Question of the Week: Will VC Fundraising Continue to Suck?

Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool. Earlier this week, my co-worker Connie Loizos wrote about how VCs aren't getting much love from institutional investors. In second quarter, 37 U.S.-based funds raised about $2.7 billion, according to the National Venture Capital Association and and Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB). That compared to 48 funds that collected about $2.1 billion for the same time period in 2010. Worse, just 76 U.S.-based VC funds were raised in the first half of this year, marking the lowest number of funds garnering commitments since the first half of 1995, according to the NVCA.