Track record
We score every startup we cover on its potential. Weeks to months later we checked which ones announced their next funding round. 16 did, and 11 of them were in the top quarter of our score.
5.1% vs 0.4%: the share of startups in the top vs bottom quarter of our potential score that announced a next funding round, among the 865 startups we covered from May 2026 to August 2026, checked in early October 2026.
| Top quarter | 5.1% | 5.1% (11 of 214) |
|---|---|---|
| Second quarter | 1.9% | 1.9% (4 of 216) |
| Third quarter | 0.0% | 0.0% (0 of 208) |
| Bottom quarter | 0.4% | 0.4% (1 of 227) |
Six selected examples. Three announced a new round after we covered them; for the other three, our issue reported the round before the press did. Each shows our issue as published, then the first press, company or founder report of what followed. The gap averages 9.8 weeks.
Announced a new round after we covered it
We reported the round before the press did
Announced a new round after we covered it
We reported the round before the press did
We reported the round before the press did
Announced a new round after we covered it
We took every startup we published from May 2026 to August 2026, 865 in all, each counted once with the potential score it had the first time we covered it. For each one we searched for a new equity round announced afterwards, then checked every candidate by hand against the press, company and founder posts on X and LinkedIn, and archived web pages.
We count strictly. A round counts only if it was first made public more than a week after our issue. The round we had already reported does not count, and neither does money added to it later. Grants, debt, tokens and rumored rounds do not count.
Of 865 startups, 16 announced a next round by early October 2026, when we checked: one to nearly five months after we covered them. We plan to rerun the check in January 2027 and update this page.