Coral Framework - A Big Social Data Approach to Boost Startup Ecosystem

Startup ecosystem is a creative environment that aims to promote entrepreneurship and innovative business. In this complex social network, the activities derive from the ties of interdependence and co-evolution between actors with different purposes, who share resources to achieve common goals. A smarter startup ecosystem demands an understanding of the interests and capabilities of each participant as a way to identify convergences and possible partnerships that can help in the development of new business. This paper presents the Coral framework, an approach based on big social data to assist in the analysis of existing relationships in startup ecosystems. We show the partial results of the research and future works.