The startups featured today are five that I selected based on their answers about macro-economic pressures on startups, as well as factors such as funding, named customers, and the founders’ track records. I then used these to fine-tune ChatGPT’s selection skills to select the next batch (coming Tuesday). You can read more about the selection…
The five startups featured today were chosen by AI, with ChatGPT selecting these based on the startups’ answers about macro-economic pressures, their VC funding, the track record of their management team, and the growth potential of their market sector. I also used my own first five picks as models for ChatGPT to “learn” from. You…
Cognaize Year founded: 2018 Funding: $5M Market sector: Data analysis automation for financial and insurance firms What they do: Provide intelligent document processing (IDP), powered by human-in-the-loop AI, for financial and insurance firms How macro-economic turmoil is impacting their sector: “The banking space continues to consolidate, which raises the bar for all banks to be…
For Challenge #1 of the 2023 Big50 Hot Startup Competition, I asked startups to discuss macro-economic pressures, such as inflation, geopolitical uncertainty, the recent run on regional banks, and more. I selected 30 startups to feature throughout May based on their answers to two open-ended questions: 1) How is current market turmoil impacting your market…
We’re entering the challenge phase of the 2023 Big50 Hot Startup competition. Each year, the first step tends to be the hardest. That’s when I must wade through hundreds of entries, whittling them down to a manageable batch of startups that are well positioned to earn their way into the final Hot Startup Report. The…
The 2023 Big50 Hot Startup Competition is now live! Tech startups founded in 2014 or later are eligible for this year’s Big50 Startup Competition, but your organization must be an actual startup to compete. In other words, spin-outs, subsidiaries, and cool ideas with no funding and no customers. . . are not really startups, at…
The 2021 Big50 Startup Report is out! Learn about top tech startups, such as Ermetic, Model9, Spectro Cloud, and Syncari, that are reshaping fast-growth markets. This year’s Big50 Hot Startup report features 50 hot startups reshaping everything from cloud infrastructure to IoT to AI and Machine Learning. The startups featured in the report have collectively…
Nominate your startup for my Network World “Hot Startups to Watch” story! If you work for, represent, or have invested in an innovative Enterprise Storage startup, please nominate them through the link below. . . but first, be sure to read through our requirements to be sure that your startup is eligible for this Hot Startup roundup….
The final 10 slots in this year’s Big50 Startup Report are reserved for startups recommended by Startup50 readers. If you know of a hot tech startup that should receive more attention, now is the time to tell us about them. Your nomination could land an up-and-coming startup a slot in the Big50! The only requirements…
Back in August, we decided to try something different here at Startup50. We invited partners to help us create new challenges that would help startups hone the skills they’ll need to hurdle over the real-world obstacles they’ll face as they scale up. We wanted to develop the kind of challenges startups will need to ace…