VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

The move to remote work forced quick adoption of cloud technology and tools that were once having difficulties selling to large corporates, saw explosive growth – from Zoom to Hopin, new unicorns were born in record time. billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 credit App Annie.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 10, 2022

As a result, founders are accepting increased dilution of the stakes they hold in their own companies. With over 1,000 global unicorns (and about 1.5 You can read more about it in their 2022 State of the Cloud report. They are Tripp (an VR meditation app) and Echo3D (full diclosure: a Remagine Ventures portfolio company).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

I previously covered on VC Cafe the state of ‘Creative Automation’ Cloud-based asset management, build, and release systems – Most of the 3D content used in these games/experiences is hard coded and locked. Why can’t the assets be centrally managed in the cloud? Tyler Cowen interviews Marc Andreessen on Web3.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

As Brennan and Aaron wrote in the announcement …“T his new round of funding brings us one step closer to our goal of radically scaling unified climate action across the global economy.”. We recently wrote about why we’re so excited about Bikky and Abhinav Kapur (a mission-driven founder!). . Product Updates & Partnerships.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We then help surround founders with other talent who want to join important causes but don’t have the startup idea themselves. We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Some of the readings for this class session included What The Machine Learning Value Chain Means For Geopolitics , How Artificial Intelligence Will Reshape The Global Order, An Understanding Of Ai’s Limitations Is Starting To Sink In , and The Panopticon Is Already Here. AI and The Department of Defense. Joint Common Foundation.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

A billion dollar valuation, the Unicorn status was once the holy grail for many VCs and founders. The Unicorn’s struggle is a global phenomenon There are a total of 1,224 unicorns globally, with a combined valuation of $3.7 Spotlight on Israeli unicorns in 2024 Israel is home to 131 unicorns, over 10% of the global total.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2023

At 500, I had the opportunity to work with early-stage founders from around the world and quickly realized that this was where I wanted to spend my time. HW: Your blog , which I love, tries to bridge a knowledge gap between founders and investors, often explaining ‘why investors do/care about X’ and so on.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Boston Hardware Startup Meetup – Meetup organized by the founders of BOLT.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

Moreover, the indicators that show founders are ready to take on new capital in order to progress to the next phase of company-building – be it hiring, expanding into a new market, launching a product or more – can vary from company to company. WHAT METRICS SHOULD A FOUNDER SHOW TO RAISE A SERIES A FROM A VC FIRM LIKE GREYLOCK?

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. Twilio became a popular perk for Techstars companies globally over the years and many other Techstars portfolio companies use the product extensively.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Following is a guest post by Zack Rosen , co-founder and CEO of Pantheon. 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. Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.”

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. I’ve seen people succeed as solo founders – but I think not having a co-founder makes an already hard journey that much harder. The co-founder / marriage analogy is apt.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Why Register?

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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. Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . But beyond that, not much. 9% (1 / 12). 1) Market fund. Pitchbot.vc 6) Negotiate deal.

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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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Cracking the Code

JULY 14, 2020

Yet, it was hard to imagine that a short three and half years later UiPath would become the first European Cloud Decacorn. is an incredible milestone, rewarding one of the fastest-growing cloud software companies of this generation. UiPath and Daniel Dines are the perfect example of a company founded locally but scaled globally.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

The reality today is that capital is more available than ever and entrepreneurs have become more sophisticated, so founders are looking for more than just cash from their venture backers. but globally. I’ve seen many founders not fully grasp how the venture capital business works and what incentives investors have.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We argued extensively in our book, Blitzscaling , that these strategies and tactics describe why Silicon Valley Bay Area – which has a population of less than 4 million – generates such a massively disproportionate number of global technology companies. Disclosure: * denotes a current or former Greylock portfolio company.).

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We’d like to thank KeyBank and G2 for providing some of the data used in the report - * It’s an amazing time to be a cloud entrepreneur in Europe. The European cloud ecosystem is growing much faster than anyone could have anticipated: last year, we predicted that it would take another three years for Europe to generate its first decacorn.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 21, 2021

Founded in Bucharest, and now headquartered now in New York City, UiPath rang the bell this morning at the NYSE, becoming the largest public cloud company born in Europe. Born behind the iron curtain and despite the humble beginnings of UiPath, Daniel had global ambitions from the offset. The Global Partners of Accel.

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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. Alban Denoyel , Sketchfab’s co-founder and CEO.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. was a great outcome for the company (kudos to Josh James, their visionary founder & CEO!) Cloud Computing. (1). Portfolio. (3). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. anecdotes. (13).

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Cloud Infrastructure. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. CVSDude (svn).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. We do this by combining elastic cloud computing abilities, powerful and efficient service management tools, and a wide range of enabled experiences – far exceeding video streaming. ClarityRay - Company Website.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

Demo Day last week at Microsoft Israel reflected some of the unique dynamics of corporate Accelerators- experienced founders, more funding, finished products and existing customers. Corporate accelerators are a recent phenomenon, both in Israel and globally. MetalCompass .

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

18 Startup Founders Share Their Lowest Moments Before Coming Out On Top – [link]. Global search ad spending up 17% in Q2 (but Europe only 2% growth) – [link]. 10 Great Web Designer Portfolio Websites – [link]. Cool infographic looking at global inequality using the Olympic rings – [link].

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Fun fact: it seems that I end up investing in a cloud HR company every seven years. Gloat has pioneered the Talent Marketplace to solve that, and it’s now becoming a strategic tool for global enterprises. It was about this time I met my co-founder, Amichai, at IBM. And that made the decision for me.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Geoffrey Arone , the founder of FLock, who is now an Entrepreneur-In-Residence in our Menlo Park office, mentioned this company to me and I thought it was worth writting a post about it. Cloud Computing. (1).

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

According to PWC, within the next 3-5 years, cumulative investment in FinTech globally could exceed $150 billion. The panelists are: Mr. Rafe Furst , Co-Founder Crowdfunder. Mr. Steve Hensley , Executive Vice President at KAL Software , a global software company operating at the forefront of the ATM industry. Mr. Alo Ghosh.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). Labels: Portfolio , SaaS , software. Portfolio. (3).

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. The Global Small Business Blog. what rights and preferences the founders and the other investors have. Cloud Services. Globalization. Follow us on Twitter. Emergent Research. Selling to Small Businesses.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

on a global stage) and specifically the Bay Area (within the U.S.) A successful seed investor once remarked to me that he views “the traditional seed round” today for a good or proven founder to be akin to having a “ free first move on the chess board.” I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

As you know, the Google productivity apps portfolio is getting very good traction within enterprises, and through our Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series , we've heard from various CIOs who are moving from Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange to Google's Office suite. One of the primary drivers of the switch is cost.

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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). Cracking The Code. Monday, February 12, 2007. Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. on a scale of 1-4).

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Recent guests: Heidi Roizen (Mobius), Philip Rosedale (Linden Labs) and the founders of Meebo. Cloud Computing. (1). Portfolio. (3). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. anecdotes. (13).

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