2020 Startup Themes

This year, there will be two types of startups that get funding: 1) extremely difficult tech problems that require a lot of capital to get started and 2) one-and-done rounds. With the latter, teams will aim to raise one round, experiment with new profit-sharing, and maintain optionality to take a big swing if the company takes off.

Startup Idea: Stonx for real estate (livestream of investors call with life chat) → you can capitalize on other‘s people expertise and questions and on the pre-curation of the service. This can be made for every category that capitalizes on visual information.

Startup creation: take a human desire and remove steps to fulfill it.

Startup Idea: : boo... See more

We love AR, but new entrants need to be able to differentiate meaningfully from existing platforms who are able to simply add more AR features to an already captive audience. While the widening of access to AR technology via existing channels (e.g. extensive filters) has been helpful in driving mass market adoption and familiarization, it’s also be... See more