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CrunchBase Q1 2009 Data And Charts

by Daniel Levine on April 2, 2010

I keep a close eye on the CrunchBase world. The community contributes a lot to that effort and and we like to give back. As part of that effort we are releasing detailed data and analysis for Q1 2010 (going 24 months back) on all the founding, funding, acquiring and investing information we have.

First a flattened version of the last 24 months of our some of our database which you can download here

Then there is a whole bunch of processed data, including numerous graphics and summary spreadsheets which you can download here.

If you want just some of the broader strokes of founding, fundings and acquisitions you can download this sampling.

If you have comments, contributions or would like to find out how to access our data or ask questions email me at trends. There is nothing better than an active community. I will also set up a page for the best community contributions.

I have included an image gallery of some of the graphs here to save you all the download.

Angel	# Deals	Round Value	Median
Ron Conway	24	61982365	1350000
Mitch Kapor	7	7400000	1600000
Esther Dyson	6	20630000	1650000
Aydin Senkut	6	9445000	1600000
David G. Cohen	6	8951486	1472367

VC Leaderboard: Top 25 Most Active Dealmakers Of 2009

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by Erick Schonfeld on January 29, 2010

Which venture capitalists funded the most companies last year? We went through our funding data in CrunchBase to come up with the Dealmaker Rankings below. The most active VC was Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which invested in 57 deals throughout the year by our count, followed by Kleiner Perkins (49), New Enterprise Associates (47) Intel Capital (46), Sequoia Capital (42), First Round Capital (34), and Accel (33). You can see all top 25 in the interactive table below, which is followed by another table for just the fourth quarter of 2009. Mohr Davidow and DAG Ventures broke into the top ten for the quarter. You can compare those to the tables we published for the third quarter.

The rankings are based on the number of deals each firm participated in during each time period. But you can also you can also re-rank the table by clicking on the different column headings to find the VC firms which participated in rounds with the largest total or average values. By doing that you can see that the bigger VC firms with the most capital to deploy, such as New Enterprise, Kleiner, Accel, Venrock, and Sequoia, were the most active in the bigger rounds. The fbFund, True VEntures, First Round, and Charles River Ventures dominated the smaller, earlier stage rounds. And then interestingly, firms like Benchmark, Greylock, and Highland Capital were active at both ends of the spectrum.

Click on each VC firm name in the table to get to their CrunchBase profile, which lists all of their deals. Or if you are really a data hound, you can download this Excel Workbook free of charge which includes the top 100 firms for the both the year and the fourth quarter, ranked by number of investments, as well as exits. The data also breaks out the number of investments in each category/sector as well as stage of invesment.

Most Active VCs 2009

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Venture Firm	# Deals	W/Value	Round Value	Mean
Draper Fisher Jurvetson	57	55	432,520,714	7,864,012
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers	49	44	929,650,000	21,128,409
New Enterprise Associates	47	47	1,166,530,000	24,819,787
Intel Capital	46	34	429,350,000	12,627,941
Sequoia Capital	42	39	572,013,896	14,667,022
First Round Capital	34	31	144,817,366	4,671,527
Accel Partners	33	32	714,289,999	22,321,562
Venrock	28	27	617,150,000	22,857,407
Benchmark Capital	26	25	340,590,000	13,623,600
Highland Capital Partners	26	26	335,870,000	12,918,076
Bessemer Venture Partners	25	25	404,929,997	16,197,199
DAG Ventures	24	23	356,200,000	15,486,956
Canaan Partners	24	23	347,619,997	15,113,912
Polaris Venture Partners	23	23	397,530,000	17,283,913
North Bridge Venture Partners	23	22	211,158,131	9,598,096
Mohr Davidow Ventures	22	22	341,199,999	15,509,090
InterWest Partners	21	20	389,510,000	19,475,500
Menlo Ventures	21	21	230,320,000	10,967,619
Sigma Partners	21	21	181,650,000	8,650,000
Greylock Partners	20	17	285,144,999	16,773,235
Charles River Ventures	20	17	179,500,000	10,558,823
True Ventures	20	19	41,850,000	2,202,631
fbFund	20	3	1,325,000	441,666
General Catalyst Partners	19	19	183,650,000	9,665,789
Foundation Capital	18	18	355,950,000	19,775,000

Most Active VCs Q4 09

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Venture Firm	# Deals	W/Value	Round Value	Mean
Draper Fisher Jurvetson	20	20	146,027,068	7,301,353
New Enterprise Associates	17	17	339,500,000	19,970,588
Intel Capital	17	11	142,600,000	12,963,636
Sequoia Capital	16	15	312,063,896	20,804,259
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers	15	13	376,700,000	28,976,923
Venrock	15	15	354,950,000	23,663,333
Mohr Davidow Ventures	11	11	209,099,999	19,009,090
DAG Ventures	11	10	208,900,000	20,890,000
First Round Capital	10	9	40,467,366	4,496,374
Sigma Partners	9	9	94,150,000	10,461,111
North Bridge Venture Partners	9	9	88,158,131	9,795,347
InterWest Partners	8	8	177,600,000	22,200,000
Bessemer Venture Partners	8	8	148,899,997	18,612,499
Benchmark Capital	8	8	75,300,000	9,412,500
Polaris Venture Partners	7	7	252,800,000	36,114,285
Domain Associates	7	7	153,057,968	21,865,424
Lightspeed Venture Partners	7	7	141,500,000	20,214,285
Atlas Venture	7	7	105,177,000	15,025,285
Shasta Ventures	7	7	60,894,999	8,699,285
Canaan Partners	7	6	55,619,997	9,269,999
SoftTech VC	7	7	20,750,000	2,964,285
HBM BioVentures	6	6	228,000,000	38,000,000
Khosla Ventures	6	6	116,150,000	19,358,333
General Catalyst Partners	6	6	80,000,000	13,333,333
Enterprise Ireland	6	6	44,380,000	7,396,666

Most Active Angels 2009

Most Active VCs 2009

Most Active VCs Q4 09