Farewell 2024. Hello 2025.

This Year’s Most-Read Insights.

This time of year offers an opportunity to reflect on the lessons, challenges, and accomplishments we've experienced over the past year, while setting our sights on what we hope to achieve in 2025.

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In this edition, we highlight our most-read articles of the year, exploring the cutting-edge technologies shaping our world and how they might evolve over the next year.

Let’s take a closer look at the latest technology trends.

The Creator Economy

In October, we published our fourth and annual creator economy report in collaboration with Linktree, Mighty Networks, Everbloom, and KLIQ—painting a vision of how the creator economy started, how it is evolving, and where it goes from here.

As we head into a new year, creators have three priorities for 2025: Adopting AI, building a community with their fans, and diversifying revenue streams.

What you will learn from this edition:

1. How the creator economy has progressed over the last twelve months.

2. The 180+ startups building platforms to support creators.

3. Where the creator economy goes from here.

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50 Creators To Watch 2025

Alongside our annual creator report, we also highlighted 50 creators—ones we’ve been watching closely and ones recommended to us by creator economy operators—who are pushing the boundaries and leading the evolution of the sector.

What you will learn from this edition:

1. The 50 creators to watch across various industries.

2. Why creators are launching their own businesses and diversifying revenue streams.

3. Why the category may double in size by 2027.

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AI

AI has received a huge amount of attention this year, and we expect it to gain even more next year. Over the past several months, we’ve published a number of go-to resources designed to help you become smarter, including

• The Future Beyond Customer Support

• The LegalTech AI Landscape

• AI Tools For Sales Teams

• Generative AI Landscape 2024

• AI Agents Landscape 2024

• The Workplace: AI Tools

• 2,000+ AI Investors

Discover our AI archive in full.

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Founder Factories: Palantir

We recently launched a new series called Founder Factories which explores the technology powerhouses, the visionary founders they cultivate, and the groundbreaking startups they build—past and present. To launch the series, we shared the latest 170+ startups founded by former Palantir operators.

What you will learn from this edition:

1. 59% of the founders have an engineering background.

2. Stanford University was the top university attended by founders.

3. 94% of the startups listed raise beyond their Pre-Seed round.

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The Ageing Population

By 2030, for the first time in U.S. history, people aged 65 and over will outnumber those under 18.

With people living longer, birth rates declining, and couples getting married later, the global population is experiencing a significant shift. The demographic of those aged 65 and over is growing rapidly, and this change is bringing both challenges and opportunities to the global economy.

What you will learn from this edition:

1. Why the ageing population is affecting society.

2. The impact on the global economy.

3. 160+ early stage AgeTech startups.

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The New Unicorns Landscape

Throughout 2024, 119 new companies reached unicorn status, highlighting a surge in innovation across sectors such as AI, FinTech, and Healthcare.

What you will learn from this edition:

1. The latest 119 unicorns.

2. Their characteristics, including where they are headquartered and the categories they are operating in.

3. The most active investors investing in companies before they reach unicorn status.

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The Ultimate Startup AI Handbook

AI is advancing at a staggering pace, bringing new founders, startups, advisors, emerging funds, and world-class talent together who are looking for new opportunities every day. Communities are also forming both locally and globally, offering us more ways to connect and collaborate.

As the landscape evolves, finding a single, comprehensive handbook made up of the most prominent networks including which investors are actively investing in AI, the most notable operators advising early and later stage startups, the communities which are moving the ecosystem forward with proactive conversations taking place, and the latest and greatest startups throughout the AI ecosystem has proven challenging—from my own experience and conversations with many of you.

So, we have created The Ultimate StartupAI Handbook for you.

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The Loneliness Landscape

Lately, more friends and peers have been openly sharing their feelings of loneliness, mentioning that they are not going out to meet friends as often as they used to since COVID. Instead, they are spending more time at home, often alone.

What you will learn from this edition:

1. How did we get here?

2. The Loneliness Landscape: 150+ startups hoping to solve the problem.

3. The impact of AI.

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The M&A Landscape: AI Startups

Throughout 2024, over 170 AI startups have been acquired. We take a closer look at who they are and who is acquiring them.

What you will learn from this edition:

1. The 170+ startups that have been acquired.

2. When startups are being acquired.

3. The most active acquirers.

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Gen Z: The Game Changers

As a 27-year-old, my friends and I frequently discuss a variety of topics, including our health, how we spend our time and money, the cost of living, the possibility of homeownership, and our career prospects. These conversations have inspired me to share a series of insights, complete with graphs and data points, on how Generation Z is influencing these areas and the potential impact it may have on future generations.

What you will learn from this edition:

1. How Generation Z is shaping future generations.

2. How Generation Z is changing education.

3. How Generation Z spends their time and money.

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