Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Brock Blake, CEO of Lendio (Part 1)

Small business lending is an extremely important finance function that is full of sand in the gear. Lendio is working on smoothening the process and adding velocity into the ecosystem. We discuss the future of this corner of FinTech in this fascinating conversation. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and to

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Joe Lea, VP of Product at Armis (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I understand what you’re doing. You said you have 200 enterprises that have already adopted your technology? Joe Lea: We do. That’s critical. The broader our deployment, the more places we deploy. The level of accurately identifying suspicious events is better the more that we see. We’re happy to report that we finished

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Indian Logistics Firm Rivigo in Top Gear

According to ASSOCHAM, India spends around 14.4% of its GDP on logistics and transportation as compared to less than 8% spent by the other developing countries. The Indian logistics sector is set to reach $307 billion by 2020. In India, road freight accounts for around 63% of the total freight movement across the country. Gurugram-based Rivigo is a logistics startup that

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190th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Matt Holleran, Cloud Apps Capital Partners

Matt Holleran, General Partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners, talks about his firm’s investment thesis in what he calls classic Series A. His is one of the rare firms that invest at the concept stage.

Catching Up On Readings: Oscars 2019

This feature from The Verge covers the winners of the 91st annual Academy Awards at the ceremony being held today at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Joe Lea, VP of Product at Armis (Part 4)

Joe Lea: For example, Samsung smart TVs makes a DNS request followed by connection attempts once a minute for about 45 minutes. Then they take a nap for an hour. Then they start up and do that process again. We know what default applications are installed. We see traffic that goes to things like the

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432nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Swapna Gupta, Qualcomm Ventures

Swapna Gupta, Senior Investment Manager at Qualcomm Ventures, explains the firm’s investment strategy.

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Joe Lea, VP of Product at Armis (Part 3)

Joe Lea: We’ve been around for three years. We’re VC-backed by Sequoia, Red Dot, Bain Capital, and Tenaya. We have about 200 different customer deployments. Where we’re deployed, we’re seeing activity in the industry and we’re learning about devices. That source of knowledge for us is important. We’ve got about 120 employees. We’re doing business

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