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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. By reducing the friction for North American companies to find suppliers in China, they’ve been the most successful B2B marketplace to date. Alibaba is an exception.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. More than 40% of B2B transactions in the US, which is roughly a $25 trillion market , are still made with paper checks compared to 5-7% for consumers.

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Why Consumer Brands Need To Keep An Eye On Their eCommerce Channel

YoungUpstarts

This is done by aggregating data on an enormous scale and leveraging highly advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to analyze the data and generate actionable insights on their competitors and their eCommerce channel. With these insights, brands can understand the marketplace better, improve their strategy and increase their sales.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. 1) Market fund.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. the Untouched Vertical. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.” Stanford List of Venture Capital and Private Equity Sources.

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory. Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories.

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