Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

GrabCAD today announced their acquisition by Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS). He had a clear vision of what he hoped to achieve with GrabCAD… to make collaborative CAD design easier in our connected world, where CAD engineers and product designers are more distributed. million CAD engineers and product designers using GrabCAD.

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Boston Acquisition Estonia Viral 154

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

GM’s acquisition of Cruise Automation for $1 billion about 3 months ago has been a sort of Sputnik moment for self-driving cars. And obviously we talked about how the GM acquisition of Cruise was this Sputnik moment. It isn’t because of lack of interest or investment in vehicle autonomy.

Virginia 100

Virginia Acquisition California Global 100

Agile VC

JUNE 24, 2013

I started jotting this down about a month ago but Google’s acquisition of Waze was a good prompt to finish off this post. With chips running large parts of cars came basic diagnostic tools like the “check engine” light to OBD ports.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

2) Design ethic vs engineers - Over the course of the last 5-10 years, many software-based startups are being built on competitive advantages of design and business model rather than technical differentiation.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185