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In 2005, median VC fund size jumped to $200M
East Bay Business Times - November 10, 2006
by Laura Cutland
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal

Are small venture capital funds becoming obsolete?

A look at the most recent statistics from a research firm the tracks the industry certainly shows they are becoming a minority in the multibillion dollar venture capital industry.

In the first three quarters of 2006, funds under $100 million captured the least capital in the 14 years that VentureOne of San Francisco has collected such data.

Once the norm, these investment pools garnered just 29 percent of the $19.6 billion that poured into the asset class so far this year. In addition, the median fund size has ballooned to nearly $200 million today, a far cry from a decade ago when $81 million was the median.

However, despite the growing gap between small and big funds, industry experts say that those with smaller pots of cash to deploy will always have a place in the industry. In fact, their bigger "