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How Last Year’s Picks for The Information 50 Have Fared

By Akash Pasricha · Oct 24, 2024 10:00am PDT
Last year’s entries in The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups have been masterful fundraisers, even as global venture funding has slipped in 2024 compared with last year. At least 21 of the companies our reporters selected a year ago have raised additional funding since then. At least 10 have either raised more than $100... Last year’s entries in The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups have been...
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Introducing The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups for 2024

By Scott Thurm · Oct 24, 2024 6:00am PDT · 4 comments
Artificial intelligence has accomplished many things, but few are as dramatic as the way it has supercharged investing in startups. Just look at the recent headlines: OpenAI raised $6 billion at a valuation of $157 billion. Anthropic is looking to raise funding at a valuation of $40 billion. That posed challenges for our reporters seeking... Artificial intelligence has accomplished many things, but few are as dramatic as the way it has...
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What to Know About The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups

By Scott Thurm · Oct 17, 2023 6:00am PDT
It’s been a particularly tough year for startups. Venture funding is on pace for the lowest annual total since 2019, according to the PitchBook-National Venture Capital Association Venture Monitor. Silicon Valley Bank, an important cog in the startup finance machine, failed in March. One-time high-fliers such as Jasper AI, Hopin and... It’s been a particularly tough year for startups. Venture funding is on pace for the lowest...
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What We Got Right—and Wrong—About Last Year’s The Information 50 List
By Amir Efrati · Oct 27, 2022 12:54pm PDT
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What We Got Right—and Wrong—About Last Year’s The Information 50 List

By Amir Efrati · Oct 27, 2022 12:54pm PDT
A year ago, our second annual list of the most promising startups in tech highlighted 50 companies to watch based on their financial and other metrics. Since then, the downturn in startup funding and valuations amid higher interest rates and slowing economic activity has humbled many of the founders—but not all. Turing, the top-ranked... A year ago, our second annual list of the most promising startups in tech highlighted 50...
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What We Learned From The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups

By Amir Efrati · Oct 25, 2022 6:50am PDT · 15 comments
After splurging in 2020 and 2021, investors this year turned less generous toward startups. But that didn’t slow the pipeline of promising companies that could become the next ByteDance, Stripe or Databricks. The third edition of The Information’s 50 most promising startups looked for the next big winners in artificial intelligence... After splurging in 2020 and 2021, investors this year turned less generous toward startups. But...
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What We Got Right and Wrong on Last Year’s The Information 50 List

By Amir Efrati · Nov 11, 2021 10:59am PST
A year ago, our inaugural list of the most promising startups in tech highlighted 50 companies to watch based on their financial and other metrics. A majority of them had breakout, banner years. Others, not so much. The biggest winners from our list included bill payment firm Melio Payments, whose valuation rose by roughly six times to $4... A year ago, our inaugural list of the most promising startups in tech highlighted 50 companies to...
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What We Learned From The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups of 2021

By Amir Efrati · Nov 10, 2021 6:00am PST · 1 comment
Spotting an under-the-radar startup that could be the next Shopify, Coinbase or Snowflake has never been more difficult: A company doesn’t need to show much business progress to earn a billion-dollar valuation, or higher, from investors these days. That means finding up-and-coming startups below that threshold has never been more valuable... Spotting an under-the-radar startup that could be the next Shopify, Coinbase or Snowflake has...
What We Learned From The Information’s List of the 50 Most Promising Startups
By Amir Efrati · Dec 2, 2020 7:01am PST · 5 comments
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What We Learned From The Information’s List of the 50 Most Promising Startups

By Amir Efrati · Dec 2, 2020 7:01am PST · 5 comments
If you’ve wondered what startups could become the Google, Microsoft or Salesforce of the 2020s or ’30s, see our inaugural list of the 50 most promising tech startups that probably aren’t yet on your radar screen. We included previously unreported financial data about the vast majority of them, which range from consumer apps and... If you’ve wondered what startups could become the Google, Microsoft or Salesforce of the...