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Snyk, from first check to leader in dev-friendly open source security

BeyondVC

We are thrilled to announce our investment in Snyk, which is a developer-first security solution that helps companies use open source code and stay secure. Our initial journey goes way back as we were investors in Guy Podjarny’s previous company, Blaze.io, which sold to Akamai in 2012.

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

This presents a big change for Microsoft , who in a different era would’ve have looked so favorably toward open source — they will sunset internal repository Codeplex in an effort to bring Microsoft tooling to a new cadre of developers. vehicle listed on January 2012 in Crunchbase.

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Announcing our investment in Cape Privacy, a privacy platform for collaborative data science and machine learning

Version One Ventures

Today, one of our newest portfolio companies, Cape Privacy , announced their seed fundraise in conjunction with the public launch of their privacy platform. The platform is flexible, adaptable, and open source. You can read more details about the launch here. Congratulations to the entire Cape Privacy team.

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The CEO’s CEO

Ben's Blog

By revolutionizing the enterprise computing market with the Application Server category, Alfred generated ferocious competition from industry behemoths: IBM, Oracle, Sun, HP, and the new, powerful open source movement. In the end, being a publicly traded company proved to be the company’s Achilles heel. The New Company.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. Today’s Normalization.

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How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm

David Teten

Contact : to existing portfolio, to internal team resources, to LPs. Bloomberg Beta open-sources their entire operating manual on Github, where their website lives. Sean Seton-Rogers, Partner, Profounders Capital, breaks the conversation into three areas: Control: voting/veto for new deals, share of management company.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. One measure of CincyTech’s overall impact is that in 2013, its portfolio companies represent 80% of total seed and early stage capital invested in Southwest Ohio. In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million.