Add "Total Valuation" across members to stats page

[caniszczyk]

It would be nice to have an chart that represented the aggregate value of CNCF member companies over time that represents a rough TAM of the market, I believe we had this in the old landscape, e.g., "You are viewing 253 cards with a total of 91,121 stars and funding of $36.5B"

However, instead of just total funding (which we should have on the stats page somewhere), I'd like to see the valuation of our members companies listed.

[tegioz]

Hi Chris,

Some thoughts about this:

• AFAIK Crunchbase doesn't provide companies current valuation. In some cases, they include the valuation at the IPO time (i.e. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/google/company_financials), which wouldn't work for this use case.

• Based on the stock symbol we get from Crunchbase, we could try to collect the market capitalization from a different source. But..

  • We only have the stock symbol for a small subset of the members (<25%), so the total valuation would probably be incomplete.
  • Many companies may not have gone public yet, so we'd be leaving them out.
  • To be able to display the total valuation over time in a chart, we'd need to be able to collect the market capitalization (or the stock price and outstanding shares) as it was at some points in the past as well, not just the current value.
  • If you'd like to explore this path, any recommendation for the new data source?