Proprietary insight into private companies
Carbon Tech Industry Poised for Transformative Growth
Generative AI: Nearing the Ultimate Promise of AI
Digital Payments: Huge Untapped Market in B2B Payments
Pre and Post: IPO Returns Analysis
Initiation Report: Glean Technologies - Disrupting Enterprise Knowledge Management with AI
Initiation Report: Huntress – A Premier Go-to Cybersecurity Platform for SMBs
Initiation Report: Generate:Biomedicines – Pioneering AI-Powered Drug Discovery
Initiation Report: KoBold Metals A Leading Player at the Intersection of AI and Climate Tech
Initiation Report: Anyscale - Pioneering Scalable Deployment in Generative AI
Initiation Report: Runway - Reshaping Multimedia Production with Generative AI
Initiation Report: Relativity Space
Initiation Report: Carbon Health
Initiation Report: Aurora Solar
Initiation Report: Nuro
Initiation Report: Wiz Inc
Harvey
Harvey offers generative AI-powered solutions for the legal sector.
Cerebras Systems
A platform for fast and effortless AI training and inference.
Applied Intuition
Advanced simulation and validation tools for autonomous mobility.
Form Energy
Developing iron-air batteries, an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for grid-scale energy storage.
Glean
Transforming the legacy enterprise software market with AI-powered solutions for all internal queries.
Perplexity AI
AI-powered answer engine providing conversational search capabilities.
Monte Carlo
A data observability startup to detect and resolve data issues.
Huntress
A managed cybersecurity platform.
Generate Biomedicine
A new therapeutics company that intersection of biology, machine learning, and biological engineering.
Fundguard
FundGuard is transforming legacy operating models with a front-to-back, AI-powered, cloud-native and multi-asset class investment accounting platforms.
Coro
Simple, Powerful, Modular — Protect critical areas of your business with modules for endpoints, email, and cloud apps.
Cyera AI
Data security company specializing in data security posture management (DSPM) within the cybersecurity industry.
Together AI
Services for building, training, and running AI models, including private data and dedicated GPU clusters for large-scale training.
Pinecone
Vector database start-up, offering vector databases that act as the memory for artificial intelligence (AI) models and infrastructure components for AI-powered applications.
KoBold Metals
KoBold Metals discovers the battery minerals containing Ni, Cu, Co, and Li critical for the electric vehicle revolution.
Xpansiv
Market Infrastructure for an Evolving World
Celestial AI
Develops audacious AI computing platforms that elevate performance, energy and economic efficiencies, enabling our customers to rapidly deploy innovations
Lambda Labs
An enterprise-grade cloud GPU provider for AI development. Offers the largest cluster of NVIDIA H100 chips, exceeding Google and Oracle. It is the most cost-effective cloud GPU provider and is well-positioned to benefit from the scarcity of GPU compute. Customers include Intel, Microsoft, Amazon Research, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford, Harvard, Caltech, and the Department of Defense, among others.
Abridge
An AI-powered electronic medical record platform. Adoption by around 5,000 doctors attests to the efficacy of the platform. Physicians claiming timesaving of 12-16 hours a week, underscores the platform's credibility. Marquee investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, CVS Health Ventures, and Spark Capital, among others.
Anyscale
Offers a platform to scale compute-intensive AI & ML workloads. It holds the first-mover advantage in the Python-native distributed computing framework. Its solutions offer 23x higher throughput and a 75% reduction in cost compared to conventional solutions. Key investors include Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, and Intel Capital, among others.
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Climeworks
Climeworks is a climate technology startup, that operates the world's first and largest direct air capture and storage facility.
Beta Technologies: eVTOL & eCTOL Aircraft Manufacturer
Beta Technologies, an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) and electric conventional take-off and landing (eCTOL) aircraft manufacturer.
Runway: A Generative AI Platform
Runway, a generative AI platform focused on multimedia creation and editing, is positioned to disrupt various markets including VFX, animation, and video editing, among others.
Relativity Space: Reshaping Rocket Manufacturing with 3D Printing
Driven by exploration missions, satellite constellation deployments, and satellite and space station maintenance, space tech industry is experiencing remarkable growth.
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Groq: Delivering Ultra-low Latency AI Inference
Sudden proliferation of LLMs and the growing need for high computing power has led to a supply and demand mismatch for AI chips. Software-defined hardware approach of Groq involves building chips ground up from an end-user perspective.
Anduril: Enhancing Autonomy in Defense Tech
Well-positioned to benefit from the evolving nature of warfare, which is becoming increasingly autonomous. Ongoing geopolitical conflicts such as Russia-Ukraine, China-Taiwan, and US-China call for deeper integration of technology into defense.
Ramp: FinTech
Ramp uses automation and machine learning to help customers with expense management, payments, reporting, and more.
Aurora Solar: Cloud-based solar software solutions
Aurora Solar develops cloud-based software, that enables solar PV engineering design.
Carbon Health: Hybrid-care tech startup
Carbon Health is a modern health chain that provides urgent and primary care for easier everyday health.
Lacework: Automated cloud security
Lacework is the data-driven security platform for the cloud.
Chime: FinTech
Chime is a financial technology company that offers mobile banking services.
Brex: Spend platform
Brex is a unified spend platform for corporate cards, expense management, reimbursements, travel, business accounts, and bill pay.
OpenSea: Peer-to-peer NFT marketplace
Non-fungible token marketplace offered online allows for NFTs to be sold directly at a fixed price, or through an auction.
Nuro: Robotics company developing autonomous delivery vehicles
Robotics company developing autonomous delivery vehicles
Flexport: Supply chain management and logistics
Supply chain management and logistics, including order management, trade financing, insurance, freight forwarding, and customs brokerage.
Kong: Go-to API Management and Microservice Platform for Businesses
Founded in 2007, Kong Inc is a leading cloud-native API management platform providing an open-source API marketplace for developers and engineers.
Docker: A Pioneer in Collaborative Application Development
Founded in 2010, Docker Inc is a leading provider of cloudnative application development tools, content, and services for developers.
Bolt: Bridging Browsing-Buying Gap With One-click Checkout Technology
Founded in 2014, Bolt Financial Inc operates as a payment platform offering online checkout technology to retailers.
Venture Bytes #85 - AgTech Poised for Robust Growth
The lead articles in this edition are on the growing prominence of AgTech, fueled in large part by food insecurity caused by the Russo-Ukrainian war and supply bottlenecks. The second article looks at early stage funding activity which, according to data, remains steady, despite the growing dark clouds in the macro environment.
Venture Bytes #84 - Venture Capital Warming Up to Climate Tech
As investors warm up to climate tech, the sector is gaining momentum. Supported by the ongoing energy crisis, favorable legislation, international decarbonization push, a massive wave of technological innovations, and the subsequently surging VC interest, the climate tech space has evolved significantly. Decarbonization tech has expanded its scope to cover all sectors with a higher carbon footprint. According to a report from McKinsey, the next-generation climate technologies in areas such as carbon capture, hydrogen, power grid, agriculture, and electrification are expected to attract $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion per year by 2025. This augurs well for the sector, which is expected to become a major growth story in the coming decade.
Venture Bytes #83—Race to Beat the De-SPAC Clock Heats Up
The race to De-SPAC is on. Out of 1,304 SPACs formed since 2009, only 404 have been completed, 111 have announced a target, 31 have been liquidated and 607 are still looking for a target, per SPAC Insider. A closer examination of the recent trends reveals that of the 613 SPACs from 2021 which raised $162.5 billion in proceeds, 471 are yet to find a target. This effectively means that these companies have anywhere between 7-19 months (or more with a deadline extension) to look for worthy merger targets.
Venture Bytes #82—The IPO Market Conundrum
The US IPO market has gotten off to an unremarkable and slow start in 2022. While the adverse fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a factor in the slowdown, new listings had started to decline before the conflict. As of February 23, a day before Russia launched the military operation, merely 21 firms had crossed the IPO finish line, raising $2.3 billion to date and roughly 90% below the prior-year level. The drop can be attributed to various factors including the poor performance of a vast majority of companies that went public last year. The Renaissance IPO Index – which holds a portfolio of the largest, most liquid, newly-listed US IPOs – is down 25% so far in 2022.
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