Angel investments in India – miles to go

Over past few years, angel investments have picked up in India, but the wide gap between quantum of angel investments and later stage investments remains. Some sense of where we need to head – For US,

The data from the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Venture Research show angels invested $8.5 billion in the first half, a 6.5% decrease over the first half of last year. They backed 25,200 entrepreneurial ventures in the first half, 3% more than the same six months in 2009. (Get the survey results here in PDF format.)

The number of active investors was 125,100 individuals, an 11% drop from last year’s first half.

Fly angels, fly!