Investor demand, early-stage deal trends, fundraising activity, and other measures of relative market performance can vary materially by geography. Investors, partners, and startups looking for international opportunities will be happy to know that Stonks’ global user base makes it easier than ever to connect and engage with deals from all…

At Stonks, we are fortunate to sit at the intersection of startup investing and fundraising. In just over 10 months, we’ve completed 100 startup demo days, generated $850+ million of investment interest, and seen more than 40,000 user sign ups come through the platform. Stonks continues to see strong engagement…

With headlines increasing mentions of bear markets, inflation, and stagnant IPO / public equity demand, the worlds of startup investing and venture capital continue to show promising trends and insulation from broader market downturns. …

At Stonks, we’ve seen RSVP count emerge as a strong indicator of an event’s ability to generate higher levels of investment interest. While this relationship may not be the most surprising — more RSVPs usually lead to more event attendees and more potential investors expressing interest — it provides an…

Following an impressive start to Q1, Stonks saw investment interest on the platform slow on a per startup basis towards the end of March into April. Looking at the numbers, the weeks of March 27th, April 3rd, and April 10th saw 16, 20, and 9 startups receive investment interest on…

Overview In this post, I will outline the entire process I used to create a text classifier that classifies tweets into one of three sentiment classes: neutral, positive, and negative. In terms of overall process, I followed the Cross-Industry Standard for Data Mining, abbreviated CRISP-DM. …

In this blog post, I will be walking you through an entire machine learning process from start to finish, focused primarily on building a classifier to predict whether SyriaTel customers will churn based on a number of different features. …

In this blog post, I will be walking you through my steps to clean data and build a multivariate regression to predict house sale prices in King’s County. My goal behind this regression is to provide a tool for real estate investors (primarily in King’s County) to aid in asset…

We’ve all been there. You throw some popcorn in the microwave, plop down on the couch with some friends, and start scrolling through Netflix, trying to decide what movie you’ll watch that evening. One friend wants to watch an action movie, another friend wants to watch a comedy, and a…