Show HN: $4.4B in Startup Funding Rounds Visualized
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The visualization works best in chrome or any edge browser. In the off chance you're a huge Luddite and surfing HN with IE8, here are a couple extracted stats across the 2,040 rounds:
YC dwarfs other accelerators with $2.8B in funding, next largest is AngelPad with $185M.
Average A Round - $4.3M, B - $17M, C - $58M, D - $98M
Airbnb and Dropbox so skewed stats, that I created a filterable attribute for them called "Freakish_Outlier".
I should be on for a couple hours, please feel free to comment or ask questions.
- How is data imported? It would be great to be able to set up custom SQL queries, CSV imports, and other service gateways to do analytics on.
- How do I define graphs? I'll want to be able to do time-series, but easily switch between day/week/month/year resolution, and create trailing period averages without having to think about it.
I signed up for the beta. I'd love to play around and do some deep diving on stats we have collected.
When you import your CSV, we take educated guesses about the data in each column (number, category, date), but you can change it if necessary (sometimes numbers should be treated like categories). We give you the ability to group dates by day of week and month. Month-year isn't in there yet, but should be by launch.
It works best one un-aggregated source data (since we do so all the fine level aggregation ourselves in the browser). Dealing with weighted averages is possible and we've done it a lot in custom work, but machete doesn't yet have support for it.
Thanks for the kind words :)
Perhaps it's all currency so it's redundant, but I still think proper units are a good thing to have when presenting data. Better one too many than one too few, imo.
We'll probably create another board with all startups but will probably do it on a company basis instead of a funding round basis. There are a lot of different ways you could want to see this data.
If you sign up for the beta, we'll let you know when you can create your own. We're following the github model - public projects are free, private projects have a modest fee.
You should alter the HN post's title to reflect that.
Edit: that said, the page should definitely mention it (the source and selection criteria).
Seed-DB is accelerator based funding, and the crunchbase data that was used is incomplete.
It lists Seattle behind Atlanta in terms of Startup Funding.
Including some of the larger non-exited startups:
Chef raised 65 million. INRIX 78.1 million Avalara 84.6 million
Just kidding. But seriously, a friendlier logo would make me more likely to try the service. Best of luck!
Is it the rapid increase in total raised from 2012 - 2014 (even without Freakish_outlier) a data artifact or has the amount of funding actually exploded?
We've got another dataset that has more companies (ones that didn't go through accelerators). There is more data so we wanted to re-work and re-aggregate some of the data on a company level instead of a round level. We'll probably release it in a couple days.