VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. billion acquisition of Weta Digital, Peter Jackson’s VFX company, gives Unity capabilities in creating hyper realistic virtual environments using RT3D (real-time 3D) technology.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 6, 2021

I’d exchanged DMs with Waze co-founder and CEO Noam Bardin a few weeks back to ask about learnings from his last few years inside Google. Waze is the $1 billion-plus acquisition that people, well, forgot about despite its size and growth. We made acquisitions. Noam Bardin of Waze. Photo: Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

by Tej Prakash, co-founder of ShouldiSign.com. Whether the information is trade secrets, business know-how, financial data, product plans, customer acquisition strategies, the information a business possesses is what makes it valuable and unique. It’s these relationships that, more often than not, make a business successful.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

LawPivot's co-founders, Jay Mandal and Nitin Gupta, are both lawyers. Mandal was the lead of Apple's mergers and acquisitions team, and Gupta was an IP attorney at a several national firms.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The co-founders, Jay Mandal and Nitin Gupta, are both lawyers. Mandal was the lead of Apple's mergers and acquisitions team, and Gupta was an IP attorney at a several national firms. LawPivot aims to ease some of the obstacles - financial, but also logistical - that make finding a lawyer so difficult.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Interestingly enough, CooTek’s co-founder and CEO, Michael Wong , who was formerly from Microsoft’s R&D unit, took an unconventional route by launching in the Western market first. They don’t have a good IP (intellectual property) to defend their technology. billion acquisition of app store 91 Wireless is a classic example.

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