Last week, VentureDeals wrote a guest post for VentureBeat that looked at VC investment trends in financial services startups from 2007 to 2011.

Overall Picture

• The number of companies that received funding increased substantially
  in 2010 and 2011
• The dollar amount rose by only a fraction in 2010 and dropped in 2011

Funding Amount
The below chart summarizes the funding dollars financial services startups received from VCs during 2007 to 2011:

Here is the year-over-year percent change in funding amount:

Number of Companies Funded
The below graph summarizes the number of financial services companies VCs funded from 2007 to 2011:

Here is the year-over-year percent change in number of companies funded:

Finovate Alumni Funding
We compared these results to our analysis of funding Finovate alumni received in 2011:

• 34 Finovate alumni received funding, some more than once
• $400 million in funding received