Entrepreneurship, Incubation and Venture Capital

Michael Arrington · Top Commenter · Founder at TechCrunch · 94,698 subscribers
nice.
9 · · November 22 at 10:31am

Anson Hunter · Atlanta, Georgia
Hey Michael did you happen to receive the inbox I sent you?
November 22 at 1:56pm

Andre Garrigo · Works at Techmeme
allyourcrunchbasearebelongtous
3 · · November 21 at 8:34pm

Kristen Holden · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
No way there is a bubble. Companies that make infographics getting a 20m seed round and all...
2 · · November 21 at 6:50pm

Eric Rosser Eldon · Top Commenter · Writer at TechCrunch
Boom.
November 21 at 7:00pm

Scott Wilson
2mill not 20. still.
1 · · November 21 at 7:06pm

Jon Fisher
Great reminder, Eric. I'm a longtime fan of CrunchBase and use it nearly everyday. Please give AOL a hint hint, nudge nudge to put some cash into dev'ing it out to add more robust features. Its the one part of the TC network that is undervalued, by far. Sharing really is caring at TC. :)
1 · · November 22 at 11:35am

Yoni Ende · Top Commenter · Delray Beach, Florida
Seems like bigger rounds don't always correspond w bigger ideas.
1 · · November 21 at 8:15pm

Ovetta Sampson · Co-Founder at World Media Now
I'm always amazed at the mediocrity that gets funded on these rounds...lots of bandwagon jumpees, nothing too revolutionary although are people able to recognize revolution when they see it? I sure hope so...
November 22 at 8:21pm

Toby Abel · CEO at Planitt
Great idea Eric, I for one never get as much out of CrunchBase as I'd like, this should really help. That said, the data visualisation is poor, considering how much work goes in to researching, writing and editing the article it deserves more than an ugly embedded spreadsheet.
November 22 at 1:35am

Eric Rosser Eldon · Top Commenter · Writer at TechCrunch
For sure! The spreadsheet is ugly as sin. We're working on this issue. Lemme know if you have ideas.
2 · · November 22 at 5:08am

Steve Poland · Top Commenter · Purdue University
Eric, thank you. Finally someone that cares :) this will make the rest of us care and thus we will have reason to keep this puppy updated... Together, and have even better data in the future.
November 21 at 8:48pm

Eric Rosser Eldon · Top Commenter · Writer at TechCrunch
Exactly :)
November 22 at 5:09am

Patrick Sullivan · San Francisco, California
Awesome graph. Would love to see a comma or two in the larger numbers. Some of your readers are getting old and we can't see if the company is getting 2500000 or 25000000.
November 21 at 10:41pm

Eric Rosser Eldon · Top Commenter · Writer at TechCrunch
Sigh. Yeah, working on this.
November 22 at 5:09am

Jacopo Givoletti · Viareggio, Italy
Very interesting to see that maily it is software...no hardware or equipment company has been funded...
November 22 at 1:55am

Irit Israeli-kahana · Boston University
It looks like investors gambling party. Grouping together 4 IN-vestment seems like the new IN...
November 21 at 10:44pm

Martin Crampton · Top Commenter · Works at Newbrain - Founder
Not gambling actually managing risk big time but in the process building a bubble as its based on people rather than business opportunity. Refer to M Arrington's article on luck. This Cbase analysis supports that you can get lucky but more often than not you need money connected to money and previous successful start-ups. I think we news a new term for 'unconnected' start-ups.
November 22 at 11:08pm

Kristian Müller · Works at Mixd.tv
nice, thanks for the openness, and rock on TC-engineers!
November 22 at 1:42am

Rob Moffat · London, United Kingdom
Is this why Crunchbase has been so slow the last few weeks?
November 22 at 5:50am

Broad Castic · Top Commenter · Works at Founder at content delivery/responce startup www.Broadcastic.com
do the graph - average per week or per month...
November 21 at 9:33pm

Eric Rosser Eldon · Top Commenter · Writer at TechCrunch
That could be interesting. I'll play around with it.
November 22 at 5:09am

Atif Yousuf · SEO Executive at Media Redirect
hmmmmmmmmmmm