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Open source funding down 41% in Q3
Matthew Aslett, October 2, 2007 @ 9:09 am ETThe figures originally reported here were preliminary and have been revised for a formal CAOS report to be published in the first half of 2009. In the interests of accuracy this data has now been removed. For a full assessment of VC funding in 2007 see this post.
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[...] SusanG wrote an interesting post today!.Here’s a quick excerptThe slowdown in venture capital funding for Linux and open source-related vendors continued in the third quarter as disclosed funding deals were down 41.6% to $77.8m*, compared to $133.3m in the same quarter last year. … [...]
OSS Venture Capital and M&A…
Many of you may have heard that Matthew Aslett is over at The 451 Group now. Matthew has been tracking VC funding to OSS vendors for quite some time now. Matthew reports that VC funding to OSS vendors in 3Q07 decreased 42% to $78M from $133M in 3Q06. T…
[...] Open source funding down 41% in Q3The slowdown in venture capital funding for Linux and open source-related vendors continued in the third quarter as disclosed funding deals were down 41.6% to $77.8m*, compared to $133.3m in the same quarter last year. … [...]
[...] activity is the new VC funding Matthew Aslett, October 3, 2007 @ 10:38 am ET I mentioned yesterday that the big money for established open source vendors went on M&A activity rather than [...]