This post is part of our Startup Funding Benchmarking Series exploring the allocation, concentration, and macro trends in the financing of high growth startups. September had a bit of a… Read Full Article
With Record Number of Seed Funded Startups in the Funnel, Competition for Series A Deals Is Fierce (read more) The debate of whether there is a “Series A Crunch” seems to… Read Full Article
This post is part of our Startup Funding Benchmarking Series exploring the allocation, concentration, and macro trends in the financing of high growth startups. Series A crunch? Series B crunch?… Read Full Article
We’re excited to introduce the ability for you to submit new or missing company data right from the Mattermark iOS app. Deal makers around the world use Mattermark everyday to… Read Full Article
This post is part of our Startup Funding Benchmarking Series exploring the allocation, concentration, and macro trends in the financing of high growth startups. As we head into the… Read Full Article
This post is part of our Startup Funding Benchmarking Series exploring the allocation, concentration, and macro trends in the financing of high growth startups. Despite a volatile start to September in… Read Full Article
Introducing the Mattermark Private Venture Funding Index (read more) Yesterday, we spoke with Emily Chang at Bloomberg West about the impact of public stock market volatility on the financing options and liquidity for… Read Full Article
Did you know that Quora is the #137th (and climbing) most-trafficked website on the entire Internet? That’s approximately the same amount of traffic as Yelp, Etsy, and Flickr — and… Read Full Article
This post is part of our Startup Funding Benchmarking Series exploring the allocation, concentration, and macro trends in the financing of high growth startups. Yesterday, I went on air with… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mahesh Vellanki of Redpoint Ventures talks about the benefits of going public and discusses the step-by-step process required to actually go public in “The Key Advantages to… Read Full Article
From the Investors Paul Graham of Y Combinator encourages founders to be as nice as they want, so long as they work hard on their growth rate to compensate in… Read Full Article
From the Investors Sam Altman of Y Combinator reveals valuation and funding statistics from YC’s portfolio of ~940 startups in “YC Stats” Maxwell Wessels of Sapphire Ventures tests three market… Read Full Article
From the Investors Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures adds on to yesterday’s post that discusses how the crash will impact late-stage venture markets, with a note of caution for founders… Read Full Article
From the Investors Jeff Jordan, Anu Hariharan, Frank Chen, and Preethi Kasireddy of Andreessen Horowitz outline the most common (and often most confusing) startup metrics and terms to help founders… Read Full Article
From the Investors Sam Altman of Y Combinator encourages founders to not get caught up in ‘fake work’ and to pursue a YC level of intensity to achieve their growth… Read Full Article
Say goodbye to manual data entry. With just a few mouse clicks, Mattermark will speed up your organization’s deal sourcing process by updating accounts or leads in Salesforce with funding… Read Full Article
From the Investors Allen Morgan of Idealab notices an increasing number of direct-to-consumer e-commerce startups are adopting an offline presence as they scale in “Now, It’s D2C E-Commerce That’s Eating… Read Full Article
Internet of Things Startups: Vertical Overview The 9-page Internet of Things Overview Includes: Growth Scores, Employee Counts, and Company-level funding data for the 11 fastest growing U.S. Internet of Things startups… Read Full Article
Top 10 YC (S15) Demo Day Startups Sam DeBrule of Mattermark ranks Y Combinator’s most recent class of summer startups in “Top 10 Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day Startups — Sorted… Read Full Article
Tomorrow, Y Combinator’s Demo Day for its Summer 2015 class will take place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The startups will pitch to an audience of VCs, Angel… Read Full Article
Danielle Morrill of Mattermark shares with CNN Money, her perspective on creating an open conversation around companies’ financial decisions in “Startups Should Reveal How They’re Spending Money” From the Investors… Read Full Article
From the Investors Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz visualizes the ‘total funding picture’ of US tech companies since 1980 and makes three key observations in “35 Years of US Tech… Read Full Article
Founders reading this post, before you go spend more money than you are already spending please note key context here is that not only do we make significant revenue for… Read Full Article
From the Investors Om Malik of True Ventures provides his take on Google’s announcement and believes its new structure may reveal ‘substantial and interesting bets without regulatory scrutiny’ in “The Big… Read Full Article