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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

Whereas in 2016 I struggled to come up with one, and whereas in 2017 it was obvious it was Coinbase, with 2018 comes the most money poured into U.S. In 2018, it was that kind year. This is the company, in my opinion, which only first appeared on the radar of most investors in 2018. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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These Y Combinator-backed startups are trying to build ‘ChatGPT for X’

TechCrunch

Image Credits: Lasso The Lasso platform can be used, for instance, to scrape an email for a sales prospect, look through a prospecting tool and save the summarized results to a document. But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free.

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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walk

I was publishing quite a bit of original research about bias in workplace documents like performance reviews and job posts, a bunch of it went viral, and I got to know a lot of people who eventually became Textio customers. I love quantitative data based on real workplace documents because you don’t have to stretch to show what’s going on.

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Founded by Google’s former head of ads, Neeva brings its ad-free search engine to Europe

TechCrunch

Europe is perhaps an obvious first step for Neeva’s inaugural expansion plans, owing to the slew of antitrust complaints currently faced by the mighty incumbent Google, with legislators targeting everything from e-commerce (Google Shopping) and Android to its dominance of the online ad market. France and Germany. ” Privacy push.

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Rows, formerly dashdash, raises $16M to build and populate web apps using only spreadsheet skills

TechCrunch

The round was led by Lakestar, with past investors Accel (which led its $8 million Series A in 2018 ) and Cherry Ventures also participating. However, it does point to an opportunity for incumbents to disrupt their disruptors. Christian Reber has also invested in this round. Image: Rows.

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Gusto: The People Platform for SMBs

Y Combinator

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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AI-powered supply chain startup Pando lands $30M investment

TechCrunch

“This caught our attention — we spent months talking to and building for enterprise users at warehouses, factories, freight yards and ports and eventually, in 2018, decided to start Pando to solve for global logistics through a software-as-a-service platform offering.”