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ARTICLE | Finance

2002 Financial Markets Preview: Repricing the venture space

January 14, 2002 8:00 AM UTC

Life science venture capital firms raised record money last year, but some later stage companies are having difficulty raising equity because the valuations from their last round - priced in the waning days of the genomics bubble - got way ahead of their fundamentals.

Valuations are coming down - in some cases, deals are getting shopped at less than 50% of their prior valuation. But investors continue to play a waiting game, as they - in Wall Street parlance - don't want to catch a falling knife. ...