Decision Sciences

Total U.S. angel investments in 2008 reached $19.2 billion, a 26.2 percent drop from 2007, according to the Center for Venture Research at the University of NH in Durham.

Nationwide, angels invested $9.1 billion in the first half of the year, down 27 percent from the amount they invested in the first half of 2008, according to the University of New Hampshire Center for Venture Research.

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Jeffrey Sohl, head of the Center for Venture Research Institute at the Whittemore School of Business at the University of New Hampshire, released a year-end report citing a 26.2 percent decline in angel investment in the United States in 2008, down from $26 billion to $19.2 billion.

Angel investors pulled back in the first half of 2009, although the overall market experienced a slight increase in the number of investments, according to the Angel Market Analysis for the first and second quarters of 2009 released by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.

The report is titled “The Angel Investor Market in Q1Q2 2009: A Halt in the Market Contraction,” and it concluded that total investments in the first half of 2009 were $9.1 billion, a drop of 27 percent from the first half of 2008.

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Many firms turned to equity financing during the downturn to make up for their cash shortage. That solution can help keep a business afloat, but each time this type of funding is raised, a company must be appraised, says Jeffery Sohl, the director of the University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Research. If owners revaluate their companies when values are lower, they may have to hand over more ownership in the company because the same amount of money buys more when values sink, he says.