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More venture dollars went into startups in the third quarter than the two previous quarters of the year, but was still down 33 percent from a year ago, according to the latest MoneyTree report put out by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. The report counts 657 venture deals worth a total of $4.8 billion, up 17 percent from the second quarter. We found a similar rise in venture dollars ( up 17.5 percent) in our third quarter TechCrunch Trends report. Although, we measured a higher dollar-volume of deals—$7.7 billion in aggregate venture funding across 645 funding rounds. (We also came out yesterday with a ranking of the top 25 most active VC firms ). The MoneyTree report also marked a rebound within the Internet and Clean Tech sectors. Venture dollars going to Internet startups was up 42 percent from the second quarter to $843 million. Clean tech dollars were up an even greater 89 percent to $898 million, from the previous quarter. On an annual basis, Internet dollars are still down 22 percent and clean tech dollars are down 14 percent from the $1 billion quarterly levels they were at a year ago. Again, comparing our numbers from CrunchBase to the MoneyTree numbers (which come from Thomson Reuters), we count the same number of clean tech deals (57), but capture more…

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