I've been talking more about our product values with our customers recently and wanted to share them publicly. What are product values, you ask? Product values drive some of our most important decisions at Standard Metrics. They're like company values or operating principles, but

Our founder John Melas-Kyriazi recently sat down with Alex Rankin and ben dunphy from January Capital to chat through everything from product market fit to how AI will affect VC. Check it out: first.january.capital/podcasts/episo… #TheFirstPodcast #TheFirst

“What data should we ask our portcos for?” Short answer: it depends. We’ve seen many firms tailor data requests by company, stage, sector & geography. Seed ≠ Series C. SaaS ≠ Healthcare. We put together a quick guide 👇 standardmetrics.io/a-firms-guide-…

Investors: imagine cutting board meeting prep from hours to minutes with one prompt. Leveraging our MCP server, you can now unify information across Standard Metrics (Standard Metrics), Notion, Google Calendar, and other tools with a simple prompt, reducing board meeting prep and

Two of our VC customers at Standard Metrics are playing golf together at Bandon Dunes and sent us this awesome photo. 📸 Fun to see how often our customers spend time together. It's a result of our network growing from the bottoms up, often through referrals. Enjoy! 🏌️

Portfolio reviews are a valuable ritual, but preparing for them can be incredibly time-consuming. VC teams spend weeks collecting portfolio data, formatting it to internal standards, validating accuracy, and adding subjective context to numbers. Tear sheets on Standard Metrics

Good morning, New York! Our first Standard Metrics office in NY opens today. Fun milestone as we grow our team and customer base on the east coast. The NY startup + VC scene is super vibrant, and we’re excited to double down! Standard Metrics 🙌

Does it feel like AI startups are growing way faster than SaaS or fintech companies? They are. In the latest Standard Metrics startup benchmarking report (built from our anonymized data set of 9,000+ VC-backed startups), we continue to observe upper quartile AI companies driving

Have you seen AI companies on LinkedIn bragging about insane revenue growth with skeleton crew staffing levels? It’s actually true, and we’re seeing this dynamic pan out at scale at Standard Metrics (Standard Metrics). The bar has gone way up over the past year. In Q2 2024, an upper

AI and fintech startups are in a race. AI leads on growth, fintech on efficiency and profitability. While AI is driving outsized revenue growth, top fintech companies are seeing higher revenue per full-time-employee, stronger gross margins, and larger cash flow. In the near

AI companies reach $100m revenue nearly 2 years faster than their SaaS precedents. Happy Friday!

1) Huge thanks to Balaji for providing feedback on our startup performance benchmarks at Standard Metrics and for sharing our work! 2) We've added additional guidance into our recent report to clarify how to interpret this chart. 3) Read our recent report: standardmetrics.io/q2-2025-startu…

As of this week, we’ve officially crossed 10,000 portfolio companies on Standard Metrics (Standard Metrics)! 🚀 It’s incredibly exciting for us to see thousands of amazing companies working with some of the top investors in the world on our platform. A couple of quotes from portco

When we think of VCs that are truly at the technological cutting edge, Lux Capital is at the top of the list. Today, we’re very proud to share that Lux is doubling down with Standard Metrics (Standard Metrics). 🙌 We’re fortunate to have had Lux as a customer for about a year now,

We are very happy customers of Crosby at Standard Metrics. A great AI-powered service that significantly speeds up legal review. I love working with their team (Ryan Daniels, Kush, & more). And I'm so excited that Christina Melas-Kyriazi has led their Series A with Bain Capital Ventures! 🚀🚀

It's truly an honor to witness our clients' hypergrowth firsthand, one contract at a time Standard Metrics

AI-first companies still outrun everyone else too, growing 1.5x faster than peers on Standard Metrics.

For companies like Standard Metrics truly obsessed with speed, every second matters. Even those few seconds you could save by using slack over email!