Chi-Hua Chien

Goodwater Consumer Insights systematically tracks consumer behavior trends across hundreds of consumer technology apps and services. For our initial launch on May 9, 2017 (one day ahead of SNAP earnings), Insights highlights consumer trends for 4 large scale players – Snapchat, Facebook (including Instagram), Twitter and Pinterest. Over time, we will be publicly releasing our data for other...

Some have asked why we built Index and give it away publicly. Many large VCs do this analysis but consider this type of data proprietary and share it with only their portfolio companies. Two of Goodwater's core values are TRANSPARENCY and SERVICE. We think of both Thesis (http://www.goodwatercap.com/thes...) and Index (http://www.goodwatercap.com/index) as opportunities to serve entrepreneurs...

Hi PH! Thanks for checking out Goodwater Index. We built this product to help entrepreneurs understand the fundraising environment. It can be very opaque, but most startups depend on VC funding to fuel their vision and teams. So we hope to bring some transparency and understanding to VC sentiment and the factors that drive the VC funding market. Here's a blog post that explains more of why...