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Announcing our investment in Ada Support – the AI support platform that’s answering 2 million questions a month

Version One Ventures

As Ada Support launches its automated chat platform from stealth and announces an impressive $2.5 million seed round, we’re looking back at our journey with founders Mike Murchison and David Hariri. This was the beginning of 2016. By the summer of 2016, Volley was now Ada.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #13: To be stealthy or not?

Austin Startup

We recently invested in Osano , which is led by the very talented Arlo Gilbert and is currently in stealth mode. By contrast, MOON is going to launch soon and is not in stealth mode at all. We went with the stealth mode approach prior to our launch, as I’ll reflect on at the bottom of this lesson. I could waste no time.

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Expa Labs? ?2017 Companies

Eric Friedman

We started Expa Labs to help founders build and ship new ideas. Building off of our learnings from 2016, we expanded the program to better suit the needs of entrepreneurs. A stealth neural training company. (PS — if Competitive to one of our stealth studio companies. Earlier today we announced this at Expa.com.

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

2016 was a banner year for boldstart , and we could not have achieved any of this without the amazing support of our boldstart family and the founders who have given us the opportunity to invest in and partner with them. The post boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017 appeared first on BeyondVC. SaaS 3.0 ?—?many

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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

The eighth is currently operating in stealth mode (yes, even on demo day) but we’re digging to find out more about them. TapTo said the non-payment NFC market is set to balloon to an estimated $35B by 2016, and clearly, it wants a slice of that pie. TaxiCast by London-based BrightMove Media wants to revolutionize advertising on taxis.

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8 Big Business Tenets That Don't Work For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

An entrepreneur founder may be a technology expert, but successful ones are also good businessmen. Keep innovations in stealth mode until ready to ship. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 02/10/2016. Big companies depend on specialists and experts, while startups need more generalists.

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Thoughts from RSA and the Climate for Security Startups

BeyondVC

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers.