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Venture Capital Superheroes

David Teten

In fact, I recently had dinner with a well-known VC who said that he was surprised to see the CB Insights database includes investments his firm has made in stealth companies which haven’t even been announced yet. Fred Wilson wrote about a similar dynamic at Union Square Ventures. .

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

We maintain a database of these corporations’ priority needs — allowing us to identify early clients for companies we back. – A tool to automatically update all databases (Crunchbase, CB Insights, etc.) – A database with typical major titles/hierarchy in a tech startup, plus average compensation. .

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

VC Cafe

Affectiva ’s database of facial emotional responses is in this category, as are Pallas Ludens (end to end data annotation service), and opensensors.io (adding value to public sources of sensor data). Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. But these processors were designed for graphics.

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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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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

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. Some examples: AI will be the new mobile.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. are all precursors, rumbles before the big boom.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000. SCVNGR Uses Googles Places Database.