📶 more self-pay healthcare = more unhappy Americans

VCs keep backing healthcare companies that consumers don't want, hardware companies make up the bulk of climate fundings, and Glean announces a monster round

September 11, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

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HEADLINES
More healthcare, more problems 👎

  • VCs Pour More Money Into Self-Pay Healthcare — Consumers Aren’t Celebrating (Crunchbase)

  • Hardware companies dominate a list of promising climate tech startups (TechCrunch)

  • Alpha Partners raises $153M third fund for pro-rata investments (TechCrunch)

  • Glean Announces Over $260 Million Series E and Next-Generation Prompting as it Brings Work AI to the Enterprise (Business Wire)

  • Global Venture Capital Outlook: The Latest Trends (Bain)

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RESULTS

Here are the results from our poll question in yesterday’s piece:

Was product-led growth a zero interest rate phenomenon?

 

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 No - all software adoption starts with the product (10)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yes - selling enterprise is too complex and requires more touchpoints with people (10)

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ Too early to tell (9)

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