AI Case Study
Circle Up helps startups raise funds via crowd funding by evaluating their potential and risk using machine learning
CircleUp plans to help entrepreneurs raise capital by matching them with potential investors. They analyse companies based on 90,000 data points and classifies companies based on potential and risk. They use this to predict likelihood of breakout success using machine learning. Investors can use this data to find interesting ventures.
Industry
Public And Social Sector
Ngo
Project Overview
Circle Up evaluates start-ups based on financial performance, brand, product, distribution, team based on publicly available data and partner and practitioner data.
Reported Results
The companies claims:
* $300m+ Invested since 2012
* Raised millions for start-ups such as Guidboat.Co, Miyoko's Kitchen, Smarty Pants etc.
Technology
Function
Finance
General Finance
Background
"CircleUp is an investment marketplace for innovative, early-stage consumer product and retail businesses."
Benefits
Data
"Billions of data points on 1.3 million companies across North America".