States last year, up 20 percent from the prior year, and they invested $22.5 billion in companies. Of that money, 30 percent of it went to...
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Can Angels Help Women Shatter Glass Ceilings?
Jeffrey Sohl, director of Center for Venture Research, attributes this to the fact that women now have a better grasp on the kind of businesses that get funded: the industries, growth rates, and exit strategies (how investors will get their money back) that angels prefer. They...
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In brief - Privy launches self-serve small biz deals, angel investing up in 2011
Boston's Privy, one of the "Final 26" teams in the 2011 MassChallenge startup accelerator, on Tuesday publicly launched its service for letting small business owners manage and track customer promotions...Angel investments in 2011 rose 12.1...
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The Daily Start-Up: Bill Gates-Backed Sapphire Energy Harvests $144M
Sapphire Energy, a start-up that’s growing and harvesting algae to convert into crude oil, completed a rare feat, closing one of the largest clean-technology venture capital deals in the past 12 months at $144 million. “Renewable liquid fuels is one of...
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Investment in startups jumps 12.1% in 2011
Angel investors made $22.5 billion in equity investments into 66,230 entrepreneurial ventures in 2011, according to an analysis released by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.
These angel-funded ventures created 165,600 new jobs nationwide in 2011.
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U.S. angel investor market on solid path of recovery
DURHAM — Following a considerable contraction in investment dollars in 2008 and 2009, the U.S. angel investor market continued to recover in 2011, a trend that began in 2010 in investment dollars and in the number of investments, according to the 2011 Angel Market...
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Jump in Number of Angel Investors Led Investment Dollars Higher Last Year
A significant jump in the number of angel investors led to a healthy increase in the amount of angel dollars going to startups last year, the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Venture Research found in its semi annual study of the marketplac...
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Nat’l angel investing up 12%
Following a contraction in 2008 and 2009, optimism in national angel investing continued in 2011, according to a new report by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.
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Are More VCs Betting On Women To Make A Buck?
One recent study conducted by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire shows that only 12% of startups that pitched to U.S. angel investors during the first two quarters of 2011 were women-led and of those 12%, only 26% secured funding.
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Angel investments rose in 2011, UNH says
Angel investors shelled out $22.5 billion in investment dollars during 2011, up just over 12 percent from the previous year’s total, according to the 2011 Angel Market Analysis released by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.
