Greg Borchardt is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Caerus Ventures, a firm that has a focus on connected hardware. It’s an interesting and differentiated investment thesis that is worth listening to, especially for IoT entrepreneurs.
Sramana Mitra: Can you take us through a couple of your portfolio companies that are really interesting? What can we learn from them? T.M. Ravi: In the Internet of Things space, the big shift is the growing commoditization of devices. Much of the value is moving to applications and data. That commoditization is not just happening
Sramana Mitra: In terms of areas of interest for these kinds of seed investments, what degree of relevance do you need with SAP’s current technology? Does it need to be built on HANA? Does it need to be built on something else within the SAP stack? What are the constraints? Max Wessel: There are no
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Sramana Mitra: Interesting. When did you crack your first multi-million enterprise deal in this mode? Rob Douglas: A couple of years ago. Now it’s a regular course for our company. Sramana Mitra: Excellent. This strategy really worked out. Rob Douglas: Yes, it has. It needs a lot of patience to get there. You really have
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with T.M. Ravi was recorded in September 2016. T.M. Ravi is Managing Director and Co-founder of The Hive, a venture studio. The discussion touches upon a couple of key issues: the prevalent incubator/accelerator model of
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