Method

How this is built

What we do

We track funding rounds into Australian companies, and the coverage that follows them. Every entry is a headline, a short summary written by us, and a link to the original. We don't republish other people's articles. We then collate the investments and companies that appear in that coverage, to create a picture of activity in the Australian startup sector as a whole.

Where the data comes from

Public announcements: VC firms' own posts, company announcements, and the Australian technology press. We augment that with data from various public databases, like ASIC registries.

What we do with numbers

Round sizes are as announced. Where a figure is an estimate rather than a stated number, we mark it. Valuations are the least reliable figure in venture reporting, so we only show one when the source is named on the page.

Our crawler

It checks robots.txt before every request and doesn't fetch anything disallowed there. It requests pages slowly, reads only what publishers put out for readers, and takes only a headline and a link back to the original article. If you'd rather we didn't index your site, email corrections@example.com and we'll remove you.

Getting things fixed

There are inevitably errors, either in the original article or in our understanding of it. There's a Report Error button on most pages, or you can use the tip form to notify us. Changes are logged publicly on the corrections page.