View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Last week, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Ten Little , came out of stealth and announced its public launch. . To round out the founding team, Julie brings an extremely complementary experience in operations from Jet.com and eos products. We were excited to be the first to say yes and lead the $2.6M

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Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

And while these past three months have been far from typical, there was a lot of activity across our portfolio. Cape Privacy emerged from stealth and announced a $5 million seed round , which we co-led with Boldstart Ventures. Lolli closed an oversubscribed $3 million Seed II round and continues to add partners weekly. .

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

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). . Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode.

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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. We were always impressed with his vision and product talent, but the timing of his raise and our own fund didn’t quite line up. It’s very early days for Otis, but we are so excited for the road ahead.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

The first is around health care products and services that augment physicians’ standard of care by using modern software, analytics, and sensors. Patients experience these products or services directly, or they are tools used daily by health care practitioners to enable better patient care for large portions of the population.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

2016 was a banner year for boldstart , and we could not have achieved any of this without the amazing support of our boldstart family and the founders who have given us the opportunity to invest in and partner with them. 8 of our portfolio companies raised follow on Series A rounds with > $70mm raised and an average size of almost $9mm?—?announced

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

But you want relevant traffic and an actual purpose for driving those leads — letting them sit around on a list, rarely if ever hearing from you as you build product, is not an effective demand-gen tactic. a product launch, hiring a key executive, a rebrand, an expansion of market focus, etc.).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

As in real life – those that rush into marriage often find out what their partner is really like after the fact. How do you then reference check your VC to be sure that you’ve chosen a good firm and partner? Make sure to call the companies in that VCs portfolio that didn’t succeed. When the world was ending?

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round. However, to add to this, we love entrepreneurs who have big visions but of course, start with an incredibly focused product. The other big theme is one of big data.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

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.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

I’ve attached below my original, much more detailed blog post about the details of how we’ve designed our office to help people stay healthy and be as productive as possible. We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. Rather than a product demo – we believe in a “Learning Demo”. We think we can do better. Those days are over. Lessons Learned.

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Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

Then, TechCrunch was acquired by AOL (now “Oath,” or whatever – I can’t remember), and the product wasn’t able to keep up with the times and explosion of companies. 5/ Copycat Culture And Stealth Mode Back En Vogue: I’ve alluded to this above and below, but now when a category gets hot, founders and capital flood it.

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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 My partner Seth Levine sits on the board and wrote about his view of LinkSmart. in financing led by Foundry Group.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

* Originally published on Calcalist , April 20 2023 Since the day ChatGPT was introduced in November 2022, it has become the fastest growing consumer product, putting the words ‘generative AI’ in the mainstream. Every day, we hear about new products and services that are meant to enhance human creativity and productivity.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Alexia Tsotsis: Since people like me (millennials) are putting pressure on our IT departments to buy products that we can actually use and aren’t blinded by, what do you think the enterprise space will look like in the next five years? Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. Marc Andreessen: Yeah.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Or you have a product in a patent but no [inaudible 00:04:36] bring you to market. 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?”

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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. Digitization really accelerated with products like PayPal, Venmo, Square Cash and Revolut.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Perhaps the team is working on a product that really isnt that great or useful. Maybe they never thought about product-market fit. Building a product is like packing a suitcase: Plan out what you think you need. The biggest mistake I see is companies waiting too long to release the product. Leave it in the comments.

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