Investors may have their sights on summer houses in Nantucket or Cape Cod next month, but it’s because they’ve been seriously busy for the past six months. Venture capital firms in Massachusetts and around the country wrote many a check in the first half of 2014, according to venture capital data analytics firm CB Insights.
Venture firms in the golden trio of tech hubs – Massachusetts, San Francisco and New York – poured a collective $23.87 billion across 1,854 deals in the first half of this year.
CB Insights compiled the most active venture capital firms in H1 2014 into a tidy list, featured below. Topping the chart for the most deals was New Enterprise Associates, closely followed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. (Check out the full chart here.)
As for Massachusetts, VCs invested $1.9 billion across 188 deals in the first chunk of 2014. Leading the local pack was Cambridge’s Atlas Venture. The early-stage firm has made a number of notable investments between January and July, including ThreatStack’s $2.7 million Series A, machine-learning video app Vhoto’s $3.1 million seed, health analysis startup Whoop’s $6 million round and connected tech company Robin’s $1.4 million raise. Nationally, Atlas tied as the 16th most active venture capital firm in the country with Battery Ventures. (Though Battery may be headquartered in the Seaport, the firm doesn’t even crack the top 10 in Boston’s list.)
General Catalyst Partners, Polaris Partners, North Bridge Ventures and Matrix Partners round out the Bay State’s top five most active venture firms.
