Menlo Park, California -- North American database VentureDeal tracks venture capital debt transactions for over 40 technology industries, including general technology and life science industries.
The chart below shows the number of venture capital debt transactions by industry for the calendar year 2015:
The most active industry during the year was Software, which had slightly more than 80 transactions with at least some debt as a component.
Coming in a close second was the Medical Devices industry at 80 deals.
At 66 transactions, the Internet industry was third in deal frequency.
Biotechnology companies accounted for 45 debt transactions.
Rounding out the top five was Digital Media, which showed 33 deals during the 12 month period.