Research on startup funding and the investors behind it.
FundingWatcher is a research publication of Haus Research covering startup funding rounds and the investors behind them.
Research
All reports →For every unicorn founded a decade ago, 57 seed startups are dead
Of 30,826 seed-stage startups founded 2015 to 2017, 170 became unicorns and about 9,710 are dead, 57 for each unicorn; 31.9% raised a Series A or later.
1 in 35 old Product Hunt launches is now a casino
About 1,230 Product Hunt launch domains from 2014 to 2019 now serve casinos, slots or betting, from 69 of 2,400 sampled (2.9%); launches with 100+ upvotes were hit almost twice as often.
.com fell under half of YC startups in Summer 2022. .ai hit 37% in Summer 2025
.com covered 95.5% of Winter 2011 YC companies with a domain and 47.5% of Summer 2026; .ai went from zero to a high of 37.0% in Summer 2025.
Accel backed CrowdStrike and SentinelOne, and 68 more pairs of competitors
Accel holds 69 pairs of portfolio companies that describe the same product, against 15.76 expected from a random portfolio of the same size.
YC batches got twice as likely to repeat an earlier YC company, from 18% to 47%
A 2013 to 2019 YC batch had a close match among 500 earlier YC companies for 18.3% of its companies; in Summer 2025 it was 46.5%.
Investors
All investors →Most active investors
Ranked by recorded investments.
Type distribution
Investors by type.
Investment stages
Investors listed by the stage they back.
By type and investment stage
Startups
All startups →Round, investor, startup
Every table row is a round, the investors on it and the company that raised it.
By sector and funding stage
The figures behind the reports
Current value and data date for each figure and table.
Figures and tables