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Investing in NH's Future	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.
Funding shortfall stymies tech-transfer capabilities	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. Read more:
Angel Investor Market Declines in First Half of 2009	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.
Investor summit is no blind date	The New Hampshire High Tech Council has grown its popular Speed Venture Summit, drawing in $20,000 in corporate sponsorship, 50 participating companies and a groundswell of support, according to its producer, Tim Platt... 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 cut back, UNH report finds	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.
Oculis Labs Wins CTC's "2009 Company to Watch" Award	Over 300 entrepreneurs, event sponsors and service providers are expected to gather on Thursday, September 17, 2009 at The Omni Hotel in New Haven for the Third Innovation Pipeline Awards... The keynote speech was presented by Jeffrey Sohl, Director of the Center for Venture Research and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Decision Sciences at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.
Attracting angel investors takes plan, effort	Attracting angel investors takes plan, effort Original Publication Date: 07/20/2009Dayton Business Journal - ..."They don't invest in pizza parlors or laundromats, nor do they invest in companies that don't offer any promise of growth. They take a chance and expect a profit," said Jeffrey Sohl, director of the Center for Venture Research and a professor at the University of New Hampshire, where the term "angel investor" was coined in 1978.
UNH Center for Venture Research: Angel Investors, VCs Look at IPOs Differently	New research from the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire...The research is presented in the working paper "Initial Public Offerings and Pre-IPO Shareholders: Angels Versus Venture Capitalists." The research was conducted by Jeffrey Sohl, director of the UNH Center for Venture Research and professor of entrepreneurship and decisions sciences at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, and William Johnson, assistant professor of finance at the Whittemore School.
Angels More In Tune With IPO Companies Than VCs, Study Says	Angels More In Tune With IPO Companies Than VCs, Study Says Original Publication Date: 07/23/2009The New York Times - Now, researchers at the University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Research have refined the thesis to suggest that underpricing is less likely if a company is backed by wealthy individuals, called angels. This is because the angels are more likely than VCs to sell shares as part of the IPO. Venture investors generally claim any market gains when they sell or distribute their stakes after the six-month lockup.
Don't Let Angel Investors Bedevil You	Don't Let Angel Investors Bedevil You Original Publication Date: 07/28/2009Forbes.com - There are more than 260,000 angel investors in the U.S. According to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, these helpers invested $19.2 billion in 55,480 companies in 2008, down 26% from the year before. Venture capitalists, by comparison, invested $28.1 billion in 3,630 companies, down just 10% from 2007.