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.
