32. Investment Trends in Deals
US Venture Capital
Investments by Stage of Development Q1 2012
(Number of Deals)
53
Seed $141 million
208
Early Stage $ 1,612 million
290
207
Expansion $1,714 million
Later Stage $2,283 million
33. Investment Trends by Industry
US Venture Capital Investments by Industry Q1 2012
Healthcare Services
Electronics/Instrumentation
Business Products and Services
Retailing/Distribution
Computers and Peripherals
Financial Services
Networking and Equipment
Telecommunications
Semiconductors
IT Services
Media and Entertainment
Consumer Products and Services
Medical Devices and Equipment
Industrial/Energy
Biotechnology
Software
0
200,000,000
400,000,000
600,000,000
800,000,000 1,000,000,000 1,200,000,000 1,400,000,000 1,600,000,000 1,800,000,000
34. Devices
Devices are the technology and tools that we all use to
connect to the internet and each other, such as mobile
phones, computers and tablet PCs.
Trends in devices are towards increased portability
and connectivity where ever you go.
38. These are some of the leading tech trends today.
Social Location – when we mash up social
networking and your location. When your mobile
device knows where you are, where your friends
are, and what they are doing.
39. Social networks have become part of the fabric
of society. As a result there are many uses and
applications that leverage the desire for social
connectivity and media and knowledge sharing
through our devices
40. Social Music Sharing
Pandora
• Create your own stations and share them with your
friends
Spotify
• Access your music collection from anywhere
• See what your friends are listening to – Facebook 2011
• Raised $100 Million in June 2011
Turntable.fm
• Friends DJ for each other
• Raised $7 Million in Sept 2011
41. Peer to Peer Knowledge Sharing
Quora
• Q&A site with peer reviewed responses
• Launched in 2010 and now has 3 million monthly uniques
• Raised $50 million in May 2012
Stack Overflow
• Community knowledge exchange for programmers
• Raised $12M Series B funding in 2011
Formspring
• Find out more about your friends by asking and responding
to interesting questions.
• Raised $11.5M in Jan 2011
42. Social Currency
Klout
• Measuring your reach on on the social graph
• Raised $8.5 million in Jan 2011 and then $30 million in Jan
2012
Kred
• Measures influence in online communities connected by
interest
• Launched in fall 2011
PayParrot
• Tweet and social reach as a form of payment using
• Allows companies to sell subscriptions based on users
tweeting
• Incubating in Start-Up Chile
43. Social Media Trends
Identity will become
embedded in your devices
Online sharing will
become embedded into
your media life
Location will become
embedded into all activities
44. With the increased usage of GPS enabled
smartphones, devices have the ability to know
your location and make recommendations of
local deals. In addition group buying and local
deals are emerging in many niche areas.
45. Group Buying
Groupon
• Deals when a group buys the commits to purchase
• $12.8 Billion Valuation
Living Social
• Deals when a group buys the commits to purchase
• Raised $176 million in 2011
TicketMonster
• Acquired by Living Social in July 2011 for $350
million
46. Local Deals
Savored
• Local restaurant deals
• Raised $3 million in 2010
Placecast
• Mobile notifications of local deals
GigWalk
• Turn phone into mobile workforce, localized information request
• Founded in August 2010, and raised $1.7 million in May 2011
47. Niche Marketplaces
Mindful Meats is an
marketplace for local grass
fed organic meats
Lulan Artisans is a marketplace for
artfully crafted and produced
products
Etsy is a very popular online
marketplace where anyone can buy
and sell all things handmade
48. With the combined functionality of
smartphones, an ecosystem of applications has
emerged, with many more possibilities ahead.
Camera
Internet
Music
Video
Applications
email
Wifi and 3G
GPS
49. Mobile Photo Apps
Color
• Photo sharing with people in proximity
• Raised $41 Million in March 2011
Sincerely
• Easily send real photos in the mail from your phone
• Raised $3 Million seed funding in Oct 2011
Instagram
• Photo sharing with filters
• Founded in 2012, Raised $57 Million in 2012
• Acquired by Facebook for $1 Billion
50. Education Apps
(solving your own problems)
Find My Car
• App to help you locate your parked car
• Developed by student in summer – in 6 months over 2Million
downloads
iStanford - Blackboard
• App with school information: maps, courses, events
• Developed by students and acquired by Blackboard for $8million
right after student graduated
Courserank
• Site to ranks your professors but with controlled access by
current students
• Developed by students and acquired by Chegg for $15million
when students graduated
51. Text Based Apps
(often targeting and emerging from developing countries)
Juntos Finanzas
• Manage spending and finances using SMS
• Text spending and receive a paper report
• Winner of Stanford BASES E-Challenge 2011
Harass Map
• Report abuse or harassment anonymously using SMS
• Gives a voice to marginalized and informs public of
dangerous areas
Patatat
• Simple group texting service allowing a group to
communicate and mobilize using text messages
52. Mobile and Smartphone Trends
NFC – Near Field
Communication, wireless
identification
3D Screens
Tactile feedback
screens
Solar Powered
smartphones
53. Cloud
Cloud computing is a model for
enabling convenient and ondemand access to a shared pool
of configurable resources
(networks, servers, applications
and services) that can be readily
and rapidly scaled and serviced.
54. Cloud Storage
Dropbox
• Access your files from any device using cloud storage
• Raised $250 Million in Oct 2011 at $4 Billion Valuation
Box.net
• Online file sharing, content management and
collaboration
• Raised $125 Million in July 2012
Bitcasa
• Provides secure, unlimited storage on any device, files
are streamed and load more quickly.
• Raised $7 million in June 2012
55. Cloud Hosting
Amazon Web Services
• Cloud hosting and storage for any site. Computing
platform in the cloud
Azure
• Create, deploy and manage web apps in the cloud
Heroku
• Application hosting platform
• Bought by Salesforce in 2011 for $212 Million
56. Gaming and Gamification
Online gaming through social networks has gained massive
traction and attracted significant capital investment.
Meanwhile the gamification of education, consumer
experiences and other new arenas are hooking users in a
new and more engaging user experience.
57. Gaming and Gamification
Zynga is a successful social gaming network.
Raised $1 billion in funding thru 6 rounds
Khan Academy provides video
education, increasing the interactiveness and
gamification of education
With Foursquare, members note their locations with
a mobile phone and receive badges for repeat
check-ins, gamifying the purchasing experience.
Raised $50 million in 2011 with over 15 million users
58. Travel
Interestingly there are a bunch of new travel sites that have
raised significant funding in the last year. These travel sites
are innovating on traditional travel, presenting data more
effectively and accessing new markets.
59. Travel Sites
Airbnb is a global network of accommodations offered by
locals. Raised $112 Million, Valued at $1 billion+
Cruisewise aggregates data from many different
cruise providers to make online cruise shopping
and booking easier.
Hipmunk is a travel booking site with improved data
visualization. Raised $5.22 million since 2010.
Ostrovok is a hotels focused online travel site for
Russian consumers. Raised $13.6 million in 2011
60. Utilizing the Crowd
There is a movement towards utilizing the the large number of
people online (the crowd) to source work, make design
decisions, raise funding and many other services.
61. Crowd-Sourcing
LoudSauce
• Crowd fund ad space for your favorite campaigns
on TV, billboards and other ad spaces
AdsByMe
• Crowdsourced company slogans and analytics of
most successful campaigns
Threadless
• T-shirt designs submitted by users, chosen by
community of users and sold online.
62. Crowd-Sourcing Contestification
Kaggle is a platform for data prediction
competitions.
Raised $11 Million in Nov 2011
Contestify is a platform for running your online
contests or sweepstakes
Innocentive is a challenge driven innovation approach that
leverages open innovation and crowdsourcing to help
organizations solve pressing challenges.
63. Crowd-funding
Kickstarter is a platform to allow anyone to
start a campaign to raise money for a project
from their community
SoMoLend is a peer lending platform, where
borrows can create profiles, and anyone can
lend money and make interest
Raised $1.7 Million in May 2012
Crowdfunder allows businesses to gather
funding from community to launch business.
Launched in Dec 2011 and Raised $400K in
Seed funding in May 2012
IndieGogo is a global crowd funding platform for
any type of campaign from creative to social
Raised $15 Million in June 2012