Today we are excited to introduce our first official update to the company rankings in Mattermark. The “Mattermark Score” has been split into two new indicators, each with more descriptive… Read Full Article
Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital gave a fascinating interview to the Wall Street Journal, expressing a great deal of concern for the nine digit funding rounds being raised by later… Read Full Article
At Mattermark we’re all about answering questions with data, arming investors, founders, sales, marketing, biz dev, M&A — any dealmaker, with the information they need to intelligently move forward with a transaction.… Read Full Article
When it comes to evaluating startups, much has been written about the 3 most important factors: team, market, and traction. When it comes to how CEOs evaluate how well we’re… Read Full Article
Since launching Mattermark in June of last year, we’ve included a number called the “Mattermark Score” which started out as a design solution to an important design problem: how to… Read Full Article
Finding out who the top performing startup investors of recent vintages will be takes time. As investors are quick to point out “lemons ripen first” and the most valuable companies can… Read Full Article
Today we are happy to announce four new industry tags you can use to filter our database of private companies: Drones, Internet of Things, Pharmaceuticals and Health IT. Drones =… Read Full Article
Mattermark leverages big data to help investors identify the most promising private companies, but getting a list of prospects is only the first part of the sourcing process. Today we… Read Full Article
Mattermark is a deal intelligence platform helping more than 200 venture capital firms raise the bar when it comes to sourcing deals, tracking portfolio companies, and understanding the rapidly evolving… Read Full Article
Observing that a company has made a sudden jump from 10 to 20 employees, or a steady climb from 5 to 50 over the course of a year, can signal an… Read Full Article
Today startup incubator Y Combinator posted stats about their portfolio, which now spans 716 companies (including 85 in the current batch) who have raised more than $3 Billion in collective… Read Full Article
I was digging around in my old Referly email account today, and happened upon an email update to our investors from over a year ago. It was May 2013, and… Read Full Article
We’re thrilled to announce Daniel Hayter is joining Mattermark in August to lead and continue building our sales team. Daniel comes to us from New York City where he most recently headed institutional sales for the… Read Full Article
Filtering on industry tags help thousands of professionals sort through the noise to find promising companies. But what if your investment thesis or target audience is more specific, or obscure enough to… Read Full Article
In March we released our first batch of portfolio rankings. To do this, we created a list of all active funds (a new investment in the past 6 months) and at… Read Full Article
Mattermark is now pulling in companies from ProductHunt on a daily basis, and in true Mattermark fashion we’d like to express our love for this awesomeness by analyzing the living bleep… Read Full Article
Earlier this month we launched new collaboration tools to help your team work better together on researching, prospecting and tracking companies. These new features, including our Salesforce integration, empower your… Read Full Article
Nearly two years after 500 Startups acquired his seed stage program, Mexican.VC, angel investor and current Facebook Product Manager David Weekly is once again betting on a tightly targeted fund.… Read Full Article
Last week I was fortunate to grab a coffee and check out a thing of beauty – a market map painstakingly created by one of our customers to uncover the… Read Full Article
As we explore what it means to provide deal intelligence to our customers, new use cases are beginning to emerge for Mattermark. We now have 60+ customers using our tools for lead qualification. Hundreds… Read Full Article
If you listen to the tech media, they’d have you believe that the tech companies positioning themselves to go public today are as financially weak as those from the tech bubble… Read Full Article
In June of last year, Mattermark launched on the very same day that Bloomberg launched their own venture capital fund. Just a week later, I was pleasantly surprised to find… Read Full Article
Ready to receive our curated reading list directly in your inbox every evening? Settle in to read a selection of posts by investors, founders and other members of the startup… Read Full Article
The year we suspended disbelief long enough to find a frighteningly ambitious startup idea. From “TechCrunch Killer” to “Bloomberg for Startups” and beyond… Part of my job as an early… Read Full Article