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MirRSS WirtschaftsWoche Heute, Germany Silicon Valley: as in the times of the "new economy"
30.01.20140130
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Matthias Hohensee
Silicon Valley is experiencing another boom.
Everything points to this: there are many vacancies for programmers again; the most talented of them get very good money; parties organized by computer industry enterprises have regained their former scope; and real estate prices in Palo Alto and San Francisco are breaking all records.
At the same time, traffic jams have become commonplace there, and contradictions between the elite of the high tech industry and citizens with "ordinary" salaries are growing.
The reason for the next boom was the influx of venture capital, intended primarily for software manufacturers, Internet industry enterprises, as well as firms engaged in biotechnology.
This is also evidenced by the results of a joint study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the American Union of Venture Investors.
The total amount of invested risk capital is still far from the indicators of 2000, when the "dotcom" bubble inflated – at that time, investors invested a total of about $ 100 billion in everything that could be called a startup.
But in 2013, the volume of risky investments in the United States reached no less than $ 30 billion, which is 7% higher than the previous year.
Half of these funds settled in California, and 12 billion directly in Silicon Valley.
And here is what is especially interesting: enterprises engaged exclusively in the Internet business received about 25% of these 30 billion, which was the absolute maximum since 2001.
Software developers are also dearly loved by investors, who have received 37% of all money – about $ 11 billion, which is also a record since 2000.
Biotechnology researchers are significantly behind them with $ 4.5 billion.
Developers of eco technologies have become much less attractive: their investment revenues have halved since last year and amounted to "only" $ 1.5 billion.
Startups still receive the most money in Silicon Valley.
The record of 2013 belongs to the social network Pinterest from Palo Alto.
This online bulletin board received $ 425 million.
One of the reasons for the generosity of investors is the expectation that either Pinterest will decide to go on the stock exchange, or some giant like Google, Yahoo or Facebook will buy it.
In second place, with funds raised in the amount of $ 374 million, is the software manufacturer Palantir, co founded by the well known entrepreneur and hedge fund manager Peter Thiel.
His new brainchild is engaged in checking and analyzing databases on the Internet in the interests of the government, the Ministry of Defense and large concerns.
Recently, the willingness of investors to take larger risks has become increasingly noticeable.
Thus, in 2013, the initial financing of startups amounted to about $ 5 billion, which exceeded the figures of the previous year by 14%.
First of all, this money went to software developers and media enterprises, with which it quickly becomes clear whether they managed to gain a foothold in the market or not.
However, a significant part of these funds were also received by more risky industries, in particular, biotechnology researchers.
Investors are counting on the growth of the turnover of these enterprises thanks to the healthcare reform initiated by US President Barack Obama.
The new boom is reminiscent of the late 1990s.
It is promoted by the success of many enterprises of the high tech industry that have been placed on the stock exchange and thereby received additional capital for development.
And this applies not only to the most famous types of Facebook and Twitter.
The same can be said, for example, about the highly specialized company FireEye from the California city of Milpitas, working in the field of security technologies.
This company literally just bought competitors from Mandiant for a billion dollars.
So far, everything is going well, and this is very important for hedge fund managers.
Because after the unsuccessful placement of Facebook in May 2012, they had great difficulties with attracting new capital.
Now that the social network has once again managed to win the favor of Wall Street, they have to make up for lost time.
Whether they will continue to be successful depends not only on Facebook's quarterly report, which will be published this Wednesday.
To a much greater extent, this depends on the first figures that will be announced by the head of Twitter, Dick Costolo, after the release on the stock exchange, scheduled for February 5.
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