Startups Weekly: What the E-Trade deal says about Robinhood

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How well do Robinhood’s financials stack up from incumbent brokerages? While we wait for its seven-year-old firm ’s long-planned IPO, Alex Wilhelm analyzed Morgan Stanley’so big $13 billion purchase E-Trade for fresh data comparison points. Robinhood has 10 million accounts twice what E-Trade has but additionally, it appears to make much less money each consumer and has much fewer assets under management, as he covered for Extra Crunch. Consequently while its fee-free strategy has destroyed an integral revenue stream for opponents, it has to grow its own “order-flow” business to its private-market valuation.

1 solution is to make the platform stickier through capabilities that are societal. On the identical day because the E-Trade bargain announcement, Robinhood established a Profiles attribute to encourage consumers to share stock tips. Josh Constine explored the supplying and where it is headed on TechCrunch, finishing this “Profiles and lists, and then eventually more social features, could get Robinhood’so customers trading longer so that there ’s order flow to sell and more reason to allow them to buy subscriptions. ”

Alex also took a look at a new report on fintech funding, which found last year proved to be a peak complete — however skewed towards later-stage companies. The wealth management segment is looking older.

But the category is enormous. What are fintech investors searching for? Take a look at our favorite investor survey on this topic in November.

Your startup can utilize TikTok for growth
You understand that TikTok is the point where the kids are nowadays, but maybe… how do I say… it is not the social networking platform. So Geneviève Patterson along with Hannah Donovan, founders of TikTok-oriented movie editing program TRASH, have printed a two-part guide to assist you figure out it.

The very first part, freely available on TechCrunch, walks through how to increase your authority rank in the TikTok algorithm, its own inspection procedure, and pointers for creating your own content. The next element, for Extra Crunch subscribers, goes deep on just how TikTok decides whose content becomes showcased more (and less).

Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace: that the proptech sector is sexy despite WeWork

“Our analysis is any technology that may be tactical to the real estate business,” the victorious investor advised Connie Loizos within an lengthy interview for Extra Crunch this week. While WeWork may have gloomy some investor interest, plenty of models are functioning great across segments — so he and his partners are raising more funds. One of the industries, maybe surprisingly, is in buildings. As Wallace details, public large-investor stress anxiety stress and new metro demands have eliminated any choice that the business has in the subject:

Make no mistake; we’re front-and-center to what’s happening in the real estate business and the collision with technologies, and this is actually the single-most-important thing that has happened to the real estate industry in the past five decades. The real estate sector is going to need to move carbon-neutral and that’s brand-new.

Is this business also your focus? Be sure to take a look at our survey of investors in construction robotics from last week to learn a number of the latest opportunities, plus our overview survey of real estate and secure tech investors from November.

The future of manufacturing and warehouse robotics

Ahead of our big robotics seminar at UC Berkeley in early March, we’ve been producing an entire series of surveys on robotics verticals. This week, our resident financial analyst Arman Tabatabai teamed up with all our hardware editor turned conference organizer, Brian Heater, to perform a collection of interviews with VCs that are focused on mill and production robotics. Investors include:

Rohit Sharma, True Ventures
Ajay Agarwal, Bain Capital Ventures
Rick Prostko, Comcast Ventures
Fatima Husain, Comcast Ventures
Shahin Farshchi, Lux Capital
Cyril Ebersweiler, SOSV & HAX
Kelly Coyne, Grit Ventures