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How Will the 52% Correction in the Stock Market Impact the Startup Fundraising Market?

Tom Tunguz

Only the 2016 reduction of 57% surpasses it. Public market investors are rotating out of high growth technology companies as the Fed’s policies of quantitative easing, asset purchases, and low rates abate. 2014’s correction stalled and then reversed Series D round sizes for 2 years through the second correction in 2016.

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The Great AI Reset: It’s Time to Refound Your Start-Up. Now.

SaaStr

Anthropic (founded 2021) Stability AI (founded 2020) Cohere (founded 2019) Databricks (founded 2013) Windsurf (founded 2021) Cursor (founder 2022) Hugging Face (founded 2016) OpenAI (founded 2015) Synthesia (founded 2017) Palantir (founded 2003) These companies didn’t start with today’s AI vision fully formed.

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Tech philosopher Alex Wolf on designing harmonious technology

Intercom, Inc.

Unpacking this central conundrum is at the heart of Alex Wolf’ s work – the self-described “consumer-facing anthropologist” has made a career by thinking deeply and talking widely about issues related to the pervasive role of technology in modern life. She asks what are the risks involved in “outsourcing” so many of our skills to technology.

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5 Interesting Learnings from UiPath at $600,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

from 2015 to 2016 … and then exploded: UIPath History. 2016: $3.5m Technology partners and SIs are key to growth. Top 50 customers grew bookings 81x since 2016, and all 2016 customers together grew 57x. These 2016 customers really leaned in on UiPath. Revenue grew nicely at first from $1m to $3.5m

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The Software Startup Sectors Raising the Most Capital in 2017

Tom Tunguz

Since then, many other types of software businesses have been created in new categories like agriculture technology and robotics. In other words, if machine learning startups raised the same amount of money in 2016 is 2010, the chart would show a value of 1. There are fewer software startups raising capital in 2016 than 2015.

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Are Software Companies Good Businesses?

Tom Tunguz

For a period from December 9, 2009, to approximately March of 2016, technology companies produced nearly 5% free cash flow yields on average. But over two decades technology tops the list. There are times when other sectors yield more. And if AI fulfills anywhere close to its promise, we should expect that trend to continue.

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The Hottest Startup Sectors in 2016

Tom Tunguz

Which of the 16 major start of categories in information technology will reap disproportionate share of investment dollars in 2016? This may be a breakout category in 2016 for Series A investments. Given the amount of seed investor interest, I expect many of these marketplaces to raise series A dollars in 2016.

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