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

Cracking the Code

We concluded it was time for a cloud native data security platform, identifying the key success factors as: Platform : buyers are looking for a platform that includes discovery, accurate classification, risk assessment and remediation Ease of deployment : cloud buyers expect a “plug and play” solution with very short time to value (hours/days rather (..)

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. Boldstart uses both Zapier and Catalytic for this purpose. Methodology.

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In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify

This is going to be BIG.

Not only were they files in the cloud, but they had all sorts of attached metadata like tags, comments, and groupings that didn't come in a neatly packaged desktop file. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. Existing solutions provided desktop backup, but that wasn't the issue.

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Why Video Discovery Startups All Fail

Hunter Walker

A bunch of three minute videos with varying quality, metadata and sources isn’t enough value, not when some blogger is already picking the best of these and adding content around them. But don’t take venture capital. Horizontal content needs to solve search not just browse or curation. Just build it.

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Business As Usual: Onavo, VideoSurf and Kaminario Raise Funding

VC Cafe

This is primarily a technology play that aims to improve video search according to the actual content of the video, versus the textual metadata around it. VideoSurf was started by Lior Delgo, the formrer founder of FareChase (sold to Yahoo in 2004 in subsequently closed in 2008) accompanied by a very strong suit of Phd co-founders.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Rovi : Need Metadata for music/movie/actors, etc.? Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital. Venture Hacks equity section. About VC Cafe. VC & Startup Resources.