Startup Genome’s new Investor Compass tool helps investors make data-driven decisions

Startup Genome, an organization on a mission to encourage data-driven decision-making to entrepreneurs, has introduced a new tool aimed at investors.

Investor Compass is a follow-up to Startup Compass, which launched last August to help entrepreneurs avoid making mistakes about scaling their businesses. It uses data from 3,200 high-growth tech startups, and now has a user base of over 17,000 companies.

The new tool complements Startup Compass by visualizing data from companies that are already using the latter. Angel investors and venture capitalists can use Investor Compass to track how their portfolio companies are doing, based on comparisons with key performance indicators. Read more

Project Nimbus Is The Data Marketplace

App developers and innovators face major difficulties when accessing data they can use in their phone apps or devices. They would have to figure out, for instance, how to access weather forecast data from the National Environmental Agency, or movie timings from the various cinemas. This tedious process is costly and complicated, detracting innovators from their creative process.

This is where Project Nimbus comes in. They aim to create a one stop shop where content creators can easily share their information in a marketplace, and where developers can access different kinds of data they can use in their apps or devices. Read more