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I visited several venture capital firms in Silicon Valley this week and also met the CEOs of a number of VC-funded companies. Not surprisingly, much of the talk was about the climate and outlook for venture capital, which is the spigot from which much of Silicon Valley drinks.

The MoneyTree Survey of venture capital, summarized in GigaOm , shows that total VC investments in the second quarter were basically flat over the last year or so, however with a slight continuing decline in early-stage investments. One of the key features is that late-stage investments are accumulating as exits become more difficult. IPOs had already dried up before the more recent stockmarket downturn, and now the tighter constraints on capital across the economy mean that trade exits are also falling off.

Source: MoneyTree via GigaOm