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IPA: a Quiet $10B Market (Automation is En Fuego part 2)

Austin Startup

I’m going to talk about the market dynamics for Intelligent Process Automation, but first let’s take a moment to understand why this software is valuable for the companies that buy them. And so we’ll see RPA firms push into process context in various ways, each according to their own vision for the market.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa.

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Q2 2019 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

We also invested in Guesser whose mission is to make prediction markets more accessible to mainstream users. And last but not least, we announced our investment in Celo , an open-sourced crypto-powered global payment platform. Ada , a market leader in automated customer experience , launched Ada Glass.

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2023 Global Venture Reports were Gloomy, but there are reasons to be optimistic

VC Cafe

That’s the case for most companies that are already in the market, especially if they raised funding at imaginary valuations before. According to Industry Ventures , the secondary market reached $105 billion in 2021 and is expected to have crossed the $138 billion mark in 2023. In many ways, Edward is right.

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Entrepreneurs, not the government, will save Europe’s economy

The Next Web

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. While entrepreneurship and startups have spread tremendously in Europe, a lot of aspiring young entrepreneurs leave Europe for the United States.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

The first category includes companies that have a dominant position in their national market and are often internet or ecommerce companies. The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. Why Eastern Europe?

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4 Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). is an AI-powered log analysis platform that offers the open source ELK Stack as an enterprise-grade cloud service with machine learning technology.