Investment trends from Silicon Valley to Somalia
Analyze investment trends over time Using Crunchbase funding rounds And Kiva small business loans
1 Gb of company data 38,000 companies (10,000 with funding info) Time range: ~ Total funding: 120 billion USD 60 top categories (more than 50 funding events) Example categories: search, network, mobile, Facebook
170 MB of data 190,000 loans Time range: Total funding: 140 million USD 150 categories Example categories: agriculture, beauty salon, food product, motorcycle transport, tailoring
Drill down by investor Automatic tag extraction from description Porter stemming of tags Examine funding rounds more closely: try to predict second round funding Integrate with news sources, e.g. Google Trends, Yahoo! News, Twitter