This post is part of our Startup Funding Benchmarking Series exploring the allocation, concentration, and macro trends in the financing of high growth startups. Last week, we reported on 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. While Series A round sizes are… 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 we published an analysis of… 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. July saw a 39% overall increase… 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. Startup funding continued it’s dramatic upward… Read Full Article
GoButler, the text message based 24/7 on-demand concierge service, announced on Thursday that it has raised a $8 Million funding round led by General Catalyst. Slow Ventures, Global Founders Capital,… Read Full Article
Looking to see how trends are shaping up as the first half of 2015 came to a close? Mattermark has an in-depth overview of the venture capital trends you care… Read Full Article
Inspired by a post from Andrew Parker of Spark Capital titled “Series A Investment Pace Across Select VC Firms” we have published our report on venture capital industry trends over the… Read Full Article
Looking to learn more about the M&A activity of a company? You can now visit their profile page to see which companies have been acquired, like this: Explore the 58… Read Full Article
Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures reacted to the idea that founders prefer to take money in the private market because they don’t want to answer to public investors who… Read Full Article
More than any particular skill, like how to run an Adwords campaign or write a blog post, software developers struggle to accept distribution hacking as part of their professional repertoire… Read Full Article
This morning I wrote about the Fitbit IPO, and casually referenced the company as a “dragon startup”. It turns out I can’t keep these mythical creatures straight, and *technically* at… Read Full Article
Congratulations to our investor Brad Feld on the IPO of Fitbit today, which is a dragon startup for the Foundry Group venture capital fund. Dragon startups return $1 Billion or… Read Full Article
As the Golden State Warriors were mid-game, Business Insider published a post around 7pm (Update: their timestamps are Eastern Time — my bad) last night highlighting a regulatory filing that came… Read Full Article
The M&A market for startups remains a bit sluggish in 2015, but as Mattermark cofounder Andy Sparks shared today at the kickoff of the PandoLand conference, some acquirers are definitely… Read Full Article
This morning, Mattermark cofounder Andy Sparks took to the stage to delivery a “Mary Meeker style” state of startups, complete with a dense data packed deck reviewing recent trends and… Read Full Article
As VC funding levels approach record levels and Q2 comes to a close, Mattermark checks in on Series A rounds. Average round size continued to push higher, thanks to large outlier rounds… Read Full Article
After we posted the relationship between the growing Internet population and venture capital funding rounds on pace to reach the highest levels since 2000, a savvy reader suggested we might… Read Full Article
Earlier today we published data demonstrating that the U.S. venture capital market is on pace to experience the highest amount of funding since 2000. As one of our readers pointed out this… Read Full Article
Much has been made lately of whether or not technology investment is experiencing a bubble, as interest rates remain low and yield-chasing continues to drive up prices. While bubbles are best… Read Full Article
Learning to read financial documents is one thing, but learning to use them as tools to guide the business and ultimately communicate clearly to 100+ investors has shown me just how… Read Full Article
Mattermark has a large base of seed investors, the FG Angels syndicate backers, and employee shareholders — not to mention advisors, customers, and Friends of the Company. With so many… Read Full Article
As I am sure many of you have seen, I am pretty obsessed the mobile life-streaming app Meerkat and I’ve been sharing pretty much everything — from the office… Read Full Article
We’re midway into February, and as we say in sales by the midpoint of the quarter we basically know where we stand. With that in mind, I’ve pulled together an… Read Full Article