Sramana Mitra: What are you seeing in your deal flow? We’ll come to what you’ve invested in in a moment. You’ve been in this business for a long time. Let’s look at the 2017 deals that has approached you for investment. What are the trend lines that you see in there? What are you seeing?
Sramana Mitra: What are you measuring? Tom Turner: The measurements that we look at fall into four buckets, if you think about it in a somewhat non-technical way. The important thing is these are all outcomes. These are things that are happening; not things that might happen. We collect all of this information globally. The first bucket
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Greg Borchardt of Caerus Ventures was recorded in February 2018. 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
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Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Tim Wilson of Artiman Ventures was recorded in February 2018. Tim Wilson, Partner at Artiman Ventures, has been in the venture business for a long time, and refreshingly has the skill and the confidence
Cyber security risk is growing exponentially. How do you measure and benchmark such risk? Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having your introduce yourself as well as BitSight to our audience. Tom Turner: I’m the CEO of BitSight Technologies. BitSight is a cyber security ratings company. We take a big data analytics approach to measuring the
This feature from Medium by Eric Feng provides a Star Wars style overview of the Consumer Rebellion that was kicked off by the launch of Apple App Store ten years ago. It led to one of the greatest periods of product innovation, entrepreneurial achievement, and disruption of the establishment. For this week’s posts, click on
Sramana Mitra: Talk about the customer service value proposition. What is it that you do specifically that delivers on the customer service value proposition? Ye Zhang: We are still focused on financial institutions. Financial institutions have a lot of legacy systems behind their firewall. There will be a lot of silo’d communication components. One for