[hornbaker]

Anyone else surprised by how low the numbers are? Only 500 startups and 2,500 investors joined last year?

2011 was the breakout growth year for AngelList according to their Alexa graph[1]. And Angel.co has 740K pages indexed by Google, of which about 356K of which appear to be investor profiles, 159K appear to be company profiles, and the remaining 225K could be assumed to be entrepreneur profiles. Perhaps there's another large subset of indexed pages I'm missing?

I'd love to know the actual total counts of startups, angels, and entrepreneurs if anyone is privy.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/lsMCY.png

[shiftb]

It looks like that's 500 Startups WITH 10+ intros. # of intros is probably a good indicator of whether or not they got funded.

I would read that as 500 startups that got funded. I imagine there are WAY more startups that signed up.

[rfairfax]

Startup data trends (which gets its data via AngelList's API) shows 18799 startups in total when you search on location "Earth" http://startupdatatrends.com/?tags=1643

It's reasonable to think that most of these startups created AngelList accounts in 2011 (given hornbaker's Alexa graph).

[nivi]

Yep, it is startups with 10+ intros only. We get about 100 startup profiles a day.

[massarog]

We joined angellist, and we are not on that list, so I would assume its startups with X number of intros.