I thought about including valuation in the table as well, but decided against it:
I’m not sure how accurate startup valuations are. It make be less clear how to interpret what the funding received means, but the number is easier to measure accurately.
These are young companies, so the timing of the valuation matters a lot. OpenAI’s valuation is recent, or 8 years after the company was founded. Commonwealth Fusion’s valuation is from 2 years ago, or 4 years after the company was founded. If each had multiple valuations, then I would have made a graph like Figure 1 for this.
I thought about including valuation in the table as well, but decided against it:
I’m not sure how accurate startup valuations are. It make be less clear how to interpret what the funding received means, but the number is easier to measure accurately.
These are young companies, so the timing of the valuation matters a lot. OpenAI’s valuation is recent, or 8 years after the company was founded. Commonwealth Fusion’s valuation is from 2 years ago, or 4 years after the company was founded. If each had multiple valuations, then I would have made a graph like Figure 1 for this.