In news that will no doubt get people frothing at the mouth about a bubble once again, US venture capital investments are at their highest quarterly amount_since 2001, beating last quarter’s record level. That’s according to a new report from VC intelligence firm CB Insights. In total, the first half of 2014 is up 71 percent on last year’s activity over the same period. The report says that in Q2 2014 there were 974 VC deals and a total of $13.8 billion_invested in the USA. While more than 50 percent of_Q2 deals were seed_stage and Series A, late stage (series...

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