List of Detailed Data Exhibits (Excel) 4
List of Detailed Graphics Exhibits (PDF) 5
The TechCrunch Take Away on Q3 09 7
Strategic M&A is Back 7
The Real-Time Race Is On: New Acquisitions, New Capital and New Products 8
Mobile Innovation Supports the Real Time Stream 9
The Fight over Browser Standards Continues: Video and HTML5 9
Virtualization and the Cloud 10
Statistical Executive Summary 11
Startup Launch Highlights: 11
Venture Highlights: 11
M&A Highlights: 11
IPO Highlights: 11
Community and Start-Up Losses: 12
Most Discussed Events, Products and Innovations: 12
Start-Ups Founded 13
Venture Capital Funding 16
Venture Funding: The Venture Capitalist Leader board 23
Sequoia Capital 26
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 26
Benchmark Capital 26
First Round Capital 26
Accel Partners 26
New Enterprise Associates 26
Venture Funding — Notable Transactions 27
Social Networks 27
Twitter raises $100M valuing the company at $1B 27
Ning raises $15M from Lightspeed Venture Partners @ $750 million valuation 27
Online Music 27
Spotify raises $50M Series B 27
Pandora gets $35M, led by Greylock Partners 27
Electric Cars 28
Fisker secures $529M from Department of Energy 28
Tesla scores another $82.5M Series F 28
Coda Automotive lands $24M Series B 28
Commerce Platforms 28
Rearden Commerce rakes in a $40M Series F 28
Search 29
Blekko raises $11.5 million Series C 29
M&A Highlights 30
M&A: Top Acquirers 35
Notable Acquirers 35
Google acquired On2 Technologies for $107M and reCAPTCHA 35
Yahoo! acquired email tool Xoopit and Arab web portal Maktoob 36
Adobe bought Omniture and GoodBarry, focus on web development tools 36
EMC bought Data Domain, Kazeon, and FastScale Technology 36
IBM acquired SPSS, RedPill Solutions and Ounce Labs 36
Thomson Reuters acquired 4 companies for improved Investor Relations 37
M&A – Notable Acquisitions 37
Consumer Web and Entertainment 37
The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion 37
Facebook acquired Friendfeed for $50M 37
Intuit acquired Mint.com for $170M 38
MySpace acquired iLike for $20M 38
OpenTable acquired GuestBridge for $3M 38
Enterprise 38
Dell acquired Perot Systems for $3.9B 38
VMWare to acquire SpringSource for $362M 39
SAP acquired SAF for $100M 39
eCommerce 39
Amazon bought Zappos for $928M 39
Mobile/Wireless 40
AdMob acquired AdWhirl 40
Research In Motion acquired Torch Mobile 40