Useful Stats: Venture Capital Dollars Per Capita and Deals Per Million Residents by State, 2005-2010

U.S. venture capital investment per capita grew almost 19 percent in 2010 over the previous year, reaching $11.16. That increase, however, only represented a partial rebound from the plunging investment levels of 2008 and 2009. Last year's U.S. per capita figure was 28.7 percent lower than 2007 and 7.2 percent lower than 2005. The largest increases in per capita investment over the past five years occurred in the District of Columbia, Illinois, Delaware, Kansas and Iowa. Kansas, New York, Connecticut, Delaware and Pennsylvania had the largest increase in venture deals per million residents over the same period. For 2010, Massachusetts led the nation in both per capita dollars and deals per million residents.

View the table of venture dollars invested per capita by state at: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/042711t.htm. View the table of venture deals per million residents at: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/042711ta.htm