The Latest from Anna Heim
Read the room
Let's look into cybersecurity sales, developer content marketing, and fundraising pitches through a common lens: The importance of understanding your audience and putting it first.
Everything you need to know about cloud outage insurance
The usual corollary of risk is insurance against it; but when it comes to cloud downtime, the insurance sector hasn't fully caught up yet.
Enterprise companies and generative AI: Just looking?
A look at what generative AI means for enterprise buyers; as well as some notes on why your company may want to be like Figma, and how the investing side of the market is adjusting to down rounds.
The venture market may be correcting more than we think to pre-COVID times
Ever since the tech downturn began affecting startups, a question kept coming up: What if we are witnessing a correction?
Selling insurance is hard, but that’s not bad news for insurtechs
How is the economy affecting insurance purchase decisions? Will this make B2B companies more appealing to VCs than their B2C peers?
What if Scandinavian startups don’t need Y Combinator?
If you add up the fact that rival accelerators 500 Startups and Techstars have given up on their Stockholm programs, a pattern starts to emerge.
Everything you need to know about parametric insurance
Insurtech companies can leverage data in this way to make the process more efficient for both the insurer and the insured.
Our favorite startups from YC’s Winter 2023 Demo Day — Part 2
Over 20,000 applications flew into Y Combinator, which ended up plucking out 282 startups for its latest batch. Now we’re getting our first look at them through Demo Day. The first day’s demos inc
Our favorite startups from YC’s Winter 2023 Demo Day — Part 1
Here’s a crazy statistic: More than half of the companies in Y Combinator’s latest cohort were accepted to the accelerator with only an idea, no minimum viable product or revenue strategy needed.
As YC launches new batch, here’s how the early-stage venture market is faring today
Let’s talk median fundraising round sizes and deal values for seed through Series C in the first quarter of 2023.
There’s trouble in Startup Nation
For Israeli entrepreneurs, the prospect of rising pressure on the country's credit rating made banking diversification a more pressing issue.
The lowdown for European startups looking to raise money in 2023
We’re looking at Europe's Q1 2023 venture capital tallies and considering the three largest venture markets in the region: the U.K., Germany and France.
A look at Sweden’s startup scene as Techstars drops Stockholm program
Techstars’ decided to end its Swedish accelerator program. Let's dig into the country’s startup scene to understand how the smaller venture market is adapting to a changed investing climate.
6 VCs explain why embedded insurance isn’t the only hot opportunity in insurtech
According to David Wechsler, a principal at OMERS Ventures, “having an embedded strategy is not required for venture funding.”
Ticketmaster sucks. Can blockchain be the cure?
Is there still hope for concertgoers?
Today’s cost-conscious business climate could give RPA a boost
One way to make your staffing cheaper is to reduce it. Another is to make it more productive. That's where robotic process automation comes in.
Even the hottest startup categories are not immune from the venture slowdown
How are API-first startups faring in the face of private-market headwinds and some market pessimism about the health of many startups far from their exit point?
Founders, don’t put all your cash in one basket
Whether you are an individual or a company, it makes sense to have more than one bank. Yet, many startups don't.
Will software for CFOs create a bright spot in a battered fintech market?
The CFO stack has some investors quite excited, but the data so far describes a trend that may not be in these companies' favor.
Product-led growth is propelling a wave of sales tools startups
It’s tempting to call the new generation of sales tools “PLG CRMs,” but, it turns out, they don’t quite fit that description.