CP makes these startups / companies obsolete

• Anything ad based (FB, GOOGL, TWTR) will vanish.
• Markets that match __ with __ (Lyft, AirB&B, EBAY, stock markets, anything “Uber for __”) must change to mostly offering Certins, or vanish.
• Bureaucracies, lawyers, and especially politicians, will vanish.

• Crowd sourcing & funding
  • Grammarly raises $110 million for a better spell check funds better grammer, gramar, grammar

  • CrowdJustice, the crowdfunding platform for public interest litigation, raises $2M and heads to U.S. fund legal cases

  • FanDuel investor Pentech raises new £88M fund for more early-stage startups funds ideas

  • How Instacart Uses Data to Craft A Bespoke Comp Strategy figures out compensation packages

• Analytics & research
  • Heap raises $27M to ‘make data useful for everyone’
  • Market research tech startup Attest raises $3.1M
  • Lucid raises $60M as it plans to dominate market research

  • Upbeat gets $1.5M to create a data science-driven alternative to PR agencies

• Fragmented markets / ads

  • Algolia raises $53 million for its search engine API

  • Riley raises $3.1M to help real estate agents rate and respond to their leads matches agents with customers
  • Flexible retail startup Bulletin raises $2.2M matches cubes with cube dwellers
  • Blockchain consortium R3 raises $107 million shifts trust issues to wallet, but starting to let people sell them value
  • SnapDeal Raises $12 Million matches retail with customers
  • Guesty raises $3M to be a Salesforce for property managers matches vacation property with vacationers
  • LoveCrafts, a social network and marketplace for makers, raises $33M matches crafts and people
  • MakeSpace raises $30 million to store your belongings matches matches junk with extra space
  • KelDoc Raises $1.4 Million For Its Doctor Appointment Service, Belgium’s Doctoranytime raises €1M matches doctors and patients
  • MasterClass raises $35 million for celebrity taught classes matches celebrities with people
  • Baidu raises a $3 billion fund matches people and info
  • Airbnb Raises $1 Billion matches people and places to sleep
  • Baker raises $3.5 million to become a ‘Salesforce for pot’
  • Zenrez raises another $6 million to take on ClassPass matches fitness classes with people
  • Pypestream raises $15M for its customer messaging platform matching business with customers, texting, payments
  • WorkJam raises $12 million to communicate with hourly workers texting
  • Groupon Raises, Like, A Billion Dollars matching business with customers
  • EquipmentShare, the Airbnb of construction, raises $26 million matches heavy equipment with users

  • People.ai raises $7M to automate sales ops for the enterprise matches customer and products

  • Concord wants to become the Google Docs of contracts raises 3.7 million Contracts make matches official

I can go on for days. I hope you get the point 🙂

Can’t resist — $64 million! Clutter: Transforming How We Manage Our Belongings. We’re excited to announce a $64 million Series C Good for them!! But seriously…

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