# Standard Metrics

> Standard Metrics (formerly Quaestor) is a San Francisco-based financial data and portfolio monitoring platform for venture capital. It automates the messy work of collecting, standardizing, and benchmarking metrics from private portfolio companies, giving investors real-time performance data and giving founders a single source of truth for investor reporting. More than 100 VC firms track thousands of portfolio companies on the platform, which now connects directly to LLMs like Claude and ChatGPT through a Model Context Protocol server.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** John Melas-Kyriazi (Co-Founder & CEO), Deny Khoung (Co-Founder & Head of Operations), Kevin Hsu (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~82 employees
- **Products:** Portfolio Monitoring, Investor Relations Tools, Benchmarking, LP Reporting & Fund Analytics, Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
- **Notable:** Raised a $23.7M Series A led by 8VC in February 2022, Rebranded from Quaestor to Standard Metrics, Grew to 100+ VC firms tracking thousands of portfolio companies

## Products & services

- **Portfolio Monitoring** — Automated data collection, analysis, and real-time performance tracking for VC firms across their entire portfolio, with pre-built integrations to company source systems.
- **Investor Relations Tools** — A single source-of-truth metrics repository for founders, letting them map and respond to information requests from multiple investors without rebuilding the same report.
- **Benchmarking** — Compare portfolio companies against an aggregated, anonymized data set of over 10,000 venture-backed startups for market context.
- **LP Reporting & Fund Analytics** — Tools to roll up portfolio data into investor and limited-partner reporting, custom reports, and performance scorecards.
- **Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server** — Connects Standard Metrics data to Claude, ChatGPT, and other LLMs so users can query revenue, growth, burn, and runway in natural language and get chart-ready answers.
- **Excel Plugin & API** — Data export, API access, and an Excel plugin so teams can work with portfolio data in the tools they already use.

## Achievements

- Raised a $23.7M Series A led by 8VC in February 2022
- Rebranded from Quaestor to Standard Metrics
- Grew to 100+ VC firms tracking thousands of portfolio companies
- Built a benchmarking dataset of 10,000+ venture-backed startups
- Launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server connecting portfolio data to Claude and ChatGPT
- Achieved SOC 2 and GDPR compliance with role-based, permission-aware access

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server letting users query portfolio data through Claude, ChatGPT, and other LLMs in natural language.
- **2025-01** — Repositioned around AI portfolio monitoring for venture capital, citing 100+ VC firms and 10,000+ companies on the platform.
- **2022-02** — Announced $23.7M Series A and rebrand from Quaestor to Standard Metrics.

## Links

- Website: https://standardmetrics.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/standardmetrics
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/metrics_co

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Last updated: 2026-06-12