Deep Dive Into MA Deals Data for Q3—With Lots of Pictures

Robert Buderi10/15/09Follow @bbuderi

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.

Bob is Xconomy's founder and editor in chief. You can e-mail him at bbuderi@xconomy.com, call him at 617.500.5926. Follow @bbuderi