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Research
May 2023

Startup Funding Trends 2023: How Seed, Series A, and Series B Deals Changed After the Downturn

The mission of the V21 study is to examine early-stage financing dynamics amongst the industry’s highest quality startups. We analyze and report on the trends and characteristics of companies invested in by at least one of the 21 elite venture capital firms, the “V21."

Portfolio News
April 2023

The Vectorious Revolution: Pinecone, developer empowerment, and our AI-first future

The vector representation of data, and the types of processing it requires, is the lingua franca of AI and truly horizontal in its impact.

Perspectives
April 2023

The State of Generative AI in 2023: Text, Code, Image, Audio, and Video Use Cases

While there are still technical challenges to overcome, the future of generative AI looks promising, and it will unquestionably play an increasingly important role in our lives.

Other
April 2023

Partnering with AirOps to bring AI to work

AirOps is launching a series of AI apps that are task specific, easy to install and configure, and are scalable and available everywhere. We are proud to announce our partnership with the AirOps team and lead their $7 million seed round.

Other
April 2023

Voices of the Market: RSA Conference 2023

It is apparent, in our view, that the security ecosystem is more advanced, more prepared, and more engaged than ever before. It is not clear, however, that our collective work is sufficient to change the current trajectory of cyber attacks, which seems to be only “up and to the right”. Fundamentally new approaches may indeed be called for.

Research
April 2023

Enterprise trends from YC W23 Demo Day

Last week, the YC Winter 2023 batch presented their new businesses to an invitation-only group of investors, press, and others in the startup community. The two days included 265 startups, who were selected by YC from a pool of 20,000 applicants.

Perspectives
April 2023

The top 4 ways to hire A-players for your initial startup team

Find out why hiring top performers is crucial to the growth and success of your startup — and get some tips on how to identify and attract A-players for your team.

Perspectives
March 2023

How Userflow bootstrapped to millions of ARR with three people and PLG

Learn from Userflow’s co-founder how the user onboarding app startup beat the odds with bootstrapping and PLG — while enabling PLG for other companies.

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