Seed-DB

[pg]

I was curious how accurate this is, so I looked at our stats. The actual amount raised by the 380 YC cos before the current batch is $1,048,274,000. So the average per co is is $2.75 million.

Believe it or not I'd never calculated the total amount of funding raised. I was interested to see that it's now over a billion dollars.

[ChuckMcM]

Wow, that is a pretty impressive number. I wonder if there is some way to compute economic impact of an accelerator (which is to say the secondary and tertiary impacts from rents, services, employement taxes, etc.)

[makmanalp]

Wow, everyone except YC and Techstars Boulder has a terrible success rate: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators

Is this data complete?

[seats]

I run TechStars Cloud. Roughly complete for me. Key thing when you look at this data is to remember timing.

I've only run 1 program thus far and it only completed 3 months ago. Wouldn't expect to see much in the way of exits after 3 months ;)

[ig1]

Average time for startup to go from founding to exit is seven years. YC is the only one to have even been in existence for seven years.

Not only that but even for YC non-exited companies are worth significantly more than the ones that have exited. Dropbox and Airbnb (both five years old) are individually likely to be worth more than the sum total of every YC exit made so far.

[startupstella]

As an alum of Excelerate Labs, I can tell you this data is nowhere near accurate. For example, FeeFighters exited about 4 months ago and we had about $1.5 million in funding and 8 employees...none of that is listed here. The information is incomplete or incorrect for the majority of companies who went through Excelerate.

[gav]

It doesn't give any sort of time frame; it's not surprising that YC is top, they've been operating longer.

Personally I'd like a count of [number of companies still in business]+[number of exits].

[gphil]

As an alum of Dreamit Philly, I can tell you that there is a lot of missing data there at least. On the order of many millions in funding missing for that program alone. There is also at least one missing exit.

[yoseph]

I'm a FounderFuel alum and I can say with certainty that the data isn't complete. From the first cohort alone, around $2.5m has been raised so far. They're now about to start their third cohort in August.

[secoif]

Are exits the only measure of success?

[tstonez]

As Jed notes in his post and on the site there is clearly work to be done (this is an MVP) but I think this is a great tool for founders to compare accelerator programs.

They all have the same spiel about mentoring and funding but this gives some real clarity to the murky waters of seed accelerators. Beyond the top-tier (YC, TechStars, Seedcamp [IMHO]) it is hard to know the value of some of these programmes.

Keep up the good work, looking forward to see AngelList and Linkedin data integrated ;)

[ig1]

I run http://seedtable.com which similarly provides analytics built on-top of Crunchbase and what I found from looking at the financial numbers is that Crunchbase just isn't reliable enough to do analytics on.

Rounds are frequently incorrect (typos in numbers, orders of magnitude wrong, foreign currencies treated as if they were USD, etc.) or missing.

It's definitely better than nothing, but should be treated with caution.

[jedc]

This is just the first step; I've got more planned to make this better.

But I also believe that by publicizing this it will encourage accelerators to have their startups monitor/clean up their data on Crunchbase. (And I personally think that's good for the startup ecosystem.)

[DanielRibeiro]

Specific data on YC companies: http://yclist.com/

Even more datap[1]: http://ycpages.info/

Some more activity on Angel list: https://angel.co/y-combinator#activity

[1] Hn dicussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2273898

[jedc]

YClist is a bit out of date. It gets information from the Google Spreadsheets I used to maintain, but which I've since deprecated.

[jot]

It will be interesting to see Start-Up Chile added to this list. I think the number of companies they've funded has almost passed YC now.

[blaines]

This seems like a list of news stories than a reliable data source. Feedgen is obviously not active - try going to the site. i/o ventures doesn't even have any companies listed.

Nice list of company names though. Lots of really really bad ones in the list. Some clearly good ones.

[etrain]

Love the data and the site. Would be fantastic if you'd open up an API to this data to make it easy to ingest and analyze in external tools (R, Excel, whatever).

It would be easy enough to scrape it, but formal support for data export is such a huge win for sites like this.

[jedc]

That's a little bit longer term for me, but would like to do it. (For context, this is the first webapp I've ever built.)

[ricardobeat]

No Brazilian accelerators in the list :(

There are a few: Semente, 21212, Aceleradora, Endeavor.. though it's hard to find information on them.

ps: Bootstrap didn't fit that well there, looks a bit awkward.

[jessepollak]

Really enjoyed looking at the data—nice compilation!

One quick question, what do these badges mean:

http://cl.ly/image/1X0T2E1a0T2m

[jedc]

It's my confidence level in the exit values. Only a few have been public or widely reported. The rest are purely my guesses. I wanted to put a High / Medium / Low confidence against each value.

Looks like I should make this more clear in the interface!

[jaequery]

the numbers don't look too hot ...