By Joanna Glasner
The clustering effect is clear in this year’s vintage of seed-funded startups. A handful of categories accounted for an outsized number of investments. What were some of the standout areas? Using Crunchbase data, we scoured through hundreds of the largest seed and pre-seed rounds in 2023 to identify trends. The following is an assortment of a few that stood out, from AI assistants to clean power to esports [NinjaTech AI].