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Nice visuals, but just a quick check of the data: Numonyx is a startup? Really? Then why not FreeScale?

Increasingly, "startup" seems to be defined as a way for the M&A guys to make money. If they can't make money, then it's not a startup (or it's a "lifestyle company".)

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The data is as accurate as Crunchbase is. And I suspect that all companies listed were once startups.

Ah that explains it. Crunchbase semi is definitely defined as things for M&A guys, and the data are terrible. (Look at Sequoia Comm for example.)

Numonyx was Intel unloading some of their crappier memory biz lines. They eventually unloaded it on micron, which makes me think that some of micron's BoD (or someone in the decision tree) made off personally.

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