Ask HN: What's still being funded?

Posted by ramesh31 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:52AM
from the ask-hn dept.

There's a lot of doom and gloom around the big tech layoffs right now. But as we saw from '01 and '08, generally the biggest new startups will come out of these times. What's the trend like in VC right now?

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Re:Ask HN: What's still being funded? by cupachabra on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:20AM (#35056281)

AI is getting funded right left and centre

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Re:Ask HN: What's still being funded? by dstala on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @11:01AM (#35056854)

Trend in ShowHN & some recent fundings are definitely towards GPT based applications.

Saw this recently - Chatbot Character.ai valued at $1bn in Andreessen-led funding round https://www.ft.com/content/b230eb4c-ed53-45ff-8b64-c286a4b98...

But I strongly feel, its GPT powered native apps that will drive the market forward. We will definitely see lot of adoptions coming forward.

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Re:Ask HN: What's still being funded? by rapjr9 on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @05:31AM (#35067344)

I would imagine anything related to US infrastructure of all kinds is going to be funded soon due to the $1 trillion infrastructure bill.

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Re:Ask HN: What's still being funded? by TechBro8615 on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @03:07PM (#35074057)

AI, Edge Compute, and open source frameworks with obvious traction

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Re:Ask HN: What's still being funded? by nikanj on Thursday March 09, 2023 @02:33AM (#35079051)

Safe bets. Experienced teams starting something in a field they know well, promising to gradually improve something and make decent returns.

Essentially the opposite of the frothy bubble startup, where Stanford dropouts with zero experience promise to completely revolutionize an industry where they've never worked.

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