Startup headline decoder
Pick a funding headline and change its numbers. See what run rate, ARR, post-money, led by, valued at, and oversubscribed mean, with the math.
Decoder
Decode a startup headline
Pick a headline and change its numbers. Each part of the headline gets a plain reading and its math.
Headline
Bluefin AI hits a $100M run rate
Bluefin multiplied the revenue of one
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“$100M”
A yearly speed, not money that Bluefin collected. Nobody added a full year of revenue to get it.
$100M ÷ 12 = $8.33M a month
- 2
“run rate”
The revenue of one recent month, multiplied to a full year. It counts all revenue, also one-time sales and usage spikes. It is not ARR.
$8.33M in one month × 12 = $100M
For this headline, Bluefin needed only $8.33M of revenue in one month. Ask which month it was, and how much of that revenue repeats.