Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design. It’s really been a pleasure for me to work with these guys.

Community 100

Community Estonia Syndicate Syndication 100

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. I’m pleased to now turn to Kayak’s S-1 filing.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Agile VC

OCTOBER 3, 2016

And this entire system was engineered for human-driven vehicles. If you think about a road in the broadest sense, it’s in fact a system that encompasses the tarmac surface itself, lines or pavement markers (raised reflectors, Botts’ dots , etc.), various signs conveying context, traffic control mechanisms (stop lights, etc.),

Technical Review 186

Technical Review Software Review Business Model Developer 186

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

He had a clear vision of what he hoped to achieve with GrabCAD… to make collaborative CAD design easier in our connected world, where CAD engineers and product designers are more distributed. GrabCAD also had very high engagement in terms of the % of engineers actually sharing large, complicated CAD files in the system.

Boston 154

Boston Acquisition Estonia Viral 154

Agile VC

MAY 15, 2014

So stay tuned because in coming months we’ll be developing Growth Guides that cover a range of issues from product to sales to engineering.' We’re excited to be able to bring these Growth Guides to the seed stage ecosystem.

Seed Stage 193

Seed Stage Engineer Community Sales 193

Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

The teams out of top engineering schools like Stanford, CMU, MIT, Virginia Tech, and others that competed in the DARPA Challenges in 2004 / 2005 / 2007 now make up the backbone of the R&D teams for most of the commercial efforts in this space. So How Will We Get to Driverless Cars?

Virginia 100

Virginia Acquisition California Global 100

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The early goal isn’t to maximize near term revenue… it’ll take time to fully understand your market and establish P-M fit, let alone optimizing the sales & marketing engine. And this is not to say that there’s no place for having an unpaid product.

Revenue 234

Revenue Product B2B Marketing 234