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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . For the fund, it is critical to demonstrate impact to secure its place in the corporation’s long-term priorities.

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Your cloud data needs a reality check: our investment in Cyera

Cracking the Code

The situation is untenable, leading all companies we spoke to have put cloud data security on their list of priorities for this year. Code42, Digital Guardian), data privacy (BigID, Privacera), encryption (Enveil, Protegrity) and data security platforms (Ionic, Varonis). You have to eliminate the headache.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth. First check to Series B?—?congrats

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

VC Cafe

Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. Cyber Security. Machine learning in cyber security has already attracted a substantial amount of venture capital (e.g. But these processors were designed for graphics. Is anyone doing this?

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

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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Thoughts from RSA and the Climate for Security Startups

BeyondVC

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. All is not lost!

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boldstart 2021 recap & what’s ?? in enterprise 2022

BeyondVC

And our portfolio continued to grow: Day one lead/co-lead in 14 founding teams: (most still in stealth) representing , , , , , , Continued investments in developer first, SaaS, and crypto infrastructure companies.

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