VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

On the infrastructure side, Epic owns ‘Unreal Engine’ the second most popular 3D graphic engine, and creator of MetaHumans, a digital twin rendering software that can be used to create hyper realistic characters to ‘populate’ the Metaverse. The largest and most popular 3D engine has big plans for the Metaverse.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

None of that can compare with being the CEO of a startup facing a rapidly diminishing bank account, your best engineer quitting, working until 10pm and rushing to the airport and catching a redeye for a “ Hail Mary ” close of a customer, with your board demanding you do it faster. People skills. People skills. Fund raising skills.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 With a portfolio of at least 20 investments, or you are at risk of the adverse selection problem.)

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Version One Ventures

MAY 29, 2014

Women are underrepresented as engineers, management, investors, and founders. Business Insider recently crunched the numbers behind 26 of the top venture capital funds in Silicon Valley and learned that the percentage of female-founded startups in their portfolios ranged from a high of 19% to a low of just 4%.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Replay , a browser that records all of the context that deve lopers and engineers need to fix bugs faster, launched out of beta and announced a $5.6M At the same time, Shippo was honoured on the Cloud 100 list for the very first time. . and new investors too. TechCrunch covered this lates t funding news. .

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

The engineers can produce various models in a matter of seconds. We will see an increase in cloud platforms and a reduction in the cost of sensors. Simply research the company with its portfolio. Simply because the consumers love it. Suppose you want to design a room. People can get directions from the camera phone in real-time.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days. And search engines like sourcing.io help you build a specific list based on skills you’re seeking. Now your mom has the same smartphone as her Facebook engineer daughter and the tech readers are increasingly judgmental, ready to snark on newness.

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Austin Startup

MAY 2, 2017

I take great pride when my portfolio companies break technology barriers and launch products and/or partnerships that truly move the needle for customers. I met the founders, Subbu Rama , Mazhar Memon , and Maciej Bajkowski in the spring of 2015 during the Techstars Cloud program. In the end, IMPACT is what matters.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Outreach made the 2023 Cloud 100 list , honoring the top 100 biggest private cloud companies in the world. Gencove announced Explorer analysis cloud, a transformative approach to genomic data analytics and management. The company raised a $7.5m seed round. You can read our announcement , as well as a detailed look in Bloomberg.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Use cloud-based call center software for customer satisfaction. While cloud based call center software does offer the ability for a caller to be engaged with a customer service agent over voice channels, many call center software solutions offer other options for customer interactions with your business as well.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. Three revolutionaries will replace the current IT dictators: Cloud , Mobile and Social. On-premise Cloud. The king is dead, long live the king.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Pantheon is one of the Silent Killers in our portfolio – and I’m immensely proud of the progress they are making and excited about their future. “Duh, websites are developed, launched, and run in the cloud” will be common knowledge soon enough. The biggest ideas are usually the simple ones.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 20, 2019

Amazon Web Services, used by many tech startups and larger companies for their cloud infrastructures, announced the expansion of its Blockchain as a Service offering. ” On the crypto side, Binance resumed trading services after its $40M hack. ” On the crypto side, Binance resumed trading services after its $40M hack.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Belmont Technologies – CAD in the Cloud (backed by Northbridge and NEA). Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). GrabCAD – 3D Community and Collaboration (NextView Portfolio Company). Raizlabs – Mobile Development.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Confused by cloud computing price comparisons? Confused by cloud computing price comparisons? 44 engineering management lessons – crowdspring.co/1x7TVkf. 7 Rules of Perfect Portfolio Websites – crowdspring.co/YTR0jA. React – crowdspring.co/1yHa1WB. In-Residence – crowdspring.co/Zmo0kD. 1pttocg.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. produced this analysis of engineering representation within VC firms: Selected VCs with Highest Representation of Developers in Workforce. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. VC Firm. $

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Under Nadella, Microsoft has already open-sourced PowerShell, Visual Studio Code, and MSFT Edge JavaScript engine, among others.]. Microsoft will offer its tools in the GitHub marketplace and integrate GitHub’s enterprise services (such mapping developer attribution to LinkedIn or with Azure for cloud services) with its own sales channels.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Rather than depending just on SEO, marketers will need to optimize picture sitemaps and employ descriptive filenames for photos that are identified by search engines. 28- QR codes, online ordering, cloud kitchens, delivery robots and drones, and automated inventory software management. Thanks to David Wurst, Webcitz ! #4-

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

With COVID raging at the beginning and end of the year, it is all the more amazing what our portfolio companies have accomplished the last twelve months. 2021 Recap. Sending and from the boldstart team at the end of a challenging 2021. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m. Ernest Addison , Associate and formerly at Audax group.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. Three revolutionaries will replace the current IT dictators: Cloud , Mobile and Social. The king is dead, long live the king. So what will become of IT?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! . #4- I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. I will keep up my current marketing efforts and have definitely learned to diversify in everything, not just my financial portfolio! . and many others.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! #4- I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. I will keep up my current marketing efforts and have definitely learned to diversify in everything, not just my financial portfolio! and many others.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2021

The advancements in infrastructure, including the launch of 5G networks , new Nvidia chips with nearly 100% increase in GPU power, Lidar sensors embedded in consumer smartphones, to cloud gaming becoming widely available with offerings from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. From avatar technology, to game engines. 2) VR adoption.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

There are strong tailwinds on the renewable energy front as Max discussed this summer: the cost of solar is falling off a cliff; storage and EVs are falling down similar cost curves; we’re seeing innovation in financial engineering and the rise of smart grids and smart homes, etc. New Electricity Providers.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Engineering Serendipity Making real connections starts with having the right people in the room. He does this all round for the Capital Factory portfolio but this week he’ll be in high gear making hundreds of introductions and arranging hundreds of in-person meetings at Capital Factory. Serendipity is what SXSW is all about.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

An irrepressible leader, Alfred was soon promoted to run all of engineering. The transition from today’s web back-end architectures to tomorrow’s cloud computing will result in profound benefits. Over time, every existing application will be rewritten to take advantage of the cloud and these benefits.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 24, 2021

The answer is the cloud. As cloud computing and applications have become more prevalent in every size and type of company, configuring these applications remains a pain point that business operations and IT departments know all too well. You might well ask: why is this more of a problem today than it was a few years ago? Enter Salto.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Visual Semantics Visual Semantics builds cloud-based software to stream ‘predictive intelligence’ to AR/VR hardware and software applications primary for real time threat analysis. To Apply: Email jobs@Thrillbox.com and reference the Capital Factory intern program.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. I don’t consider myself one?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Last week our portfolio company, JumpCloud - who is deep in the DevOps market with their automated cloud server management product – hosted the first annual DevOps conference here in Boulder. It was a huge success – we had over 200 people show up and engage in a full day of deep discussions on DevOps.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Chicago’s startup engine roars | Chicago Tribune - crowdspring.co/16aYZLL. Why Crowdsourcing is the Next Cloud Computing | Wired - crowdspring.co/GZtngc. Design Tips for Building an Exquisite Portfolio - crowdspring.co/1gqnM0o. The New Science of Who Sits Where at Work | WSJ - crowdspring.co/1gq3TGK.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The event will culminate in Demo Day, which is tomorrow, and will see Seedcamp showcase its portfolio startups to a wide variety of professional investors and press. Promising men to let them ‘shop like men’, BRANDiD employs its Masculine Algorithmic Learning Engine (M.A.L.E.) Home on Demand ( HomeOnDemand.co.uk ).

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: internet , Portfolio. Cloud Computing. (1). Portfolio. (3). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. Monday, February 12, 2007. Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 8:53 PM. internet.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2021

ZPEG Engine - ZPEG.com San Antonio’s Grain4Grain has turned brewer’s spent grains into nutritious and protein-rich flour. Virtual Reality for Seniors | MyndVR Austin-based ZPEG developed an upgraded compression algorithm for streaming videos based on an advanced human visual model that reduces streaming costs for 4K streams by 30%.

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