thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere. Fast forward to 2013. – PEOPLE.

Advisory Board 70

Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Vertical 70

The Next Web

JULY 19, 2013

The company closed a large Seed Round in December 2012 from Mangrove Capital Partners and is “on track with our growth plans to follow up with a Series A round in Q1 or Q2 2014?. can use this incredible cloud system. This is all in the cloud. The future of health care. It’s Web-based.”.

Cloud 121

Cloud Software Review Vertical Email 121

VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products. There’s an interesting thing happening in the generative AI world.

Generative AI 165

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT API 165

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

4- Partner and create books. Find (at least) three institutional partners who will use us. Have potential partners reach out to us. Through these efforts, we will continue to build trust and credibility in the eyes of all stakeholders – employees, customers, prospects and other vendors in our verticals. . 11- Two goals.

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur Social Media Vertical SEO 116

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. The SharePoint cloud eco-system is not sufficiently mature, and for Daniel to be able to realize his vision, he needs to get enough application developers active soon. partners to help bring his product to market.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

Version One Ventures

MARCH 25, 2014

At version one, we are big believers in the vertical SaaS opportunity. A mobile-first approach, combined with a laser-like focus on a specific vertical, can create the right toolset to help SMBs achieve huge productivity gains ( I wrote about this nearly a year ago for TechCrunch). That’s where Clio comes in.

Vertical 153

Vertical Cloud Mobile Partner 153

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. What VCs most typically talk about are: – Industry expertise.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. What VCs most typically talk about are: – Industry expertise.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

Cains said he’s also in talks with partners to adapt the technology for a variety of televised sport. The company said it also has other products in the pipeline that “do the same magic” for other verticals, including using crowd-sourced data and environmental protection.

Internet 120

Internet Bulgaria Portugal Stealth 120

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 19, 2010

Netsuite has always had a couple of dings attached to them, first a weak channel strategy and somewhat related to that is a haphazard approach to partners. The company recently brought on board a Salesforce.com veteran, Ragu Gnanasekar, to deal with platform and partner opportunities. According to NetSuite, SuiteCloud 2.0’s

San Francisco 36

San Francisco Software Review Vertical Cloud 36

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

Drones, augmented reality, wearable tech, modular construction, cloud and mobile technology: the construction site of tomorrow is certainly going to look different. Even the World Economic Forum is now working with global partners for the development of construction. by Ramzi Jreidini , CEO of Handiss.

Global 189

Global Vertical Agile Engineer 189

View from Seed

MARCH 15, 2018

My partners and I have been very public and transparent over the past six months about our thematic investing approach — what we call the Everyday Economy. Often, these startups tend to fall in areas like home , food , apparel , transportation — but fitting squarely within a specific vertical isn’t a requirement. .

Technology 120

Technology Artificial Inteligence Marketing Vertical 120

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Greylock Partners. But beyond that, not much. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

In fact the e-commerce site aims to be the world’s largest online crafts store, seeking to expand to other craft verticals pending profitability or an angel investment.

Asia 150

Asia Startup Singapore Japan 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

We can already see what’s driving this: a wonderful mix of cloud computing, data and the APIs that glue it all together. Rogue apps, devices and clouds are causing more and more islands of information to form. At Cloudability, we get to see how the sausage making process of enterprise cloud adoption really works.

Cloud 128

Cloud API Vertical Cofounder 128

Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

 We had an engaging and candid conversation, which included fielding questions from audience members including  Laurie Yoler, Managing Director of GrowthPoint Technology Partners. 42in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed; vertical-align:baseline;mso-line-break-override:none;punctuation-wrap:hanging">.42in;text-indent:-.42in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;

Vertical 28

Vertical Syndicate Syndication Forecast 28

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

These are actual results a startup Ringadoc got from their partner program. Chris Samila , Partnerships Manager at Optimizely shares: “We saw building and supporting a partner ecosystem as a massive opportunity. So we started building out the partner program.”. presence in new markets and verticals. Selecting Partners.

Channel 84

Channel Partner Programming B2B 84

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

These are actual results a startup Ringadoc got from their partner program. Chris Samila , Partnerships Manager at Optimizely shares: “We saw building and supporting a partner ecosystem as a massive opportunity. So we started building out the partner program.”. presence in new markets and verticals. Selecting Partners.

Channel 77

Channel Partner Programming B2B 77

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And our vertical and powered by programs – Cloud (in San Antonio with Rackspace), Microsoft Accelerator (in Seattle with Microsoft) and Nike Accelerator (in Portland with Nike) were also started from scratch.

Chicago 154

Chicago San Antonio Seattle Portland 154

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi. Yanai Oron, General Partner at Vertex, has said that his firm invested in DataRails because of the profile and strength of the platform’s positive reviews. DataRails has already raised $53.5

Hiring 138

Hiring Software Review Customer 138

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Cloud Computing. (1). Cracking The Code. Saturday, December 02, 2006. Cracking the SMB code. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Europe Software 48

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Cloud Computing. (1). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. Cracking The Code. Newer Post.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5 million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc.,

SQL 59

SQL PHP Database Open Source 59

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. We started this week's roundtable with a discussion of the top 10 tech trends to watch for the upcoming decade.

Senegal 117

Senegal Nevada Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 117

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

million in a second round led by previous backer Genesis Partners and joined by T-Venture , the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom. uTest , the crow sourced QA service on the cloud, raised $13 million in a C Round led by Scale Venture Partners. Innovid raised $4.1 more here and here ].

Software Review 138

Software Review Venture Capital Technical Review SEM 138

BeyondVC

MARCH 19, 2007

Notice the picture I link to from Paul Jozefak’s blog titled "Expanding Platform to the Cloud." " I must say that I came away quite impressed by Microsoft’s progress in its cloud and Windows Live strategy. Anyway, I am waiting for some other bloggers to summarize his discussion.

Acquisition 60

Acquisition Cloud Mobile Vertical 60

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Sometimes your technology platform changes, and you need to pivot from on-premise to the cloud. For example, let’s say you’re an enterprise software company that delivers an on-premise product, but now wants to pivot to delivering a SaaS product in the cloud. It’s a major change of direction that requires major changes.

Startup 36

Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

There is not much for me to add to this article as we all know that the only loyalty VCs have is to their Limited Partners to generate long-term capital gains. If Microsoft can change this attitude and show me where and how to make money leveraging its Ecosystem and partners, I am all ears.

.Net 60

.Net Java Limited Partner Venture Capital 60

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 25, 2023

However, there is a good chance that several companies will offer similar AI platforms…in the same way that cloud computing is divided up between AWS (Amazon), Azure (Microsoft) and GCP (Google). OpenAI (with Microsoft as a partner), Google and Facebook are leading contenders to play an important role.

Artificial Inteligence 78

Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Azure Balance Sheet 78

VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

Most of the companies that raised these mega rounds are relatively early stage in terms of product and monetisation (if at all) and about half of the companies that raised large sums, are developing LLMs, which generally requires deep pockets to cover 1) cloud costs, 2) expensive deep learning engineers 3) get the data to train the models.

Generative AI 88

Generative AI ChatGPT Startup 88

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

iRidium narrowed their audience into five segments: Best customers; Members of the target account buying community; Thought leaders ; Partners; Media and industry publications. For cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake , that was ABM. This allowed them to focus on one audience’s specific needs. Keep doing what works.

Marketing 105

Marketing Campaign Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Take Dialpad , an AI-powered cloud communications platform that has integrated both teams to drive ABM success. To achieve this level of synergy, Dialpad partnered with Demandbase, an account-based marketing software platform. Take Workfront , an enterprise-facing online work management software, now part of the Adobe Experience Cloud.

Marketing 100

Marketing Campaign Email Sales 100

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Your network will become your partners, customers, and brain trust. We have software technology-specific startups, like itMD, which focuses on cloud-based HIPAA-compliant image sharing. When we put those segments of vertical knowledge into one room, we see powerful forces align, partnerships formed and deals done.

Networking 225

Networking Cleveland Cofounder Angel Investor 225

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

The Startup Toolkit

JULY 13, 2013

However, you can also see it broken out in Microsoft’s own words: A business model based on partner and first-party devices with both consumer and enterprise services. The engineering team is being reorganised into 4 cross-device teams: OS, apps, clouds, and devices. Optimization for activities people value most.

Engineer 41

Engineer Vertical Framework Acquisition 41

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We’d like to thank KeyBank and G2 for providing some of the data used in the report - * It’s an amazing time to be a cloud entrepreneur in Europe. The European cloud ecosystem is growing much faster than anyone could have anticipated: last year, we predicted that it would take another three years for Europe to generate its first decacorn.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71