newmogul

“In my CFO & Business Development responsibilities at pearltrees, I'm interested in reliable Web specific funding data but it's hard to find. Usually, Web start-ups are included in broader categories.  Actually, I haven't found any comprehensive funding analysis focusing on Web only. Discussing about this with Nicolas Cynober - a semantic Web expert and R&D engineer at pearltrees - we decided to find a remedy: we extracted the entire CrunchBase database of funding rounds. Zooming on investments in Web start-ups exclusively (since 2004 to end of October 2008, series A to F), we ended-up with a database of 914 start-ups, 1307 investment rounds by 817 investors worth nearly $14bn. While CrunchBase may have some pitfalls (e.g., fewer deals prior to 2006, US bias), it is one of the most comprehensive publicly available database on Web start-ups funding. You'll find below some "Web specific" insights such as the Web VC ranking or overall data on investment stage, deal size and implied valuations (the tables below and detailed investments by VC are in Excel here Download Tables Crunchbase).” source...