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The Uber that Never Was

This is going to be BIG.

Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. Does any fund that invested in Uber fear not being able to raise their next fund because their underlying companies might not perform well around these other criteria?

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Document onboarding startup Flatfile nabs $50M from investors, including Workday

TechCrunch

” Flatfile competes with incumbents like Textract, Amazon’s service that can automatically extract text and data from scanned documents, and Microsoft’s data onboarding tool Form Recognizer. “This investment will be used to expand and support Flatfile’s fastest growing segment: global enterprise companies.

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Trends in the Post-Modern Data Stack

Tomasz Tunguz

In the last 10 years, investments in big data have become increasingly expensive & focused on very large data volumes. We use vectors to find similar documents & images & content to help AI answer questions better or generate inspiring images. Here are some of the themes & predictions from the group.

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AI-powered supply chain startup Pando lands $30M investment

TechCrunch

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs.

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Putting Data in a Corner: LLMs and Financial Services Data

Andreessen Horowitz

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

Look at Docusign, as one shining example — a company many folks thought would be a $1-2B outcome for a feature (e-signatures) transformed into a $10B+ document management platform. Here’s why: 1/ Pro-sumer Trend Has Legs In Enterprise: The freemium pricing model ushered in a new wave of business applications and services.

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The Importance of Due Diligence when Investing in Startups

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It is important to consider doing something similar if you are thinking about investing in a startup. Before committing to an investment, it is important to understand what you are buying and what you are getting into. On the angel investing platform, this component is called Broker Review. What is due diligence?