- conflicts or gaps
- [{"name_collision_nextop_software": {"value": "NextOp Software (founded 2006 by Yuan Lu, semiconductor EDA) was acquired by Atrenta in 2012 — unrelated to YC W15 Nextop.io.", "source_urls": ["https://semiengineering.com/people/yuan-lu/", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/nextop-software/financials"]}, "name_collision_vcbacked_nextop": {"value": "VCBacked lists a Warsaw, Poland 'Nextop' ($281K pre-seed, Jul 2023, remote-workplace software) — unrelated to YC W15 Nextop.io.", "source_urls": ["https://www.vcbacked.co/company/nextop"]}, "name_collision_nextop_taiwan_cdn": {"value": "nextop.com.tw operates a traditional CDN service — unrelated to YC W15 Nextop.io.", "source_urls": ["https://www.nextop.com.tw/products/cdn"]}, "second_founder_unknown": {"value": "YC reports team size 2 but only Brien Colwell is named as founder.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nextop"]}, "funding_amount_unverified": {"value": "No authoritative public record of exact dollars raised by nextop.io; $120K YC standard deal is inferred from batch-era YC terms, not Nextop-specific filing.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nextop", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/the-new-deal", "https://yourstory.com/2020/03/headspins-connected-intelligence-digital-monitoring"]}, "employee_count_conflict": {"value": "YC team size 2 vs YCDB employee metric 5 vs Golden range 1–100.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nextop", "http://www.ycdb.co/company/nextop", "https://golden.com/wiki/Nextop.io-GEJEVYJ"]}, "crunchbase_unreachable": {"value": "Crunchbase profile (nextop-io) linked from YCDB but could not be fetched during research.", "source_urls": ["http://www.ycdb.co/company/nextop"]}, "shutdown_mechanism_unknown": {"value": "Public sources mark company inactive/dead but do not document formal wind-down, asset sale, or IP transfer.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nextop", "https://golden.com/wiki/Nextop.io-GEJEVYJ"]}}]
- source urls
- ["http://www.ycdb.co/batch/w15", "http://www.ycdb.co/company/nextop", "https://councils.forbes.com/profile/Brien-Colwell-Founder-BringYour/c0e030da-13d4-4903-b4bc-9db423928529", "https://github.com/nextopio", "https://golden.com/wiki/Nextop.io-GEJEVYJ", "https://medium.com/@nextopio/reactive-mobile-networking-a60db9515bcf", "https://people.equilar.com/bio/person/brien-colwell-headspin-inc/27175335", "https://semiengineering.com/people/yuan-lu/", "https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/22/yc-ends-venture-partnership-ycvc-in-favor-of-raising-from-lps-will-now-invest-120k-for-seven-percent-of-startup-equity/", "https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/30/gv-backed-mobile-app-performance-platform-headspin-raises-20m-at-500m-valuation/", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/nextop-software/financials", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/briencolwell", "https://www.nextop.com.tw/products/cdn", "https://www.vcbacked.co/company/nextop", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/the-new-deal", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nextop", "https://yourstory.com/2020/03/headspins-connected-intelligence-digital-monitoring"]