Deedy
@deedydas
Partner at @MenloVentures. Investor: Anthropic, OpenRouter, Modal, Wispr, Pangram, Inception, Goodfire, PrimeIntellect
prior: Glean, Google Search. Cornell CS.
Joined August 2011
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Top 20 Startups by Web Traffic founded since 2020
1. DeepSeek
2. Perplexity
3. Suno
4. Polymarket
5. Gamma
6. ElevenLabs
7. Lovable
8. Arena
9. xAI
10. Supabase
11. Manus
12. Higgsfield
13. Cursor
14. Fanvue
15. OpenRouter
16. GPTZero
17. Genspark
18. ShopMy
19. Venice
20. Whop
Some interesting observations:
— Only 25% were not AI: Polymarket, Supabase, Fanvue, ShopMy, Whop
— 20% were acquired
— Startups that didn't surprisingly didn't make the cut: Kalshi (founded 2018), Mistral (10M), OpenEvidence (11.4M), Cognition
— All but 2 are unicorns (GPTZero, Fanvue), 7 decacorns, but there's no clear correlation between traffic and valuation
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