Tag: Market Analysis
Facebook’s $5.7 billion bet on Indian giant Jio spells trouble for Amazon and Flipkart
Facebook’s major bet on Jio Platforms could create a headache for mobile payments services that have amassed tens of millions of users while struggling to find a business model in the world’s second-largest internet market. The $5.7 billion investment, Facebook’s second-largest to date, could also further its dominance in India…
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Cowboy VC’s Aileen Lee: Your coronavirus scenario planning should be more conservative
The tech industry (and the world at large) is not experiencing temporary anxiety — the uncertainty we’re all coping with is the new normal. Sudden shifts in behavior have made some startups targeting slow-moving, old-school industries more relevant than they could have imagined, such as those in telehealth, distance learning…
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Will China’s coronavirus-related trends shape the future for American VCs?
Rocio Wu Contributor Rocio Wu is a second-year MBA candidate at Harvard Business School and a venture capitalist. For the past month, VC investment pace seems to have slacked off in the U.S., but deal activities in China are picking up following a slowdown prompted by the COVID-19 outbreak. According…
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Top investors predict what’s ahead for Boston’s VC scene in Q1
Before the COVID-19 pandemic shook up the world and reshaped the economy, Boston was quietly setting records. According to new venture data compiled by TechCrunch, the region set what was at least a local maximum in venture capital raised in the space of a single quarter in Q1 2020. But…
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Punitive liquidation preferences return to VC — don’t do it
Emergency bridge convertible notes create severe disincentives for new investors Pascal Levensohn 7 hours Pascal Levensohn Contributor Pascal Levensohn is a San Francisco-based venture capitalist with over 22 years of VC experience through Levensohn Venture Partners and Dolby Family Ventures. He is a former director of the National Venture Capital…
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Amid unicorn layoffs, Boston startups reflect on the future
As domestic and global economies grapple with the COVID-19 era, its impact on startups is coming into focus: All will be impacted, many will suffer and some will close. Boston, a city that TechCrunch keeps tabs on, has seen a number of well-known startups struggle in recent weeks. Their misfortunes…
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