In our report in conjunction with BizTech@Wharton entitled the Evolving World of eCommerce, we highlighted a variety of statistics about eCommerce investment and M&A trends since 2008 for those areas of eCommerce being covered as part of the BizTech@Wharton conference.
One statistic we highlighted in the report (request full free report here) was that since 2008, there have been 81 acquisition transactions in the following areas of eCommerce: Flash Sales, Daily Deals, Alternative Currencies, Sharing Economy/Collaborative Commerce, CrowdFunding and Subscription eCommerce. As can be seen, M&A activity in these areas of eCommerce is significantly accelerating as well.
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In our report in conjunction with BizTech@Wharton entitled the Evolving World of eCommerce, we highlighted a variety of statistics about eCommerce investment and M&A trends since 2008 for those areas of eCommerce being covered as part of the BizTech@Wharton conference.
One statistic we highlighted in the report (request full free report here) was that since 2008, there has been $4.1 billion invested in 203 financing transactions in the following areas of eCommerce: Flash Sales, Daily Deals, Alternative Currencies, Sharing Economy/Collaborative Commerce, CrowdFunding and Subscription eCommerce .
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With our quarterly venture capital report for Q4 2011 having just come out, we inevitably will get questions when the Dow Jones VentureSource report eventually comes out a couple weeks later about why the data is different. We did a comparison some time ago of venture capital databases, but since we get the question pretty regularly, we figured we’d document our answer publicly.
Dow Jones VentureSource is just not that good.
That was simple. By not that good, we mean Dow Jones VentureSource data is not that accurate, complete or timely.
Let us explain why.
It comes down to Dow Jones VentureSource having an outdated data aggregation model. It wasn’t always outdated. In fact, it was the right model in 1992…
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Venture capitalists weren’t bashful in Q4 2011 showering 755 companies with $7.6 billion in venture funding. Q4’s performance brought 2011’s total to $30.6B invested in 3051 deals which marked a 10-year high for the VC asset class on both deals and dollars.
Let the talk of a bubble begin in 3, 2, 1…
Here are some of 2011′s highlights.
The Fat Venture Capital Funnel
With 2011’s results, the bubble talk will shift into overdrive. The reality is that VC funding is a funnel. More companies get Series A than B than C – etc, etc. Within tech, our data shows the VC funnel has gotten fat at the top (a lot of Series A and Seed deals). And VC Darwinism means that not all of these companies can or should receive Series B, C, etc. While some would rightfully say this is the way markets work, for a company raising money, this dynamic will represent a “chokepoint”. Some will receive funding, some will die quickly, some will get acq-hired or be asset sales get dressed up as acquisitions, some will be orphaned and figure out a way to make money and become steady real businesses and some will die a slower, more tortured death.
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