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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030.

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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

One of our strategic investors is using HourOne.ai (disclosure: a Remagine Ventures portfolio compan y) to create synthetic video news around sports. Harnessing Specialised Magazines for Vertical LLM Development Everyone knows that in AI, garbage in (when it comes to data training) means garbage out. But is the opposite true as well?

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Accel APX conference: short take aways

Cracking the Code

We were fortunate to host very talented speakers from our portfolio (Ilya Sukhar from FB/Parse, Steve Marx from Dropbox, Bill Ready from Braintree, Ali Rayl from Slack, Eric Wittman from Atlassian, Sam Mac Donnell from HotelTonight.) gathered at the event. It is not very polished but was designed for a fast read.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. The company later sold for around $300 million.

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Introducing our latest investment: Mattermark – Big Data Comes to VC

Version One Ventures

The product collects, cleans, and curates data from news sites, SEC filings, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, AngelList, CrunchBase, and more. It offers custom reports, real-time updates, specific filtering, and easy organization of start-ups based on stage, vertical, geography, and Mattermark score (a proprietary index that measures momentum).

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TECHSTARS AUSTIN KICKS OFF 2020 MENTORSHIP-DRIVEN ACCELERATOR CLASS, REVEALS 10 SELECTED STARTUPS

Austin Startup

This will be followed by an Investor Week starting March 9, where Techstars Austin will curate meetings with investors from all over the United States. Techstars provides their accelerator portfolio companies with access to financial, human and intellectual capital to fuel the success of their business.

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E-comm opportunity – Surfacing products that consumers don’t even know they want

The Equity Kicker

In this scenario the shop has generated the (foot) traffic and created a sale through curation and/or recommendation. In other words – they need to curate and/or recommend products that people don’t know, or aren’t sure, they want. Examples from our portfolio include Thread.com , Patch , and Snaptrip.