I have been building my own mini version of Mattermark as a curiosity project. I'm not even interested in deal flow as much as being able to predict rising startups. In terms of being a software engineer, I look at this is a career tool.
I'm sure the bigger VCs and accelerators are building interesting things in this space but I haven't found much that's open source.
As data points, AngelList and Crunchbase are good starting places, but the AngelList API is private and the Crunchbase API is paid.
VC tweets is also a great signal. Not perfect, but great.
You can most tweeted startups every week here:
https://chartups.com/topstartups/
Re:Introducing Initialized Capital
by i__believe on Monday October 24, 2016 @07:29PM
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Great signal for what?
This got me thinking... I really do think that better tools for sourcing deal flow are a foundational component of the next age of entrepreneurship. Crowdfunding isn't working as precisely as some have hypothesized. I'd be really curious to see how companies like AngelList & Mattermark are parsing their data to determine correlative attributes of "fundable" companies. Any thoughts/ideas on traction toward successfully automating dealflow?