Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service companies in Europe and Israel -This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. When I moved back to Europe in 2011, I had to reduce my activity significantly in this area, as there was not enough going on.

Europe 48

Europe Artificial Inteligence Vertical 48

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2023

I expect to see many more existing companies incorporating generative AI features in their existing products and services (see Dropbox , eBay , Canva , Adobe , Salesforce etc) as well as new startups working on vertical AI solutions, industry-specific automations and tooling for deploying generative AI safely in the organisation.

Generative AI 107

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT United Kingdom 107

VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

SBA 124

SBA Technical Review Startup 124

VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

The rise of generative AI is expected to affect every vertical: health, education, fintech, gaming – creating opportunities for startups. If you’re building a category defining startup in Israel or Europe, we’d love to chat. trillion in economic value against the baseline by 2038.

Generative AI 171

Generative AI Global Venture Capital Valuation 171

Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

All of this is located exactly at the crossroads between Europe and North America. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. You really won’t find anywhere better! Tell us about something you love.

Ireland 62

Ireland Morocco North America Philippines 62

deal architect

APRIL 11, 2022

On New Florence I knew there would be plenty of energy and health related posts this year, but with the situation in E Europe and tensions in Asia, I have also accelerated some of the posts around defense technology Here.

Asia 150

Asia Europe Technology Vertical 150

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). Booking.com is the unquestioned leader in online travel in Europe, and represents a substantial portion of TPG’s astounding $35B market capitalization.

Social Network 101

Social Network Europe Technical Review Revenue 101

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

Interesting vertical farm concept coming together in an old Chicago meatpacking plant – [link]. Racism and Soccer Are in Play at a Big Event in East Europe - [link]. Why Jcpenney’s Strategy Backfired - [link]. iOS app success is a “lottery”: 60% (or more) of developers don’t break even - [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

AI Vertical SaaS – As mentioned by Index Ventures in a recent post , there’s a rise in AI native SaaS companies, building automations for specific industries. I can imagine there are opportunities here across industries/verticals. Will startups reap the fruits of this new trend, or is it the battle of giants?

Generative AI 88

Generative AI ChatGPT Startup 88

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g, Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Disrupt SF. Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. About & Staff.

Early Stage 70

Early Stage San Francisco Los Angeles Southern California 70

Hearpreneur

MAY 26, 2017

Ironhack is a school in Miami and Europe that teaches adults 21 st century digital skills. Right now, we’re focused on teaching two verticals: Web Development and User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) design. What does your business/organization do? What is the mission and vision? How is it unique? Any major accomplishments? .

Miami 48

Miami Software Review Technical Review Investment Bankers 48

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For example, in its fan study, Spotify uses a bar chart to display the percentage of weekly top songs from outside North America and Europe. If you want to show differences in proportions between groups, a horizontal or vertical bar chart is the easiest way to do it.

Audience 109

Audience Campaign North America Matching 109

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

By taking advantage of TikTok’s vertical split-screen, the ad cleverly demonstrates the before and after effects of the product to show its USP. paid media ROAS for TikTok was 14% higher compared to all digital media models, while ROAS for paid media was 64% in Europe. Shoot videos vertically in 9:16 aspect ratio.

Customer 102

Customer Viral Audience Campaign 102

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I am really looking forward to diversifying my marketing agency into new verticals. and Success, and I’m going to scale my business to where I have a team working for me across the different continents I operate in (Asia, Europe and America). Thanks to Veronica Hanson, Vacay Visionary ! #6- 6- Diversity.

Entrepreneur 66

Entrepreneur Germany Leadership Partner 66

Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And while the Soviets are fighting the Germans in massive land battles in eastern Europe, until the allies invade Western Europe in June 1944, the only way the U.S. Bear with me as this history takes you from the skies of Europe to Fred Terman.) And they got it coming and going to the target.

Silicon Valley 180

Silicon Valley Technical Review Europe Germany 180

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We’d like to thank KeyBank and G2 for providing some of the data used in the report - * It’s an amazing time to be a cloud entrepreneur in Europe. The European cloud ecosystem is growing much faster than anyone could have anticipated: last year, we predicted that it would take another three years for Europe to generate its first decacorn.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

On a rainy day in Providence we tracked Andy down just as he was leaving for a trip to Europe. We told Andy we’d talk further when he got back from Europe. The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. We’re building a supercomputer.”

North Carolina 125

North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 125

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2012

We are giving a version of our product to a team in Europe who will start selling our product internationally. ok, I know our product isn't yet verticalized. Examples from discussions I’ve had this month that might resonate with your internal debates about how to prioritize. still, we need to start now or we'll be behind.].

Bandwidth 415

Bandwidth Management Startup Channel 415

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Russia currently has the largest online market in Europe. As is the case in other countries with a relatively new, rapidly growing tech sector, e-commerce is Russia’s fastest growing vertical. Asia Entrepreneur Europe Insider' Russian tech: Sectors to watch.

Russia 140

Russia Europe Vertical Government 140

Version One Ventures

APRIL 23, 2013

Looking back, there were several factors limiting our ability to grow, including: Geographical markets: We had internationalized to five non-English speaking countries in Europe, but felt that conquering Asia was too risky an endeavor for a relatively small company (our platform revenues were in the hundreds of millions of dollars).

Vertical 130

Vertical Non-Compete Asia Europe 130

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search.

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Haystack

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

But Gade’s and Paka’s vision wasn’t simply to leverage AI for a vertical application. New laws like GDPR in Europe have introduced the concept of a “Right To Explanation” as a feature of data privacy laws. Enter, Fiddler Labs. Some states in the U.S.

Artificial Inteligence 107

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Term Sheet Cofounder 107

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.;

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

He said that Western Europe is the most behind in the world at realizing this. A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing. Cities are now becoming vertical again. A bit like Silicon Valley.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 12, 2018

2018 is the year of TechXLR8, the flagship event of London Tech Week, the largest tech festival in Europe, and backed by the mayor of London. Learn how this revolutionary technology will transform industry verticals. Internet of Things World Europe. Project Kairos, the startup program, will take centre stage. Blockchain 360.

Artificial Inteligence 81

Artificial Inteligence Europe Startup Cloud 81

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

According to a recent interview with Founding Partner Andrew Oved, Reformation invests in SaaS (vertical and application software) and consumer product businesses that have achieved $1M-$5M in annualized revenue, while operating capital efficiently. Region: Global with focus on Europe and US . 20% initial ownership.

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

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. Like Cornershop the grocery side: we thought grocery is a great vertical for us to go after, and it’s there in Latin America. and I wrote a white paper in Europe as well.

Iran 39

Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 39

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

I lived in Europe for 11 years and in Tokyo for 6 months so the idea that innovation is happening outside of our 50 states in not new to me. couponing, vertical social networks, Internet TV, etc. When I lived in Europe in the 90’s we all texted people on mobile phones. He also consults companies in Asia.

Asia 188

Asia Southern California China Japan 188

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

for startups that isn’t San Francisco or New York), Cove.tool has buildings in Canada, South America, Europe, Africa and Australia, as well as across America. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

Atlanta 64

Atlanta South America San Francisco Artificial Inteligence 64

The Equity Kicker

JUNE 1, 2015

In the UK Music and Video, Books and Electricals are all verticals with ecommerce penetration of over 40% (see here ) and the opportunity for new businesses looks like it’s largely behind us. We are investing heavily in these verticals. Self catered holidays is a good example.

Technology 60

Technology eCommerce Vertical India 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September 2017, Radiobotics recently received approval to sell its products across Europe. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

Denmark 62

Denmark Cofounder Vertical Algorithm 62

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

We created Lemonade as a purpose-built, technology-first, vertically integrated and legacy-free insurance carrier. Insurance has remained fundamentally unchanged for centuries, so an insurance product for today’s consumer required re-architecting every part of the value chain. Who can argue with that?”.

Campaign 109

Campaign Social Media Audience Channel 109

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Collectively, the team has research and work experience with numerous leading academic institutions and technology and business corporations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, including NASA, Airbus, Google, BMW, IBM, McKinsey & Co., Georgia Tech and Stanford.

San Francisco 65

San Francisco Cofounder Georgia B2B 65

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

Today is a very interesting time for the SaaS industry: Europe has shown it was capable of creating successful SaaS businesses, and it’s only the beginning. More and more champions will be built out of Europe. My SaaS focus at Accel Partners is the natural continuity of this path. What makes a good VC for a SaaS startup?

API 48

API Silicon Valley Europe Differentiation 48

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

Following the success of Ycombinator and TechStars, in recent years we have seen literally hundreds of regional incubators set up in the rest of the US and Europe , across campuses and within vertical industries, such as mobile or finance.

Incubator 97

Incubator Entrepreneur Startup Europe 97

The Equity Kicker

JULY 13, 2016

Vertically integrated single brand retailers who build an audience loyal to their small range of products. Interestingly there are fewer in the UK and Europe. This was the thing that Fab.com got very right – everybody loved receiving their Fab emails and clicked through to the site to see other cool stuff.

Curation 60

Curation Product eCommerce Vertical 60