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1 | as of Feb 16 2016 | About the company | Service | Database contents | How easy is it to find companies that I know? | Other | |||||||||||||||||||||
2 | founded | raised | latest funding | employee | what does the DB say about itself & its competitors | subscription | trial | # companies covered | revenue | cap | employee count | information source | company info | VC info | additional info | keyword | Wealthfront + Betterment | Magic Leap | api.ai | idevices | people power | tendril | Birchbox | ipsy (competitor of Birchbox) | |||
3 | DataFox | 2013 | 6.8M | 5M in Jul 15 | 23 | datafox - empl 19/ total funding 6.8 mattermark - empl 26 / TF 6 CBI - TF 6.77M PB - 25 / 0.9M | $5800/ year - 1 user; $1k/p 2-5 users contact info limit 4-500/month | free 20-day | 670,000+ | No | Not really | Yes | paid-sources (web traffic etc.) crunchbase, angellist, linkedin NL processing 10k/day articles; key mentions | can follow pre-built list by analysts or other people; accelerator batches | very basic (basically just portfolio company names) | similar companies to "list"; score= financial score (revenue, investor, schools) social scores (twitter, angellist), benchmark (large company at early age) CRM-like capability "We will build the conference list for you and notify you when it's ready" EDIT Feb 2019 - After using it for 3 years, its "conference" function is unique and useful for our business. You can make any list of companies and see what other conferences those companies have been to. Individual company info needs more cleaning up though. | machine learning based "keyword" from meta data salesforce integration keyword suggestions (e.g. wealth management > financial advisors, ifnancial plan, financial planners, financial advisor, financial adviser) keyword can only be combined by OR or AND | - keyword: investment management - total funding > 50M - latest raise after 8/1/14 > 15 companies with Wealthfront/Betterment on top similar companies - Wealthfront 10 w/Betterment at top - Betterment 10 w/Wealthfront at top employee #: total funding = 82 129.5M / 83 105M | augmented reality + 50M + 8/1/14 > Oculus, Magic Leap, Orbotix 218 / 592M similar co: MS, ODG, OnTheGo Platforms, Goog, APX Labs, Oculus, Apple, FOVE, Vuzix, Recon Instruments | "natural language processing" + raised >2M after 1/1/15 > Digital Resoning, Maluuba, Brainspace Corp, Voicebase, DigitalGdnius, AdmantX speaktoit; total funding 5.6M no mention of 2015 funding similar companies: Maluuba, Vlingo, Siri, Google, MS, Thalmic Labs, FB, ToyTalk, VivLabs, Gognea | 50 / 20.1M Aug 14 15M similar companies: Blossom Coffee, Ica Kitchen, Intel, Samsung, Freescale, ParStream, PrismTech, Oracle, IBM, Rackspace | 175 / 5.56M similar co: iControl, AlertMe, GreenWave, Cisco, Digi Intl, EnergyHub, Intel, TED, OpenPeak, EcoFactor | 101 / 131.19M similar: EnergyHub, AlertMe, iControl, Opower, Energate, Calico Energy, Silver Spring, Cisco, GE, Honeywell Safety Products | 376 / 71.9M similar" JustFab, BeachMint, Sole Society, Trunk Club, Stitch Fix, NatureBox, Bonobos, Frank & Oak, Citrus Lane | - / 103.24M similar: Birchbox, Dollar Shave, Walker & Company Brands, GlossyBox, FabFitFun, Beaty Box 5, Vegan Cuts, Wantable, Blush Box | "suggest a similar company" for users to report; crowd-source | |
4 | Mattermark | 2013 | 10M | 6.5M in Dec 14 | 44 | datafox - empl 33 / TF 9.9 mattermark - 44 / TF 10 CBI - 8.8M PB - 46 / TF 11.4 (12/26/14 raised 10.5 at 14.5 pre) | $6000/y; 1 account | free | 1.4M companies | No | No | Yes | machine learinng 15,000 news/day 10+ data sources (crunchbase, angellist, company names) regulartory filings then check by people (call/email) employee count comes from social data | accelerator batches | basic (breakup by industry, B2C or B2B, stage, location) | mindshare + emloyee/funding count | hard to find companies; no suggested similar clusters | "investment management" + $50M + 8/1/14= Wealthfront only > but Wealthfront page has "similar companies, strong or moderate. strong has 11 companies including Betterment Wealthfront/Betterment keywords: B2B B2C Analytics Banking Finance Mobile 140 130M / 142 73M | 3D + 50M + 8/1/14 > 14 companies incl Magic Leap 2 result if "virtual reality" (Jaunt, CCP Games) 441 / 592M | 42 / $3M | 57 / $5M similar (strong): Haier, Zigbee, SmartThings | 36 / $1M similar (strong): Ibis Networks, Open Power Quality, Terviva, Tycon Systems, Ambient Corporation | 127 / 131M similar (moderate) no strong similar available: climate-connect.com, Revolv, Enel Green Power, energyswtchr.com, ges.com, Aramco Overseas Company and 14 more | 392 / 72M strong similar: JolieBox, MyBeautyCompare, Enchantess Onine Private Ltd, Beatylish, psimadethis.com, Quarterly | 138 / 103M strong: memebox, Blue Bell Fragrances, Purity Cosmetics, BeautyWhim + 16 more | ||
5 | CB Insights | 2008 | 11.2M | 10M in Nov 15 | 70-75 2/3 engineering / data scientist 1/3 marketing + sales | datafox - 31 / 11.15M mattermark - 68 / 10M CBI - ?/11.2M PB - 61 / profitable (11/9/15 raised 10 at 40 pre) | >$20k; valuation only for >30k sub; free + great newsletter/online seminars | free | 180k 30-40% | No | some | No, but have job listing numbers (w/ breakdown on top 5 types e.g. Job Competencies: IT/SW, Engineering, Other, PM, Creative. Job Levels: entry, experience, middle management, senior management, exec) | machine learning; disclosed valuation (media / filing); no calculated numbers market wire / SEC filing PB=4300 tecch financing (2014) / 120000 (2014) "similar companies" = ML-based signal + human judgment by analytics team - ML = 75% - propriety source e.g. SVB, NYT, KPMG, co-published reports, gets data from them; VC/PE/hedge funds see CBI as marketing & submit data about their portfolio | fun visualization; intuitive interface private list analytics; fast crawler, concise "similar companies" investment by quarter / quarterly, indivisual deals by stage, deal size, by geographic, top investors life span | All parameters are combined by "or" | - key word: "personal investment" - total funding >$50M - latest raise since 8/1/14 > 35 results 129.5M / 105M | description: "Magic Leap is a developer of novel human computing interfaces and software." has to have words from there... Oculus page has 9 similar companies including Magic Leap; Magic Leap has Oculus as similar co. But hard to have them both shown as search results "virtual reality" or "augmented reality" 50M> LensAR, Jaunt, Oculus VR, NantMobile valuation = 2B ? / 592M | - 5.6M similar: Siri, Maluuba "natural language" + raisd >2M after 1/1/15 > NetBase Solutions, Health Fidelity, Semantic Machines, ADmantX, Maluuba, NodePrime, Api.ai, WriteLab | - 19.4M similar: none | - 10.4M similar: Jasper Technologies, Zensys, Arrayent, ioBridge | - 158.1M similar: Sensus Metering Systems, SilverSpring Networks, GridPoint, Trilliant, SmartSynch, Control4, eMeter, AlertMe, Optimal Technologies, 4Home, Nemometrics | - 71.9M similar: ipsy, GlossyBox, Julep Beauty, Joyus, Frank & Oak, bellabox, FabFitFun, Wantable, GlamBox Middle East, Zady, Everlane, JolieBox, Svpply | - 103.4M similar: GlossyBox, Birchbox, JolieBox | annoying to see 'hey you are out of ...views" when menus clicked and that's available only for higher tier subscription | |||
6 | PrivCo | 2009 | no | no | 30 + dozen outsourced | datafox - 35 mattermatk/CBI - ?/? PB - acquired Sandbox Resource Solutions on 8/29/14, sold to VIBE 1 on 8/7/15 for 8.5M | $14500/ 1 user $21k/y - 3 users; 1 user - knock the price a bit $2388/y for 25 deal/profile views/m | call to setup | 864k | 750k companies with revenue data | yes | yes | regulartory filing; news; industry resources + revenue >$10M after acouple round / historical valuation/M&A/headcount = same | competitors are handselected | Wealthfront 5 other companies: Betterment, FutureAdvisor, Motif, SifGIf, Vanguard 2.7M revenue 2014 2015 asset under management >2B multiple 120 $2.7M valuation $450M 195.7X similar co's: betterment, wealthfront, motif, alphaclone, aspiration fund, amottif, scripbox, Vuru, | MS Oculus 400/200 in the US pre revenue 592M 2B gaming entertainment software> interlude, technical illusions, rockyou anki, magic leap | Maluuva, Vlingo, Siri 8.788M rev / EBITDA 4.66M 2014 35 employees 4.134M EBITDA 862k Maluuba (2M raised moible application | 65 no financials 5.1M | NA / 8.55M no rev competitor: Jasper | rev 2013 9.15M 2014 13.725M emp 2013 - 75 / 12 110 / 11 195 | ipsy listed as part of 8 (other are mostly large revennue 14 95M > 15 139M> | rev (15 150M /14 84M) /val/inve competitor: Birchbox | |||||
7 | Pitchbook | 2007 | 4.25M | 3.8M in Sep 09 by Morning Star | 444 | datafox - ?/? mattermark - 237 / 4M CBI - 7.6M pitchbook - 444 / 4.25M (9/18/09 raised 4.25M at revenue 600k, 7.08x) revenue: 10 - 0.6M 12 - 6.9M 13 - 10.59M 14 - 18.2M, 15 - 31M | $10,000~/1 user (edit: $26k up to 2 users - Feb 2019) | 3-day period after call | 694867 companies, 33401 funds, 488702 investments, 149412 investors (angels, incubators, vc firms, pe firms, strategic acquirers); 21800 LPs '17 Jan 833k 36k funds 1.4M people 33k service providers | private companies with >0.1M revenue = 12383 at deal time 12137 last TTM or fiscal year '17 Jan 20% have revenue data | Very impressive (see Pitchbook.pdf) | yes | LPs | has very detailed valuation/investment condition information: "# of Shares Authorized; Par Value; Dividend Rate ($); Original Issue Price; Liquidation; Liquidation Pref. Multiple; Conversion Price; % Owned" contact info with email address | LP/dry powder/IRR / fund team / investments / former investment | Feb 2019 EDIT - Competitor list got A LOT better and concise, key word searchablity way better too. ("digital therapeutics" returned Pear as #2 result) Company info looks clean and vetted. Overall very impressive! | does not work..... '17 Jan keywords/industry vertical/ segments revenue # from crawling, ML then people call company/vc/lawyer/banker to verify | "portfolio management + 50M + 7/1/14 > 10 companies incl Betterment, Wealthfront "personal finance" and investment, 50M, privately held (backing) > Wealthfront; Hangzhou Science and Technology (wtf?) online investment platform, 50M, privately held (backing) 7/1/14-> Betterment +6 companies Wealthfront public comp: 245 companies incl Betterment - industry: financial services > other financial services > specialized finance; IT > SW > financial SW - keywords: "investment opportunity" OR "personal finance" or "portfolio management" Betterment public comp: 133 incl Wealthfront - industry: IT > SW> financial software, vertical market software - keywords: "investment account" or "online portfolio" or "online investment" or "online investment platform" or "portfolio management" W 140 130.42M / B 90 105M | 418 / 593.72M "virtual reality" or "augmented reality" ; 50M>Oculus, Magic Leap, Blippar, CCP, Jaunt, LENSAR private comp: 72 IT > Computer HW > Computers, Parts and Peripherals, SW > application SW, OS chinamatic reality OR computer interface OR virtual reality | 32 / 6.28M "natural language" raised >2M after 1/1/15 > Digital Reasoning, Gluru, Interactions, Jetlore, Mezi, Netbase Solutions, Semantic Mechines, Speaktoit private comp: 153 - industry: IT > SW > application software, comm software - keywords: comm technology OR human-computer OR interaction technology OR natural language conversation 8/12/15 3M raised at 22.16pre (Alpine Technology Fund, Intel Capital, Motorola Solutions VC, SAIC Capital series A 4.33%, B 14.42%, C 11.92% | 57 / 15.1M "generating revenue" 1/16/15 series C $10M raised no valuation private comp: 33 companies: - industry: B2C > Consumer Durables > Electronics (B2C), Household Appliances; IT > com & networking > connectivity products - keywords: "application development strategy" or "bluetooth technology" or "wireless connectivity" | 51 / 10.80M 9/30/15 raised 4.4M 13.31Mpre, 17.47 post "generating revenue" private comp: 168 companies - industry: Energy > Energy Services> Other energy services; IT> SW > business/productivity SW, comm SW - keywords: "cloud based energy" or "energy usage" or "mobile platform | 114 / 201.15M revenue: 2010 667M 2009 150M private comp: 286 co industry: Energy > Energy Equipment> Alternatie Energy Equip; iIT > communication & networking > wireless comm equip, other comm & networking, SW > Vertical Market software - keywords: adanced metering OR energy efficiency OR energy management 2/2/15 raised 7.2M 87.8 pre, 95 post employee history: 2015: 114 2014: 200 2012: 99 2010: 40 2008: 9 2007: 9 2006: 9 2005: 9 | 382 / 72M private comp: 381 companies (no ipsy) - industry: B2C > Retail > Internet Retail, speciality retail - keyword: beauty product OR cosmetics OR skincare product | 133 / 102.75M post 800M 150M revenue in 2015 private comp's: 120 (but no Birchbox) - industry B2C > Retail > distribution/wholesale (B2C), Internet Retail, - keyword: beauty looks platform OR beauty product sharing OR community platform OR curated product OR curated subscription OR monthly delivery OR subscription commerce OR subscription delivery OR subscription service | comp not applicable to me, though good to see median deal size, valuation, EBITDA Arrayent: series A, B = liquidation 0.5x (what!?) C=liquidation 1x 1/21/15 15M from Comerica Bank, DCM, Inteal, Opus, ORIX Blu Homes / bill@bluehomes.com, 1/15/15 raised $35M pre 527M Post 562M | |
8 | Owler | 2011 | 19.3M | 17.3M in Oct 12 | 90 | free | crowd sorced / initially revenue share with individual researchers Wikipedia "As of January 2013, Infoarmy said that its business model would not be sustainable for the long term while being able to adhere to the rigorous data quality standards" | revenue & employee count "voted"; many have votes less than <20, hard to say if it's correct; its listed competitors are from dun & bradstreet, insideview, hoovers | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | Unomy | 2012 | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Quid | 2010 | 53M | 39M Mar15 | 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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