US Startups
topic on 3 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
the Neon Show 
A Product Market Fit Show 
the a16z Podcast
6 statements about US Startups, every show
Ravikumar: Indian founders arriving in the US are more fully formed
“I think there's just something about founders when they're building in India today, they just have this, like, scrappiness, and by the time they come to the U.S., they feel a little bit more formed than a lot of the very raw companies you even see in the U.S.”
Sharma: Strict HIPAA Regulations Will Hinder US Healthcare AI Startups
“Furthermore, this is one place where there is Difficult regulation called HIPAA in the US that will prevent US startups being able to do well.”
Walker: US startup fundraising expanded for three consecutive quarters by Q2 2024
“It's now been three quarters in a row where we've had an expansion and just total fundraising.”
Walker: Median US Series A is $10M raised at $50M post-money
“So the median cash the Series A round is a ten million bucks for our US startups. And then the median valuation pre-money is 40 or 41. So post money, that's a fifty million dollar valuation for Series A.”
Abhishek Rungta invested in roughly 70 US startups in 18 months.
“I kind of invested almost like 70 odd companies in a very short period of one and a half year from them. Some of them would direct some of them through other leads.”
European Startups Adapt Better to City Expansion Than US Firms
“Look at the marketplace businesses, it's actually no longer about countries. It's cities, right? Which cities work and which cities don't work. And, you know, Istanbul is many thousands of miles away from here. And there's an entrepreneur probably go London, I…”