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ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ score – explained

The ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ score underlines every ranking you see in our website. Learn more about how it's created and updated.

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ score visualization

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ tracks over 17,000 European startups, 3,000 investors and 25,000 fundraising events. For each one of them we collect dozens of data points – capital invested, number of employees over time, industry they belong to, business model, and more.

Making sense of all that data – and sorting it in a way that founders, operators and investors can devise signals from noise – is incredibly complex.

That's why we created the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Score – a 1 to 100 score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points (examples are money raised or employees over time) to signal the momentum behind a company. You can see it throughout the site as 98. A score closer to 100 indicates a company worth watching closely.

The score is engineered by me and our advisors, deriving from a decade of experience investing, analyzing and writing about technology and venture capital in Europe. We calculate it dynamically using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data points (everything from the size of a fund to the score of the companies they invested in) and is refreshed every time new data is added to the database, or a certain period of time happens, whatever is sooner.

Each one of our rankings is sorted from top to bottom using our ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ score, which means I don't control each specific ranking – they're dynamic and data-driven, ensuring objectivity.