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Thumbtack

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Thumbtack

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Invested in Thumbtack along with Uber. observed

fresh · evidence 11d ago 3 sources no confidence data
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Capital timeline every dated signal, across tiers

  1. rumor Thumbtack lays off 250 due to Covid-19 ↗
  2. rumor Thumbtack Raises $125M at a $1.3B Valuation ↗
  3. rumor Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M ↗
  4. rumor Service Marketplace Thumbtack Raises $100M Round Led By Google Capital ↗
  5. rumor Sequoia Leads $12.5M Funding Round for Thumbtack Local Services Marketplace ↗
  6. rumor Thumbtack Series B raises $12.5M ↗
  7. rumor Thumbtack raises $4.5M, already half the size of Yelp ↗

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.2

Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 90 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention. ▲ 90 Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M 2014-08-20 ↗

Raw observations 10 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name Thumbtack observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-18 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 90 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-18 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-18 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verific observed artifact ↗ 2020-03-30 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verific observed artifact ↗ 2020-03-30 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verific observed artifact ↗ 2020-03-30 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20"} observed artifact ↗ 2014-08-20 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20"} observed artifact ↗ 2014-08-20 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20"} observed artifact ↗ 2014-08-20 normalized 0.20
description Invested in Thumbtack along with Uber. observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-18 normalized 0.60