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. 2021 Recap. Sending and from the boldstart team at the end of a challenging 2021. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m. Ernest Addison , Associate and formerly at Audax group.

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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. Otis is founded by Michael Karnjanaprakorn, and is focused on creating a marketplace that enables fractional ownership of culturally relevant assets. 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. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. They act in the interest of their portfolio companies like any investor would.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

This could include areas like mental health (as in our portfolio company 10% Happier ), dental health (such as Smile Direct ), nutrition and exercise, pain management, and other areas that impact the everyday life of tens of millions of people. 3) Health Data Applications.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Our years of product management experience taught us that often the best insights can come from your customers. You might have detailed these ideas lovingly in a blog post or elsewhere on your site but almost all the time, your portfolio page helps teams decide if they should reach out to your or not. .

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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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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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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

The Generative AI gaming landscape Nov 2022 ( source ) In my small data sample (of Israeli gaming startups) a lot of startups in the generative AI gaming space are either missing in this map, or are choosing to remain in stealth until they have a solid demo out. steampunk airships flying in the sky. Generated in [link].

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

just months after it came out of stealth. It’s an industry that’s long been in need of digitisation and many businesses still find themselves wading through piles of paper invoices, manual processes and managing heterogeneous payment cycles. Managing the timing of payments is critical and can have dire consequences.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Department of Defense along with the European Space Agency (ESA) all have adopted the TRL to manage their complex projects. As simple as it is, the TRL is used to manage funding and go/no decisions for complex programs worldwide. Air Force , then the Army and then the entire U.S. Those days are over. Lessons Learned.

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Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

Every single megafund all the way to some of the world’s most powerful sovereign wealth funds are now searching for the next Uber, either so they can invest directly or so one of their managers can ensnare it in its flytrap. And, with respect to deal transparency — it is basically gone, drowned out.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 27, 2012

Today one of our portfolio companies, LinkSmart , has come out of stealth mode and unveiled its product, Total Link Management and $4.7M This publisher then runs a never-ending fire drill with their sales, SEO and yield management teams to fulfill those obligations with their advertisers. We clicked.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. It’s called Enterprise Performance Management, which is kind of a weird term. Exactly right!

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

Matt is leaving us to join Wellington Management Company and enter the world of late stage investing. We had an exciting 2015 - we made eight new investments out of the new fund and have a ninth that is closing this month (see our fun Year in Review ): Jibo, NS1, Omni Storage, Raden, Redox, SmackHigh and two stealth companies.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

After that company failed, I went on and interviewed a bunch of investors that I had met and also some other CEO’s who had failed companies prior to their successes now and asked them, “Why did these companies fail in your portfolio?” ” or “Why did the company you’ve started fail?”

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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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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

If you dont manage this expectation upon hiring, you will be managing employee issues six months down the line. How many entrepreneurs opening words are about how stealth their project is, followed by a 10-page NDA to hear word one? Often times, that work eventually goes beyond your job description. Guarding The "Big Idea".

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