Harvey Hit $5B on Vertical AI—Creative Niches Are Next
Vertical AI hit $5B in legal. The $115B market is expanding at 24.5% CAGR—but creative micro-cultures remain underserved by generic tools.
B2B SaaS
B2B SaaS highlights the tools running the modern economy — from compliance automation to workflow optimization. These opportunities reveal where software quietly transforms business infrastructure behind the scenes.
The Missing Infrastructure Behind Twitch's $345B Ambient Content Gap
Live streaming hits $345B by 2030, but no turnkey platform exists for 24/7 AI-generated worlds—leaving a B2B infrastructure gap wide open.
The $203B Supplement Industry Needs a Stripe for Evidence
The NIH has the data. NatMed Pro serves clinicians. Nobody's built the developer-friendly API for consumer wellness apps drowning in supplement chaos.
Blackbird's $50M Raise Exposes $200K Neighborhood Loyalty Gap
While Blackbird scales restaurant loyalty nationally, hyperlocal coalition programs capturing cross-merchant neighborhood data represent an untapped $200K-per-district opportunity.
Jack Dorsey's Anti-AI Play: $20B Identity Verification Market
Jack Dorsey's funding anti-AI platforms while identity verification hits $20B. The infrastructure for human-only spaces is missing its consumer layer.
Acoustic Disease Detection: $13.7B Livestock Monitoring Market
Acoustic sensors detect livestock respiratory disease 72 hours before symptoms, at 40x lower cost than smart collars—riding precision farming's shift from hardware to intelligence.
Threads Opens Podcast API: The $2.6B Ad Revenue Infrastructure Play
Meta's Threads courts podcasters while Spotify opens comments—but nobody's unifying the fragmented conversation layer across platforms worth $8B in annual ad spend.
Pinterest-Style Commerce for the $18.5B Affiliate Market
Pinterest trained 522M users to shop by aesthetic, but creators can't monetize this behavior outside walled gardens. The embed economy awaits.
VRChat Mobile Launch: Build $12K Touch Worlds for Brands
VRChat's mobile launch opened mass distribution. Studios still design for headsets. Brands need phone-first worlds—nobody's shipping them yet.
Build 'Lore for Crypto' After $1.1M Fandom Search Funding
Lore's $1.1M validates context infrastructure for obsession economies. Crypto analysts manually stitch narratives for hours. Build the canonical layer.
Lu do Magalu's $2.5M Stack: Brand Talent Infrastructure
Brands spent $24B on influencers with zero IP ownership. Virtual talent infrastructure unlocks the $111B market nobody's productizing.
Discord's $2B Blind Spot: 1B Users, Zero Access
Discord locked paid subscriptions to U.S. only. Telegram's 1B global users need payment optimization. The infrastructure exists. The gap is execution.
Build the StockX for $43B Restaurant Equipment Market
Restaurant liquidations hit record highs while secondhand equipment trades like a 1970s flea market. The pricing chaos creates a massive arbitrage opportunity.
CivicVend OS: $50B Opioid Settlement Compliance Layer
Chicago's public health vending pilot revealed a massive tracking gap across thousands of machines dispensing Narcan, period products, and books nationwide.
GSA's $40B SmartPay Program Needs SaaS Compliance Layer ($16M ARR)
Federal micro-purchase threshold jumps 50% to $15K, expanding quick-buy software territory while compliance friction blocks $200M+ in trapped government SaaS spending.
Vimeo's Enterprise Pivot Opens $26B Video Attribution Market
Vimeo's semantic search breakthrough transforms dead video archives into queryable databases, but nobody's building the revenue attribution layer enterprises desperately need.
Developer Buying Intelligence Platform ($300K MRR in 12 Months)
Onfire proved developer forum monitoring drives $50M in deals. The real opportunity: unifying scattered signals into one revenue timing engine.
Hunt Brothers' 10,000 Stores Signal $335B C-Store Food Revolution
Convenience stores generate 39.6% of gross margins from food, yet most operate on paper playbooks while chains deploy AI-driven kitchen intelligence at scale.
YouTube's $100K+ CTV Creator Compliance Gap
YouTube's living room takeover and creator reinstatement program converge to create unprecedented demand for brand-safe content verification services.
OnlyFans' $5.8B Creator Payouts: The SFW Compliance Play
OnlyFans legitimized business education for creators. Payment processors and ESPs still ban adult content. Build the compliance rails for safe-for-work revenue.