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Investing in Ambient.ai

Andreessen Horowitz

In the summer of 2011, a masked intruder managed to open a locked door of Nicira, the startup I co-founded, walk directly to the desk of a well known engineer, passing many others on the way, grab a server, and … The post Investing in Ambient.ai appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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How Will a Venture Capital Recovery Feel? Observations from 2008

Tom Tunguz

With 15 years’ perspective, I plotted the QQQ (Nasdaq) value against venture Investing activity & venture Exits activity (all log normalized). for QQQ/Investing & 0.93 In the first two quarters of 2011, Cornerstone OnDemand waded into the IPO market in 2011, followed by LinkedIn at $4.2b, Homeaway at $2.1b, Fusion.io

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Bye-bye 2011, hello 2012

The Angel VC

It's also a good time to take a look at my angel investments because from now on I'm going to make all new investments via Point Nine Capital. In 2011 there were 0 write-offs , which means that the total number of active investments is 26. Last year I wrote a series of small portfolio review postings.

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From Uncertainty to +$400M: How Braze Found Opportunity in Headwinds with Braze’s Co-Founder & CEO Bill Magnuson (Podcast 671 + Video)

SaaStr

Braze was founded in 2011 when the most exciting mobile apps were a compass, a flashlight, and a game where you could feed fish. Blaze was founded in 2011. From 2011 to 2015, the only part of the mobile market that was making money was mobile gaming, but tricking children into buying fish food wasn’t a sustainable business.

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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

Investing in Instacart was perhaps the hardest decision I had to make as a venture capitalist. Instacart was taking a unique approach to tackling this category, using a four-sided marketplace dynamic: By partnering with physical grocers, they were able to leverage those partners’ existing investments in construction and inventory.

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We?re About To See a Lot More SaaS Debt

SaaStr

This set of metrics that Salesforce began to standardize enabled other providers of Financial Capital to more quickly analyze new SaaS companies and invest. . Things started changing in 2011. In 2011, Hootsuite raised $3m in venture debt before raising another $50m in debt from CIBC in 2018. .

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The Secrets Behind Creating Scalable Products with Box’s CEO, Aaron Levie

SaaStr

Our customers pay more and stay longer when they buy and use more than one product from us because they’re invested in us and know our value. Previously, he was the CEO and co-founder of EchoSign, which was acquired by Adobe in 2011. Hybrid work improves, not hinders, collaboration with customers.

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