From the Investors Mamoon Hamid of The Social+Capital Partnership shares his 42 page presentation that visualizes Slack and Yammer’s growth and details SaaS fundamentals in “Software-as-a-Service Secrets to Raising Venture… Read Full Article
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
From the Investors Bruce Booth of Atlas Venture provides his thoughts on the ‘therapeutic-directed venture capital’ investments from Biotechnology Industry Organization’s VC study in “Where Does All That Biotech Venture… 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
From the Investors Alexa Lee of StartX showcases 22 recent StartX graduates and portfolio performance metrics since 2010 in “StartX Demo Day Fall 2014 – Achieving Growth & Maturity“ Patrick… 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 ANALYSIS Startup Funding Report: Historical Analysis 2005 -2014 This report provides a data-driven exploration of startup funding in the United States over the past ten years. Read More >> From… 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
From the Investors Tien Anh Nguyen and Arsham Memarzadeh of OpenView Venture Partners analyze the metrics of mobile product strategies, classify mobile B2B companies, measure mobile product growth, and more… Read Full Article
From the Investors Brad Feld of Foundry Group explains the multiple ways to calculate if a startup’s growth and profit ‘add up to 40%’ in “The Rule of 40% for… Read Full Article
Today, 500 Startups Mountain View, is hosting their Demo Day for Batch 11 (Spring 2015). 30 companies will be pitching their products to an audience of VCs, Angel Investors and… Read Full Article
From the Investors Neeraj Agrawal of Battery Ventures details what he believes are the seven key phases in SaaS companies’ go-to-market success to reach $100M in revenue in “The SaaS… Read Full Article
From the Investors Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz explains how PCs, clocks, radios, cameras, etc., are being subsumed by smartphones and Internet of Things devices in “The Home and the… Read Full Article
From the Investors David Cohen of Techstars announces a new Seed and Series A fund to invest in companies emerging from the Techstars ecosystem in “Techstars Ventures Raises New $150M… Read Full Article
MATTERMARK ANALYSIS While the Pace of Series B Investment Stabilized in 2014, Capital Concentration (and Valuations) Are Still Going Up Visualizing the pace of funding, average, and median sizes of Series… 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
Mattermark Analysis For Seed Stage Startups, It’s Hire or Die Visualizing the Series A pipeline to fully understand the correct level of urgency around recruiting for seed stage startups +… 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
From the Investors The Andreessen Horowitz Partners share their perspectives on specific market categories and trends they have been ‘observing or thinking about’ in “16 Things“ Joel Monegro of Union… Read Full Article
From the Investors Hunter Walk of Homebrew compares individual investors who deliver value to startups in ‘notably different ways’ vs. investors that erode value in “The 10x Angel. The 0x… Read Full Article