Start-Up Quarterly Statistics, Q4 2012
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Start-ups raised a total of $670.3 million across all industries in Q4 2012, just $11.6 million less than in Q3, and 90% of that money went to biopharma companies. Several start-up companies inked deals with Big Pharmas, and there were three acquisitions – two in biopharma and one in the device sector.
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