Public equities have the S&P. Credit has FICO. Every real market has a benchmark—except early-stage startups.
No picks. No scores. No human judgment.
Today, finding early-stage companies means navigating directories built on crowdsourced data, editorial picks, or analyst opinions. Coverage is comprehensive—but signal is buried in noise, methodology shifts without notice, and there's no standardized reference point.
Angel5000 is the benchmark, not another directory. We don't try to catalog everything. We provide a standardized, rules-based cohort that institutions can rely on—same methodology, every year, fully auditable.
Universe built from SEC data and verified sources—not crowdsourced, not scraped.
Companies selected by rules, not analysts. No editorial judgment enters the index.
Published methodology, reproducible results, auditable cohort creation.
See what's actually being built—not just what's been picked, pitched, or promoted by someone else's algorithm. A neutral view of the funded startup landscape without the filtering.
A standardized cohort for longitudinal analysis. Same methodology every year—no silent changes, no unexplained gaps, no "trust us" black boxes. Reproducible by design.
Structured data via API. Clean records, consistent schema, no stale crowdsourced entries. Build on a foundation you can actually trust.
"I built Angel5000 because strong founders were getting lost in the noise. Early-stage innovation has no neutral benchmark, no shared reference point, and no structured way to make thousands of new companies visible. Angel5000 is my attempt to fix that by creating a neutral, rules-based index so early innovation is visible, not filtered by investor bias or narrative."
— Gabor, Founder of Angel5000