Julien Wallen, CFO at a startup called pearltrees, has pulled together some interesting data on VCs who fund internet startups. He used Crunchbase as his source, so the data isn’t perfect, but there are some pretty interesting data points. While this data isn’t a perfect source for info on venture capital equity investments, there are some very cool tidbits in it.
There is no surprise that Venrock, GC and Spark are the Boston players near the top of the list.
Pre-money valuation (average) go from $5 to $22 to $45 (millions) for the A, B and C rounds, respectively.
Note that this is from Crunchbase, and so the data isn’t perfect. In fact, my fund, Atlas, would rank much more highly if some of our companies were included, such as Songbird, Zoopla, OwnerIQ, Moo, etc. Some of this is because Crunchbase has a strong US bias, some is because not all of our companies are in Crunchbase or are not properly categorized in Crunchbase, etc.
However, I hope that Julien continues to update this list, as it is quite interesting.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:09 am
Agreed, unfortunately CrunchBase is a bit US biased so the "VC ranking" is under-representing VCs investing outside the US. But it still gives a good overall picture.
I'll try to do in the coming weeks a post focusing on 2007 and/or 2008. I'll update the database by year end: to improve the quality of the outcome, the best thing is to put missing data directly in CrunchBase (the beauty of user-generated content).
Pre-money valuation you mention are rather on the lower end of the estimates. But again they are really rough estimates.
Fyi, as to the Atlas missing investments:
- Songbird is classified as seed by CrunchBase so not included in this analysis
- Moo is included
- Zoopla and OwnerIQ are not in CrunchBase funding data
November 18th, 2008 at 4:23 am
Thanks for the follow up!
November 19th, 2008 at 6:48 am
Good stuff! I've also been tracking the investments in online games space and published yesterday an analysis on the VC deals (1,7$ billion in 2007-2008 to online games and related entertainment).
Part 1:
http://bit.ly/CfY1
Part 2:
http://bit.ly/ztn
November 19th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Wow – Jussi has created a huge analysis of the games/virtual world space. The second post is quite exhaustive. Anyone interested in the space should check it out!
Healy