Startups that have just raised their first big institutional round

Working with hundreds of fellow developers we discovered a common trend: There are many talented individuals with deep desire to make a significant impact but struggle with how to put their desires into action. A common theme is the openness to take a small risk for an exciting mission and take a meaningful role in the creation of something new.

Hyper is a list that get updated on a weekly basis with companies that match the following criteria:

- Raised Series A funding - 25 employees or less - Based in San Francisco Bay Area

To dive deeper to the thinking process behind the criteria, check this post - https://labs.yodas.com/the-story-behind-yodas-hyper-47d3151d...

Happy to answer any questions anyone has. Also, I would love to hear what kinds of companies lists you think would be interesting .. ?

Nir

The relatively easy part is to find who recently raised money and we do it mostly through monitoring the press and limiting what we present only to companies that fit the criteria.

Behind the scenes we do much more complex stuff in order to evaluate the companies and a hint for that can be seen in the badges below the company description. In essence, we built search engine that profiles companies in depth by looking at the companies website, github activity any anywhere we could find information about the founders, investors, team, product and even the code itself.

This is being developed mostly for our discovery engine - Yodas (www.yodas.com) and we benefit from it for Hyper.