View from Seed

MARCH 15, 2018

Often, these startups tend to fall in areas like home , food , apparel , transportation — but fitting squarely within a specific vertical isn’t a requirement. . You can look to our portfolio for some examples. Markets, though, aren’t always well defined.

Technology 120

Technology Artificial Inteligence Marketing Vertical 120

Version One Ventures

JULY 6, 2016

Here’s a quick recap of some of this quarter’s news clippings for V1 and our portfolio companies. They are all yet to be announced but include our first Fintech company, a dev tool company and knowledge management company. Portfolio companies in the news. Commoditized robots with command line in the cloud.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Syndicate Syndication Seattle 104

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few days ago, Bessemer West Coast SaaS Practice - David Cowan , Byron Deeter and myself, hosted a CFO Dinner for our SaaS portfolio at John Bentleys in Redwood City. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare?

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Excelerate Labs is a three year old, high-quality accelerator in Chicago managed by Troy Henikoff (SurePayroll) and Sam Yagan (OkCupid, SparkNotes, Match.com) as well as Sandbox Industries’ Nick Rosa and New World Ventures’ Adam Koopersmith.

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Chicago San Antonio Seattle Portland 154

Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

 We had an engaging and candid conversation, which included fielding questions from audience members including  Laurie Yoler, Managing Director of GrowthPoint Technology Partners. 42in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed; vertical-align:baseline;mso-line-break-override:none;punctuation-wrap:hanging">.42in;text-indent:-.42in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;

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Vertical Syndicate Syndication Forecast 28

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5 million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc.,

SQL 59

SQL PHP Database Open Source 59

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. This can be done in two ways: selling solutions or providing managed services. Cracking The Code. Saturday, December 02, 2006. Cracking the SMB code. Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 2:58 PM. 3 comments: D Pleasance.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Europe Software 48

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

When Accel led Melio’s series B last year, we had high expectations for the company and its vision but didn’t imagine it would become one of Israel’s cloud unicorns in such a short space of time. Managing the timing of payments is critical and can have dire consequences. just months after it came out of stealth.

B2B 62

B2B Cloud Europe 62

BeyondVC

MARCH 19, 2007

Notice the picture I link to from Paul Jozefak’s blog titled "Expanding Platform to the Cloud." " I must say that I came away quite impressed by Microsoft’s progress in its cloud and Windows Live strategy. Anyway, I am waiting for some other bloggers to summarize his discussion.

Acquisition 60

Acquisition Cloud Mobile Vertical 60

BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

The moderator asked me what types of Java companies we were interested in and my reply was that we do not look for Java companies, but rather solid management teams that are solving large problems in innovative ways. That being said, most of the fund’s portfolio companies (90%+) are not using a.Net platform.

.Net 60

.Net Java Limited Partner Venture Capital 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

Chris Samila , Partnerships Manager at Optimizely shares: “We saw building and supporting a partner ecosystem as a massive opportunity. presence in new markets and verticals. With the buyer’s journey becoming digital, partners are increasingly offering a mix of services that cross cloud platforms and apps. increased revenue.

Channel 84

Channel Partner Programming B2B 84

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. For example, in computing platforms, the mainframe was superseded by the minicomputer, which was eclipsed by the PC, which was subsumed by client-server platforms, which in many ways has been replaced by cloud and mobile computing.

Seed Stage 273

Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder B2B 273

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

Chris Samila , Partnerships Manager at Optimizely shares: “We saw building and supporting a partner ecosystem as a massive opportunity. presence in new markets and verticals. With the buyer’s journey becoming digital, partners are increasingly offering a mix of services that cross cloud platforms and apps. increased revenue.

Channel 77

Channel Partner Programming B2B 77

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. It’s a bunch of vertically integrated snowflake applications with a mouse and a keyboard and a screen.

Artificial Inteligence 396

Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO 396

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?

Cloud 200

Cloud Venture Capital Cofounder Non-Compete 200

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

According to its survey released this month, the impact investment market has reached $715 billion in 2019, with an estimate of about 1,720 organizations now involved in managing funds for those who want to make a financial return from investments that also have beneficial social or environmental outcomes. “We and big data.

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174