Infographic: Collaborative Economy Startups Proliferating

This inforgraphic is part of my ongoing coverage of the collaborative economy (see all posts), which is the next phase of the social business. What’s that? We’ve published a seminal report on what it means for corporations including video, slides and additional resources.  Altimeter’s segmented 200 sharing startups to find out why and how these disruptive startups are spreading across many verticals, here’s some of the key findings:

• Excessive influx of startups in every industry. One of the findings is that there is a cambrian explosion of startups, caused by a few reasons: 1) Low cost to create startups in today’s software as a service and open source technology startup market 2) Influx of VC funding 3) A strong desire to solve the needs of sharing goods and services among people. Of course, this comes with a downside, as I see 5-15 startups in nearly every category, for examples a variation of car share ownership, shared car usage, shared car services and more being offered.
• Some startups seek to partner or disrupt corporations. There’s a handful of disruptive startups to corporations that are emerging, that I wanted to point out, in particular: Yerdle, which is founded by former Walmart executives, is designed to allow neighborhoods to share and gift products rather than buy them. Relayride which has partnered with big players like GM and OnStar for distribution and access to vehicles with OnStar technology, and soon to emerge Feastly, which will enable pro-sumer chefs to enable their home kitchens to invite guests over to eat disrupting restaurants.
• Expect many to die out but VCs will fund accelerators who will likely succeed. So what does it mean? It means this large flood of startups means a hype market, and most will not stand the test of time. However those that receive rapid market adoption will be hunted by VCs for cash injection to further dominate their markets. I interviewed many of the startups for this research, and must aren’t ready to partner with corporations, they intend to disrupt, in order to raise their profile, funding, and value. Expect corporations to be disrupted before they adopt, just like in most technology markets.

Infographic: Collaborative Economy Startups Proliferating
Below, enjoy this infographic that summarizes just 200 of the thousands of sharing startups like AirBnb, Lyft, and a host of others, this data was taken from a list I compiled with the help of a Taskrabbit on this post here.  We’ve segmented the startups by funding, use case, business model, and integration with social networking features.