I tracked 4,200 startup GitHub orgs for six months — here's what actually predicts a fundraise

I started this six months ago because nobody else seemed to. Hedge funds spent the last decade extracting alpha from satellite imagery, credit-card panels, parking-lot photos. The venture-capital equivalent — public engineering activity on GitHub — was sitting in plain sight, and most institutional sourcing teams I knew still ran on Crunchbase, warm intros, and Twitter. So I built a crawler. That sentence is short. The reality wasn't. The first crawler melted my Postgres pool The first version w