Start-Up Quarterly Statistics, Q1 2014
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Start-up companies raised $1.18 billion during the first quarter of 2014, up $2.8 million from last quarter’s total. Cancer was the leading therapy area involved in alliances.
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