You can read part 1: Meet the investors. And part 2: The investors are in love with this market. Since my last analysis on July 3rd. 2014, there’s been continued funding into the Collaborative Economy market. Where the crowd gets what they need from each other. Investors are infatuated in this market as it provides new supply. Disrupts incumbents, using faster technology powered by mobile. Social, and internet of things. However, The Phoenix Business Journal did a recent write-up of my keynote at a business conference. Highlighting the market changes. In just 2.5 months there’s been even more money flooding the market. In conclusion, SMB FundingCircle raised a massive $65m round.
Followed by big rounds
To Rockettaxi to aid the disrupted incumbents, and Fiverr raised a $30m found. As they enable crowd-based tasks to be completed on a two sided marketplace. In these past two months, there’s been $241k invested into this growing market. Recent Funding in the Collaborative Economy in late 90s or social media phase. In conclusion, there’s clear revenues being generated from peer to peer commerce. Unfortunately, you Israel Email List can’t sustain this many competitors in each arena. Particularly in the transportation space. I recently told CNBC that there’s only room for three playersin each of these markets. However, “In the end, the market can’t sustain this many car-sharing or ridesharing start-ups.
Money 9/25/2014 FlightCar
$13,500,000 Transporation 9/15/2014 Sidecar $15,000,000. Transportation 9/19/2014 EatWIth $8,000,000 Food SUM $241,790,000 Analysis. The Last 9 Mos of Funding Here’s a breakdown of the 2014 Funding from Singapore Email List Jan 1st-Sept 20th: Total Funding Events: 39 Deals per month: 4.3 Average Funding Per Month $301,052,222 Average per Funding Round $69,473,590 Median $10,000,000 Average funding amount without Uber (outlier) $42,084,857 Average funding amount without Uber and Airbnb (outliers) $27,282,973 2014 Sum: $2,709,470,000 Bubble? My answer is yes and no. Therefore, First of all, unlike the first web boom I experienced.