True Ventures got our attention by closing a Series A deal in the dark days just after the financial meltdown, funding Syncplicity. It has just announced that it is funding LoopFuse, a late entrant to the very crowded marketing automation space. Sean Dwyer, CEO of LoopFuse, confirms that the Series A investment is $1.4 million. This puts True Ventures into the very elite class of VCs that have sealed two Series A deals in web technology since the financial meltdown (the other VC is Emergence Capital).

We first reported on VC Series A deals in the web-tech sector in October 2008, following the financial meltdown, and we updated our coverage in November, reporting some improvement. Now it is time for the good news from December and January. The amount invested by VCs in Series A deals for web-tech ventures went up from $19.1 million in November to $28.8 million in December, and up another notch to $30.3 million in January. Looking very good.

Emergence Capital is a VC firm that got our attention when it closed two Series A deals in November (with Maxplore and Zuberance). That is pretty cool at a time when most VCs were ringing alarms and knee-deep in doom and gloom. The New York Times even asked "Maybe We Should Call Them Venture Pessimists", citing a "quarterly Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index, which found that venture capitalists' confidence has reached its fifth consecutive quarterly low." Closing two Series A deals in November plants Emergence securely on our A-Team. So, we decided to interview Emergence and find out why it is "greedy when others are fearful".