Matthew Aslett is reporting a 131% increase in open source funding in 2006 to $404.5 million. Matthew also reports 34 total open source deals with an average investment of $11.9 million.
I suspect the number might actually be higher, because Matthew's total number for venture funding to date (since 2000, anyway), is $963 million. I personally, with Robin Vasan's help, have tallied roughly $1.3 billion in open source venture funding since 2000. (Our data - it's now a little dated - is here.)
Incidentally, Matthew's data is also different from what I reported here back in November 2006. But I never felt super comfortable with that data....
Posted by Matt Asay on December 15, 2006 08:17 AM
