NH Business Review Center for Venture Research reports in dollar total and number of investments May 20, 2021 Jeffrey Sohl is director of the UNH Center for Venture Research. There was an increase in both the number of active investors and the number of investments as well as a 6% increase in the total dollars invested in the angel investor market in 2020, according to ab analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. And, for the first time in several years, the seed and startup stage market became the predominant investment stage for angels. Angel investments in 2020 totaled $25.3 billion, an increase of 6% over 2019, according to the analysis. A total of 64,480 entrepreneurial ventures received angel funding, an increase of 1.2% over 2019, and the number of active investors increased to 334,680, compared to 323,365 in 2019, an increase of 3.5%.