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Creative Destruction Lab vs Karista

Creative Destruction Lab lists 1,552 portfolio companies and has joined 0 funding rounds; Karista lists 63 companies and has joined 4 rounds. Karista comes in most often at Series A (33% of its entries). 1 company is on both portfolios, among them Leanspace.

1,552Portfolio companies63
0Funding rounds joined4
0Rounds led1
0Rounds, last 12 months3
n/aTypical round it comes in at$5M to $20M
0%Sites no longer answering0%
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Creative Destruction Lab and Karista, head to head
Creative Destruction LabKarista
Portfolio companies1,55263
Funding rounds joined04
Rounds led01
Rounds, last 12 months03
Typical round it comes in atn/a$5M to $20M
Sites no longer answering0%0%

Where they come in

share of entries by stage
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed0%0%
Series A0%33%
Series B0%33%
Growth0%33%

Creative Destruction LabKarista

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Entry stages of Creative Destruction Lab and Karista, share of entries
Creative Destruction LabKarista
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed0%0%
Series A0%33%
Series B0%33%
Growth0%33%

Themes

share of checked companies
Healthcare & Biotech22%28%
AI & Machine Learning26%19%
Industrial & Manufacturing14%10%
Space & Defense4%6%
Education5%5%
Fintech5%3%

Creative Destruction LabKarista

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Themes of Creative Destruction Lab and Karista, share of checked companies
Creative Destruction LabKarista
Healthcare & Biotech22%28%
AI & Machine Learning26%19%
Industrial & Manufacturing14%10%
Space & Defense4%6%
Education5%5%
Fintech5%3%

Companies both back

1

Shared companies are those both firms' own portfolio pages list, each checked against the company's site. The same comparison through the API is POST /v1/overlap, for up to 20 firms. How the data is graded

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# also
GET /v1/firms/karista.vc/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/creativedestructionlab.com/coinvestors
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