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The Fastest Growing Sectors of Startup Fundraising in 2020

Tom Tunguz

From time to time, I chart the fastest growing categories of startup investment in the US for seed through Series C. Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19. Life insurance and emergency medicine certainly fit the COVID-19 narrative.

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How to Reinvent a Category that’s Already Been Won with Braze Co-Founder Mark Ghermezian (Pod 550 + Video)

SaaStr

Category creation involves dreaming up a new suite of products that can sell via traditional channels or methods. Mark Ghermezian, the co-founder of Braze, takes us through his journey of reinventing a category and building Braze from an idea into a dominant player in the mobile lifecycle marketing space. Listen to your customers.

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The Web3 Marketing Stack: The Next Big Wave in Crypto

Tom Tunguz

Existing marketing technology won’t work for web3. Some will build this in-house, but over time, it will emerge as a separate category. For web3 startups to thrive, their marketing teams will need to spend marketing dollars to acquire users efficiently. There’s no bridge between web2 & web3 data, yet.

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How Are Consumers Using Generative AI?

Andreessen Horowitz

In which categories do incumbents dominate—and where are new companies breaking out? Thus, this ranking serves as a tool to identify and understand category trends, and not as an exhaustive ranking of all consumer AI platforms. Alongside ChatGPT, this category includes Google’s Bard and Quora’s Poe, all ranked in the top 5.

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Intercom named a Strong Performer in Forrester’s 2022 Conversation Automation Solutions New Wave™

Intercom, Inc.

Forrester New Wave reports are guides to emerging technology spaces or solutions, in which they compare the vendors and evaluate them on certain transparent criteria. This New Wave explores emerging technologies in the Conversation Automation space.

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Which Categories of Seed Startups are Thriving? Which Aren't?

Tom Tunguz

AI or Machine Learning is a new technology that will benefit nearly every type of sector and we’re still in the very earliest innings. Blockchain is clearly the category with the steepest slope. Software - up more than 3x, Software is a perennial category. Analytics - surprisingly, this category has seen its zenith.

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Modern Infrastructure Companies in the Cloud: Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Database Company from Scratch with Neo4j’s CEO Emil Eifrem

SaaStr

There’s no longer a whole market churning through this tidal wave of partially-baked technologies that are looking for some semblance of competitive advantage. However, these developments have also set the stage for a world in which any company, of any size, can potentially access any kind of technology.

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