Series A funding statistics

I recently spent some time looking at typical Series A investments. I used crunchbase to get the underlying data. And then applied a few filters (like Series A only, USD only, etc.) to get to these results. Here are some important notes with that regard-

• The observations are from companies in the crunchbase db. 
• Only companies with Series A funding in USD were looked at.
• Resulting rows: 3730

Here are some interesting observations.

Log of Series A is a normal distribution

Median Series A size: $4M
Mean Series A size: $7.05M

Distribution of Categories

Series A over the years

Series A by Categories

While there are several ways to read into what you see here, it is fun to build your own hypothesis to match the graphs. (For me, I enjoy looking at the outliers that defined 2007/2008) If you believe you have a good hypothesis then please share!

All the analysis was done with the excellent open-source tools R and Python. Email me if you want the scripts or a job pulling fun statistics from large data sets. :-)