Top 10 Venture Capital Firms of 2009-2010 Based on Investment Activity

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The most active venture capital firm of 2009-2010 is New Enterprise Associates.

Last week, we initiated our series on the Top 30 VC firms presenting to you top venture capital firms ranked #11 to 30. As a reminder, the 30 firms in aggregate participated in 663 unique deals (24.4% of all deals), which yielded $8.67 billion in aggregate investment (37% of all investment) from July 2009 through June 2010.

Now, we turn our attention to the Top 10 most active venture capital firms from Q3 ’09 to Q2 ’10. These 10 firms led the pack with at least 28 deals each. Taking the crown in this period was New Enterprise Associates, with an impressive 59 deals. Here’s the list:

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Rank	Firm name	Deals
#1	New Enterprise Associates	59
#2	Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers	52
#3	First Round Capital	48
#4	Polaris Venture Partners	37
#5	Intel Capital	35
#6	Sequoia Capital	34
#7	Khosla Ventures	31
#7	Benchmark Capital	31
#9	North Bridge Venture Partners	29
#10	InterWest Partners	28

We will be looking into where the top 30 are making their investments by sector in subsequent posts with a specific focus on the top VCs’ activity in the healthcare, internet, and greentech/cleantech sectors.

And, as a reminder, here’s the rest of the top 30 from our previous post:

#11	Accel Partners	27
#12	Venrock	26
#12	DAG Ventures	26
#12	Draper Fisher Jurvetson	26
#15	Menlo Ventures	25
#15	Highland Capital Partners	25
#15	Austin Ventures	25
#18	Domain Associates	24
#19	Lightspeed Venture Partners	23
#19	US Venture Partners	23
#19	Bessemer Venture Partners	23
#19	Sigma Partners	23
#23	Canaan Partners	22
#23	True Ventures	22
#25	Flagship Ventures	21
#25	Arch Venture Partners	21
#25	Redpoint Ventures	21
#25	Charles River Ventures	21
#25	Shasta Ventures	21
#25	Battery Ventures	21

Methodology : Ranked based on equity investments made by US-based VCs in US-based companies from July 2009 through June 2010.

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I’m curious what your data collection methodology is and how these results compare to other “gold standard” industry data sources such as Thomson and VentureSource. Are you basing this off of self-reported data, the Form D’s, etc.? Does this include new and follow-on investment? How about debt instruments as well as equity?
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You can find a comparison of CBI vs DJ vs Thomson here: http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/venture-capital-database-and-directory-comparison

Page 49 of our Q2 VC activity report contains our definitions of what we include: http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/q2-2010-venture-capital-activity-5-9-billion-invested-over-612-deals
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