Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

Along the way, each submarket – American Dynamism , Apps ( Consumer , Enterprise , Fintech ) , Bio+Health , Crypto , Games , Growth , and Infrastructure – has become as big as the original entire Venture Capital market.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video. If you were a new developer in this category you often had to sub-contract in a fees-for-service arrangement to build for the big guys.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Gururaj shared valuable insights from his experiences on having his previous startup getting acquired by a large public company, rapid growth with large-xLarge customers, and challenges in capturing SMBs and medium-sized enterprises. These experiences were instrumental in the development of ThriveStack.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 16, 2025

In a bold move to transform the energy sector with cutting-edge AI, Collide, the category-defining GenAI platform for oil and gas professionals, has secured $5 million in seed funding. At the heart of Collides vision is an enterprise-grade, generative AI (GenAI) solution that is purpose-built for the complex workflows of the energy industry.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

This years categories of FinTech , Life Sciences , and Environmental Impact reflect Delawares evolving innovation and industry landscape. The finals for each of the three categories will take place in person during a different industry event taking place in Wilmington.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

That situation can lead to a huge waste of time for startups that want to sell to enterprise customers: a business development black hole. By the time a technology is placed into the fourth category, which we dubbed “in-market or accelerating investment,” it may be too late for a startup to find a foothold.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

In 2024, we believe the revenue opportunity will be multiples larger in the enterprise. Some naysayers doubted that genAI could scale into the enterprise at all. As always, building and selling any product for the enterprise requires a deep understanding of customers’ budgets, concerns, and roadmaps. Isn’t this all hype?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca is the market leader in a hot and growing category: marketing automation for telephony driven by the explosion in smart phones where a phone call is a single click of a button. They had signed major enterprise accounts like Dish, DirectTV, Allstate, Microsoft, SunTrust and others. Total customers grew 20% year/year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This means it is in the same category as fast-growing fintechs such as Brex and Ramp. But the biggest difference, in Cohen’s view, is that those two companies “ are disparate from travel” and thus focus more on SMEs while TripActions is more focused on enterprise companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As DevOps SaaS platform Esper continues to build out the category and the number of connected devices grows, the company took on another round of funding to stay ahead of demand. trillion category by 2027 and the number of active IoT-connected devices ??is It is projected to be a $1.1 is expected to reach 30.9 billion units by 2025.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Island, a Dallas-based startup that built a secure browser for the enterprise , has raised $115 million in a Series B round, valuing the company at $1.3 Island, founded in 2020, created a security-focused browser for enterprise users based on Chromium. Island emerges from stealth with a new enterprise-focused web browser.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

So you will see me invest in security infrastructure, developer tools, productivity applications, creative apps, generally enterprise-like sort of relational database applications that keep records, [and] verticals where I think the vertical is large, interesting and the data is affected by this, like comp bio. Image Credits: Sarah Guo.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One is “tentpole company,” or a category-defining startup that helps put their hometown on the map, both for investors and future generations of founders. 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.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

“Small businesses embody the resilience and ingenuity that define America’s free enterprise system, yet they often go unrecognized,” said Jeanette Mulvey, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of CO— by the U.S. The categories include Growth Accelerators, Community Champions, Global Stars, and seven others. Chamber of Commerce.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 16, 2024

The global investment firm Vista Equity Partners held its 7 th Annual Global Hackathon focusing on advancing enterprise software solutions with generative AI. One hundred thirty participants on 27 teams drawn from V ista portfolio companies worked to build innovative enterprise software solutions while connecting with their peers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The highlighted showcase categories. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. SaaS, Enterprise + Retail.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity. years for 2022 and 5.0 years in 2019.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

As a result, categories that make up productivity infrastructure — cloud communications services, API platforms, low-code development tools, business process automation and AI software development kits — grew exponentially in 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

.” Though a bottoms-up enterprise strategy is relatively popular these days, Canva was an early master of the model. Canva launched as a free product, and over time the company introduced enterprise layers into the mix. This includes Salesforce, Marriott International, PayPal and American Airlines.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

ThreatX , a vendor selling API protection services to mainly enterprise clients, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Harbert Growth Partners with participation from Vistara Growth,406 Ventures, Grotech Ventures and Access Venture Partners. Image Credits: ThreatX.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

The firm’s two flagship vehicles, Greycroft Partners VII and Greycroft Growth IV, closed on over $980 million, enabling the firm to continue to invest in early and growth-stage enterprise and consumer businesses. Greycroft manages over $3 billion in capital raised and has made over 400 investments since inception.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Webflow’s product fits into a category of companies arguing that building software for the Internet should get easier over time, not harder. Magdalin said that the money may be spent on its enterprise products, support team, platform, and recruiting.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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. Rznomics (CEO Lee Sung-wook) is a representative bio venture in Pangyo Techno Valley that focuses on RNA-based bio new drug development.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

While it all seemed to come together in the last year with a big increase in attention to automation in general during the pandemic, it’s a market category that has been around for some time. In 2019, Gartner found RPA was the fastest-growing category in enterprise software. Probably not.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Whether its our SaaS platform, Hero, new enterprise solutions, or emerging AI capabilities, theres always a next frontier. Beyond that, were deepening our enterprise partnerships, expanding globally, and pushing into new categories where high-quality video is a necessity but remains inefficient. The speed at which were evolving.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

We work with bold leaders within high-growth categories. Today, this relentless focus manifests itself in Beverage, Cannabis, Blockchain (Crypto), Pet, D2C, Health & Wellness, and Enterprise Technology. Design transforms how a brand is experienced. How it’s perceived. How it’s felt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

As organizations continue to build out their digital architecture, a new category of enterprise software has emerged to help them manage that process. Ardoq is based out of Oslo and about 30% of its enterprise client base is in the Nordics; the rest is spread between Europe and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions have become a fixture of the modern enterprise; organizations with more than 1,000 employees use over 150 SaaS apps on average, according to BetterCloud. Fully managed apps are often a lighter load on IT teams because they’re entirely cloud-based.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Today, it’s a core capability in many enterprise software companies to give non- or semi-technical end users, even DevOps and security engineers, the ability to easily and quickly deploy applications without the need for custom development. It’s transforming entire categories of enterprise software.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

In a blog post , Microsoft said that it will increase its investments in the development and deployment of specialized supercomputing systems to accelerate OpenAI’s AI research and deploy OpenAI’s AI systems across its consumer and enterprise products and “introduce new categories of digital experiences built on OpenAI’s technology.”

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 21, 2023

Register Bisonai, a Singapore-based company specializing in Web3 infrastructure, has joined forces with Polygon Supernet, a blockchain developer that provides a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, to revolutionize enterprise blockchain solutions, offering scalable and customizable Web3 infrastructure to businesses worldwide.

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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. HealthXCapital is an early-stage investment platform that infuses smart and connected financial resources into burgeoning healthcare enterprises.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

On the relatively brief application form for START, a16z names six categories — American dynamism, consumer, enterprise, fintech, games or other. The remote-first program will accept founders on a rolling basis and wants to connect folks with partners for advice, potential customers or investors, and of course, other entrepreneurs.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 9, 2023

“Profet AI is designed for rapid model development and deployment to deliver instant time to value for enterprises around the world. Our solutions have been very well-received in Taiwan, giving us confidence that we can deliver value to more enterprises in other markets – beginning with Japan, Southeast Asia, and China.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

They are largely overlooked in comparison to larger enterprises, so anyone looking to build solutions specifically catering to them will have a lot of opportunities. “Underwriting cyber insurance for SMEs is a more dire prospect than for large enterprises,” he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

But the declines were not the worst we found: Biotech showed a more modest year-over-year decline in investment volume (21%) than many other sectors including fintech (37.7%), consumer tech (53%) and enterprise tech (33%). Comparing any sector’s results to 2021 is slightly specious, as that year was the peak of the last startup boom.

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