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VC funding for open source hits an all-time high
Matthew Aslett, April 1, 2008 @ 5:25 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 2008 see this post.
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[...] comes the biggest quarter in open source’s (still young) history: $203.75 million raised, as reported by The 451 Group. This trumped the previous record of $193.6 million from Q4 2006. There’s something about the [...]
[...] comes the biggest quarter in open source’s (still young) history: $203.75 million raised, as reported by The 451 Group. This trumped the previous record of $193.6 million from Q4 2006. There’s something about the [...]
[...] three months of 2008 saw more venture investment into open source startups than any quarter ever, according to tech analyst company The 451 Group. Venture firms invested a total of $203.8 million into open source, up from $193.7 million in the [...]
Obviously why. Not many open source projects start with the idea of beginning a business. A lot need to firm their feet on their open source code base to get traction and feedback on whether their is need for their applications. What we see is most of them coming in for funding once a lot of ground work has been covered. I would not be surprised if this trend changes once hard startup offerings start to cotten on to this new approach.
[...] VC funding for open source hits an all-time high I don’t know about you, but I tend to think of Portland as an Open Source Mecca, of sorts. If you’re of the same mind, this can only bode well for us. [...]
[...] VC funding for open source hits an all-time high [...]
[...] comes the biggest quarter in open source’s (still young) history: $203.75 million raised, as reported by The 451 Group. This trumped the previous record of $193.6 million from Q4 2006. There’s something about the [...]
[...] about the pipeline for VC funding based on the fact that while the first quarter of 2008 was the most successful quarter in history in terms of open source vendors raising venture capital funding, the percentage [...]
[...] accounted for only 4.4 percent of first-quarter VC funding, according to InformationWeek. In a blog post, 451 Group analyst Matthew Aslett notes: … [S]o many of the old names raised funding in the [...]
[...] to $101.5m in 2Q07. Given the overwhelming level of investment in open source vendors seen in the first quarter, it was always unlikely that level of momentum would continue into Q2. Total funding for the first [...]
[...] VC funding for open source hits an all-time high [...]
[...] Reuters, while there was bound to be some hangover following the most successful quarter ever in Q1 and solid growth in [...]
[...] here for the latest update on VC funding figures. Permalink | Technorati Links | Bookmark on [...]
‘Old’ Open Source Names Get Lion’s Share of VC Funds…
Venture capitalists are showing open source companies a lot of love so far this year. InformationWeek reported Tuesday that venture capital investment in open source reached $204 million in the first quarter of 2008. Research firm The 451 Group,……