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Current DateTime: 02:10:43 10 Nov 2009
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More IPOs Coming in 2009: Venture Capitalists
Published: Tuesday, 19 May 2009 | 2:39 PM ET
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By: JeeYeon Park
CNBC News Associate

Lise Buyer of Class V Group and Kate Mitchell of Scale Venture Partners agreed that there will be more venture-backed IPOs in the coming months.

“I think we’ll certainly see more and more in the coming months but let’s not pretend that we’re going to rush back to the glory days,” Buyer told CNBC.

“Investors wisely have been taking incremental risk. And IPOs are riskier than traditional and more proven companies. We’ll see more trickle out as the year runs on.”

(Pick the venture capitalists' brains: Watch the full interview)

“While we’ve lagged in [IPO] volume, we’ve led in performance,” said Mitchell.

Mitchell said she sees more capital being used to continue to grow smaller companies until the market is ready to accept them.

“The pace of innovation is still quite high in Silicon Valley and entrepreneurs are finding it a very interesting time to build in many cases,” she said.

Disclosures:

No immediate information was available for Mitchell or Buyer.

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IPOs in 2009:

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Rosetta Stone [RST  Loading...      ()   ]

Bridgepoint Education [BPI  Loading...      ()   ]

Changyou.com [CYOU  Loading...      ()   ]

Mead Johnson Nutrition [MJN  Loading...      ()   ]

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