European venture-capital investment climbs in first quarter of 2005; Ernst & Young/VentureOne quarterly European Venture Capital Report finds Median Deal sizes at highest levels.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-16 May 2005-VentureOne: European venture-capital investment climbs in first quarter of 2005; Ernst & Young/VentureOne quarterly European Venture Capital Report finds Median Deal sizes at highest levels.(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16052005 LONDON and NEW YORK - In the first quarter of 2005, venture-capital investment into European companies reached *880.3 million - 19 increase over the amount invested in the first quarter of 2004.

However, deal flow dropped to less than 200 deals-- 27 decline from the same quarter a year ago-according to the European Venture Capital Report released by Ernst & Young and VentureOne. VentureOne is a unit of Dow Jones Newswires and the publisher of VentureSource. In comparison, both deal flow and...