VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. Cyber Security. Machine learning in cyber security has already attracted a substantial amount of venture capital (e.g. Of course there are exceptions?—?last Is anyone doing this?

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. Because they are open source.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

Day one to scale: Huge congrats on milestone valuations realized for dev first security company Snyk ($8.6B) and fellow security startups BigID ($1.25B) and Security Scorecard (almost ), crypto infra startups Blockdaemon ($1.255B) and Fireblocks ($8B, investment via MStateLabs our enterprise blockchain lab), and YipitData (new ).

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. If you’ve begun the process of raising capital, ask the angels or venture capital partners to recommend technologists who consult on a part-time basis.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The term ‘Centaur’, coined by venture capital firm Bessemer, indicates companies that achieved $100M in annual recurring revenue (ARR). Scaling to $100 Million from Bessemer Venture Partners. But becoming a Unicorn, or receiving a billion dollar valuation is no longer an indication of growth.

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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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VC Cafe

MARCH 7, 2010

W hen sharing your life on social media becomes a bit much - an Israeli soldier revealed security sensitive information and cancelled a planned raid. billion in the US to create new jobs – what is the impact on the venture capital industry? Also worth checking out the guide on PE VC for entrepreneurs.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Name of security. Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR).

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Security (12). open source. Adventures In Venture Capitalism. Grok Computer Security. Collateral (3). Uncategorized (6). Virtualization (1). conferences. development. engagement. grad school. housekeeping. Idea Factory. making money. OpenWorld2009. Uncle Larry. walled garden. yes Im a geek. Boag World.

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VC Cafe

MAY 22, 2011

SiteBlackBox is a provider of SaaS tools that monitor, secure and improve the points of touch between web applications and their users. Our customers include the world’s most demanding government and security organizations, urban authorities and law enforcement organizations. " 3) SiteBlackBox. 4) 3i-MIND. 4) 3i-MIND. 7) VisualBee.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing. The CARES (Coronavirus Aid Relief & Economic Security) Act provides $2 trillion to businesses and individuals affective by Covid-19. The NVCA (National Venture Capital Association) Guidelines are below.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Education plays a major role in venture capital. For example, digital startups are more likely to secure funding if someone on their founding team holds a doctoral degree. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. How can you reveal your reputation?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. Venture Capital.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

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. Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ).

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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. Like a traditional capital fund, Kayweb Angels also has a board of directors that provides its startups with connections, guidance and help securing further funding.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

To put things in context, global venture funding in Q2 2023 reached $65 billion, an 18% decline quarter over quarter, and a 49% drop compared to the second quarter of 2022, when startup investors spent $127 billion, according to Crunchbase. I tried to consolidate my thoughts as well as other perspectives from leading venture capital funds.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This is applicable to other subscription businesses such as Open Source.) One approach is to look at all wins and see which precise constellation of campaigns were involved in securing those customers. VC Venture capital Viral growth Plugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes Copyright © David Skok 2009, 2010.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

According to Gartner’s “AI hype cycle”, generative AI is at the peak of inflated expectations ( source ). But with Stable Diffusion, which offers an open source generative AI API already, we’re starting to see developers training the generative AI algorithms to perform specific tasks.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And by the way, Salesforce.com has gotten much better at security. are all precursors, rumbles before the big boom.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Redis Labs – Enterprise-grade open source NoSQL database (Raised $27M). Argus Cyber Security – Automotive cyber security protection, both hardware and cloud enabled (Raised $30M). Lightricks – Visual processing engine for mobile platforms, creators of Facetune and Enlight (Raised $10M).

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BeyondVC

JUNE 11, 2007

We all know the story – it is incredibly cheaper to start a web-based business versus 5 years ago with the rise of open source software and commodity servers. However, while getting started with thousands of users is cheap, scaling to significant numbers will require some dollars.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

There are self-hosted open-source e-commerce services available that allow you to use your own uniquely branded website with their e-commerce functionality. Check out services like WooCommerce , Magento , and Open Cart. times the size of the global venture capital industry today.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Although all the manuals were in safes, the whole site was so secure that anybody who had access to that site had access to everything – including other compartmentalized systems that had nothing to do with me – and that I wasn’t cleared for. Thank you to the security people who could tell the difference between an idiot and a spy.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Cybersecurity unicorn Snyk was founded in 2015 with the mission to help developers make their code secure. Just a few years on and Snyk has evolved from being an open source vulnerabilities scanner and to becoming the world’s first developer security platform that start-ups worldwide can build upon. The rest is history.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

For programs written for classic computers, software developers receive bug reports, monitor for security breaches, and send out regular software updates that fix bugs, increase performance and at times add new features. It has uses in threat detection – airport security, banks, and sporting events. AI in National Security.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

As a former entrepreneur, I have always viewed venture capital as a service business. As part of our work leading into the new fund, we went on a listening tour - talking to founders about what they want and need from their venture capital partners. The new fund is smaller and more focused.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. As the third U.S.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. It’s an *freaking open source*.net net implementation.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to the 2019 Annual European Venture Report by PitchBook , European startups raised €32.4 Corporate venture capital (CVC) represented 45% of the total capital raised. The fund is done in partnership with several top tier venture capital funds including Accel, A16Z, KPCB, Spark Capital and others.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

Open Source Bee Hives. For us small business owners, for entrepreneurs who do and even if you do have great venture capital, great angel investors, great funding for marketing, for you to spend the amount of money it would take for you to reach an audience as ubiquitously as Nike can is just an outrageous amount of dollars.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

So I think this is a brilliant step toward " open source law " which I've been advocating for a while.  ← There is Too Much Venture Capital…Not Too Little 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Opens → [link] Are You In Need Of A Payday Loan Now? Bookmark the permalink.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. The social workers and the security guards and our clerks and our tax and our environmental services people, the janitors, had pizza. And Frank and I having come from tech said, "Oh, why don't we just open source this and we'll make it available for everyone?"

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