How we verify

Where the numbers come from, how they are checked, what the labels mean, and what PrePost does not do.

What "verified" means here

Every figure on PrePost carries a date and a source. A figure that cannot be sourced is left empty: "no independent evidence exists" is a finding, not a gap to fill. We never publish a number taken from a seller, a pitch deck or a requester's own documents.

Sources are used in this order, and a weaker one never overrides a stronger one:

Legal filings and reporting holders. Company-registry filings, securities filings, and the marks that funds and listed shareholders must report.
The company's own dated statements, and tier-1 press reporting the terms of a round (amount, valuation and lead investor), such as Reuters, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal or TechCrunch.
Secondary-market prices, for late-stage companies, labelled as such.
Trackers and aggregators are used to cross-check and to find leads. They are never the source of record.

Non-US figures are converted at the Federal Reserve's published rate for the transaction date.

Two passes

New profiles and the Technology tab are researched once, then checked by a second, independent pass that has not seen the first one's reasoning and re-reads the source documents: each patent page, each paper, each acquisition announcement. The second pass has removed wrong founders, misattributed patents and out-of-date court rulings before they reached a page. Company performance claims appear only labelled as the company's claims.

High, medium and low confidence

Each current estimate carries a confidence label that describes the evidence behind it.

High. A closed, priced round or tender reported by the company or tier-1 press, or a secondary-market price that agrees with one.
Medium. A recent mark that is less firm: a secondary-market price that differs from the last round, or a last round that is ageing while newer reports have not closed.
Low. Sources disagree, the only mark is old, or the figure rests on thin secondary-market composites.

When the estimate is low confidence, the company page leads with the last priced round, the figure someone actually paid, and shows the estimate second with its gap to that round.

The PrePost Index

A score from 0 to 100 that lets you compare companies on three measures:

Capital momentum: how quickly the company raises, and how its rounds have grown.
Market confidence: how current pricing compares with the last priced round, and how consistently rounds have priced up.
Investor strength: how prominent its lead investors are across the companies we track.

The exact weights are not published. The Index is not a rating of the investment: a company can score high and still be a poor deal at the price you are offered, which is what Check my offer is for.

What PrePost does not do

No advice, no buy or avoid ratings, no probabilities of success, no recommended amounts. PrePost does not verify the person or firm making you an offer, and does not see your offer documents. It gives you sourced figures to set next to what you were told; the decision is yours.

Independence

PrePost does not sell or broker shares, and today it has no commercial relationship with any company, fund or seller it covers. If that changes, this page will say so, any paid relationship will be labelled wherever it appears, and it will never affect a published figure or the Index.

Privacy

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