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 |
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| 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 |
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| Venture Firm | # Deals | W/Value | Round Value | Mean |
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| 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 |
Sequoia Capital pushed to fifth?
Gosh, that sure is some interesting data Erick. I hope some reps from these companies show up at our investment round. (see link for details)
They sure are all invited.
Good show on the analytics, good show…
I just missed the list at #26. Milton Hasselbury.
I would love to see a view of this data that only looked at Series A deals.
@joshua download the excel file, it breaks it down by category and round, only counts, but i can easily come up with values, get in touch if you want more
A breakdown by industry for say the top 10 firms would be quite useful, to see which sectors each favors.
@maciej download the excel file and we breakdown the number of investments by category and stage as well
@Daniel: Fantastic! Must be blind, don’t how I missed the link in the post in the first place!
A breakdown by how big of a deuchebag the vc is would be quite useful as well
Thanks for this. Have yet to dig into the Excel file… Would be interesting to see a cross-section of Seed/Series A by geography. (ie. Who made consistent early stage investments outside The Valley). Or, perhaps there’s a different data set for this info…?
Well if you compare the amount they were willing to lend out relative to the number of deals they made, the list might be a little off. These companies are doing a great thing, but with all that money it would make sense to invest in the stock market.
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@Christopher
Gee golly, I sure hope they do. I’m sure many people are willing to pay to have you pitch them.. brilliant idea..
Great data! It would also be interesting to see numbers on new deal volume versus follow-on rounds. A valid definition of active these days is to count new deals only.
Guys,
Thanks for sharing this data. You can charge $500 for this data. I love Techcrunch & this data is free
@mike @all thanks for the feedback, tweet me @daniel_levine with ideas for any data you’d like to see
Awesome work guys. Cheers for making this available for free. Cant believe Enterprise Ireland made the list.
Is this deals done in the US by any company worldwide or just by a US based company/subsidiary?
Awesome work. Here are some fresh cuts of the data. I’ll post more later tonight. Enjoy.
http://www.ipo-dashboards.com/wordpress/2010/01/crunchbase-leaderboard1/
Nice graphics! Is this all of the data? Pretty slick way of showing the data.
hey daniel: how come Y-Combinator and TechStars aren’t on here?
given that YC invests in 20+ companies 2x/yr, would have thought they’d be at the top of the list.
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Here is more data.
@Jerry…yes every funding deal in the spreadsheet is in there. I’ll add a summary of the exits later.
@gerald…this visualization answers your question about geography: where are they investing:
http://www.ipo-dashboards.com/wordpress/2010/01/crunchbase-leaderboard2/
@daniel..I made updates to this one that I think answer every question in this comment trail.
http://www.ipo-dashboards.com/wordpress/2010/01/crunchbase-leaderboard1/
You’re welcome to embed the visualizations in your post. Hit the share button at the bottom and grab the embed text.