YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2015

SaaS, the cloud and data analytics have ensured that the intuitive, user-friendly and savvy solutions that VSBs need are finally available. With many venture backed companies successfully targeting s the VSB market, we are sure to see many more companies launch and grow to address this underserved corner of the economy.

Utah 100

Utah Cofounder Small Business B2B 100

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Yesterday I wrote that there are clouds on the horizon in the world of startup finance, but it was unclear whether valuations will continue to drop, level off, or even go back up. Today the new data from PWC shows that investment dropped sharply in Q4 but is still at historically high levels.

Valuation 60

Valuation Cloud Finance Startup 60

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. It is also intriguing to see that the market bottom was reached only two years after the start of the decline for the 1929, 1973 and 2000 crises, so we might need another year before the market reaches it lowest point.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

By attending, you’ll make connections with 80+ of the world’s top social media pros (plus 2000 of your peers) and you’ll discover amazing ideas that’ll transform your social media marketing. Attend the world’s largest social media marketing conference of the year! TechCrunch Disrupt NYC. InfusionCon.

Las Vegas 165

Las Vegas North America Silicon Valley New York City 165

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Founded in 2000, Clickfox was started by Tal Cohen and Nissim Harel. Israel’s Jerusalem Venture Partners sold part of its stake in Qlik Technologies Inc. for $112 million in a transaction that returned almost 40 times the Jerusalem-based venture capital fund’s initial investment.

Stock 90

Stock Syndicate Syndication Database 90

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

Dfinity, an ambitious new protocol for blockchain based cloud computing, raised over $100M in pre-sale funding from Silicon Valley investors including a16z Crypto. The writer would have probably written a similar piece about the internet in 2000. Complete Newsletter linked here: The FPV Blockchain Weekly #28, August 31, 2018.

Silicon Valley 40

Silicon Valley Offshore Singapore India 40

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

While we are known for strengths in cybersecurity, cloud computing, military research, and advanced manufacturing, we work hard every day to keep San Antonio a vibrant and supportive city for all types of technology ventures large and small.” billion in venture capital invested in the Austin metropolitan alone.

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores.

Silicon Valley 97

Silicon Valley Cost Startup Boston 97

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Venture capital flows. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 22, 2016

I first noticed it in late 2000 when the fund I was working for was invested in one of six high profile and highly funded enterprise portal businesses. Other examples include mobile games, DVD rentals, and cloud storage. It’s likely to happen in bots and AR/VR next.

Burn Rate 60

Burn Rate IPO Valuation Mobile 60

Growthink Blog

APRIL 26, 2017

Yesterday, the NASDAQ crossed the 6,000 mark, its first breakthrough "round number" since 2000 when the widely followed technology index reached 5,000 for the first time. Now, of course it is not all clouds and rain. But this is only a small part of the story. machines and code allowing these tech.

Intellectual Property 48

Intellectual Property Social Media Cloud Technology 48

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

question in venture capital. This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. We should not let the greed emotions cloud our judgement. It is intentional.

Valuation 50

Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. 6mm in Series B; total raise of $10mm – Investor: Egan-Managed Capital, Sigma Partners – Read more: TechCrunch. Paperless billing for consumers.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great venture capital firms. But we strive and aspire to build a firm that will excel and be around for awhile.

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The European and Israeli cloud ecosystem is accelerating as never before. Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. of market capitalization. 60% of the cloud IPOs had a market cap of $5B+ vs. only 28% this year.

Global 62

Global Europe Software Review 62

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. and corporate infrastructure (Cloud storage and apps); 4) for our banking and financial systems.

Internet 295

Internet Silicon Valley United States .Net 295

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

There were many Israeli startup transactions north of $1 billion in the early 2000s. in 2000, M-Systems, inventor the disk-on-key, was acquired for $1.6 Clouds in the horizon? It wasn’t easy for me to pinpoint the first Israeli Unicorn. Lucent acquired Chromatis for $4.8b Billion by Sandisk in 2006, etc.

Venture Capital 184

Venture Capital Acquisition IPO 184

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

When we started to take stock of this progress four years ago with the first Accel Euroscape , the list of the top 100 cloud companies from Europe and Israel, we had great hopes and Europe delivered beyond our expectations. The aggregate value of the 67 public cloud companies have surpassed $1T in February 2020 to reach $1.4T

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Valuation 71

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Provigent, which was founded in 2000, raised $55 million from international and Israeli venture capital firms. It will focus on developing storage technologies and cloud computing solutions, which will be embedded in Dell products worldwide. Dell’s Israeli R&D center is the first of its kind in Israel.

Java 80

Java Database Argentina 80

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We’d like to thank KeyBank and G2 for providing some of the data used in the report - * It’s an amazing time to be a cloud entrepreneur in Europe. The European cloud ecosystem is growing much faster than anyone could have anticipated: last year, we predicted that it would take another three years for Europe to generate its first decacorn.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

As the popularity of PHP application grows on the web (with sites like Facebook and WordPress running on PHP), so grew Zend’s revenues from its web application server product line, which enables companies to run their applications on the cloud. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

Private Equity 87

Private Equity Equity PHP 87

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. Here’s why. Take a look at the chart below. Not so bad.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

“Do you know,” exclaimed an elderly venture capitalist over lunch in the Garden Court at the Palace Hotel on New Montgomery Street, “within a ten-block radius of where we are sitting is the cloud computing center of the world?” By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Breakout companies become much harder and this isn’t likely to improve unless we give new companies the tools and capital they need to flourish. Trust Between 1998–2000 the world became enamored with the “new economy” and Internet companies that were going public on NASDAQ in the United States. Regulation will come.

Government 280

Government Distribution Stock United States 280