What our Trends analysts got right (and wrong) in 2020.

Here are some popular (but poorly executed) apps: Acute Art, TalkingParents, Draw My Story.

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Danish startup Seaborg just raised $24m to create a safer nuclear power option.

Cue Health and Everlywell are eyeing billion-dollar valuations for their at-home diagnostic solutions.

Stripe is eyeing a $100B valuation with its new funding round. Even without it, the fintech firm has seen the biggest valuation step-up in 2020.

This maker of sweat proof jewelry went from $3k of online sales in January to $94k in October.

Y Combinator’s top 10 most valuable companies are worth a combined $150B+.

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RVShare just raised $100m+, becoming the latest RV startup to ride a trend turbocharged by the pandemic.

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New business applications in America are surging. Will the trend last?

It’s not just about toilet paper and WFH essentials.

Despite the tough business of on-demand laundry, Mr. Jeff aims to take its competitors to the cleaners after bagging a $12m funding round.

Life insurance startup, Ethos, just raised $35m in Series B funding from the likes of Jay-Z.

Flutterwave extends its latest Series A, bringing the payment solutions startup to $20m in funds raised, but it comes with the news of its famous CEO’s departure.

A North Carolina startup called Tresata with a nebulous product joined the unicorn club after raising its first round of $50m.

How we went from idea to physical product to launch in three months with no prior experience, and how you can do it too.

Maren Kate Donovan, founder and former CEO of Zirtual, explains how her company's burn rate went through the roof -- and why she couldn't save it.

In this week’s edition, CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Brian Scudamore explains how, after losing $40m in 14 months, the hardest decision he ever had to make was the one that saved his company.

This week’s edition tells the story of Jason Goldberg, who raised $336m for his e-commerce company, Fab.com, only to watch it all crumble away in 3 years.

This week’s edition is with Payal Kadakia, founder and exec chairman of ClassPass, a fitness subscription service valued at more than $500m

Last week Flexport raised a $110m Series C, placing its pre-money valuation at a whopping $800m. This is not a company that makes photo sharing apps or design-porn hardware: it is a customs brokerage and freight forwarding service. (Jesus, just reading that can put you to sleep). And its success is indicative of a larger […]

According to a recent lawsuit filed by a former SKULLY employee, the whole thing was a sham, and the Weller brothers used corporate accounts as their “personal piggy banks.”