Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the benefits of the cloud is that it gives development teams more agility and flexibility, but with increased flexibility comes the downside of a loss of control and visibility. That said, some large sectors like financial services and healthcare only started to migrate their core workloads and data to the cloud more recently.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. AYX NYSE) and init.ai , one an early investment in a data science platform and the other on NLP for developers. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx? 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?—?AYX

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

just months after it came out of stealth. In the past, the complexity of monolithic banking and payment infrastructure made it difficult for non-financial institutions to develop financial services. On the back of this momentum, Melio today announced a $110m funding round, rocketing the company to a valuation of $1.3b

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. What I learned from raising venture capital – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. 15 Useful Chrome Extensions For Designers And Developers – [link]. – [link].

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. The Curious AI Company , a General AI company whose first venture is waste sorting (the very definition of unsexy but lucrative), reportedly aims to sell its AI software as a toolkit. Of course there are exceptions?—?last

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? 20 Useful Tools For Designer and Developers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. What’s the secret to a great team?

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

We don’t seed companies that are developing drugs or medical devices that will require FDA approval. Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies. They can be surprisingly capital efficient.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

“Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. Kayserian sees what he calls “angel developing&# as a way for entrepreneurs to accomplish the same end — a product — without giving up control of their companies in the process. .

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

boldstart kicked off 2021 by announcing the closing of $230M of funds, $155M fund V and $75M opportunities ii, to continue supporting developer first & SaaS founders from Day 1 to scale( ). Today, we are up to announce boldstart v + opportunities ii, $230m to continue backing Developer First + SaaS founders from Day 1 to Scale.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

Fitness/life guru Tim Ferriss just posted my guest article on ff Venture Capital ‘s approach to building a fitness office. UPDATE: ff Venture Capital was recently profiled in The Roger, an online magazine that profiles creative workspaces. Thanks Tim!) Motion is better than no motion; stasis kills. We recommend fl.ux

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

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. Rumored to be appox.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. Soho OS offers a suite of freemium software packages such as Quicken for accounting, Yahoo’s Zoho for word processing and MS-office like tools and SalesForce’ s CRM. services developer Xconnect.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

This means we invest in product-driven engineering teams where all of the development is done in house and where rapid iteration is a key to success. Making sense of that data with algorithms and other software is the next wave and is reflected in investments like Coherent Path , klipfolio , security scorecard , and preact.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Before diving into the standard year-end predictions on the enterprise, I thought I would share some data on our firm and our founding teams from 2016: we welcomed 9 new enterprise founding teams to the portfolio including Workrails (started by venture partner Jeff Leventhal), BigID , Hypr , Init.ai , and 5 stealth companies.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

We’d then manually update the accounting software. But we learned so much, our engineers could develop a product that would imitate many of the things we did manually. You raised four rounds within 18 months, waiting until your third round before coming out of stealth mode. Let’s talk about your financing strategy.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

Hundreds of thousands of people worked on developing strategic weapons, bombers, our ICBM and SLBM missile programs, and the Apollo moon program. military realized that our advantage over the Soviet Union was in silicon, software and systems. During the cold war, the U.S. government kept up the pace.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Some have made the model work. It’s great advice.

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