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Funds Flow to Venture Firms

Endowments and pensions help raise $13 billion this year, the most since 2000

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Venture-capital firms are raising money at the highest rate in more than 15 years, even as the values of some once-hot startups have begun to cool.

With the quarter nearly over, U.S. venture funds have collected about $13 billion, which would be the largest total since the dot-com boom in 2000, according to preliminary data from Dow Jones VentureSource.

Many prestigious venture firms have raised new billion-dollar funds in...

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