Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 8, 2024

The fastest growing category of US venture investment in 2024 is AI. At this pace, we should expect AI startups to raise about $55b in 2024. AI startups now command more than 20% share of all US venture dollars across categories, including healthcare, biotech, & software. Venture capitalists have invested $18.3

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UBI Global

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The startup game-changing newsletter Our Corporate Matching article outlined the three categories of collaboration that UBI Global is opening for startups to meet corporate innovation seekers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

From time to time, I chart the fastest growing categories of startup investment in the US for seed through Series C. Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19. Quantum computing topped the list with a doubling of rounds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. In the rest of this newsletter, we’re going to talk about the do-it-all startups and Sarah Guo’s new VC fund. I think that there are going to be completely novel applications of AI that don’t fit well into the existing categories.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In the recent ceremony held at the Ministry of Digital Technologies in Uzbekistan, the prestigious “President Tech Award” competition celebrated its winners, recognizing the most advanced startup projects in the country.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 is weeks away, and today I’m thrilled to announce the 200 startups selected to participate in the first ever Startup Battlefield 200 cohort. The highlighted showcase categories. The Startup Battlefield 200 featured companies. The Startup Battlefield 200 Benefits.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

The startup plans to use the funds to accelerate creator acquisition, expand into more categories, and grow its team and product. Co-founder Ashwarya Garg envisions the startup as a way to fairly reward creators for their influence on consumer behavior and drive 30-40% of all eCommerce.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Their portfolio spans a wide spectrum of categories, encompassing home care, ambulatory care, insure-tech, data sciences, and brain health. This fund has been instrumental in supporting and catalyzing the growth of healthcare startups targeting underserved Asian markets.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Pangyo bio startups Markherz, KainosMedicine, Rznomics, and ARBORMED have been recognized in the global market this year. In October 2023, Rznomics was selected as one of the 50 outstanding small and medium-sized enterprises for technological development by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A sample fishbone diagram might include categories, such as: Possible causes. A fishbone diagram is an essential tool for any startup because it helps to show the problems you face and how to fix them. People have been using fishbone diagrams in startups since 1965, when Ishikawa developed it. Causes list (7 main categories).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The French government and the government-backed initiative La French Tech gathered applications, processed the numbers and ranked the 120 top-performing startups in France right now, with a special category for the top 40 ones. Others moved down to the second category or dropped of the rankings altogether.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

This category is very dog-dominated — dog owners spend, on average, $1,480 per year, while an average of $902 is spent annually by cat owners; therefore, there are a lot of dog-focused products, including food. However, we’re still really alone in bringing fresh food to the category and to cat parents. That was a surprise to us.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Let’s say you’re creating a category. How do you do this when creating a new category? Recently, SaaS Office Hours at Redpoint had the privilege of chatting with Nick Mehta and Anthony Kennada about the way they created a category with customer success. In effect, they pool their capital to create the category.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

Call for Proposals Now Open to Digital Health Startups to Compete on the CharmHealth Ecosystem PLEASANTON, Calif. While providing resources, guidance, connections and mentorship to participants, CharmHealth and its community benefit from the fresh perspectives, creative problem-solving, and disruptive thinking rising startups share.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The typical software startup raised their Series A 15 months after raising their seed at 2x their seed valuation. In almost every category, the time between rounds is also at decade highs. A year ago, that Series A would have been raised three months earlier at 3.5x the valuation. Here’s another way of visualizing the data.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

milk industry is a $15 billion category with 90% penetration, according to John Talbot, the CEO of the California Milk Advisory Board. Seeing a need for innovation, the California Milk Advisory Board turned to those who do it best: startups. For others, it’s a cursed liquid that causes tummy troubles.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

Mentorships and other resources also provided to winning tech-enabled startups led by members of underfunded demographics as part of Delaware’s fourth annual pitch competition WILMINGTON, Del. (

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

No startup sector was entirely immune from 2022’s market uncertainty — except maybe AI — but some proved more resilient than others. Comparing any sector’s results to 2021 is slightly specious, as that year was the peak of the last startup boom. Biotech was one of the most fortunate. The sector recorded 1,054 U.S.-based

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore the diverse startup programs available in Singapore. Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. Startups qualifying under Startup SG can access cash grants, equity financing, and business loans.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There’s no denying that the robotics startup world has taken a hit during the ongoing economic downturn. This is certainly a theme of late — as other categories of robotics have struggled to raise, those operating in construction appear relatively unimpacted. Recent numbers prove what we’ve all suspected for some time.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

The capital commitments represent a significant increase from the firm’s previous venture and growth funds and demonstrate continued support from limited partners of Greycroft’s model of investing in startups across the entire venture lifecycle from seed to exit. “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

You can’t stop fintech startups. After raising staggering sums of capital through 2021, the financial technology startup industry ran into a valuations wall this year as public markets retreated and many formerly high-flying fintech giants took lumps. Late-stage fintech startups got caught up in the wave of revaluations.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 20, 2023

The product, called Kitty Medi Check, was recently voted third in the cat category at the Global Pet Expo 2023 held in Orlando, Florida. With more than 1,000 new pet products introduced at the event, Kitty Medi Check stood out as one of the top products in the cat category, as voted by participating buyers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

A lot of no-code products fall into this category. Let’s explore the red flags investors will look for to determine which bucket your startup falls into. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works. So do you have a company or merely a feature?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Having local expertise in the category every VC wants to invest in right now doesn’t hurt, either. Startups in the city raised more than $534 million through December 12, 2022, according to PitchBook, which, while not a lot of capital, is better than 2021, when they raised $336 million. You can give it a listen here.).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

We have only a few spots left to exhibit in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 (September 21-23). Buy a Startup Alley Pass and take advantage of all the exposure, perks and potential to help your startup cruise to the next level. And every exhibiting startup also gets two minutes to pitch live during a breakout session.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

” The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. But the category also includes assets that overlap with hobbies and collectibles, such as wines, spirits, handbags and watches. Concomitantly, the number of investors dabbling in these categories is also growing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Dear Sophie: Can a startup sponsor a graduating co-founder? I don’t have an HR background, but I’ve been assigned HR duties at our startup. Citizenship and Immigration Services just announced that it will be adding premium processing to more categories. More posts by this contributor. What are my next steps? ??Here’s

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

European startups have always suffered from the perennial startup problem: how to exit? It’s part of the reason so many European startups end up heading to the US. This is an unusual use of PE funds, and puts FLEX into a slightly different category to the average PE outfit. Not that many and not nearly enough.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The 10 speakers — in each category — who receive the most votes will present their topics at the show. War Stories with Founder Equity and Cap Tables Speaker: Sam Wong, CEO, Fundable Startups How the Fortune 500 Is Buying AI Software — or Not! Both roundtables and breakouts draw big crowds at Disrupt and for good reason. Walker and Co.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Founded by Nitin Agarwal , formerly of Edelweiss Financial, and Supam Maheshwari , a founder of FirstCry, GlobalBees acquires and partners with digitally native brands across categories such as beauty, personal care, home and kitchen, food and nutrition, and sports and lifestyle with a revenue rate of $1 million to $20 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The rise of creator-focused startups was not an accident; instead, a secular trend of more accessible software for more diverse areas of creative work was met with a COVID-induced economic reshuffling and a gain in the amount of time the average person spent consuming in the ensuing quarters. What’s going on?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

edikinabioo and the National Institute of Medical Research in Mongolia (Image courtesy of Medikinabio) Medikinabio (CEO: Choi Woo-sung) is the first startup registered for the DEEP Tech TIPS , a private investment-oriented tech startup support program led by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and Creative Economy Innovation Center.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Like many sectors, creator-focused startups had an easy time of attracting funding in 2020 and 2021. But venture capital investment into this category slowed down significantly starting in the second half of 2022: going from 42 rounds worth $336 million in Q2 2022, to only 19 rounds worth $110.2 million in Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Last fall, delivery startup goPuff made a big splash by raising $380 million in funding and acquiring West Coast beverage retailer BevMo shortly afterwards. Delivery startup goPuff raises $380M at a $3.9B Just a few months later, the Philadelphia-based company is announcing that it has raised another $1.15 billion in funding at an $8.9

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

If you take a look at Barcelona-based Heura the picture seems rosy — with the alt-protein startup claiming “non-stop” momentum and a near doubling of revenue from sales of its faux chicken, beef and pork products in the first half of 2022. Mid-year, the 2017-founded startup reports that it had reached €14.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

In a sign that the seed-stage AI segment is still alive and kicking, Betaworks, the startup studio and VC firm, is launching a new program that’ll award around ten companies working on AI $500,000 in funding. The program isn’t quite an accelerator; Betaworks describes it like a “camp.”

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