Nowadays, however, few venture-backed companies are going public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media Pros Venture Into Funding] Reference

In addition, the recession damped the M&A market for venture-backed companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venture Scene Survived, Didn't Thrive] Reference

Numerous venture-backed companies and publicly traded companies including Illumina.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Gene Patents Harm Innovation] Reference

People are asking: why women, when so many venture-backed businesses are led by men?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kay Koplovitz: The Marriage of Women, Media and Money (My Version of Marrying for the Money)] Reference

What about business failures in general as opposed to venture-backed entrepreneurship?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Giloth: Is Learning from Failure a Myth?] Reference

Few venture-backed companies were able to go public last year because of market turmoil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Employment Falls in Silicon Valley] Reference

Loans to venture-backed firms never account for more than 10%-11% of the bank's business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Silicon Valley a Systemic Risk?] Reference

Market observers say the remainder of 2008 looks grim for other venture-backed offerings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fluidigm Looks to Open on Nasdaq] Reference

We are venture-backed, so it will likely be an IPO. Will everyone have a LinkedIn profile?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Missing Online Link] Reference

Between 1990 and 2005 immigrants started one quarter of all venture-backed public companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's 21st-Century Business Model] Reference

Meanwhile, many venture-backed start-ups are getting hurt as demand for their products shrinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venture Capital Forced to Perform Triage] Reference

It was the lowest number of venture-backed IPOs since the second quarter of 2003, when there were two deals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venture Activity Hit by U.S. Slowdown] Reference

Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta, along with a flotilla of venture-backed startups, are trying to change that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superefficient Frankencrops Could Put a Real Dent in Greenhouse Gas Emissions] Reference

"You hope that the remaining investment banks continue to be as aggressive on behalf of venture-backed IPOs.".    From Wordnik.com.  [VCs Assess Fallout From Lehman Brothers Loss] Reference

Greg Becker is the president of Silicon Valley Bank, a leader in providing financing to venture-backed companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Silicon Valley a Systemic Risk?] Reference

Seventy-three percent of venture-backed companies have increased staffing by an average of more than 25 percent since 2001.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Job Machine] Reference

Only seven venture-backed companies have gone public so far this year, compared with 48 in the first three quarters of 2007.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Exit: Venture-Tied IPOs, Mergers Dry Up] Reference

Having two venture-backed deals in a quarter isn't normally notable, but it follows a second quarter in which none appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fluidigm Looks to Open on Nasdaq] Reference

Now, both houses of Congress will attempt to reconcile the differences, as trade groups and venture-backed companies take sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [SBIR Renewal Sparks Controversy] Reference

Meanwhile, 66 M&A deals involving venture-backed firms took place in the third quarter, down from 116 such deals a year earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Exit: Venture-Tied IPOs, Mergers Dry Up] Reference

But until now, I've never seen a study of exactly how that plays out for start-up founders for current venture-backed companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marty Zwilling: Who Is Getting Venture Capital Money This Year?] Reference

What is striking is that venture-backed entrepreneurs are largely failures no matter their experience of past failure or success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Giloth: Is Learning from Failure a Myth?] Reference

It was a positive sign for a second venture-backed IPO expected this week from online restaurant-reservation system OpenTable Inc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bright Start for SolarWinds Stock] Reference

Software company LogMeIn Inc. continued this year's winning streak of venture-backed technology IPOs, climbing 25% on its debut day.    From Wordnik.com.  [LogMeIn Shares Strong in Debut] Reference

Just one venture-backed company, Rackspace Hosting Inc., went public during the quarter, compared with 11 such offerings a year ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Exit: Venture-Tied IPOs, Mergers Dry Up] Reference

This year, only seven venture-backed companies have gone public, well off from the pace in 2007, when 69 such companies staged IPOs.    From Wordnik.com.  [VCs Assess Fallout From Lehman Brothers Loss] Reference

Less visible, but equally stuck, are private venture-backed companies, which invested the cash they got from VCs in these securities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meet the Auction-Rate Cassandra] Reference

Hey folks – these private-held, venture-backed startups are NOT going to tell the public what their revenue and income numbers are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Startups Best Positioned To Weather A Downturn] Reference

By contrast, most venture-backed companies now either go public or get sold after a median time of 9.4 years, according to VentureSource.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Super Angels' Alight] Reference

If they complete the share sales, the pair will be the first venture-backed IPOs in nine months, according to research firm VentureSource.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venture-Backed New Stocks Are Back] Reference

Otherwise, many venture-backed companies preferred to limit government funding to research grants and Small Business Administration loans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venture-Backed Start-Ups Seek Stimulus] Reference

It's unique in that Virtela is a venture-backed tech company but by Silicon Valley standards, it's also a company generating revenues, profits and growing quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Fisherman to CEO] Reference

Dozens of venture-backed companies, including life-science chip maker Fluidigm Corp. and biotechnology company ChemoCentryx Inc., pulled their IPOs because of choppy markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venture Scene Survived, Didn't Thrive] Reference

In the first quarter, there were five U.S. venture-backed IPOs, the lowest number since the second quarter of 2003, which had two issues, according to the trade organization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venture-Backed IPOs] Reference