Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

Nobody puts Baby in a corner — especially if Baby happens to be fragmented financial services data. That said, the financial services data market is currently dominated by several billion-dollar companies that, given their scale and other advantageous moats, are extremely entrenched.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I wrote yesterday , about the quarterly numbers for VC investing activity: If this was a student coming home with a report card, it would be straight As. Firms invested a total of $434 million in Q3—the lowest figure since the second quarter of 2017, according to PitchBook data. I will give myself an F for that.

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Revolution

AUGUST 8, 2023

The pre-2020 artificial eight-hour workday forced most people to spend the vast majority of their time in two distinct places: home and work. Leaky leisure has blended these two places, as we work from home and watch Netflix while working¹. Using data from Placer.ai, WSJ reports a divide between office and residential districts.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Vizion focuses on ocean freight data integration through its API, thereby augmenting enterprise systems and customer experiences for stakeholders in the logistics and cargo sectors. Well-Resourced Logistics Ecosystem Corporate Presence : Atlanta is home to the UPS headquarters and numerous other supply chain and logistics companies.

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Source Link

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Entrepreneurs new “home” in Central Florida. In recent years, the region has emerged as a thriving innovation hub, home to a host entrepreneurial activity with Orlando consistently ranking as one of the best cities to start a business. Using data to strengthen support. Please join us in welcoming BizLink Orange !

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2023

A behavioral scientist shares the data to prove it and offers best practices to minimize quiet quitting and lower productivity concerns amid a hybrid return to office. In reality, data shows the opposite trend. We know that people are much more productive on individual tasks that require focus at home.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

What’s needed is a simple way for consumers to engage with the issue around how much energy their home needs, how to manage that, and, crucially, how to finance the changes needed. An example of this out of New York is Sealed , a climate tech company that designs, manages, and finances home weatherization and electrification projects.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2023

Individuals reduce their carbon footprints through actions like minimizing air travel, eating less meat, driving a more eco-friendly vehicle, using public transportation, and running their homes on as much renewable energy as possible. Data centers use more energy than some countries. of global greenhouse emissions. Reconsider.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

I analyzed Crunchbase data and looked for the startup categories that grew fastest in terms of funding rounds year-over-year, provided there were at least 10 rounds in that category. By virtue of the importance of data when working remotely and the breadth of applications of that data, this category popped into the top 10.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Vets , a tech-enabled pet healthcare platform that provides at-home care, has raised $40 million in seed funding led by Target Global, PICO Venture Partners and Bolt Ventures. “We have an established R&D department consisting of veterinarians, software developers, data scientists and analysts,” Chafets said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

In Birdie’s home market of the U.K., Birdie’s wider goal for the business is to use the data its platform is ingesting and structuring to power more personalized — and even preventative — healthcare for the social care sector, which remains drastically under-resourced versus the scale of demand for care services.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

And where you can literally look at it, I think there’s a couple things and a couple gauges that I try to make when it comes to decisions, show me the data, and does this make common sense? Show me the data. So, I feel like that was a pretty good source for this data. Ben: We are in that habit, policy-wise.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2023

More accurately, it’s a measurement of how much data per second your Internet connection can send and receive — e.g., how much data is allowed to move from point A to point B at any given time. Simply put, a higher bandwidth means a higher volume of data can flow through at a faster rate. That’s an increase of 57 percent!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2021

Older adults are among the highest-risk groups for developing cases that need hospitalization and nursing homes were especially vulnerable to outbreaks. At the same time, there is a critical shortage of caregivers, especially for elderly people who want to continue living at home instead of moving into nursing homes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Esusu , a fintech that targets immigrant and minority groups and provides rent reporting and data solutions for credit building, said Thursday it has raised $130 million in a Series B fundraising round. Renters, on the other hand , pay an annual subscription fee of $50 to report their rental payment data to credit bureaus.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

One powerful avenue is through the use of an exceptionally well-curated, comprehensive, and accessible virtual data room (VDR)! One of the most common questions we get from early stage founders is “what should I put in my data room?” key in vivo data results). What milestones do you intend to hit along the way (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

Put some energy into it : Helping European homeowners heat old homes in a more energy-efficient way has given startups a way to show off their skills. Investors were so attracted to what startup Enter was doing with home energy assessments that they injected €19.4 Kirsten has more.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

When Richard Joffe moved his family to Australia in 2019, he said applying for home insurance “was like traveling back in time 30 years.”. “I million USD), the largest seed round ever raised by a tech startup in Australia, according to Crunchbase data. They never contacted me aside from my renewal,” he told TechCrunch.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 9, 2021

Are we more productive at the office or at home? Researchers from the University of Chicago published data on the productivity trends across 150,000 employees of a large IT services company to answer that question. In short, the data isn’t strong enough to make a case that WFO is superior to WFH (working-from-home) or vice-versa.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 17, 2024

Ooshma Garg Ooshma is the founder and former CEO of Gobble (W14), the easiest and fastest way to make home-cooked meals. Prior to starting FutureAdvisor, Jon graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science and worked on mobile data synchronization protocols at Microsoft.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Nova itself is a counterpoint to profit-focused corporate venture capital outfits, and is instead focusing on abilities to collaborate with the LG conglomerate across the board, in a few key verticals: the metaverse, connected healthcare, smart homes, electric vehicles (EV) and the wonderfully fuzzily named tech for good. The Metaverse.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As more companies shift to work-from-home or hybrid environments, it becomes increasingly important to make sure that employees aren’t sharing sensitive information with others who aren’t supposed to see it. So with Metomic we help companies protect sensitive data in SaaS applications.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

The firm uses an in-house, data-driven algorithm to narrow down potential investments based on the entirety of a startup’s employees. To combat this, West said the Ensemble team built a data algorithm that tracks employees at a firm and helps narrow down companies with investment potential based on the depth of their team.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

While studying at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford , a group of graduates noticed how difficult it was to get data and information on Africa’s largest economy and their home country, Nigeria. An essential part of our business model is pushing out high-value subscription data products.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In one of the latest developments, Bisu — a Tokyo-headquartered healthcare startup that has built a lab-grade testing device that can be used at home for diagnostics that translate into actionable health data — has raised $3.2 Cue Health raises $100 million to speed development of rapid, portable COVID-19 diagnostics.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

For many of us, our home is by far our biggest asset, and in the world of fintech, that’s led to a logical extension: when you need money, borrow against that biggest asset. market is ready to be taken and the size is massive,” Fenwick said, estimating the potential asset base for homes in the country at $30 billion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

provider of healthcare inside people’s homes augmented by a platform that allows carers to monitor a patient’s health and potentially flag problems, has raised $320 million (£260 million) in an equity and debt financing round, split roughly 50/50. Most healthcare tech is now graduating to healthcare in the home. Cera , a U.K.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

“Two years ago, the killer app was Wi-Fi, managing the pods,” he said, referring to the system of mesh routers that are used to improve the speed and quality of a Wi-Fi network in homes. All of this is banked around services for consumers and the connected home. Now it has closed a huge funding round to ride the wave. .

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

We have all heard the importance of having one or more of our angel investments noted as a “home run” In terms of a return exit. What is a “home run”? The “home runs” I believe, fall into the 10x or greater return multiple. I have been provided this data by JP Morgan associates using the Bloomberg data base.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Daasity , an e-commerce analytics and data company, secured $15 million in Series A funding as it continues developing its approach to helping consumer brands better leverage their customer data to make smarter decisions. Brands win by having access to the right data, which leads to faster and more confident decision-making.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Not every country has a Multiple Listing Service to aid in buying and selling a home. This often makes the process complicated as buyers weed through fake and duplicate listings and little pricing data, unlike in the United States. We are matching you to the best home for you. Nomad Homes mockup.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Block Renovation wants to be a part of every home renovation in America after raising $50 million in Series C funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The current status of home renovation is abysmal,” he added. We’ve taken that on for them by accumulating data points and giving them an estimate within 5% to 10% accuracy,” he added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Much of the focus today is on TikTok, the viral video-sharing app owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, which faces bans over fears that the data it collects will end up in the hands of the Chinese government. But TikTok isn’t the only company capable of sharing data with China.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Zeraki , a Kenyan edtech that has built digital learning and school data analytics platforms, has raised $1.8 Zeraki data analytics system helps schools to better manage students’ data. But around 2017 we realized that data was actually a much bigger problem in schools,” Nyangolo said. Image Credits: Zeraki.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Zhou noted that Yami provides more than 260,000 stock-keeping units (SKUs) across food, beauty, health, and home categories with over 4,000 brands. . On top of that, it plans to invest in technology like artificial intelligence and big data, which will strengthen its supply chain and improve customer experience, Zhou told TechCrunch.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 30, 2020

Working from home is awesome. The study shows more than 80% of respondents either rarely worked from home or not at all prior to the pandemic, and, in turn, more than half are now doing so with no new security policies to help guide them. However, for many employees of companies it's a security threat, says an IBM study.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Tianhui Michael Li is founder of The Data Incubator , an eight-week fellowship to help Ph.D.s Previously, he headed monetization data science at Foursquare and has worked at Google, Andreessen Horowitz, J.P. Will automation eliminate data science positions? What’s different about hiring data scientists in 2020?

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