Q2 2015 U.S. Startup Funding Report Results are in for the second quarter of 2015, and Mattermark has all the details on funding rounds raised by startups in Q2. In… 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
From the Investors Nic Poulos of Bowery Capital updates and expands his 115 slide presentation that evaluates the vast ecosystem of sales solutions in “The 2015 Ultimate Guide to Startup… Read Full Article
On January 26, 2015, Mattermark asked the startup community a question. Who are the most promising Series A Candidates for 2015? We ran a quick analysis of 20 companies who… Read Full Article
A Decade of VC Funding History: Trend Analysis 2005 to 2014 Mattermark lovingly curates a rich historical data set around venture capital funding rounds, and over the past 6 months we… 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
From Mattermark Andy Sparks of Mattermark explores the ambiguity of the role of Chief Operating Officer in a startup, and his journey to becoming one at Mattermark in “What Does a Startup… Read Full Article
Mattermark for iOS Now Free We’ve been hard at work building Mattermark for iOS, which a few of our paying customers had early access to. Now, for free, all… Read Full Article
Today we’re proud to announce the release of Mattermark for iOS. Our goal is to make it easier for millions of professionals and startup enthusiasts everywhere to get information about… Read Full Article
Mattermark Q2 2015 Venture Capital & Startup Funding Report We recently examined the venture capital funding trends, deal volume, and largest deals in Q2 2015. See how drastically deal volume… 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
Research Investors In Mattermark We’ve doubled the questions you can answer with Mattermark. Now, Mattermark includes data on the entire investor ecosystem, so you can quantify and structure investor data as you need. Learn about the… Read Full Article
From the Investors Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital reveals a small shift in First Round’s investing strategy based on a lesson learned in the dotcom crash, his thoughts on… Read Full Article
Mattermark started with an audacious goal: answer the world’s business questions. We directed all of our initial energy at companies, and now you can answer many of the questions you have… Read Full Article
From the Investors Jerry Neumann of Neu Venture Capital writes a thought-provoking essay on power law distributions in Venture Capital and elsewhere in “Power Laws in Venture” Benedict Evans of… Read Full Article
From the Investors Rob Go of NextView Ventures thinks that the idea of a VC ‘doing work’ should be about ‘truth seeking’ vs. finding potential reasons not to invest in… 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
From the Investors Morgan Bender, Benedict Evans, and Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz release a fifty-three slide report that showcases their thoughts and data on public markets, ‘unicorns, and ‘what’s… Read Full Article