Reviewing old seeds' financing data is like going to the past as people think about what the future will be like.
In this case, we are not going back to the past. Instead, we are watching about 10 years ago between Obama's presidency days. In the world of Startup, this was the time when Uber turned his head at a cost of 40 billion, and Alibaba was a great hit movie of the IPO Market.
It turns out that investors and founders are equally affected by their success stories. Today and 10 years ago, both of them see their effects in the field of seed financing.
Platforms of markets and users
So what did we see? In 2015, there was a great trend of financing seeds in the markets. More than 400 companies, including their cranch base profile, have the word “Market Place”, increasing the seed capital this year. Extension, consumer -facing platforms were de Rajour.
The funding pipeline has also reflected the confidence of the startup capability to disrupt the entire industries 10 years ago, as well as reorganization of our approach to daily tasks. We see this from insurance to school transportation to the delivery of cannabis, and even in areas that plan dinner.
Driving independent was another major topic. The period gave birth to a good -shaped class of companies that have mostly struggled or flopped, though the wider pressure for driverless vehicles is very alive.
A decade ago to help clarify the mentality of seed investors, we collected a list of those who received the largest seeds of the period of the period. Most of the tall long long long are the long parts of the long.
Openi is the big story of success
Back, it is evident that the story of the success of the launch companies 10 years ago is an open story.
With its addictive chattep app, with the price of $ 300 billion, and the recent announcement of the largest funding round in venture history, it is clear that the open was a company that should support every seed investor.
But at that time, of course, it was far from a brain brain. Certainly was the attention. Openi launched publicly as a co -chairman with Sam Altman and Elon Musk, along with the star roster of AI experts at the end of 2015.
However, the startup was also an unprofessional, so perhaps many people imagined the path after which it would take the path. In fact, the Openi openly discouraged such thinking, and in the announcement of its launch, claimed: “Our aim is to advance digital intelligence in a way that is most likely to benefit humanity, and the need to generate financial profits is irregular.”
Changes times.
Again and now
Given last year's seed investment trends, on the contrary, AI is certainly the dominant theme of Fund Funding. Since the Generative AI pioneers are now in the later phase, the recent seed receipts apply to AI to more specialized in areas such as biotic, robotics and enterprise software.
According to Crunchbase data, about 40 % of US seeds finances over the past one year have gone to companies in the category of AI -related industry. It has a pencil up to $ 5 billion in more than 1,300 deals.
This is a huge number, and it also indicates how over time the size of the seed financing rounds has increased. In 2015, only four seeds round millions were 25 million. Last year, that number was more than 10X. This includes nine data seeds rounds for hot startups, including Leela Sciences and the BOT company.
In the more 10 years, we will take a look and see how the scope of these large phase of the seed has performed. Given how the start -up pipeline is forming, however, if things run like investors, it is a strong opportunity to be an AI boot in which it will be analyzed.
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