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Creative Destruction Lab vs Startmate

Creative Destruction Lab lists 1,552 portfolio companies and has joined 0 funding rounds; Startmate lists 190 companies and has joined 7 rounds. Startmate comes in most often at Seed (57% of its entries). 2 companies are on both portfolios, among them black.ai and Hullbot.

1,552Portfolio companies190
0Funding rounds joined7
0Rounds led2
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 Startmate, head to head
Creative Destruction LabStartmate
Portfolio companies1,552190
Funding rounds joined07
Rounds led02
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%57%
Series A0%29%
Series B0%0%
Growth0%14%

Creative Destruction LabStartmate

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Entry stages of Creative Destruction Lab and Startmate, share of entries
Creative Destruction LabStartmate
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed0%57%
Series A0%29%
Series B0%0%
Growth0%14%

Themes

share of checked companies
AI & Machine Learning26%21%
Healthcare & Biotech22%14%
Industrial & Manufacturing14%11%
Education5%11%
Fintech5%6%
Enterprise Software4%6%

Creative Destruction LabStartmate

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Themes of Creative Destruction Lab and Startmate, share of checked companies
Creative Destruction LabStartmate
AI & Machine Learning26%21%
Healthcare & Biotech22%14%
Industrial & Manufacturing14%11%
Education5%11%
Fintech5%6%
Enterprise Software4%6%

Companies both back

2

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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  https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/creativedestructionlab.com/portfolio

# also
GET /v1/firms/startmate.com/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/creativedestructionlab.com/coinvestors
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