After being cooped up for a couple of years by the raging economic storm, a growing number of venture-backed companies found an exit last year. According to industry tracker Dow Jones VentureSource, 514 companies achieved liquidity in 2010, netting $39.3 billion. That’s a 25 percent increase over 2009’s paltry numbers, but still well short of the 613 exits and $69.1 billion netted in 2007.
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