Today is Obama’s inauguration. It is a day of great optimism on so many fronts. Having said that, we have just published our Q3 New England deal numbers. Another source for deal numbers is CrunchBase. It has two categories: financing and acquisitions. If you click on the graphs, you get the underlying data. In the case of the financing, CrunchBase publishes the date (by month), the issuer, the amount of the raise, the investors and the stage. In the case of acquisitions, it provides the date, the target, the acquirer and, sometimes, the price. The acquisitions graph shows a steep decline in Q3 – who would have guessed? The financing graph shows a steep decline in October and a slower decline thereafter. I am not sure how CrunchBase gathers its numbers, I imagine that it is based in some way on information provided by its network (which is large). In any event, their data is consistent with all the other data I am seeing... Obama has is work cut out for him.

Updated later on January 20.  I just took a look at Don Dodge's blog.  He too has Q4 numbers to show.