The good news, is that early stage and expansion stage deals were up from the previous quarter, both in terms of overall amount, and in average amount per deal. Later stage deals took a bit of a dip, going from $86M in Q3 to $46M in Q4, although the average amount per deal was about the same, given that there were half the number of deals done in Q3.

Early stage basically improved 100% over Q3 – not bad – but again, this is just one uptick. We’re only talking about 6 deals, over the 3 we had in Q3. So this is hardly illustrative of anything really.

The one thing I *really* wish we had was a way of measuring “real” early-stage deals – i.e. angels. Sadly, the data available for that phase is far from empirical (which is why I didn’t include that level of investing in the dashboard).

Cheers.

Mark Lobel, PwC Principal, will be presenting the survey results followed by a panel discussion at the TSRB Auditorium (85 5th St.) on the Georgia Tech campus. Even though this event is focused on security, there is significant amount of value to be gained by people from across any organization.

CEO’s, CIO’s, CSO’s, VP’s and IT Directors will want to attend to hear the results of a worldwide study by CIO magazine and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). “The Global State of Information Security 2005,” a worldwide study by CIO magazine and PwC, is based on the responses of more than 8,200 CEO’s, CIO’s, CSO’s, VP’s and IT Directors from 63 countries. The study represents a broad range of industries, including computer-related manufacturing and software, financial services and banking, government, education, healthcare, telecommunications, transportation, and professional services and consulting. Following the presentation of the survey results by Mark Lobel, the PwC Principal who drives the survey, we’ll have a panel of CIO’s & CTO’s vet their experiences and companies’ policies.

Meeting Date
Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Meeting Time
7:30 a.m. Registration & Breakfast
8:00 a.m. PwC Presentation of Security Survey results
9:00 a.m. CIO Panel
10:00 a.m. Q&A

Panel:
Rob Webb, CTO, Equifax
Paul Judge , CTO, CipherTrust
Dr. Guido Sacchi, CIO, CompuCredit
Gustav Shrils, CTO, International Hotels
Becky Blalock, CIO, Southern Company

Meeting Location:
TSRB Auditorium (85 5th St.), Georgia Tech

Cost
Free attendance for all! What a deal!

To RSVP/Register, click here!

Cheers, and see you there!