Pro Weekly: How Our 200 Promising Startups Have Fared

Every year, The Information’s reporters identify the 50 most promising technology startups. In total, we’ve spotted 200 companies over four years that are logged in The Information 50 Database. My colleague Abubakar Idris and I spent the week looking back on our picks and updating the financial details for each company. Several businesses have been on quite the ride.

At least 104 of the 200 companies have raised additional funding since we first wrote about them. That’s less surprising for the companies we identified four years ago. For example, data analytics company Starburst and sports media firm Overtime have now raised $431 million and $250 million, respectively—in both cases more than six times as much as each had raised in 2020.