Today we are excited to announce that companies can now connect Google Analytics directly to Mattermark to more accurately report their website traffic. Our current methodology estimates monthly unique website visitors using… Read Full Article
Hear about what it’s like to work at Mattermark from our team in their own words, take a tour of our office in North Beach, and let us share a bit… Read Full Article
As a Y Combinator alum, I’m always curious (and constantly being asked) who seems to be doing the best of all the companies who went through the program. YC is… Read Full Article
This is the Startup Index series, an ongoing effort to measure the momentum of startup companies using external signals. It is calculated based on weighted factors such as web traffic,… Read Full Article
While not our core paying customer use case, we’re seeing an increasing number of people sign up for Mattermark to help them find startup jobs. As a founder I’m always on… Read Full Article
Tonight is the annual startup award event The Crunchies, which is hosted by TechCrunch. We thought it would be fun to see which finalists Mattermark would pick as the winner… Read Full Article
Mattermark collects data on more than 1,000,000 of the fastest growing private companies in the world. This report provides a data-driven exploration of startup funding in the United States over… Read Full Article
Over the past few weeks, I’ve focused my analysis primarily on Series A deals to explore the top of the funnel for the lifecycle of startup investment by institutional venture capital… Read Full Article
Filtering startups by stage, employee count and growth signals is one of the core uses for Mattermark. Sign up for a free trial and view the full list here. Based… Read Full Article
In 2014 there were 733 Series A rounds raised by U.S. seed stage startups (excluding biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, cleantech and energy startups for this analysis). The median Series A round size… Read Full Article
All analyses in this report are for U.S. seed investments as reported in Mattermark — The Deal Intelligence Company, and exclude companies in the following categories: biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, cleantech, and energy. While… Read Full Article
2014 is in the books, and the year saw interesting shifts in the early stage investing landscape. 701 Internet technology startups received a cumulative $5.1 Billion in Series A funding. A… Read Full Article
In it’s simplest form, Mattermark is a series of spreadsheets. Pre-organized, pre-built, constantly updated, constantly getting technical review from our analysts. With this spreadsheet design paradigm in mind, it only… Read Full Article
This analysis shares early results from “Startup Funding: Historical Analysis 2005 – 2014” and you can pre-order the full report for just $10 or pay-what-you-want. On February 2nd we will… Read Full Article
This analysis shares early results from “Startup Funding: Historical Analysis 2005 – 2014” and you can pre-order the full report for just $5 or pay-what-you-want. On February 2nd we will… Read Full Article
We reached out to Neil about The Nordic Web for a data partnership and found there was an opportunity to do even more together. Today I’m excited to announce that he… Read Full Article
Mattermark Daily is a human-curated newsletter compiled daily to bring you accounts of entrepreneurship, investment and insights from the startup ecosystem. If you enjoy what you read here, please consider… Read Full Article
If you’ve been following our journey since the Referly days, you might remember the zombie VCs, the restart, the expanding vision, and the second seed round. This Series A round… Read Full Article
As we head into 2014 we’ve been doing a lot of analysis on things that are working and things that can be improved in Mattermark. It’s fun and exciting to… Read Full Article
2014 Startup Traction Report by Mattermark Today I am proud to announce the release of the first Startup Traction Report which is available for immediate download here. This report provides a data-driven… Read Full Article
Startups generally use their company blogs to talk about big new features, but over the past couple of months we’ve put emphasis on polishing the experience of Mattermark from the user interface… Read Full Article
Update (12/08/14): The report has launched and the pricing experiment is closed. You can still get the report for $99 here! Over the weekend we used Gumroad to launch an experimental “pay what… Read Full Article
As 2014 comes to a close, I’ve been thinking about how we can bootstrap more in-depth research efforts for the New Year including reports that take 20+ hours to write.… Read Full Article
It’s an exciting time for enterprise software startups, as both Hortonworks and New Relic filed for their IPOs in the past 24 hours. Hortonworks S-1 filing (Mattermark Growth Score: 2366) New… Read Full Article