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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . That sets corporate venture funds up well to transfer knowledge to their parent companies.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Blockdaemon on their seed round led by Comcast Ventures and Wallaroo Labs on its seed led by RRE Ventures.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

Understanding the left-side of the mission model canvas ( activities, resources , partners , and costs) forces all teams to ask, “Are we building a product for a DOD/IC customer only or do we have a “dual-use” product that could be sold commercially and get funded by venture capital?”. This post is a continuation of the series.

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Breyer Capital Austin?—?End of Year Update

Austin Startup

ai , a Breyer Capital early-stage investment, list on the New York Stock Exchange. We also have several stealth startups that sit at the intersection of AI and healthcare. Silicon Valley will continue to play a central role in Breyer Capital’s investment thesis. Breyer Capital Austin?—?End

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. 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. Is anyone doing this? Cyber Security.

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Why it’s Critical That you Reference Check Your VC

Both Sides of the Table

I often tell people that raising venture capital is more difficult than getting married. Not so in venture capital. I list all of the companies (except one in stealth) on my blog and this includes both VC investments and angel ones. You’re tied at the hip to your VC. I’m the same. I play open book.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - We spoke briefly about why.

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