(See chart below.).
The numbers look especially weak for Silicon Valley. (See chart below.). When you take Facebook out of the equation — the company’s $240 million investment from Microsoft (our coverage) and $60 million raised elsewhere add up to more than seven times the size of the next-largest deal — investments in the San Francisco Bay Area fell to around $421 million, a 3 percent drop from 2006.
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