If you found our popular and not so old post on Silicon Valley investments into the mobile industry interesting you will probably find the information released at ChubbyBrain yesterday both interesting and encouraging…
And now it’s official: with ChubbyBrain’s latest numbers tallied, we can announce that money flowing from venture capital investors to entrepreneurs increased by a respectable 14% in Q3 2009 over the prior quarter.
Not 100% there … but at least looking better:
… when we look at the year over year numbers, $6.1B still is not nearly where Q3 2008 was with its $7.2B of funding based on our data. The magnitude of and time for the VC asset class to recover is uncertain at best despite the pundits’ predictions. However, the sequential quarter over quarter growth story being observed in the data gives us hope that things are improving.
They have a series of about 18 posts over at the Chubby Brain blog where you can get all the detail. I wanted to mostly highlight some of the mobile related data.
The Mobile & Telecom sector was third (behind healthcare and internet) with $803 Million divided across 52 deals. Here is a breakdown of those deals:
- Software & Services 52% (but only 14% of funding)
- Towers & Infrastructure 45%
- Telecom Devices & Equipment 26%
The average deal size was up to $15M with these more capital intensive industry categories (the latter two) driving up the aggregate sector’s average deal size.
Some graphs for you below. Go to the Chubby Brain Blog to read the rest of it …
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- VC Investment in Mobile & Telecom by Industry Q309
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- VC Deal Volume in Mobile and Telecom Q309
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- VC Investment and Deal Volume Q309
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