This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Your results, thanks to our high performance compute cloud should be available within an hour. DNAnexus ( www.dnanexus.com ) is pioneering the combination of cloud computing and whole-genome DNA sequence analysis. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

In addition, the availability of cloud and open source technologies has further reduced the cost to get a technology business started as now anyone can get computing and storage capacity in the cloud or build a LAMP stack for a few hundred dollars. This low entry barrier should accelerate the pace of innovation.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Affectiva ’s database of facial emotional responses is in this category, as are Pallas Ludens (end to end data annotation service), and opensensors.io (adding value to public sources of sensor data). Machine learning in cyber security has already attracted a substantial amount of venture capital (e.g. Is anyone doing this?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Because Gust is the word’s most comprehensive database of high-growth startup companies (in terms of size, larger than Crunchbase and AngelList combined), it is increasingly used as a source for third party listings and directories. Gust takes advantage of the cloud, and you should, too.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Notion Labs (not to be confused with Notion the venture capital fund), is one of those products. Could use more love: Not very intuitive to get started (but good help section and template list) Potential concerns about privacy (especially for cloud document management and sensitive information). How secure is it?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). 406 Ventures. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider.

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Board Effect

JUNE 10, 2019

Using Databases to Find Grants. Databases can be a good place to find individuals and groups that offer grants. There may be thousands of grantors listed and the databases can be confusing to use. It has unlimited cloud-based storage capability for listing and tracking grants for startup business opportunities.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“The Centaur is a business that reaches $100 million of annual recurring revenue (ARR)—a rare breed of cloud business, part of an elite subset of the growing unicorn herd.” The term ‘Centaur’, coined by venture capital firm Bessemer, indicates companies that achieved $100M in annual recurring revenue (ARR).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The cycle of creative destruction of the old being replaced by the new continues, fueled by angel and venture capital. CBInsights has a collection of 300+ startup failure post-mortems , and Crunchbase has a startup failure database. When you’re describing the future, most of them are remembering the past. And others exist.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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. JVP initially invested less than $10 million in Qlik in 2005.

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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. Venture capital flows. A basic driver for a private technology market bubble is the over-supply of venture capital into the sector. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

He didn’t get too complicated on the differences of multi-tenant online databases or the power of remote logins when all your data is in the cloud. It was a journalist who covered Venture Capital. Or Ronald Reagan, “are you better off than you were four years ago.” WTF does that even mean?

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Cloud Computing (5). Database (7). Adventures In Venture Capitalism. #strata2012 >> 2012/02/28 The "2 most important algorithms in predictive modeling" talk at #strataConf is just amazing know-how for the taking. cc: @jeremyphoward >> 2012/02/28. Categories. Business (60). Consulting (2). Management (7). Startups (18).

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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. WordStream solutions both create, generate, manage and analyze the performance of large keyword databases. Cloud-based systems is compatible with major existing systems. Paperless billing for consumers.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 18, 2018

In many cases the implementation will involve database changes, scheduled tasks, and cumbersome logic to tie it all together. Obviously, the emails should stop if consent is given at any point in time. What should be a simple workflow ends up creating a mess!

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 28, 2010

When I first saw the company present at SXSW in March, it was clear that this company, a spinout from SRI International , was onto realizing the promise of personalized data that works FOR individuals, ie, all of us who are creating massive databases in the cloud with each click.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Nothing is going to stop cloud.

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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.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be eating the world. Some examples: AI will be the new mobile.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

To put things in context, global venture funding in Q2 2023 reached $65 billion, an 18% decline quarter over quarter, and a 49% drop compared to the second quarter of 2022, when startup investors spent $127 billion, according to Crunchbase. I tried to consolidate my thoughts as well as other perspectives from leading venture capital funds.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Ctera – Private cloud for corporates (Raised $45M). Logz.io – Predictive ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) log analytics cloud service (Raised $8M). Redis Labs – Enterprise-grade open source NoSQL database (Raised $27M). MyHeritage – Family tree based social network (Raised $49M).

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Software Review Analytics eCommerce 60

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Provigent, which was founded in 2000, raised $55 million from international and Israeli venture capital firms. Intel-owned McAfee, one of the world’s largest security technology companies, is acquiring Sentrigo, a leading provider of database security and compliance, assessment, monitoring and intrusion prevention solutions.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The enterprise software stack is undergoing once in a generation refresh largely driven by virtualization, data explosion, infrastructure commoditization, socialization, unlimited connectivity, and online services.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

According to Israel Venture Capital (IVC), Ra’anana-based Advasense raised $31 million in 2005-07 from Giza Venture Capital , BlueRun Ventures. Zerto brings disaster recovery to the cloud – Ziv Kedem, Zerto’s CEO: “[disaster recovery] is something you only want when you really need it.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. Andyet theres a lot of money at stake.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

EMC, the US firm whose software is used by companies to analyze their databases, has paid $450m to buy Israeli start-up XtremeIO. Wanova is a developer of intelligent desktop solutions, while VMware is a developer of virtualization infrastructures for cloud computing solutions. billion in venture capital and private equity funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. Businesses will continue to realize that the Internet is one big information utility and will continue to move operations to the cloud. I’m long the cloud. We did not.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000. SCVNGR Uses Googles Places Database.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Your vision is so limited that it’s scary to see that you are actually the CEO of a successful cloud platform. The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) lorf: NET supports JAVA. Like what?!

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VC Cafe

JULY 8, 2012

[link] - job site dedicated to recruiting exceptional talent to venture capital backed companies. Crunchbase People - the crowdsourced database of startups will give you the background info for tracking companies. The interesting bit is the different levels of progress displayed for startups.

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Cofounder Founder Startup Seed Stage 149

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online. Simple editing.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Need a database/back end solution? About VC Cafe. Seed Startups.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” . and big data.

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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. So however populist the idea of cutting out people from the process may be, I strongly doubt it will replace the role of the existing venture capital ecosystem.

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