Yodas Hyper - List of Silicon Valley startups that are about to grow fast

@_jacksmith Hey Jack, definitely not. The list includes all the companies that fit the explicit criteria (Just raised Series A, Less than 25 employees, SF Bay). The badges are an addition to give some further analysis on the companies. Does it make more sense now?

@nird ok got it. I thought that was the criteria on which you were evaluating the companies

@_jacksmith Cool. Is there any other list of companies that you would like to see?

@sunilkalra4 It's a bit too slow.. we're on it.. it should be ok now

@diana_moldavsky Thanks Diana!

@wilhempujar Interesting direction. What would you do with such a list?

@lior_gonnen Lior, that's a great question. The relatively easy part is to find who recently raised money and we do it mostly through monitoring the press and limiting what we present only to companies that fit the criteria (Series A + below 25 employees + SF Bay Area) Behind the scenes we do much more complex stuff in order to evaluate the companies and a hint for that can be seen in the badges below the company description. In essence, we built search engine that profiles companies in depth by looking at the companies website, github activity any anywhere we could find information about the founders, investors, team, product and even the code itself. This is being developed mostly for our discovery engine - Yodas (www.yodas.com) and we benefit from it in Hyper.

@datarade Hi Kumar, that's a great question: In essence, we built search engine that profiles companies in depth by looking at the companies website, github activity any anywhere we could find information about the founders, investors, team, product and even the code itself. This is being developed mostly for our discovery engine - Yodas (www.yodas.com) and we benefit from it in Hyper. The badges are a teaser if things of up and coming features...

@nird You didn't answer the question. How do you say one academic background is better than another? School reputation? US rankings? etc...

@datarade that badge in specific refers to the % of people in the company that have degrees (with increased weight as the degree is more advanced). The top 20% of companies receive the badge. Makes sense now ? (We will soon add tooltip to the badges to make it clearer)

@toabsorb definitely, drop me an email to nir AT yodas.com

@bharris315 Thanks Bryan, we've definitely checked breakoutlist, Mattermark and few other smaller players. Hyper list in specific is focused on one simple thing - finding relatively stable early stage startups who are about to grow significantly. We find it to be great opportunity for individuals who want to optimize for impact and personal growth. The badges below the team description are a teaser of a deeper analysis we do to add more details on each company. more will come soon... :) As for Mattermark growth score. Our main product (yodas.com) is designed from the perspective of individual who's exploring what next in his/hers career which leads to a significantly different product.

@teforia Our pleasure! the beauty of a data driven list is that you're features this week yet we have never spoke before :)

@divineprofit we are working on integration with Google maps 😄 Thank you for the feedback!