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Investors clearly showed diversity in their portfolios in 2005. While information technology continued to receive the lion's share of investment at just under $12 billion, companies focused on health care, business, consumer and financial services, and alternative energy; advanced materials also gained in favor. Overall, the year's positive outcome--coupled with a dynamic acquisition market for venture-backed companies of late--indicates that venture-capital investors remain committed to funding entrepreneurial innovation in all its forms.

Stephen Harmston

Overall, the first quarter numbers point to a positive start for the U.S. venture market in 2006. The renewed IT activity is a sign that investors are recognizing the significant potential of new information technology innovations and are supporting them once again. But investors also remain committed to existing portfolio companies as the predominance of the capital investing shows.

The year 2005 proved to be a strong year for venture capital-backed companies, particularly those in the information technology (IT) industry, to exit via an acquisition.

The pace of technology innovation is accelerating. The investment demonstrates the company's long-term commitments and builds on the foundation we created during the last ten years. Through the Intel Capital India Technology Fund, Intel will help Indian companies drive technology adoption locally and identify new business opportunities globally. We will grow our local operations, boost venture capital investment and work closely with the government, industry and educators to increase the impact of the country's Information and Communication Technology.

The market has invalidated many of the assumptions on which these companies are valued thus bringing unrealized performance down considerably. While the venture industry shifted focus from consumer-oriented dot.com investing over the last couple of years to more upstream infrastructure technology investing, it will be a while before the effects of the dot.com market volatility to work its way out of venture portfolios.

Our favorites here would be Capital One and Providian Financial, ... Both companies have gained market share consistently. There's a lot of anxiety in the world about credit quality because of the economic slowdown. But these companies will also benefit from lower funding costs because of the Fed moves this year.

For the increasing number of companies in the region seeking venture capital and other forms of institutional sponsorship, the Investment Capital Conference provides an open and level playing field to meet top capital providers. I would encourage any entrepreneur or CEO to take advantage of the feast of financing sources and market insights that will be available at the 2006 Investment Capital Conference.

We're very excited about this new venture. This is the realization of a vision Tom and Louis brought to us several years ago. We are impressed by their track record as investors and entrepreneurs, but we're especially happy that they share our approach to venture investing, with a focus on working intensively with entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of emerging technology companies. With their location in the heart of one of the most vibrant technology hubs in Canada, they enable us to span the North American continent, while we will facilitate their access to the Silicon Valley hub for emerging technologies.

This is a clear sign that investors still support early-stage innovative growth companies, both in information technology and, more significantly, in health care. Within IT, 31 per cent of the financing rounds were for seed- and first-round deals, while for health care it was 44 per cent - a strong indication that investors see much room for growth among these sectors.

Those gains resulted from the acquisition of several companies, held in our portfolio of venture capital investments, by publicly traded companies.

Our mission is to democratize venture capital. We've made great progress in the U.S. market in 1999. Now we are expanding globally so that talented entrepreneurs in the European high tech centers can get access to the world's best venture investors,

The fourth quarter continued the trend that was observed throughout the course of 2005 in which the size of individual funds grew considerably, reaching a median $201 million, the largest in more than a decade. The fact that investors are raising such large funds comes in conjunction with the increasing globalization of the technology market and the need to provide entrepreneurial companies with larger rounds of financing so they can scale up quicker than the competition.

I would focus on very high-quality companies in this environment. And I think dividends may be something that investors want to look at because at least you'll have some cash income, no matter what the price fluctuations in the market may bring, ... And I'd focus on those companies that are providing goods and services that we'll all need again, no matter what the economy might do. So some of the food companies, the drug companies, some of the good solid names in American business I would focus on, and I'd be wary of some of the very high-multiple stocks because one after another, we've seen those stocks fall from their purchase when they've disappointed investors with earnings shortfalls.

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The venture capital investment into seed and start-up companies, the percentage of the overall investment number has dropped from 26 percent from last year to two percent this year.

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