Data Consolidation: Infochimps Buys YC Startup Data Marketplace

This is more of an asset sale since the founders won't be joining infochimps.

Yup, not a talent acquisition. Matt and I have both moved on to other things. I'm working on a retail initiative at http://www.propersuit.com if anyone's interested.

I'm not sure YC made money out of this one, certainly not by angel standards. Angels invest with the aim of a 10x exit, because that's what they need from the successes to cover the cost of the failures (probably less in YC's case as they have a lower failure rate).

15k at 6% is a 250k valuation, Infochimps just took 1.2 million of investment themselves, so it's questionable whether they got a 1x multiple, a 4x+ multiple is out of the question. Infochimps don't have that kind of money.

I agree. Infochimps has a whip-smart group of folks and they're rapidly acquiring the resources needed to be the major player in the data market. Not only that, but knowing a lot of them, they're genuinely decent, helpful people. It's great to see another Austin startup rocking and rolling.