tl;dr: Unless something crazy happens with funding announcements in December, U.S. venture capital activity is on pace to end the year down from 2015 highs. As the year comes to… Read Full Article
I’m happy to share that we’ve rolled out self-service pricing plans, and Mattermark is now easier for sales and marketing teams to adopt than ever before. Individual Plan For just $200/month, sales… Read Full Article
Just a few years ago, on-demand companies like Uber, Luxe, Shyp, Instacart and others seemed to be popping up everywhere. Now, the on-demand economy has grown to attract 22.4 million… Read Full Article
Researching companies and prospects is tedious and time-consuming work. But if you want to close the right deals, at the right time, you’ve got to do your homework. At Mattermark,… Read Full Article
Mattermark tracks 20,000 global venture funds, angel investors, and accelerator programs. I loved to see Shai Goldman publish his list of VCs who lead seed deals in NYC startups and… Read Full Article
tl;dr: After a strong start to the year, closer examination of the data shows that venture activity for U.S.-based companies is cooling in the second quarter. Here’s where things are,… Read Full Article
tl;dr: We have enough time series data to call a slowdown in VC funding. It’s been 3 months since the February 5th stock market swoon that solidified the fears of many… Read Full Article
We’re so happy to share some big news, Mattermark has closed its Series B round of financing. We raised $7.3 million in new equity investment from Foundry Group and Jon Hallett,… Read Full Article
tl;dr Don’t want your company to die? Here’s what to do. The startup fundraising environment is in flux, and over the past two weeks the pace of change has accelerated rapidly. Throughout… Read Full Article
With 13 business days left in 2015, Q4 is on pace for a dramatic decline in startup funding over recent quarters, with total investment currently standing at $11 Billion. The last time startup… Read Full Article
Anecdotally, private company investors I’ve spoken to are nervous about market conditions for startup investing. I’ve had conversations with several VCs who told me their fund decided to back off on… 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. It’s amazing what just a few… Read Full Article
This time last year, I was spending a lot of time in Keynote. I spent so much time putting that deck together, and at the end of the day an… Read Full Article
People used to worry about the “IPO window” closing before they could get their company significantly far along to exit. Now, with the rise of massive private rounds from late… Read Full Article
Sarah Catanzaro heads up the Mattermark data team, where she leads a team of three analysts partnered with 3 machine learning engineers to collect and clean massive amounts of company… Read Full Article
Each quarter, the analyst team at Mattermark puts together a summary of the past 3 months of deal activity in the US startup ecosystem to help investors get a sense… 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. While public markets ended the quarter… 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. Market volatility continues, and the FOMC… 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. September had a bit of a… 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
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
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
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