VC Theses #145 | Transforming Healthcare, Opportunity in US Fintech, & more
VC Theses #145 | Transforming Healthcare, Opportunity in US Fintech, & more
Sept 11th–17th | Insights from Sequoia, Jim Breyer, Battery Ventures, Vinod Khosla, and others
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Investment Themes, Theses, & Outlooks
Generative AI for Healthcare Perspective (Josephine Chen, Partner @ Sequoia)
The Opportunity for U.S. Fintech is by No Means Over. In Fact, It’s Just Beginning. (David Roos, VP @ Core Innovation)
Breyer Capital’s Healthcare AI Investment Thesis: Learnings and Predictions (Jim Breyer, GP @ Breyer Capital)
Industry Developments & Analyses
The healthcare labor shortage market map (Yuanling Yuan & Enushé Khan, SignalFire)
The Curious Case Of ESG: Societal Tool Or Corporate Distraction? (Alex Lazarow, ex-Partner @ Cathay Innovation)
How Are Consumers Using Generative AI? (Olivia Moore, Partner @ A16Z)
State of Enterprise Tech Spending (Battery Ventures Team)
The Emerging Markets $100m ARR Club - Fintech (Madhusmita Das, Sturgeon Capital)
Comply or Die: The Rise of the AI Governance Stack (Battery Ventures Team)
Guides, Case Studies, and Best Practices for Operating
A guide for finding product-market fit (Lenny Rachitsky)
The Marketing Playbook I Helped Create Doesn’t Work Anymore. Here’s the New B2B Marketing Playbook. (Jon Miller for OpenView)
Integration Strategy (Akash Bajwa, VC @ Earlybird)
Your guide to SaaS packaging 201 (Kyle Poyar, Partner @ OpenView)
Be Long-Term Greedy When it Comes to GTM (Jason Mendel & Danel Dayan, Battery Ventures)
Additional Reads
Seed Market Evolution During A Downturn (Semil Shah, GP @ Haystack)
What is at stake in this AI based techno-economic war between the West and China? (Vinod Khosla, Partner @ Khosla Ventures)
Alpaca VC’s Field Study Program: A Repeatable, Thesis-Driven Approach to Investment (Alpaca VC Team)
The Rising Generation (Kyle Harrison, GP @ Contrary)
Changing The Way VCs Generate Deal Flow (Abhishek Maran, VC @ Rampersand)
Your Next Check Matters More than Your First (David Beisel, GP @ NextView)
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