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by biztos 3515 days ago
While this list made me fear for the future of humanity, it also made me click over to the Crunchbase list, which is more useful and less soul-crushing.

https://www.crunchbase.com/app/search/funding_rounds

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Hey Biztos, why do you think it's better? I would love to know so we would do better in the future...

Check the logic behind Hyper as it might explain the list better - https://labs.yodas.com/the-story-behind-yodas-hyper-47d3151d...

Hey Nir, late reply but: based on the names and (self?) descriptions of the startups I found it a bit of a downer to think of these being the hot new pre-unicorn wondercompanies. And the Crunchbase list, while a bit annoying with its upgrade hard-sell, has a lot more information that would be useful in figuring out what a company's about, where its money comes from, and how useful it might be for a serious hacker to ask them about jobs.

As to the Hyper-Yoda idea itself: I'm sure your selection is quite useful to some people -- junior developers? programmers having trouble finding jobs? the recently laid-off?

My only criticism of your site per se is that you use a lot of hand-wavy buzzwords while not showing a lot of useful data.

"Crazy" growth? "Solid" engineering/academic background?

Good luck with the list, in the best case it could be an important connector between these young companies and the programmers they hire.