Dealroom Signal

How are different components calculated?

Companies:

Dealroom signal is the average of these four inputs: completeness, founding team, growth rate, and timing.

Completeness: Based on the completeness of the profile and contextual data (does the company fit into segments of interest).

Founding team: Looks at previous performance, experience, serial founders and education.

Growth rate: Looks at employee growth in the company.

Timing: Looking into if the startup is likely to raise its next round soon. For funded startups, the typical pattern shows the score resets to zero post-funding, peaks at one year, then gradually declines. The exact timing and shape of this pattern vary by stage and are based on Dealroom’s proprietary timing benchmarks between funding rounds. (more details).

People:

People Signal Score predicts a founder's likelihood of building a successful venture-backed company on a scale of 1-100, based on three components.

Track Record: Evaluates funding raised and company scale (employee count) at founded companies, using logarithmic scaling to fairly compare founders across all venture stages.

Promising Signals: For founders with scores below 32, identifies potential indicators including top company experience (top 1,000 companies by founder success rate), elite education (top 500 universities), optimal age bracket (35-50, with secondary credit for 30-34 and 51-60), and previous management experience.

Staleness Penalty: Penalizes founders whose most recent company launched 3+ years ago without strong results, as older unsuccessful ventures are weaker predictive signals.

Who is Dealroom Signal for?

Dealroom Signal is utilized by leading VCs, corporates, government bodies, and founders to:

Discover the most promising companies
Stay ahead in innovation
Measure tech ecosystem growth
Attract talent and fundraise