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L'indicateur chausson finance - second half-year 2001

The total invested by French venture capital firms into high-tech companies fell for the third quarter running in the second semester of 2001 to E306m, according to Chausson Finance. In French.

Despite this fall in the value of investments, the number of companies financed by venture capital increased to 237 from 225 in the first half of 2001. Expansion capital accounted for 67 per cent of the total, while just 16 per cent went to seed-stage opportunities.  

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