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“Risk Capital in
The report by NorthStar Economics, Inc., in
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n Data reported to the Wisconsin Department of Commerce due to the enactment of a statewide tax credit program for early-stage investments revealed 40 deals worth $15.5 million in 2005. Less than $2 million of that total overlapped with the network deals.
n Data voluntarily reported by six private law firms to the Wisconsin Angel Network, a project of the Tech Council, revealed $66.6 million in 43 individual deals. This was the first time such data has been available in
Discounting overlap between the angel network deals and the Commerce data, total investing activity from those two sources alone was $19.6 million. Even if there was a complete overlap in individual angel investment data between the Commerce data and the data collected by WAN, individual angel investing activity in
Combined with the network investments, that’s more than $56 million in angel investing. That compares to $69 million in venture capital investments in
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