1.   As a venture investor, the bank bought shares in all those companies at a fraction of the IPO prices.

2.   As venture investors file with regulators their intention to sell shares, it can create the perception that insiders are losing confidence in the company.

3.   At the same time, many venture investors are looking for hot deals in health care because so many other sectors are ice cold.

4.   Banks like Chase Manhattan have also become aggressive venture investors.

5.   Both companies began to grow from their very earliest roots at about the same time and have many private venture investors in common.

6.   A. IVP was the sole venture investor in Atmel, made a lot of money and fully distributed the stock several years ago.

7.   A.We have some strong venture investors.

8.   But European venture investors seemed to expect some decrease in their investing, in contast to their US counterparts,

9.   But this deal represents a trend among entrepreneurs, who often take key partners on as investors, in addition to traditional venture investors and large corporations.

10.   But the PricewaterhouseCoopers study found that venture investors played an instrumental role in developing successful companies and brought valuable assistance to start-ups beyond financing.