Earlier this week, one of our mobile app alert algorithms tracked a huge jump in the App Store rankings by Wunderlist, a to-do list app with the ability to share and collaborate on lists across parties and devices.
On August 1st, Wunderlist announced an update including faster real-time sync as well as the ability to publish and curate public lists. And along with the app update came a significant rankings jump in the ‘Productivity’ category where it was previously trending between 40-60 and then jumped to the top 5-ranked apps.
Wunderlist is published by 6Wunderkinder, a venture-backed German startup that last raised a notable $19M Series B investment led by Sequoia Capital. And based on CB Insights venture capital and mobile app data, Wunderlist’s big jump now makes it one of three top 20-ranked ‘Productivity’ apps backed by Sequoia Capital (as of Aug. 4). The others being Dropbox and Evernote.
Sequoia, of course, isn’t new to investing in highly-ranked mobile apps given the venture firm was the sole backer of WhatsApp prior to its $19B exit and stood at the top of our earlier analysis looking at VC investors by apps consistently ranked in the top 1000 overall ranking.
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