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By Mike Smerklo, co-founder and managing director, Next Coast Ventures Jeff Bezos has sparked a mini “arms race” where cities across North America are looking to stockpile credibility as to why Amazon should select them as its home away from home. Game on. Austin, Texas has been included in nearly every “Best Cities” list published […]
By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost Palantir is more than one of the world’s most valuable enterprise software unicorns. It could be one of the largest enterprise IPOs of a generation. Because of its success, the involvement of [Founders Fund investor] Peter Thiel and the nature of its secret work, it has become a fascination and darling […]
Fibocom co-founder LingPeng “Tiger” Ying helped transform his company from a distributor to an original design manufacturer of wireless modules and IoT equipment.
By Alan Turovlin, TurovlinPartners Target was hacked in 2013, the Democratic National Committee in 2016 and Equifax in September. What is going on? Are more hacks making the news, or are cyberattackers more skilled and better funded these days? What of cybersecurity? It is IT’s responsibility, right? That’s what everyone says. So, did IT get […]
By Will Jiang, N5Capital Flying in the face of a global slowdown, Chinese venture capital investments hit an all-time high in 2016, with $31 billion invested in innovative, growing businesses. Beijing venture capitalists invested more than half the total, and this steady increase in investment shows no signs of declining as the years go by, […]
By Idan Netser, partner, DLA Piper We are witnessing a new wave of early-stage technology startups joining forces through mergers and acquisitions, many of which have been led by Israeli startups. Venture capital and technology professionals should take note as this represents the influence of the Israeli tech community, and a welcome trend to scale, […]
By Alex Hicks, MHT Partners Private equity investors are looking for someone to take an Amazon approach to online education. Since the days of the frontier schoolhouse, where different ages were taught together in the same classroom, education has become more and more fragmented. Kindergarten and then elementary are separate from middle school and then high school. Higher education […]
By Clint Korver, Ulu Ventures When Lightspeed Venture Partners became the first outside investor in Snap, putting in $485,000 and then investing in subsequent rounds, it produced a return of $2 billion and instantly became the stuff of legend. The deal marked Lightspeed’s third exit in quick succession, following the Nutanix IPO and Cisco’s purchase […]
By Bill Rossi, CEO, Metabiota With the growth of insurtech, a new breed of specialized insurers are addressing the industry’s next frontier: protection against cyber crime, terrorism and epidemics. These catastrophic events can have a significant impact on the global economy beyond even what we see from localized disasters, such as Hurricane Harvey, which wreaked […]
By Jeff Harbach, Kauffman Fellows Jason Green is one of the most intentional, if not the most intentional, investors I know. So my ears definitely perk up when I hear Jason talking about how to build culture when building a new fund. Think of how Jason started Emergence Capital. When he, Brian Jacobs and Gordon […]