SaaS followup
Hey,
Some readers were nice enough to recommend some other SaaS resources in response to my last email so wanted to share them.
Keep 'em coming.
Now to the data including a massive Q1 for VCs. See below.
Best,
Anand
@asanwal
RESEARCH BRIEFS
Tiger Global gets busy. Quora, Eventbrite and Credit Karma are just a few of the companies Tiger Global has invested in this year. In fact, Tiger Global has participated in over 80 private company transactions since 2010 spanning India to Russia to the U.S. See financing trends for the very prolific 2014 investor.
Corporate VCs outnumber regular VCs. What? Some reports suggested that this was the case earlier this month. Actually the data looks much different.
The accidental Shark Tank effect. New York-based food delivery startup Plated appeared on Shark Tank on April 4. The company doesn't have a mobile app. Not to worry - a different Plated app saw a huge jump in the App Store ranks courtesy of the Shark Tank.
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Is Sequoia Capital's investment thesis changing?
Let's see.
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The widening Silicon Valley/SoCal financing gap. Despite growing momentum in the SoCal tech ecosystem and some notable recent exits, Q1 2014 saw the gap widen on both funding and deals between the 2 west side tech ecosystems. See how big the funding gap was.
Frothy? Q1 2014 saw venture capital financing and exit activity hit its highest levels since 2000-2001. In total, VCs deployed $9.99B across 880 deals as 35 U.S.-based VC-backed companies went public in the three-month span. See highlights from our Q1 Venture Capital Activity and Exit Report.
PREMIUM RESEARCH
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Quarterly venture capital activity and exit report. A 114-page report detailing financing and exit trends across the U.S. venture capital ecosystem in Q1 2014.
The most well-funded healthcare data analytics startups. Venture capital funding to startups providing data analytics solutions for the healthcare sector has jumped over 100% YoY.
The most active investors in the artificial intelligence ecosystem. Tech heavyweights including Google and Facebook are looking to AI to help understand and learn from the ever-increasing number of images, text, and videos circulating the web. Here's who's getting busy funding AI-related companies.
CHART OF THE DAY
Every day, we share a chart or visualization on Twitter. Here's a few of the most popular from the last week:
INSIGHTS ABOUT STARTUPS
Interesting articles by or about startups and starting up.
The secret shame of an unacquired tech worker. "It was seeming proof that even within the happy-go-lucky world of tech start-ups, there are winners and losers"
Engaging with startups. Some helpful recommendations for enterprise involvement with startups.
Third life. How Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield pulled an unlikely success from gaming failure, again.
Has it suddenly gotten harder to do venture-backed startups? Two blog posts from this week illustrate why getting VC backing is far from being a guarantee for success.
The new venture landscape. Manu Kumar of K9 Ventures writes that the funding landscape has shifted and is now even more confusing than ever.
OUR LAST TWO NEWSLETTERS
In case you missed them:
The venture capital funnel - Analyzing the natural selection process behind VC
Ed Tech VC funding hits five-year high in Q1
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