Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products. What else do we know?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

Keep this in the back of your mind as you think about the biggest transformation in enterprise tech; the re-platforming of corporate America from legacy to cloud/hybrid cloud and monolithic software apps to microservices driven development. This is a trend that kicked off over the last 2 years and will only accelerate in 2018.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. Natalie Diggins (Neustar, ex-VP Cloud Platform/DevOps), Francesca Krihely (MongoDB, Dir. While the cloud wars, AI, automation, and digital transformation dominated the enterprise headlines in 2018, we have to remember that we are still early in the cycle.

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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

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. These would have the advantage of avoiding the privacy concerns of conversational toys like Toy Talk and Mattel’s ‘ Hello BarbieTM’ , at least until voice can be processed locally rather than in the cloud. Cyber Security.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Software Review Startup 60

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. We have two kinds of users at Snyk: the open source developers, who are never going to pay but will help build the community. in just 30 months.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

A number of open source projects will become a DAOs (decentralized autonomous organization) instead of pursuing the classic venture backed model. If you’re interested in staying on top of current trends on a weekly basis, please subscribe to my substack , What’s in Enterprise IT/VC.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

What has caused this improvement in capital efficiency? Some of the big ones are open source , cloud computing and virtual office infrastructure. The virtual office tools today are so impressive that you can source talent globally and simultaneously improve productivity while cutting costs–unthinkable 10 years ago.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On the horizon there are offerings like exclusive tech and bank partnerships for educating borrowers on the credit health of their business and reducing cost of capital for SMBs, additional funding products for addressing the entire credit-risk spectrum for small businesses, and an enhanced digital-user experience. Ripple Labs. Paydiant Inc.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Look back to the reasons why there was a Cambrian explosion of seed funding in the first place – a dramatic reduction in the initial capital requirements to launch a new company because of cloud hosting infrastructure, social graph distribution platforms, open source and low-cost development tools/methods, etc.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2014

Making more people more creative is what Adobe is aiming to do with their expanded cloud offerings and new hardware --they''ve built a pen and corresponding app similar to what Fifty Three has with their Paper app and Pencil. Tools like AWS, open source and web frameworks made the barriers to producing technology applications lower.

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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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Software Review B2C Open Source 109

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

In fact, my history with Rob and Backupify goes back almost ten years, well before the idea of cloud backup was ever a glimmer in anyone''s eye. He was an interesting guy and I watched him throughout a bunch of interesting projects, like a complete open source business where all the employees got to make the decisions.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 7, 2010

Perfecto Mobile Handset Cloud service now on Sony Ericsson - According to Forrester Research, testing is the fastest growing segment of the applications outsourcing industry. Israeli start up Perfecto Mobile is well-positioned to capture the value from the growing number of applications with its Handset Cloud service for mobile app testing.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Docracy, born out of Techcrunch Disrupt's 2011 Hackathon, just brought legal negotiations into the cloud with their new Super Signing feature release. Enter open source--opening up software to the community in a transparent way that allowed crowdsourced contributions to improve it. It’s not collaboration.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Fortune 1000 companies continue their slow but steady march to the cloud unlocking significant $$$. Many are already using open source (numbers range from 70–90% in certain tech stacks) and more and more Fortune 1000s are creating new positions like Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Digital Officer, etc., data everywhere?—?can’t

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Cloud computing, open source and a global talent pool make outsourcing easier than ever before (even a few years ago). PlentyOfFish has 11 million registered users, is the #1 dating site in the UK and Canada and the #2 in the US by audience share.

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Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Cloud Computing (5). open source. 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). Mobile (3).

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores.

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Silicon Valley Cost Startup Boston 97

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money.

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Software Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Southern California 283

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. Answer: Not much. And that was evident on today’s Angel vs. VC panel.

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Liquidity Event Silicon Valley Seed Stage Finance 308

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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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 30, 2012

When I entered the VC business 10 years ago, I tried to keep thinking about venture capital as a business, where the key focus area was on meeting the needs of our target customers -- entrepreneurs and limited partner investors. requiring less capital), smart investors adjust to meet those new needs.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 2, 2009

  Finally and most importantly, the idea of less is more certainly applies to raising capital. With the rise of open source software and cloud computing, companies can now get started with less dollars and scale more cheaply and efficiently than before. 

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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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Generative AI ChatGPT Startup 89

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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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. Billion in VC funding.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

BeyondVC

MAY 12, 2006

Open source – more pragmatism coming to the market, not just a religion but needs to deliver real value. SaaS – it works, it will grow, but there are still some opportunities like no higher level platform in the cloud – for example, how do you make presence work from site to site.

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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

www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

The advent of cloud computing, open source software, platforms with APIs, and numerous other changes have lowered the cost of launching a new enterprise. Additionally, I plan to “open source” the documents so that they can be continually improved by suggestions from the community.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Prior to that, she worked in venture capital at OpenView Venture Partners. However, I needed to actually build it!

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Source code hosting for companies and open-source projects, Github is used by nearly a million people to store over two million code repositories. Founded in 2008, GitHub offers public and private source code hosting to companies and open source projects using either git or subversion. Startup #4: Github.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. The next round of funding is the one in which you might deal with actual venture capital firms.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks. (Warning – simplified examples below.).

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

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