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Articles organized by topical series. Each series covers one pillar of how investors use public GitHub data to source and evaluate startups. If you already know your question, start with the sharper routes below instead of browsing the whole topic map.
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GitHub Signals Methodology
How engineering acceleration is measured, what each signal means, and how to read commit, contributor, and repository activity for investing.
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Deal Sourcing Workflow
Practical sourcing playbooks, pre-seed, seed, Series A, that combine GitHub signals with the rest of an investor's stack.
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Alternative Data for VC
GitHub momentum in the broader landscape of alternative data, what it adds, what it replaces, where hiring/web/transactional data fit alongside it.
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Sector Deep Dives
Sector-specific signal patterns, what GitHub activity looks like in fintech, AI, cybersecurity, climate-tech, and other technical verticals.
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Operator Notes
First-hand notes from running the dataset, building a longitudinal panel of 350++ startup GitHub orgs, MCP server lessons, and other operator-side observations.
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Startup Due Diligence
How investors evaluate a startup before writing the check: team, market, product, and the engineering layer public GitHub data reveals before the data room opens.
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Deal Flow Management
How to capture, triage, score, and prioritize inbound startup opportunities so the strongest deals surface before they raise.
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Venture Scouting
How scouts and angels source, vet, and refer startups: scout programs, referral networks, and the leading-indicator data that finds deals before the databases do.
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Engineering Velocity Benchmarks
Reference numbers for reading GitHub activity: what counts as fast, how sectors differ, and where the acceleration thresholds sit in the weekly panel.
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Founder Evaluation
How to assess founder quality from public signals: technical capability, shipping discipline, and team-building patterns visible in GitHub and beyond.
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Five breakout startups, every Sunday, before the round gets crowded
The free Acceleration Watch: five venture-backed teams accelerating on the engineering signal, translated into plain English, 21 to 47 days before the deck circulates. No code-reading, no card.