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25 Capital Efficient Venture-backed Start-ups Ranked by Momentum Index
Special Release:Capital Efficient Venture-backed Start-up
(25 companies ranked)
Released: May 16, 2012
Rank Company Index
1 69.1+13.1
2 58.8+18.7
3 53.4+7.9
Highlights
  • Capital Efficiency = Growth / Capital Raised
  • 25 companies building value without raising significant amounts of capital
  • All companies ranked are venture-backed but have raised less than $5M per CrunchBase
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50 Ad Tech Companies Ranked by Momentum Index
Sector: Ad Tech  (50 companies ranked)
Released: April 4, 2012
Rank Company Index
1 89.5+0.6
2 89.4+18.1
3 88.6+10.3
Highlights
Our Favorite: Rocket Fuel
Most Acceleration: Unruly Media
Company to Watch: InMobi
Cool Companies: Wildfire, MediaMath
Who is the next Milllenial Media?
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63 Travel Companies Ranked by Momentum Index
Sector: Travel  (63 companies ranked)
Released: January 12, 2012
Rank Company Index
1 91.6+40.0
2 81.7+13.1
3 81.5+4.0
Highlights
Our Favorite: Hipmunk
Most Acceleration: Via
We Like: Nor1, NileGuide,
Zozi, Hotel Tonight
Major fundraising by travel sector leaders!
Will Kayak get out of IPO purgatory?
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28 Smart Grid Companies Ranked by Momentum Index
Sector: Smart Grid  (28 companies ranked)
Released: December 20, 2011
Rank Company Index
1 88.0-2.9
2 83.7+13.5
3 75.8-4.8
Highlights
Our Favorite: Opower
Most Acceleration: Tendril
We Like: Petra Solar, Smart Synch,
Viridity Energy
What's happening at
Silver Spring Networks?
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84 Open Source Companies Ranked By Momentum Index
Sector: Open Source  (84 companies ranked)
Released: November 17, 2011
Rank Company Index
1 90.0new
2 88.4-1.1
3 77.8+3.9
Highlights
Adoption of Cloud Technologies
Drives Open Source Growth
Favorite Start-up: Flat World Knowledge
Start-ups we Like: Basho Technologies, Couchbase,
Nodejitsu, VoltDb
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Top 100 Music Related Companies Ranked by Momentum Index
Sector: Music  (100 companies ranked)
Released: November 2, 2011
Rank Company Index
1 95.9+10.6
2 92.4+11.6
3 81.5-2.5
Highlights
We Like: Eventful, Our Stage
Big Movers: Beyond Oblivion, Rdio,
Ticketfly, Music Mastermind
Our Favorite: The Echo Nest
Read this and note how Pandora
competitors show slowing growth.
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60 NextGen eCommerce Companies Ranked by Momentum Index
Sector: Group Buying + Private Sales  (60 companies ranked)
Released: October 10, 2011
Rank Company Index
1 100.0+4.6
1 (tie) 100.0+1.0
3 98.3+4.4
Highlights
  • Group buying merged with Private Sales to form Next Generation eCommerce.
  • All new momentum and acceleration analysis including over 11,500 private technology companies.
  • plum district shows highest acceleration.
  • Lot18 remains our favorite start-up.
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The Momentum Index Top 100 Technology Companies
Special Release:The Momentum Index Top 100
(100 companies ranked)
Released: July 27, 2011
Rank Company Index
1 (tie) 100.0
1 100.0
1 100.0
1 100.0
Highlights
  • Top 100 technology companies out of over 10,000 we track.
  • Ranked use data collected 01/2011 with a summary of what each company has done since.
  • All new Cheer button allows you to spread the word on your favorite companies.
  • How effective is the Index at identifying companies that are doing well?
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Show us the Money! (6 IPOs, 219 acquisitions)
Special Release:Q1/Q2 2011 CrunchBase Liquidity Report
(225 companies ranked)
Released: July 14, 2011

Biggest IPOs
Rank Company IPO Date Amount
1 June 2011 $3.2B
2 May 2011 $3.2B
3 June 2011 $3B
Read this to see all 6 IPOs!

Biggest Acquisitions
Rank Company Acquired By Amount
1 SanDisk Corporation $3.27B
2 Electronic Arts $750M+
3 Teradata $525M
Read this to see all 219 acquisitions!
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Hottest 100 Private Game Companies Ranked by Momentum Index
Sector: Gaming  (100 companies ranked)
Released: June 30, 2011
Rank Company Index
1 100.0
2 95.0
3 88.9
Highlights
Our Favorite: zynga
Coolest Start-up: KABAM
Most Likely to be Acquired: SPIL Games

Read this to see the other
10 hot start-ups we like.
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Are We Reaching the End of the Twitter Ecosystem Growth?
Special Release:Top Twitter Users
(10 companies ranked)
Released: June 15, 2011
Rank Company Followers Index
1 2,447,270 43.1
2 2,335,411 51.3
3 2,165,615 57.3
Highlights
  • Using Twitter for customer service, Snaptu doubles its followers to over 2M in six months.
  • AOL pays $300 a follower!
  • Half the companies with the most Twitter followers have all but stopped growing their fan base. Are we reaching the end of the Twitter ecosystem growth?
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Ten Cool Companies that we Do Not Hear Enough About
Special Release:Cool Companies we Don't Hear About
(10 companies ranked)
Released: June 2, 2011
Rank Company Index
1 78.4
2 76.1
3 72.4
Highlights
  • 10 cool companies that should get press, but don't!
  • Coupons.com distributed $1.2B worth of coupons in the past year, up 41% year over year.
  • Nextag is the number one shopping engine in terms of gross volume.
  • With $22.5M in 2010 revenue and a 27 year old founder you would think that Volusion would get some Silicon Valley press. It hasn’t.
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The Top Social Networking Gems Hiding in the Shadow of Facebook
Sector: Social Networking  (53 companies ranked)
Released: May 24, 2011
Rank Company Index
1 100.0
2 95.0
3 87.5
Highlights
Our Favorite: Yammer
Most Likely to be Acquired: Netlog
Stealth Money Maker: CafeMom
Ready for IPO: Oak Pacific Interactive

Read this report to find our pick
of the 5 hot social networking start-ups.
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10 Favorite David vs. Goliath Start-ups and Why We Love Them
Special Release:David vs. Goliath
(10 companies ranked)
Released: May 10, 2011
Rank David Index Goliath
1 95.0 Ticketmaster
2 83.0 Oracle
3 82.0 Veriphone
Highlights
  • The best examples of a new company who could be on their way to taking down a powerful incumbent.
  • We are sick and tired of being charged to print in our own living room.
  • Everyone but Oracle knows big structured databases are done.
  • Credit card terminals are ugly.
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2 IPOs and 10 Hot Start-ups Highlight the $1.3B Travel Sector
Sector: Travel  (67 companies ranked)
Released: April 27, 2011
Rank Company Index
1 84.5
2 77.4
3 75.3
Highlights
Coolest Newcomer: bloomspot
Most Likely to be Acquired: GroundLink
Stealth Money Maker: nor1
Ready for IPO: HomeAway, KAYAK

Read this report to find our pick
of the 10 hot travel start-ups.
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TechCrunch50 Class of 2008: Where Are They Now?
Special Release:2008 TechCrunch50 Postmortem
(51 companies ranked)
Released: April 25, 2011
Rank Company Index
1 92.0
2 88.0
3 77.0
Acquisitions
5
  • $14.8M invested for $100M+ of potential liquidity
Operating
33
  • 4 are bootstrapped
  • $194M in announced fundraising
Gone
13
  • $3.5M in announced fundraising
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Vente-privee.com Beats Gilt Groupe for #1 Private Sale Company
Sector: Private Sales  (25 companies ranked)
Released: April 18, 2011
Rank Company Index
1 99.0
2 97.8
3 93.9
Highlights
  • Vente Privee beats out Gilt Groupe for #1 private sale company.
  • General Atlantic crowned the best private sale investor.
  • We love newcomer Lot18. In just over a year, they already have 1.3M uniques. Our coolest start-up pick for private sales.
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30 Dating Companies Ranked by Momentum Index
Sector: Dating  (30 companies ranked)
Released: March 30, 2011
Rank Company Index
1 94.6
2 81.2
3 80.5
Highlights
  • If you haven’t heard of Badoo, you will. They have 100M+ subscribers.
  • Companies perfecting facebook distribution have rewritten the dating landscape.
  • We don’t think anyone has cracked the code on dating and mobile yet.
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22 Smart Grid Companies Ranked by Momentum Index
Sector: Smart Grid  (22 companies ranked)
Released: March 22, 2011
Rank Company Index
1 95.0
2 90.9
3 84.2
Highlights
  • We say any new smart grid story better raise $100M to be relevant.
  • Foundation Capital is crowned best smart grid investor after being early at Silver Spring & eMeter.
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