Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2010

We’ve been having a running joke within Foundry Group for several years about “stealth mode.” My partner Seth alludes to it in his blog post a few years back titled To stealth or not to stealth. Niel wrote a brilliant post on this titled The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth. You should also.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

EnPowered Payments links business customers (such as large electricity users like manufacturing facilities, hospitals, hotels, and greenhouses) to a market of lenders. EnPowered closed their initial seed round in February 2020 and have been developing their platform in stealth mode over the past year.

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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. 6 portfolio companies raised Series A financings including Manifold , Hypr , and 4 unannounced, 1 raised a Series B (unannounced), and Security Scorecard raised a $28mm Series C.

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K9 Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

“ US Navy Sea Shadow stealth craft ” by US Navy employee – [link]. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Stealth is overrated. Today, I have seen it enough times from companies in my portfolio and others that are not in my portfolio that have utilized the “We’re in stealth mode” line.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

With COVID raging at the beginning and end of the year, it is all the more amazing what our portfolio companies have accomplished the last twelve months. We are to have partnered since day one as FortressIQ created the market for process discovery and automation and scaled to dozens of enterprise customers. 2021 Recap.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Last week, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Ten Little , came out of stealth and announced its public launch. . children’s shoes market is a $10B market, but it’s not just about shoes. To round out the founding team, Julie brings an extremely complementary experience in operations from Jet.com and eos products.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

And while these past three months have been far from typical, there was a lot of activity across our portfolio. Cape Privacy emerged from stealth and announced a $5 million seed round , which we co-led with Boldstart Ventures. Scanwell continues to work on bringing a Covid-19 antibody test to market. New Investments .

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View from Seed

JULY 11, 2019

On Tuesday, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Otis, came out of stealth and announced its public launch. The first is that I have a deep belief in the efficiency that is created when you take a large, opaque industry and inject it with software and market forces. Otis hopes to change all of these things.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. The venture capital market in this category is fairly concentrated among series A and expansion-stage funds that prefer to invest in companies with substantial revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2019

However, a diversified investment portfolio is recommended especially for new investors who want to test the waters. It also performs at its peak levels in the market even in times of political adversity or war. Here are the reasons to day trade in gold : Expect high market prices. You have to study market trends.

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View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2015

Startups and their founders who claim to be in “stealth mode” prior to launch are such a commonplace part of the startup ecosystem that it might seem odd to question its merits. But it’s important to address this head on and ask: What are the benefits of stealth mode for startups, really? . Create an Air of Mystique.

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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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SVPG

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Portfolio Thinking = Portfolio Grooming. The book shares quite a few good techniques for validating the market/demand, validating the solution, and validating the growth engine. A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. But we will undoubtedly continue to add more hardware related businesses to our portfolio.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. But we will undoubtedly continue to add more hardware related businesses to our portfolio.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

It’s a common question that every VC fields from founders — and founders field from other founders, and marketers field from founders, and PR people field from founders. And given my marketing background (Google, Dailybreak Media, HubSpot), I often get this question directly: When should startups announce seed funding? .

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Our founding team has led first rounds in market leading enterprises such as LivePerson (LPSN), GoToMeeting (sold to Citrix), Greenplum (sold to EMC), and 24/7 Media (TFSM). BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

He introduced me to Christian Gheorghe, founder of TIAN Software, a predictive analytics company acquired by OutlookSoft, where, as Chief Technology Officer, he introduced important and innovative Enterprise Performance Management applications into the market. Tags: Companies People Portfolio Companies Proferi.

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Incubators aren’t non-profits, therefore in addition to asking for a low pre-money valuation, they may structure their investment in a way that helps to ensure a higher return across their portfolio. 6) Search For the Incubator’s PR and Marketing Efforts. Other incubators may want to set up an option pool.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

Use cases for Generative AI in gaming ( click to download ) The landscape of generative AI startups in gaming is rapidly evolving The first market map of generative AI in gaming was published by the A16Z gaming fund in November and the team published an updated version today. Let’s dive in. The landscape today includes 57 startups.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). Our portfolio company BetterWorks cites a report by The World Economic Forum: “Employees are eight times more likely to be engaged when wellness is a priority in the workplace.”

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

just months after it came out of stealth. More than 40% of B2B transactions in the US, which is roughly a $25 trillion market , are still made with paper checks compared to 5-7% for consumers. Israel produced three public cloud companies - Wix, Jfrog and Varonis - representing an aggregated market cap of more than $25b, c.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. Or the founder, or the product, or the market – no metrics can measure those intangibles. Those days are over. Lessons Learned.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

I recently attended the Meta Marketing Summit in Tel Aviv, which shined a spotlight on Israeli B2C tech. So much so, that Meta recently launched a program to educate Israeli VC funds on the opportunities in the consumer market. Disclosure: a Remagine Ventures portfolio company.

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Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

2/ Expansion Of Private Markets: Now every company is a startup. 5/ Copycat Culture And Stealth Mode Back En Vogue: I’ve alluded to this above and below, but now when a category gets hot, founders and capital flood it. Every company is a tech company. Technology is spreading into every corner of the company.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then five years later computers became — they dropped half in price and then the big insurance companies could buy them, and that’s when Thomas Watson, who ran IBM at the time, was quoted as saying, “There’s only a market need in the world for five computers.”. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga. Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

They want a VC to be a company-building partner to coach them throughout all the stages of growth and an investment partner who has a deep understanding of the market opportunity they are targeting. In our experience, great entrepreneurs don’t want to be hatched, incubated, promoted or optioned.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

What if something dramatically changes in the market? I’d implemented a business plan including marketing, engagement, sales strategy and realized a few months in that it wasn’t servicing a key influence or in the sales process. Or you have a product in a patent but no [inaudible 00:04:36] bring you to market.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

This post is part of Accel’s Secrets to Scaling series, where leaders from across our portfolio share their learnings and advice with the next generation of European and Israeli entrepreneurs building global winners. You raised four rounds within 18 months, waiting until your third round before coming out of stealth mode.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Helps make marketing better. Every web analytics tool in the market measures single-session conversion rate, so if visitor, your potential customer, does not convert in that single session (i.e, An optimal inbound marketing portfolio will have balanced Owned, Paid and Earned channels.]. Yes, data is important.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Maybe they never thought about product-market fit. Your first product will likely be just a little bit ugly, and thats okay — its part of getting to market quickly and testing your idea in front of live customers. Maybe theyre trying to tackle too many problems at once. Dont underestimate the importance of Minimum Viable Design.

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