Just about everyone loves a good pie…chart, that is. If you’re one of those, read on.
On Tuesday, we ran a story here in Boston about all the September venture deals in Massachusetts—and then my colleague Bruce followed that up a bit later that same day with a national roundup of third-quarter venture figures.
Both those stories relied on data provided by our partner ChubbyBrain, a New York-based information services company developing tools for investors, startups, and aspiring entrepreneurs. And they contained a few interesting charts and tables.
Today, though, I can’t resist sharing more of the details on Massachusetts from ChubbyBrain’s extensive third quarter report, “Pulse of the Innovation Economy,” which holds far more information about venture deals numbers, VC dollars invested, hot sectors, and stage of investments than we could cover in our more general posts on Tuesday.
So here we go. If your eyes are having a bit of trouble picking out the details, just click on any image to enlarge it.
The Bay State and New England are distant seconds—can anyone say “California?”—in both deals and dollars.
VC investment in MA showed a nice rise in Q3 vs. Q2 of 2009.
VCs took some vacations in August.
Burlington?
Healthcare and Internet dominate—but there is diversity of investment.
Whoever said early-stage deals are dead in MA is dead wrong.
We got our Web on.
No. 2 in mobile and telecom. Cowboys in Colorado and Texas closing in?
Has the bloom gone off the cleantech rose?
I live in Cambridge.
Author: Robert Buderi
Bob is Xconomy's founder and chairman. He is one of the country's foremost journalists covering business and technology. As a noted author and magazine editor, he is a sought-after commentator on innovation and global competitiveness. Before taking his most recent position as a research fellow in MIT's Center for International Studies, Bob served as Editor in Chief of MIT's Technology Review, then a 10-times-a-year publication with a circulation of 315,000. Bob led the magazine to numerous editorial and design awards and oversaw its expansion into three foreign editions, electronic newsletters, and highly successful conferences. As BusinessWeek's technology editor, he shared in the 1992 National Magazine Award for The Quality Imperative.
Bob is the author of four books about technology and innovation. Naval Innovation for the 21st Century (2013) is a post-Cold War account of the Office of Naval Research. Guanxi (2006) focuses on Microsoft's Beijing research lab as a metaphor for global competitiveness. Engines of Tomorrow (2000) describes the evolution of corporate research. The Invention That Changed the World (1996) covered a secret lab at MIT during WWII. Bob served on the Council on Competitiveness-sponsored National Innovation Initiative and is an advisor to the Draper Prize Nominating Committee. He has been a regular guest of CNBC's Strategy Session and has spoken about innovation at many venues, including the Business Council, Amazon, eBay, Google, IBM, and Microsoft.
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