{"id":3469,"date":"2012-09-05T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2348827"},"modified":"2012-09-05T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:46:00","slug":"2011-6-9-billion-invested-in-cloud-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/2011-6-9-billion-invested-in-cloud-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"2011: $6.9 Billion Invested in Cloud Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capitalists are currently enamored with cloud-based startups, and are investing heavily in the cloud computing industry, according to a post on Cloudtimes.org.<br \/>\nAccording to statistics shared by PricewaterhouseCoopers, venture capitalists invested as much as $6.9 billion on &#8220;Internet-specific&#8221; startups in 2011 alone, with &#8220;Internet-specific&#8221; being a proxy term for &#8220;cloud&#8221; because that\u2019s what most of them are doing. The $6.9 billion investment is a 68% increase from last year.<br \/>\nIn Q4 alone, investments related to cloud amounted to $1.8 billion, which is above the $1.3 billion invested on biotech, and the $883 million invested into cleantech in the same year. It\u2019s more than just the amount, anyway. The amount of deals is also increasing \u2013 VCs funded as many as 1,004 software startups related to the cloud last 2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2348827\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capitalists are currently enamored with cloud-based startups, and are investing heavily in the cloud computing industry, according to a post on Cloudtimes.org.<br \/>\nAccording to statistics shared by PricewaterhouseCoopers, venture capitalists invest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}