[ig1]

(I run SeedTable which also does analytics on Crunchbase data)

The problem with ranking by funding/acquisition amounts is the data is pretty dirty, and outliers are disproportionately likely to be incorrect data (because someone fat fingered a number to be an order of magnitude larger, or put a foreign currency amount in as USD). Although the acq data is better than the funding data.

You might also want to extract stuff like biotech from the data because it's fundamentally a completely separate market from software tech.

[ipedrazas]

Still, on that table we can see that on 2012 there was less funding and less acquisition.

Will be interesting to see what happens during 2013 but it seems that there's not as much money as on 2010/2011

[ig1]

Yes the counted metrics are much more reliable.

It's much harder for TC to misenter an acquisition/funding round then it is for them accidentally add an extra zero to a number.