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The Top 100 Analytics Startups of 2015

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  • 49% of the top 100 analytics startups are based in the Bay Area, 11% in New York and 10% in Boston.
  •  Palantir Technologies, Domo, Mulesoft, Medallia, Qualtrics , Zeta Interactive , Sumo Logic, Lithium, Tanium and Birst are the top ten most-funded analytics startups.  Their combined total funding is approximately $3.4B.
  • 32% are in late stage funding cycles as of today.

These and other insights are from an analysis completed today using Mattermark Pro, in response to reader requests of which analytics startups are the best to track and potentially work for. Earlier this week, I contacted Mattermark, who provided me with a limited free trial of their service.

Mattermark uses a combination of artificial intelligence and data quality analysis to provide insights into over 1 million private companies, over 470,000 with employee data, and over 100,000 funding events. In the interest of full disclosure I’m not today and have never done any consulting work of any kind with Mattermark.

Finding The Top 100 Analytics Startups

To find the top 100 analytics startups, an initial query requesting all companies that develop and sell analytics software to enterprises, competing with business-to-business (B2B) business models was completed using Mattermark data.

Next , advanced query tools in Mattermark Pro were used to filter out all startups that had exited as indicated by their stage status in Mattermark’s data. This filtered out startups who had been acquired, completed an IPO or had exited through other means.

The table below is the result of an analysis completed today with Mattermark data.  You can download the table here in Microsoft Excel format.

The Mattermark Growth Score is a measure of how quickly a company is gaining traction at a given point in time. It incorporates the Mindshare Score (web traffic, social traction) as well as business growth metrics (e.g. employee count over time, funding). The underlying assumption is that companies who see growth across these signals are shipping product and talking to customers, and are more likely to continue to grow as a result. This score is not meant to provide guidance on which startup to invest in.  Rather it’s a measure of momentum across the metrics and KPIs that Mattermark measures.

Tracking Startups: There’s An App For That

Mattermark is a fascinating company to watch because they move so fast from product concept to delivered app.  Their latest product is Mattermark for iOS, a free app that delivers information on over 1 million companies.  During my test drive of their latest app, it was easy to look up companies of interest, see funding stages and historical growth. It’s also possible to get data on employees, funding, competitors, industries, and daily funding news. Anyone interested in tracking startups needs to consider using Mattermark for iOS daily to stay on top of areas of funding and startup interest.

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