This news was reported in January: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/16/vc-funding-increasi.... Also, using Crunchbase as a source for total funding is not incredibly accurate. CBInsights has far better data on this since they are tracking literally all venture funding activity. What would be more valuable is to see how this differs from one market segment to the next over time.

Update: I just saw this was for Q1. Totally got that mixed up. Still though, not sure crunchbase data is most accurate.