Guest Author Adi Ruppin Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, have been with us ever since the ‘90s. For years VPNs have been enabling remote and mobile users to connect to their enterprise networks from the outside and to do so securely. VPNs have also been used to connect multiple branch office networks together (“site-to-site” VPN),
Alok Nandan, Founding General Partner, First Rays Venture Partners, discusses the firm’s investment thesis which is very well defined and focused.
Cindy Padnos: I don’t know if you know Neha Sampat, but she has a company called Contentstack. It is in the digital experience management space. We led her seed round of financing that enabled them to go from $1 million in ARR to over $4 million in less than a year. This was done with
Michael Smerklo is Co-founder and Managing Director at Next Coast Ventures. We have a terrific conversation about a range of issues including solo founders and their ill treatment by VCs.
Sramana Mitra: Were they Americans? What ethnicity were they to move to South Korea? Cindy Padnos: No, one of the founders is Chinese. The other is Indian. They were both born in their respective countries, but they were educated here in the US. They helped to build several companies here. The CEO had actually been
Shane Neman: Back then, Shortcodes had just come out. Are you familiar with what Shortcode is? Sramana Mitra: No. Shane Neman: It’s like those five or six-digit phone numbers that you text into to get a coupon. It’s a special five or six-digit phone number, and at that time they had just come out in the
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 528th 1Mby1M Roundtable April 29 2021: With Alok Nandan, First Rays Venture Partners