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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:
| 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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