Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

We recently released the video sharing app Ferris and announced that Upfront Ventures led the funding in the company in our seed round of $2 million and I personally joined the board. We hit the top spot recommended on Apple’s iOS App Store on the day of the launch, which is a testament to the team and all of their hard work.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Earlier this week I purchased 1% of a collection of five 1985 Nike Air Jordan sneakers using our portfolio company Otis’ mobile app. I have bought interests in nine collectibles via the Otis app over the last few months. It was a lot of fun to do.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

Yet someone the raw nature of filming & consuming on mobile is new. What Twitter did to @AppMeerkat was smart – and unusual for them to do to an early app. Should third-party apps be able to port my social graph and then drag audiences to consume in a new location? The best mobile companies do this.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Bad design was further reinforced through a decade+ of building apps in a Windows era where we technologists were trained by the ever expanding menu options in every Microsoft product. And in a mobile world I’m sure you know that this is even more important. We all created mini Cheesecake Factories. Hit the user testing.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

They just announced their Android app (you can download here if you’re on Android or the iOS version if you’re on that platform ). Draft is a Fantasy Sports app designed for the mobile world and the busy lifestyle founded by Jeremy Levine. Last year I began playing with an app called Draft that was in its infancy.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 10, 2014

With just a few app installs, the notification screen quickly becomes short attention spam theater. It says a lot about the evolution of mobile technology. The problem is that the phone is a rabbit hole. Sometimes, I wind up in Twitter or Instagram on my phone without even remembering why I pulled the phone out in the first place.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 14, 2020

We also have been involved in legacy mobile and web apps that have built cryptocurrencies inside of them. Claim your Moons in the new Vault section of the Reddit iOS or Android app! The new Vault section of the Reddit mobile app now has an Ethereum wallet that can store Ethereum tokens, like Moon.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

We then honestly had some quality problems in the app and while we chose the right market at the right time we didn’t emerge as the clear winner and we watched WhatsApp grow from strength to strength. It’s hard to capture a monthly active user base in mobile that spans into several millions and manage that through a transition.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In mobile, a good first step is to open up the app stores and allow the browsers to have the same access to the operating system as native mobile apps. If we made it easier and reliable for others to innovate on top of the core search engine, then there might be many more options in search.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It would have been less expensive (by an order of magnitude or more) and much simpler to get funds to these at-risk individuals with blockchain based assets vs outdated technologies like paper checks.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 11, 2020

With the Nurx mobile app, women (and men too) can find the prescription or home diagnostic test they need, connect to a doctor who can review the request and write the prescription, and get the medication or test shipped to them at home. Nurx is a great example of how technology is helping to reshape how healthcare is delivered.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 8, 2024

However, unlike our original analysis — in which we first ranked companies according to web traffic, then added in mobile app data for those companies — this time we split web and mobile gen AI products into two separate lists. This distinction allows us to examine the full universe of top AI mobile apps for the first time.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 7, 2025

AI Powers Personalized Shopping Experiences The surge in mobile apps and social commerce, alongside AI-driven personalization, contributed to a record-breaking season for online holiday sales.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

The other day, I was watching an episode of Seinfeld and was struck by how dramatically different location-aware mobile phones have made our day-to-day existence. The entire plot was based around no one having a phone in their pocket. Technology has already made the world pretty efficient.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 14, 2020

When looking at personal financing apps and resources, Dr. Decker recommends exploring which apps are available and might best fit your needs. He recommends: “If budgeting, Mint is a longtime staple, and if you’re a student, the most popular app now is You Need a Budget (YNAB).

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Venture Well

APRIL 29, 2021

Lura Health has created biosensor technology placed on a tooth to aid in preventive health care, delivering real-time updates through a mobile app. The post advancing preventive health care through biosensor technology: q&a with Noah Hill of Lura Health appeared first on VentureWell.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Orbita provides a WYSIWYG editor for creating apps and offers insights that customers can use to improve their performance. The mobile-based platform is uniquely designed to assist non-physician providers who typically do hot have access to these platforms due to cost considerations.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We are also seeing signs that users like using crypto-assets in mobile and web apps. Kin, built by our portfolio company Kik, has become one of the most used cryptocurrencies in the world and is built into more than fifty mobile apps.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 28, 2019

Kin is a digital currency (not a security) that is in use in over 40 mobile apps now. Last month over 1mm users earned Kin in one of those mobile apps and over 300,000 users spent Kin in one of those mobile apps. Kin is one of the most used crypto currencies in the world.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 8, 2019

A good example of this was moving from web apps to mobile apps, which was largely a technical innovation. While the move to mobile certainly created some new companies, it largely strengthened the market position of the big Internet companies because there was little to no business model innovation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

TechCrunch: As a developer for hire, how involved do you get when helping clients validate ideas before they bring their apps to market? We are open to accommodating any setup that works best for our clients and their mobile apps or web platforms. How much of a limitation is that for launching an app?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 2, 2022

The Summit of the Americas brings together leaders from governments, the private sector, and civil society (including youth leaders) to discuss these issues and mobilize action. Georgia is the strategic leader of an educational enterprise that stands for the social mobility of Afro-descendant women.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 3, 2019

In mobile, a good first step is to open up the app stores and allow the browsers to have the same access to the operating system as native mobile apps. If we made it easier and reliable for others to innovate on top of the core search engine, then there might be many more options in search.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

I’m super excited but some of the tech development at places like Osmo , Navdy and Doorbot (which although as the name implies has developed a widely sold doorbell system with a camera / mobile phone tracking actually has even broader ambitions once they reach market penetration and the founding team is phenomenal).

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It all started one evening when Baris’s daughter ordered two burritos from a delivery app. And so, Jingle was born, not from the desire to create another app, but to solve a problem that was deeply personal and painfully evident. With Jingle, they can become “microfranchisees,” turning their vehicles into mobile stores.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

Pisons CEO, John Croteau, expressed excitement over this partnership, emphasizing that the investment will help accelerate the development of mobile apps and subscription services that aim to redefine cognitive performance and productivity.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew was SVP of Mobile at Fox Digital Entertainment which launched the very successful Simpsons online game (curse you for wasting tons of my kids free time!) We funded about $2 million, which allowed a full team in Finland to be recruited for building the app and an international management team led from Los Angeles. The results?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

InVideo app offers a range of functionalities at no charge, and charges only $10 a month for premium clients, such as a marketing agency. InVideo currently does not have any mobile or desktop app. But InVideo plans to release mobile apps by early next year, he said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Just days after Voodoo acquired Beach Bum , another French mobile gaming company has news to share. Homa Games specializes in hypercasual, casual and board games, a segment of the mobile gaming industry that requires a methodical, technology-driven approach. Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led by Northzone.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The first time, back in 2012, I joined as part of a mobile gaming company. In 2011, he founded Pota-Toss, a Kickstarter-funded iOS game, released on the App Store on October 2012. I've been an alum of Dreamit twice. We spent most of that summer developing the product while carving out time to meet investors and try to raise funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

If a company wanted to distribute software on a mobile device it need to sell via a “portal” (US term) or a “deck” (UK term) of a mobile carrier. As the desk-based Internet emerged it was initially sold through telecom carriers (after players like AOL and EarthLink innovated the market).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

See the Internet and now the mobile ecosystems are one, big competitive playground where globally some of the smartest minds are focused on how to make money by driving user growth better, faster and cheaper than others. Doesn’t.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We relied on web traffic vs. app traffic to “qualify” companies for the list, as most consumer GenAI products have been website-first so far (more on this below!). For companies that made the list that do have a mobile app, we added that traffic, gathered from Sensor Tower as of June 2023, to determine their spot number.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Homa partners with indie mobile game studios so that their games are perfectly optimized to become a hit game on the App Store and Google Play. With Voodoo , Homa is one of the companies that have turned mobile gaming development into a methodical, data-driven process. Quadrille Capital and Headline are leading the round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Twitter’s recent acquisition spree continues today as the company announces it has acqui-hired the team from news aggregator and summary app Brief. Before starting Brief, co-founder and CEO Nick Hobbs was a Google product manager who had worked on AR, Google Assistant, Google’s mobile app, and self-driving cars, among other things.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Telecoms and banks lead the majority of online financial transactions carried out in the region via mobile money wallets and bank accounts. An alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing a mobile money user to transact with a bank account would fix this problem, and that’s the premise of Ghana-based fintech Dash.

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