{"id":2420,"date":"2019-08-12T15:53:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T10:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2019-08-27T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T11:26:12","slug":"hot-vs-not-seed-investment-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/hot-vs-not-seed-investment-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Vs not : Seed investment trends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">You would wonder if all seed stage startups are created equal. Well they are not. Investors always found a flavor of the year in most positive investment scenarios and backed ideas that seemed right for some disruptive value with the potential of a hockey stick growth. Fintech, Blockchain, AI\/ML &#8211; you get the drift.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Tomasz Tunguz is great at analyzing the meta data around investing, saas and most things startup and his latest post on seed stage investment  in startups between the period 2010-18, is no exception : <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/C5122AQF-rxPTKTeAwA\/feedshare-shrink_800\/0?e=1570060800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=a8jnWLebGH_fzkYR0friCa45IQC072B1g-SN-z4uxKM\" alt=\"Hot Vs not : Seed investment trends \"\/><figcaption>Photo by Stephan Henning on Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>So what\u2019s hot &#8211; the known ones &#8211; Fintech, Blockchain, AI\/ML and some. Ones slowing down include Advertising, Analytics, e-commerce, Social media and video.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you read the article pay attention to the graphs on top. Thats where the trends are.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where I learnt it #224 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHICH CATEGORIES OF SEED STARTUPS ARE THRIVING? WHICH AREN&#8217;T? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tomtunguz.com\/which-categories-of-seed-startups-are-thriving-which-aren-t\/\">https:\/\/tomtunguz.com\/which-categories-of-seed-startups-are-thriving-which-aren-t\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You would wonder if all seed stage startups are created equal. Well they are not. Investors always found a flavor of the year in most positive investment scenarios and backed ideas that seemed right for some disruptive value with the potential of a hockey stick growth. Fintech, Blockchain, AI\/ML &#8211; you get the drift.<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/hot-vs-not-seed-investment-trends\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,83],"tags":[70,78,81,95,131,191],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-learnt-today","category-startup","tag-alwayslearning","tag-saas","tag-startups","tag-ai","tag-growth","tag-seed"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-D2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}