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The Series A crunch isn't caused by a decrease of Series A rounds, from various studies (from cbinsights and others) Series A investment is actually relatively
by ig1 14y ago
The Series A crunch isn't caused by a decrease of Series A rounds, from various studies (from cbinsights and others) Series A investment is actually relatively stable.
What's changed is that you're getting far more companies who have raised money at the seed level. So the percentage of companies getting on follow-on investment at Series A is dropping while the absolute number isn't.
Also doing it over a 30 day period probably isn't long enough to take into account the vagaries of randomness (rounds may happen erratically, there's typically a delay before round gets added to crunchbase, etc.) - probably makes more sense to do it from start of year.
- rdl 14y agoI think a16z is dominant because while there are specific other VCs who may be on different lists of "best networking investor" or "best security investor" or "best travel site for cats investor..." or whatever, but a16z is basically on every list, at or near the top, for every niche I care about. (EDIT: oops, this was a reply to the other comment on the page)
- dmor 14y agoWhether there is a series A crunch or not doesn't concern me (no negative tone intended, just want to clarify my intent), and I wasn't trying to validate that it exists with this data set. Raising a venture round is hard, and my hope it that this list helps entrepreneurs focus their efforts on active investors. Here is the data you requested, starting January 1st (225 active series A investors): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ApqWF3CqjgjSdFBDWUk3N3lSZWZxLU15S1FwNlQ5cXc&output=html https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ApqWF3CqjgjSdFB...
- ig1 14y agoMy comment wasn't in anyway intended to be negative on the list, more just a broader comment on the Series A crunch. I think your list is certainly a valuable resource for people looking to raise venture money!
- dmor 14y agoSorry, my choice of "doesn't concern me" language probably came across badly.
- ig1 14y agoNo worries. You might find the vcdelta page interesting as well, it tracks changes to VC portfolio pages so captures rounds that may not be in Crunchbase: http://neuvc.com/labs/vcdelta/ http://neuvc.com/labs/vcdelta/
- mindcrime 14y agoand my hope it that this list helps entrepreneurs focus their efforts on active investors. I'd rather see them focus on customers. :-)