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Automated, AI-driven portfolio reporting for VC firms and the companies they back.
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2020
We have signage! 🙌 We are loving our new home where Jackson Square meets the Embarcadero in San Francisco. Come for a visit!
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An interesting trend we're noticing at Stripe: US startups are pulling ahead of their peers elsewhere. These charts show averaged revenue growth for software startups in each location. US startups typically grow somewhat faster than those elsewhere. However, since mid-2023, US
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For companies like @metrics_co truly obsessed with speed, every second matters. Even those few seconds you could save by using slack over email!
One of the best parts of using @crosbylegal for contract redlines is getting to work in Slack vs. email. - Each deal has its own Slack thread - Converse with the agent, upload attachments in thread - Status updates provided real-time The pricing & fast turnaround help too :)
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“It was a total nightmare” — @pdxelevatevc's reporting process, before @metrics_co. If you’ve ever managed quarterly portfolio review or LP reporting at a firm, you might relate to the late nights, missing data, and anxiety before LP sends that Nitin Rai, Benjamin Nahir, and
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AI-first companies still outrun everyone else too, growing 1.5x faster than peers on @metrics_co.
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It's truly an honor to witness our clients' hypergrowth firsthand, one contract at a time @metrics_co
We are very happy customers of @crosbylegal at @metrics_co. A great AI-powered service that significantly speeds up legal review. I love working with their team (@ryanjdaniels, Kush, & more). And I'm so excited that @ChristinaPhili5 has led their Series A with @BainCapVC! 🚀🚀
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We are very happy customers of @crosbylegal at @metrics_co. A great AI-powered service that significantly speeds up legal review. I love working with their team (@ryanjdaniels, Kush, & more). And I'm so excited that @ChristinaPhili5 has led their Series A with @BainCapVC! 🚀🚀
We’ve raised a $20M Series A from @IndexVentures, @BainCapVC, and @eladgil, with participation from @sequoia, @CooleyLLP, and @patrickc It took us 173 days to review our first 1,000 contracts. Now, we do this every three weeks. Even as we’ve scaled, we’ve kept our signature
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When we think of VCs that are truly at the technological cutting edge, @Lux_Capital is at the top of the list. Today, we’re very proud to share that Lux is doubling down with Standard Metrics (@metrics_co). 🙌 We’re fortunate to have had Lux as a customer for about a year now,
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As of this week, we’ve officially crossed 10,000 portfolio companies on Standard Metrics (@metrics_co)! 🚀 It’s incredibly exciting for us to see thousands of amazing companies working with some of the top investors in the world on our platform. A couple of quotes from portco
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1) Huge thanks to @balajis for providing feedback on our startup performance benchmarks at @metrics_co and for sharing our work! 2) We've added additional guidance into our recent report to clarify how to interpret this chart. 3) Read our recent report: https://t.co/MEQobdhp1e
I was a bit confused by the quote tweeted chart. Were there really that many AI companies making $100M in 3.5 years, that it was only a top quartile thing, given that ChatGPT is only three years old? I spoke to @jmelaskyriazi and he said his quartile graph is not an empirical
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AI companies reach $100m revenue nearly 2 years faster than their SaaS precedents. Happy Friday!
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AI and fintech startups are in a race. AI leads on growth, fintech on efficiency and profitability. While AI is driving outsized revenue growth, top fintech companies are seeing higher revenue per full-time-employee, stronger gross margins, and larger cash flow. In the near
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Have you seen AI companies on LinkedIn bragging about insane revenue growth with skeleton crew staffing levels? It’s actually true, and we’re seeing this dynamic pan out at scale at Standard Metrics (@metrics_co). The bar has gone way up over the past year. In Q2 2024, an upper
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Does it feel like AI startups are growing way faster than SaaS or fintech companies? They are. In the latest @metrics_co startup benchmarking report (built from our anonymized data set of 9,000+ VC-backed startups), we continue to observe upper quartile AI companies driving
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Good morning, New York! Our first Standard Metrics office in NY opens today. Fun milestone as we grow our team and customer base on the east coast. The NY startup + VC scene is super vibrant, and we’re excited to double down! @metrics_co 🙌
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Portfolio reviews are a valuable ritual, but preparing for them can be incredibly time-consuming. VC teams spend weeks collecting portfolio data, formatting it to internal standards, validating accuracy, and adding subjective context to numbers. Tear sheets on @metrics_co
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Two of our VC customers at @metrics_co are playing golf together at Bandon Dunes and sent us this awesome photo. 📸 Fun to see how often our customers spend time together. It's a result of our network growing from the bottoms up, often through referrals. Enjoy! 🏌️
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Investors: imagine cutting board meeting prep from hours to minutes with one prompt. Leveraging our MCP server, you can now unify information across Standard Metrics (@metrics_co), @NotionHQ, Google Calendar, and other tools with a simple prompt, reducing board meeting prep and
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“What data should we ask our portcos for?” Short answer: it depends. We’ve seen many firms tailor data requests by company, stage, sector & geography. Seed ≠ Series C. SaaS ≠ Healthcare. We put together a quick guide 👇 https://t.co/Naiy4zIPYc
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A portfolio company data collection strategy can be improved by segmentation by size and sector. Standard Metrics can help.
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Our founder @jmelaskyriazi recently sat down with @AlexJRank1n and @benjamin_dunphy from @January_Capital to chat through everything from product market fit to how AI will affect VC. Check it out: https://t.co/mxeCiLUmDc
#TheFirstPodcast #TheFirst
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