View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. Influencers today are leveraging social commerce to sell various print-on-demand products like apparel, mugs, and small accessories. DC: Short-term: Do-it-yourself (DIY) social media influencers in the United States with 100K+ followers.

DC 156

DC Cambodia eCommerce Social Media 156

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 3) Raise capital. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Let’s not even get started with “on-demand” or “subscription e-commerce.” Vertical integration of different funding risks. I also believe that the ebb and flow of the venture investment cycle has been exacerbated by the recent vertical integration of early, growth, and even late stage venture funds.

Harvest 60

Harvest Vertical IPO Early Stage 60

Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

At NextView Ventures, we have a number of companies in our portfolio which are “marketplace” businesses, where buyers and sellers meet to exchange a good or service. One way to jump-start a marketplace with sellers is to attract them to a platform with carrots other than buyer demand. Piggyback off an existing marketplace.

Engineer 201

Engineer Vertical Portfolio Seed Stage 201

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 9% (1 / 12).

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well. 20% initial ownership.

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. Managed marketplaces , robotics , and on -demand delivery networks are changing how we experience the simple pleasure of eating a meal. It’s a question every VC asks themselves and the entrepreneurs they invest in.

Seed Stage 273

Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder B2B 273

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

A few days ago, Bessemer West Coast SaaS Practice - David Cowan , Byron Deeter and myself, hosted a CFO Dinner for our SaaS portfolio at John Bentleys in Redwood City. Fifteen CFOs participated - about half of them from Bessemer portfolio SaaS companies (Cornerstone On Demand, Intacct. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare?

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2000, they included tentage into their portfolio and since then they have established themself as a premium brand in marriage event management. Most of their business growth was vertical by focusing on food, tentage, and decoration for marrying couples and their families.

Pakistan 62

Pakistan Sales Cycle Marketing Technical Review 62

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

If I can build a partner program using software with a thousand different partners, with a thousand different tactics, I, I have inherently a, a diversified portfolio. Bob Glazer (07:19): I, I, I think it's, every business needs to add the sort of activity to their portfolio. There's a lot more demand than supply right now.

Marketing 99

Marketing Affiliate Channel Seattle 99

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Potential competitors: Gilt Groupe , ShoeDazzle.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2017

The cars on the road may be familiar to him, but now, he can also magically hail a car on-demand or pay ludicrously low prices to get from place to place by sharing rides with one or two other passengers. Mobile computing means that he has the world’s information and entertainment at his literal fingertips. Source: Google Finance).

Denmark 244

Denmark Vertical eCommerce Internet 244

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The report also includes a landscape of vertical and horizontal AI companies. Vertical AI is a stronghold. Vertical AI attracts the largest share of private funding (50% of total funding in 2023, reaching $6.6 At Remagine Ventures, about half of our portfolio companies are building in the vertical and horizontal AI categories.

Israel 97

Israel Vertical Artificial Inteligence Generative AI 97

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I validated this in my conversations with companies with more market reach than us, that had tried similar products (ppv video platform), but pulled the plug because they didn’t see the demand for it. Company: Home Portfolio. Video producers are afraid of charging for content, because they don’t think people will pay.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Version One Ventures

JULY 6, 2016

Here’s a quick recap of some of this quarter’s news clippings for V1 and our portfolio companies. Portfolio companies in the news. Businesses using Shippo in San Francisco, NYC, and Chicago now can offer local customers on-demand delivery via UberRUSH. Data analysis for large verticals. Funding announcements.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Syndicate Syndication Seattle 104

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Once you have hundreds of thousands of users on the supply side and the demand side, then everything works great. Offer portfolios  Many different people like to showcase their work online. Now there are free portfolio tools for almost every type of individual. Focus on a vertical  You started with anything?

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

As a vertically integrated company, oWOW cuts costs which are then passed on in the form of lower rental prices to tenants. The housing crisis has resulted from an inability to meet this demand, leading to higher rental prices across the board. This luxury-style product is delivered to market at an affordable price.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Oakland Developer California 113

Version One Ventures

JULY 18, 2024

1) Vertical integration We used to say that we’d invest in companies that touch hardware as long as the main value driver was in the software or the data collected. Instead, we think about where value is being created, captured, and accrued… and sometimes, this means that vertical integration is the way to go.

Vertical 77

Vertical Business Model IP Portfolio 77

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Before, I was part of a portfolio, so an allocator who buys stuff and sells stuff, but I never ran anything. The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. They could do whatever they wanted and let a thousand flowers bloom.

Iran 41

Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 41

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The first challenge for any marketplace is to solve the initial chicken and egg problem of supply and demand. This is why it was so great to hear from Indiegogo co-founder Slava Rubin on how Indiegogo grew by 1) expanding into different verticals and 2) expanding into different products. Expand into different verticals.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Vertical Equity Cofounder 60

BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

That being said, most of the fund’s portfolio companies (90%+) are not using a.Net platform. On the enterprise side, the only reason I would support having a company move off an existing platform to.Net is if there was significant customer demand for it and if Microsoft would really provide the company with access to its channel.

.Net 78

.Net Java Limited Partner Venture Capital 78

The Equity Kicker

JULY 13, 2016

So, as Benedict says: Someone needs to do the [online] demand generation – to tell you there’s something you might want. Examples from our portfolio include Thread.com , Patch , and Snaptrip. Vertically integrated single brand retailers who build an audience loyal to their small range of products.

Curation 60

Curation Product eCommerce Vertical 60

BeyondVC

MARCH 19, 2007

Sure, they didn’t tell us much in the public sessions as sometimes you can come away with the impression that Microsoft is doing everything and the only opportunities for startups are niche verticals built on Microsoft’s platform. For a large company, one year has made a huge difference.

Acquisition 78

Acquisition Cloud Mobile Vertical 78

VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Adding Convergin products to Oracle Communications portfolio is expected to enable customers with next-generation solutions to address network migration to an all IP core at significantly lower integration and hardware costs. Formerly known as PhoneDo Networks, Convergin was founded in 2000.

Israel 68

Israel IP Analytics Portfolio 68

BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

That being said, most of the fund’s portfolio companies (90%+) are not using a.Net platform. On the enterprise side, the only reason I would support having a company move off an existing platform to.Net is if there was significant customer demand for it and if Microsoft would really provide the company with access to its channel.

.Net 60

.Net Java Limited Partner Venture Capital 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. Our top goal is to break into new markets and add new products to our portfolio.

Baltimore 62

Baltimore Africa South Africa Michigan 62

BeyondVC

MARCH 19, 2007

Sure, they didn’t tell us much in the public sessions as sometimes you can come away with the impression that Microsoft is doing everything and the only opportunities for startups are niche verticals built on Microsoft’s platform. For a large company, one year has made a huge difference.

Acquisition 60

Acquisition Cloud Mobile Vertical 60

Ben's Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Depending on your goals, new products can deepen the wallet share of your existing customers by focusing on new users or new use cases, or they can expand your TAM by targeting new customers, new geographies, or new verticals. We follow a decision tree when counseling portfolio companies on ascertaining new customers’ willingness to pay.

Product 67

Product Metrics Generative AI Software 67

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). As a side note: many companies in our portfolio at Hustle Fund, regardless of what they’re building, have pre-sold their products before building anything. Marketing first.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). As a side note: many companies in our portfolio at Hustle Fund, regardless of what they’re building, have pre-sold their products before building anything. Marketing first.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Unlike in the Cold War, advancements in areas with important national security implications come from private sector research labs and are driven by consumer demand rather than government directives. From artificial intelligence to biotechnology, U.S. national security is inexorably and increasingly intertwined with commercial technology.

Artificial Inteligence 333

Artificial Inteligence Security Taiwan United States 333

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. INVESTMENT ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED ON THE ISRAEL-MENA AXIS. Abu Dhabi Virtual 2020 : Cooperation between The Nest – ???? ?????? ?????? & Apply here.

Israel 60

Israel UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

The ride experience is better in an UberX than a taxi, uberX is cheaper than a taxi, and on demand mobile booking, payments, etc make it way more convenient. Our consumer portfolio has largely been focused around convenience. I think this will prove true of many on-demand economy companies, unfortunately. Uber is the trifecta.

Disintermediation 28

Disintermediation Distribution Demand Flash 28

Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

We realized that the cost of manufacturing of trailers needed to come down and as a result we’ve decided to vertically integrate the manufacturing and building of STERLINGS trailers in Mexico. That’s why we are currently in a very exclusive beta testing phase while I continue to develop both membership and portfolio features.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Technical Review Harvest Portfolio 102

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 19, 2024

What to Expect: AI agents managing financial portfolios, purchasing goods, and negotiating contracts in real-time. Vertical-specific agents (e.g., In addition to cybersecurity , defence tech will see huge surge in demand. Embedded into eCommerce, customer support, and enterprise workflows. real estate, finance, healthcare).

Media 88

Media Generative AI ChatGPT Vertical 88

VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

One of our strategic investors is using HourOne.ai (disclosure: a Remagine Ventures portfolio compan y) to create synthetic video news around sports. Harnessing Specialised Magazines for Vertical LLM Development Everyone knows that in AI, garbage in (when it comes to data training) means garbage out. But is the opposite true as well?

Generative AI 142

Generative AI Media Artificial Inteligence Vertical 142