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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

Tech.Co

Bobbie’s growth snowballed after caregivers sought new sources of baby formula during the nationwide shortage in 2022. While the company has been steadily rising through the ranks since its inception in 2018, as generative AI becomes big tech’s new gold standard, the New York-based startup has enjoyed a very triumphant 2023.

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Smart Audio – A Lucrative Platform… If You Figure Out How To Leverage It

InfoChachkie

America is smitten by smart audio / smart speakers (the terms are used interchangeably by industry analysts), making it the gift of the 2018 Holiday Season. It is expected that the majority of these 25 million smart speakers will be sold during the 2018 Holiday Season. The entire report is available HERE. What’s Next? –

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch LA

Glossier affirmed our inherent beauty, then reminded us that we can be even more beautiful if we buy their “Boy Brow” pomade, which sold one tube every 32 seconds by 2018. Glossier founder Emily Weiss speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2018 Image Credits: TechCrunch. — Sophia Amoruso (@sophiaamoruso) June 1, 2022.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

The firm even launched an accelerator for YouTube personalities in late 2018. This year, companies are expected to spend a total of $8 billion on influencer marketing campaigns, a figure that should swell to $15 billion by 2022, per data collected by Mediakix , an influencer marketing agency. invests exclusively in the space.

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Upfront Ventures Raises > $650 Million for Startups and Returns > $600 Million to LPs

Both Sides of the Table

The industry has obviously changed enormously in 2022 but in many ways it feels like a “return to normal” that we have seen many times in our industry. Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018.

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10 Business Areas Where Data Is The Key To The Future

Startup Professionals Musings

These large opportunities are why IDC says that worldwide revenues for ‘big data’ and business analytics will grow from $166 billion in 2018 to more than $260 billion in 2022, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.7%. Much change is needed here.