We all love to read and discuss startup funding, don’t we. It works as adrenaline for current and future entrepreneurs. I created this small product called FundingHunt, one place where you can check out all the funding stories, post new stories, upvote funding event of companies you love and admire, dive into discussions and give your opinion at http://www.fundinghunt.co/
This is neat; are they always user-submitted or is there any automatic feeds supporting this? It's always interesting to see who is fund raising and what they're getting but just like your blog says they're all over the place.
The model of FundingHunt is similar to Hacker News or Product Hunt. All the funding stories are user-submitted in order to maintain the quality and consistency of posts.
Crunchbase and Crunchbase-like platforms are more data-centric as they give you exhaustive feed of startups with the amount of funding raised, while FundingHunt is a story-centric platform, which is more human way to consume this kind of information.
Also, features like upvoting and discussion thrive more significantly if it has a user-submitted model rather than automated feed.
I had a similar experience with the CrunchBase API. I kind of gave up once I had to start negotiating with their Business Development rep for licensing fees. I respect that they have to have a sustainable business given the resources required to aggregate and validate all that data, but I still wish there was a way for individuals/small teams to access that dataset.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 34.2 ms ] threadHere is a Medium post about the story behind FundingHunt. https://medium.com/startup-study-group/why-did-i-create-fund...
It'll be my pleasure to answer your questions and queries about FundingHunt.
The model of FundingHunt is similar to Hacker News or Product Hunt. All the funding stories are user-submitted in order to maintain the quality and consistency of posts.
You can also post startup funding stories on FundingHunt at: http://www.fundinghunt.co/submit
I would like to be able to subscribe to certain VC firms or angels to see what they've invested in and get a daily or weekly digest.
I actually built this thing myself, but CrunchBase recently made their API more restrictive so it doesn't work anymore.
Also, features like upvoting and discussion thrive more significantly if it has a user-submitted model rather than automated feed.
I have written more about it in my Medium post here: https://medium.com/startup-study-group/why-did-i-create-fund...