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Headwinds, Tailwinds, and Crosswinds Ahead for Rising Startup Ecosystems

Revolution

Ripple effects from the liquidity crunch: While we documented the founding of 1.4K+ new regional VC firms from 20112021, many of those firms (that are often the biggest backers of their local ecosystems) face a more daunting market for raising subsequent funds without materialized returns.

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Putting Data in a Corner: LLMs and Financial Services Data

Andreessen Horowitz

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

Look at Docusign, as one shining example — a company many folks thought would be a $1-2B outcome for a feature (e-signatures) transformed into a $10B+ document management platform. Here’s why: 1/ Pro-sumer Trend Has Legs In Enterprise: The freemium pricing model ushered in a new wave of business applications and services.

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TrustLayer raises $6M seed to become the ‘Carta for insurance’

TechCrunch

and 11 “top-tier” insurance companies, also invested in TrustLayer. The funding actually marked BTV’s first investment in a cohort member of its inaugural accelerator program. . Mort appreciates that TrustLayer is tackling the problem not by becoming the insurance broker, but by working with the incumbents as a software solution.

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6 VCs explain why embedded insurance isn’t the only hot opportunity in insurtech

TechCrunch

. “There is a lot more to expect from these generative AI solutions not only to smoothen the engagement with customers, but also to get a sense of customers’ risks, collect documents in the claim process, or maybe deliver reporting to the regulator. And the current market is rather reinforcing our investment thesis.

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NeuReality lands $35M to bring AI accelerator chips to market

TechCrunch

And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. “Most companies that can leverage AI don’t have the funds nor the huge R&D that Amazon, Meta and other huge companies investing in AI have. .

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Democratizing Design

Andreessen Horowitz

4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? That doesn’t mean you’re going to invest. Startups vs. incumbents David: I want to shift gears just a little bit and move towards the business and market structure side of things.