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
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
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
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
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
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
Today, 500 Startups Mountain View, is hosting their Demo Day for Batch 10 (Summer 2014). 30 companies will be pitching their products to an audience of VCs, Angel Investors and… 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
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
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
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
Uber’s jump in reported valuation piqued our interest around the office. It took 18 days for Uber’s valuation to rise from an estimated $10 billion to a reported $17 billion. They have yet to close the… Read Full Article
Yesterday, 500 Startups announced its ninth batch of startups in Mountain View. Eleven of the companies in this entry class have at least one female founder; ten countries are represented in… Read Full Article
Click here to view the March 2014 Portfolio Momentum Rankings Three months ago, Mattermark released the first rankings of active venture capital firms, based on the growth signals of their… Read Full Article
Curious to find out who the 8 startups in the upper right quadrant are? Sign up for your free trial of Mattermark Pro to get our insider’s report and find… Read Full Article
500 Startups accelerator batch #7 is in full swing, with 30 companies revealed so far and Demo Day planned for January. When it comes to growth, these startups are so early… Read Full Article
I love helping our clients look for promising deals, and I’m starting to recognize certain patterns for exceptional signals of growth that go beyond what our UI exposes in an… Read Full Article
Yesterday we published a list of the fastest growing venture-backed startups companies who have raised $80M or more, and were surprised to find there 584 companies in our database with… Read Full Article
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Mountain View based startup accelerator 500 Startups has announced the companies in the current batch, and it looks to have an interesting mix of business and consumer focused companies across… Read Full Article
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This post is part of our ongoing coverage of Y Combinator Demo Day Summer 2013. If you like what you read here we hope you will consider subscribing to Mattermark… Read Full Article