IT総合 Fintech Vint hopes to turn wine and spirits into a mainstream asset class
Do you invest in wine and spirits? Fintech startup Vint thinks everyone should, and is hoping to facilitate this. But do...
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IT総合 IT総合 Investors’ flight to safety and regulation creates tailwinds for passion assets
“Passion investments” can sound like an oxymoron: What do feelings have to do with optimal returns? Yet, fro...
IT総合 Deal-flow mavens aren’t sweating the venture slowdown
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IT総合 Solo GP Nichole Wischoff raises $20M fund backed by Peter Thiel to invest in ‘unsexy businesses’
Despite shrinking investment into startups in 2022, venture capital funds of all sizes are still being raised. However, ...
IT総合 As AI pervades biotech, what are investors looking for in 2023?
Silicon Valley law firm Cooley recently reported that it “handled 298 disclosable venture capital financings for Q...
IT総合 6 investors discuss why AI is more than just a buzzword in biotech
As ChatGPT has so aptly demonstrated, AI is now truly entering the mainstream consciousness. That’s why we weren’t very ...
IT総合 Hybrid pricing can help app developers better monetize their apps
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IT総合 Circle and Footprint’s aborted debuts are the final nail in the SPAC coffin
It would be nice to say that we’ll miss SPACs. But as blank-check companies fade from our view, we have to say we really...
IT総合 3 views: Predicting 2023’s key startup themes
A good way to be wrong is to predict the future. A good way to be incredibly and embarrassingly wrong is to predict the ...
IT総合 It’s foie gras season in unicorn land
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IT総合 On affinity-focused fintechs, the future of BNPL, and more
Of all the venture capital funding invested in 2021, around one in every five dollars went to fintech. But this boom now...
IT総合 Efficient growth? No problem, bootstrapped startups say
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IT総合 You shouldn’t skim over gross dollar retention
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IT総合 Quantifying the global e-commerce slowdown
The COVID-19 pandemic was many things. Global contagion. Health catastrophe. Herald of new geopolitical tensions and a l...
IT総合 There’s still juice in the NFT market despite very real downturn
Eight months ago, this column asked if we were entering an NFT downturn. The answer, it turns out, was a giant yes.
That...
IT総合 Freemium or free trials: Why not both?
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IT総合 As the economy shifts, what’s the best software customer?
It’s a busy time in tech, with billions of dollars of value incinerated in recent days: FTX is at death’s door, wh...
IT総合 What’s the right NDR target for SaaS startups?
Why are software companies valuable? Put another way, why have we spent so many years valuing software companies using r...
IT総合 New data shows how SaaS founders have been dealing with whiplash from public markets
What a difference a year makes. If you are looking for proof, go no further than OpenView Venture Partners’ 2022 S...
IT総合 Connecting the dots: SaaS and alts
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IT総合 Why Robinhood and Coinbase gained ground after reporting earnings
You’d be forgiven for expecting public fintech companies that facilitate consumer trading to be under pressure this week...
IT総合 Unicorns face 5-1 odds as they wait for public markets to warm
Earlier today, The Exchange dug into changing investor sentiment regarding growth and profitability. A new report lookin...
IT総合 Are investors really paying more for profits than growth today?
What’s better: growing quickly or making lots of money?
The answer, in startup terms, is both. But because there is a na...
IT総合 Should early-stage startups join in on the cloud marketplace fun?
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IT総合 Beyond cost control: Where cloud management is going next
“There’s a big wave of innovation in managing cloud costs,” Team8 co-founder and managing partner Liran Grin...
IT総合 Could machine learning refresh the cloud debate?
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IT総合 5 cloud investors illustrate the various paths ahead for startups
Cloud cost optimization startups have become ubiquitous, and they’ve found a friendly ear among enterprise clients looki...
IT総合 Will alternative investments become a staple in all investors’ portfolios?
A 60/40 investment portfolio, in which 60% is invested in stocks and 40% in bonds, was long considered classic. But that...
IT総合 Netflix results confirm we’re not in 2021 anymore
I don’t know if anyone’s really noticed, but Netflix had a pretty great third quarter, thank you very much. The st...
IT総合 Pay as you drive, or pay how you drive?
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