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ZocDoc

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Cyrus Massoumi, CEO and founder of ZocDoc, is here to discuss their company's 'amazing Ascension' and success. observed

fresh · evidence 4d ago 7 sources no confidence data
—/100
Developer momentum
Why this score? ↓

What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 Evidence sufficient to publish Yes

    The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is published and listed. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

    UNKNOWN (not a soft no, never counted as qualified). Blocker: No source states a band-bearing stage for any financing event we hold.

    Venture backing: not found · Stage band: UNKNOWN — No source states a band-bearing stage for any financing event we hold.

    What would overturn this:

    Assessed 2026-10-24 for seed/Series-A sourcing.

Funding
no round
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings
Commercial
not checked
homepage

Composite signal v0 insufficient evidence — 1 of 5 components

Five evidence lanes (activity, capital, infra, hiring, ecosystem) as within-cohort percentiles, combined with evidence-breadth weights over the 60-company baseline cohort. The ± band widens with missing lanes — it measures what the score stands on. Scores publish at 2+ evidence lanes; this company's tape carries 1 (0 signals/60d), so no number is claimed.

Traction

No traction data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.

Current round

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Opportunity & risk

No standout signal or flag yet.

6 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened

2 claims on record 0 verified 2 contradicted 0 still unproven

Sharpest miss on record: “ZocDoc will reach a valuation of multiple billions of dollars.” — Zocdoc’s valuation never exceeded about $2 billion; after its 2015 IPO it peaked near $1.5–2 billion and subsequently fell, never reaching the multiple‑billion level predicted.

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Technology No signals collected yet ▾
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Team & hiring No signals collected yet ▾
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Market & funding stage No signals collected yet ▾
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Evidence & scoring

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Capital timeline every dated signal, across tiers

  1. rumor ZocDoc's CEO on how to raise $70m from 5 billionaires ↗
  2. rumor ZocDoc raises $15 million to expand across US ↗

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.13

Gray-market attention, not quality. 33+ HN mentions (peak 10 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. ▲ 10 DST Invests $50 Million Into ZocDoc 2011-08-02 ↗

Raw observations 21 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
buyer_fit.assessment {"buyer": "seed/Series-A sourcing", "method": "Backlog pass 2026-10-24: applied the record_buyer_fit.ts fit rule to this company's held primary-source financing evidence (funding.round.* / sec.form_d. observed assessment 2026-10-24 normalized 0.90
buyer_fit.status unknown observed assessment 2026-10-24 normalized 0.90
common_name ZocDoc observed intelligence.claims 2026-10-01 normalized 0.90
community.hn.max_points 58 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-26 superseded 0.20
community.hn.max_points 10 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-26 superseded 0.20
community.hn.mentions 33 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1514370", "title": "ZocDoc raises $15 million to expand across US", "points": 5, "created_at": "2010-07-14", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_stat observed artifact ↗ 2011-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1514370", "title": "ZocDoc raises $15 million to expand across US", "points": 5, "created_at": "2010-07-14", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_stat observed artifact ↗ 2011-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1514370", "title": "ZocDoc raises $15 million to expand across US", "points": 5, "created_at": "2010-07-14", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_stat observed artifact ↗ 2011-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1514370", "title": "ZocDoc raises $15 million to expand across US", "points": 5, "created_at": "2010-07-14", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_stat observed artifact ↗ 2011-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1514370", "title": "ZocDoc raises $15 million to expand across US", "points": 5, "created_at": "2010-07-14", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_stat observed artifact ↗ 2011-08-16 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29980162", "title": "Launch HN: Fable (YC W21) – Collaborate on product specs, sync to issue trackers", "points": 58, "created_at": "2022-01-18"} observed artifact ↗ 2022-01-18 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2837013", "title": "DST Invests $50 Million Into ZocDoc", "points": 10, "created_at": "2011-08-02"} observed artifact ↗ 2011-08-02 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2837013", "title": "DST Invests $50 Million Into ZocDoc", "points": 10, "created_at": "2011-08-02"} observed artifact ↗ 2011-08-02 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2837013", "title": "DST Invests $50 Million Into ZocDoc", "points": 10, "created_at": "2011-08-02"} observed artifact ↗ 2011-08-02 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2837013", "title": "DST Invests $50 Million Into ZocDoc", "points": 10, "created_at": "2011-08-02"} observed artifact ↗ 2011-08-02 normalized 0.20
description Cyrus Massoumi, CEO and founder of ZocDoc, is here to discuss their company's 'amazing Ascension' and success. observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-09 normalized 0.60
sector emerging derived calc 2026-09-28 normalized 0.50
signal.attributed_claims 2 observed intelligence.claims 2026-09-26 parsed 0.90
source.document.reference {"kind": "podcast", "title": "Why AI Could Finally Fix Healthcare Access | Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz — zocdoc", "source_id": "01M59C6VPKGTH5M82RSWHHV8JA-m-69762a4e2ab690dc", "extract_ref": "artifact:s observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-17 normalized 0.95