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If Mattermark Was Judging the Crunchies

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By Danielle Morrill

The Crunchies took place tonight in San Francisco, awarding startups for achievement in several categories. We thought it would be fun to rank the companies based on their Mattermark Scores (scroll to the bottom read more about our scoring methodology).

We’ve placed a * next to the company that actually won in each category at the awards.

Best Collaborative Consumption Service

  1. Homejoy (Growth Score: 1195, Weekly Momentum: 768, Percentil: 99th)
  2. DogVacay (Growth Score: 976, Weekly Momentum: -203, Percentile: 99th)
  3. Lyft (Growth Score: 657, Weekly Momentum: 90, Percentile: 99th)
  4. Airbnb* (Growth Score: 546, Weekly Momentum: 114, Percentile: 99th)
  5. Crowdtilt (Growth Score: 529, Weekly Momentum: 1153, Percentile: 99th)

Best E-Commerce Application

  1. Good Eggs (Growth Score: 882, Weekly Momentum: 522, Percentile: 99th)
  2. Warby Parker (Growth Score: 651, Weekly Momentum: 139, Percentile: 99th)
  3. Wanelo* (Growth Score: 422, Weekly Momentum: 794, Percentile: 99th)
  4. Polyvore (Growth Score: 410, Weekly Momentum: -67, Percentile: 99th)
  5. BarkBox (Growth Score: 178, Weekly Momentum: -138, Percentile: 90th)

Best Mobile Application

  1. Snapchat* (Growth Score: 1499, Weekly Momentum: 1131, Percentile: 99th)
  2. Tinder (Growth Score: 1091, Weekly Momentum: 154, Percentile: 99th)
  3. WhatsApp (Growth Score: 783, Weekly Momentum: 466, Percentile: 99th)
  4. VSCO Cam (Growth Score: 740, Weekly Momentum: 545, Percentile: 99th)
  5. Mailbox (Growth Score: -206, Weekly Momentum: -88, Percentile: 5th)

Fastest Rising Startup

  1. Upworthy* (Growth Score: 2566, Weekly Momentum: 358, Percentile: 99th)
  2. Tinder (Growth Score: 1091, Weekly Momentum: 154, Percentile: 99th)
  3. Lulu (Growth Score: 800, Weekly Momentum: 326, Percentile: 99th)
  4. Whisper (Growth Score: 412, Weekly Momentum: 1188, Percentile: 99th)
  5. QuizUp (Growth Score: 387, Weekly Momentum: 387, Percentile: 99th)

Best Health Startup

  1. Oscar (Growth Score: 781, Weekly Momentum: 228, Percentile: 99th)
  2. Fitbit (Growth Score: 597, Weekly Momentum: 779, Percentile: 99th)
  3. MyFitnessPal (Growth Score: 436, Weekly Momentum: 603, Percentile: 99th)
  4. One Medical Group* (Growth Score: 272, Weekly Momentum: 210, Percentile: 95th)
  5. Practice Fusion (Growth Score: 108, Weekly Momentum: 108, Percentile: 85th)

Best Design

  1. Nest Protect by Nest Labs (Growth Score: 1372, Weekly Momentum: 389, Percentile: 99th)
  2. Pencil by FiftyThree* (Growth Score: 511, Weekly Momentum: 201, Percentile: 99th)
  3. Hi (Growth Score: 452, Weekly Momentum: 686, Percentile: 99th)
  4. Exposure by Elepath (Growth Score: 255, Weekly Momentum: 174, Percentile: 95th)
  5. Yahoo Weather (not tracked)

Best Bootstrapped Startup

  1. Imgur* (Growth Score: 1721, Weekly Momentum: 202, Percentile: 99th)
  2. NerdWallet (Growth Score: 529, Weekly Momentum: 233, Percentile: 99th)
  3. Grammarly (Growth Score: 353, Weekly Momentum: 714, Percentile: 99th)
  4. TaskUs (Growth Score: 236, Weekly Momentum: 126, Percentile: 95th)
  5. SmugMug (Growth Score: -143, Weekly Momentum: -135, Percentile: 5th)

Sexiest Enterprise Startup

  1. Zendesk (Growth Score: 743, Weekly Momentum: -537, Percentile: 99th)
  2. Optimizely (Growth Score: 613, Weekly Momentum: 413, Percentile: 99th)
  3. New Relic (Growth Score: 600, Weekly Momentum: 229, Percentile: 99th)
  4. Box (Growth Score: 396, Weekly Momentum: -560, Percentile: 99th)
  5. ClearSlide (Growth: 313, Weekly Momentum: -245, Percentile: 99th)

Best International Startup

  1. BlaBlaCar (Growth Score: 925, Weekly Momentum: 153, Percentile: 99th)
  2. SuperCell (Growth Score: 788, Weekly Momentum: 725, Percentile: 99th)
  3. Waze* (Growth Score: 419, Weekly Momentum: 125, Percentile: 99th)
  4. Xiaomi Tech (Growth Score: 86, Weekly Momentum: -378, Percentile: 85th)
  5. Huddle (Growth Score: 49, Weekly Momentum: 269, Percentile: 75th)

Best Education Startup

  1. Duolingo* (Growth Score: 1171, Weekly Momentum: 756, Percentile: 99th)
  2. Code.org (Growth Score: 509, Weekly Momentum: 507, Percentile: 99th)
  3. Treehouse (Growth Score: 506, Weekly Momentum: 694, Percentile: 99th)
  4. CreativeLIVE (Growth Score: 387, Weekly Momentum: 317, Percentile: 99th)
  5. Khan Academy (Growth Score: 255, Weekly Momentum: 10, Percentile: 95th)

Best Hardware Startup

  1. 3D Robotics (Growth Score: 1020, Weekly Momentum: 726, Percentile: 99th)
  2. SmartThings (Growth Score: 958, Weekly Momentum: 587, Percentile: 99th)
  3. Oculus VR* (Growth Score: 884, Weekly Momentum: 202, Percentile: 99th)
  4. Sonos (Growth Score: 556, Weekly Momentum: 139, Percentile: 99th)
  5. Square (Growth Score: 502, Weekly Momentum: 353, Percentile: 99th)

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop (?)

  1. Tinder (Growth Score: 1091, Weekly Momentum: 154, Percentile: 99th)
  2. Vine (Growth: 921, Weekly Momentum: 2028, Percentile: 99th)
  3. Netflix (Growth Score: 798, Weekly Momentum: 805, Percentile: 99th)
  4. Vibease (Growth Score: 327, Weekly Momentum: 892, Percentile: 99th)
  5. Candy Crush Saga* by King.com (Growth Score: -367, Weekly Momentum: -864, Percentile: 5th)

Best New Startup of 2013

  1. Coinbase (Growth Score: 1681, Weekly Momentum: 911, Percentile: 99th)
  2. Tinder* (Growth Score: 1091, Weekly Momentum: 154, Percentile: 99th)
  3. Anki (Growth Score: 939, Weekly Momentum: -1376, Percentile: 99th)
  4. Glow (Growth: 491, Weekly Momentum: 53, Percentile: 99th)
  5. Whisper (Growth Score: 412, Weekly Momentum: 1188, Percentile: 99th)

Best Overall Startup of 2013

  1. Uber (Growth Score: 1603, Weekly Momentum: 870, Percentile: 99th)
  2. Snapchat (Growth Score: 1499, Weekly Momentum: 1131, Percentile: 99th)
  3. Twitter (Growth Score: 1058, Weekly Momentum: 349, Percentile: 99th)
  4. Kickstarter* (Growth Score: 398, Weekly Momentum: 45, Percentile: 99th)
  5. CloudFlare (Growth Score: 334, Weekly Momentum: 556, Percentile: 99th)

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Methodology: The Mattermark Score describes historical changes of growth rates in estimated web traffic, estimated mobile downloads, inbound links, and social media on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to calculate a moving average “Growth Score” as well as the “Weekly Momentum” score. Read a more detailed description of the Mattermark Score with examples here.

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© Mattermark 2024. Sources: Mattermark Research, Crunchbase, AngelList.
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