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

May 25, 2012 by  

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