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U.S. WEB 2.0 INVESTMENT JUMPS 88% IN 2007 TO $1.34

BILLION BUT SECTOR MAY BE MATURING

Dow Jones VentureSource: Facebook Accounts for 22% of All Web 2.0 Funding in U.S.;

Silicon Valley Losing Appeal as Investors Look Elsewhere

SAN FRANCISCO

(March 18, 2008)—The Web 2.0 investment boom may be peaking.

That is

according to new data announced today by Dow Jones VentureSource at the Web Ventures

conference in Redwood City, Calif., that shows venture capitalists pumped a record $1.34 billion

into 178 Web 2.0 deals in the U.S. in 2007, up nearly 88% over amounts invested in 2006.

However, one company—social network Facebook, which raised at least $300 million—

accounted for 22% of all funding that went into this sector in 2007.

The data also reveals slowing deal growth.

From 2002 to 2006, Web 2.0 deal flow

doubled every year, but 2007 only saw deals increase 25% to 178 from 143 deals in 2006.

Nearly all of this growth happened outside the San Francisco Bay area, the longtime home of

Web-related innovation and investment.

“On the surface, the numbers look fine for the Bay Area—$720 million invested in 72

deals—but take Facebook’s $300 million out of the statistics and you see a very different

picture,” said Jessica Canning, Director of Global Research for Dow Jones VentureSource. “Web

2.0 deals in the Bay Area actually dropped from 74 deals in 2006 to 69 last year and investments

were down 3% from the $431 million invested in 2006.

It’s clear that the real growth in the Web

2.0 sector is happening outside of the Bay Area.”