Catching Up On Readings: Y Combinator Summer 2021

This feature from TechCrunch covers the highlights of the recently held Y Combinator Summer 2021 Demo Day event where 377 startups presented their pitches. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Europe FinTech Unicorns 2021

This feature from CrunchBase News analyzes the trends in venture funding for European FinTech startups which made up a third of the unicorns this year. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: IaaS Public Cloud Market

This report from Gartner analyzes the IaaS market, which grew 40.7% in 2020 to $64.3 billion. Amazon retained the No. 1 position in the IaaS market in 2020, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and Huawei. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Gaming Startups

This feature from Crunchbase News analyzes the funding trends in the gaming space. Venture-backed companies in the gaming space have raised a record $5.9 billion in funding so far in 2021. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Gold-Inflation Correlation

This feature from The Wall Street Journal looks at the gold price and consumer price index trends of the past 50 years to understand if gold is a good inflation hedge. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

175th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Sridhar Iyengar, Elemental Machines

Sridhar Iyengar is CEO at Elemental Machines. We observed the movement of system administrators becoming DevOps engineers. Sridhar is leading an effort of moving lab administrators becoming LabOps engineers with the help of cutting-edge technology like IoT.

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Catching Up On Readings: Future of Mobile Wallets

This feature from Nasdaq looks at how the rise of mobile wallet and digital banking apps have taken over the analog wallet. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: FinTech Q2’21

This report from CBInsights analyzes the trends of funding, deals, and exits in the FinTech sector in the second quarter of this year. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.