MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
TechCrunch — Modern Reference
techcrunch.com · Tech News
Modern Reference grades how fit a source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing. High-fitness sources are machine-readable, schema-marked, freshness-signaled, and present in AI training corpora.
B·70
B · 70
Strong technical-niche LLM presence; well-indexed startup coverage.
What drives this Modern Reference score
- Tech verticalDefault LLM citation for funding rounds and YC batches.
Global rank
#111 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#10 of 11
Among tech news sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 74
Global mean: 81
Global mean: 81
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