Presentation at Arctic15 hackathon 2012 based on the crunchbase dataset.

1. What’s your CrunchScore?
Testing Startup Myths with CrunchBase Data
#oohack Helsinki Data Hackathon, October 16, 2012
Exacaster Team
Sarunas / Egidijus / Rokas / Andrius / Vidmantas / Justas
sarunas@exacaster.com

2. Only 2% Of Startups Did Ever Exit
acquired or IPOed
2%
raised funding
23%
founded
75%

3. Are We Getting Better at Doing Startups Over
Time?
Ignore – not
enough
time to exit, yet
Year company formed

4. Spot The Flood … And The Lack of Exits

5. Math to the rescue!

6. Our CrunchScoring Algo + Startup CrunchBase profile =
Double The Chance of Picking the Right Startup
9%
8%
7%
6%
5%
8% of companies later
exiting within the
cohort with a Top
4% Predicted
CrunchScore
3%
4% of companies later
exiting within the
2%
cohort with a Low
Predicted
1% CrunchScore
0%
Top 500 scorers sold Remaining companies sold

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Helsinki Data
Hackathon, Oc
tober 16, 2012