General & Administrative Welcome to G&A, a newsletter produced by the people who lovingly bring you first-person accounts of entrepreneurship, investment and insights from the startup ecosystem in The Mattermark… Read Full Article
“There’s never enough time to get it right.” That is by far the most frequent frustration and form of burn out I see inside startups. It feels like your… Read Full Article
General & Administrative Welcome to G&A, a newsletter produced by the people who lovingly bring you first-person accounts of entrepreneurship, investment and insights from the startup ecosystem in The Mattermark… Read Full Article
General & Administrative Welcome to G&A, a newsletter produced by the people who lovingly bring you first-person accounts of entrepreneurship, investment and insights from the startup ecosystem in The Mattermark… Read Full Article
What a day. On May 6th, 2015, the high watermark for this era was set. In just 24 hours, 17 Startups announced $1,401,700,000 in venture capital funding raised. Let that sink… Read Full Article
You might miss out on all the fastest growing tech companies. It’s that simple. If you wait until news of a startup’s success is public, it’s just too late. Many of our… Read Full Article
General & Administrative Welcome to G&A, a newsletter produced by the people who lovingly bring you first-person accounts of entrepreneurship, investment and insights from the startup ecosystem in The Mattermark… Read Full Article
How did you feel when you walked into your office this morning? It’s probably not something you took note of. Think about it the next time you’re walking in. If… Read Full Article
A familiar story You’ve already heard the story I’m about to tell you. In August 2004, Peter Thiel led Facebook’s $500,000 seed round, it’s first source of outside investment. Having… Read Full Article
Exclusive Bonus: Download the free report of 34 San Francisco Startups That Will Need Office Space Soon Stop missing opportunities Let’s talk again about missed opportunities in commercial real estate. On… Read Full Article
As I am sure many of you have seen, I am pretty obsessed the mobile life-streaming app Meerkat and I’ve been sharing pretty much everything — from the office… 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
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
Traditionally, gaming has always been one of, if not the strongest vertical in The Nordics, with billion dollar companies Rovio (Angry Birds), King (Candy Crush), Supercell (Clash of Clans) and… 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
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
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
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
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