Home fitness and games as gathering places are a few of the startup verticals propelled by unprecedented shifts in behavior due to shelter-in-place orders. We surveyed the top investors in consumer and social apps to learn about 2020’s startup trends, the M&A climate, the threat of incumbents copying new entrants, underserved demographics and which features are poised to be unbundled from the biggest apps.
The Extra Crunch survey series assembles the best minds in different verticals, drawing on investors who’ve backed or worked at the companies defining their industry. For this survey, we asked how COVID-19 was affecting their investment strategies and the operations of their portfolio companies. We also dug into whether founders are more or less hopeful about being acquired, which startup ideas they wish they were being pitched and what age groups or cultures deserve new social products. Subscribe to Extra Crunch to read the full answers to our questionnaire from funds like General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Sweet Capital. Here are the 17 leading social network VCs who participated in our survey:- Olivia Moore, CRV
- Justine Moore, CRV
- Connie Chan, Andreessen Horowitz
- Alexis Ohanian, Initialized Capital
- Niko Bonatsos, General Catalyst
- Josh Coyne, Kleiner Perkins
- Wayne Hu, Signal Fire
- Alexia Bonatsos, Dream Machine
- Josh Elman, Angel Investor
- Aydin Senkut, Felicis Ventures
- James Currier, NFX
- Pippa Lamb, Sweet Capital
- Christian Dorffer, Sweet Capital
- Jim Scheinman, Maven Ventures
- Eva Casanova, Day One Ventures
- Masha Drokova, Day One Ventures
- Dan Ciporin, Canaan