Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Belgium: Felix Van de Maele, CEO of Collibra (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: When you raised the seed round, you already had some revenues and customers?

Felix Van de Maele: No. We raised the round in August 2008. We just incorporated the company. We had no customers and just had a letter of intent.

Sramana Mitra: Who were the people who funded you in this round? >>>

Catching Up On Readings: CRN 2016 Annual Report Card

This feature looks at the winners of Channel company’s CRN Annual Report Card awards in 2016 awarded recently at XChange 2016 in San Antonio to top IT vendors in the categories of partnership, support, and product innovation. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Rio Olympics 2016

This feature from Financial Times rounds up the Rio Olympics 2016 in which US topped the medals tally while Britain came second, its best performance at the Olympics in over a century. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Microsoft Imagine Cup 2016

This feature from ZDNet covers the highlights of Microsoft’s annual student competition recently held in Seattle. The innovation track had a strong focus on digital health, exploring how cloud technologies and the Internet of Things could help improve individual health with better monitoring tools and new ways of solving old problems. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Olympics 2016

This feature from 7Days looks at the role of technology and science at the Rio Olympics 2016. From cooling hoods, laser-cut swimsuits, GPS sailboats, and laser assisted scoring to VR streaming, smart glaases, and smart watches, tech is a big winner at this edition of Olympics. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Black Hat USA 2016

The Black Hat USA 2016 is a cyber security conference being held in Las Vegas from Jul 30 to Aug 4. This feature from InformationWeek’s Dark Reading highlights eight new open source tools for pen testers and security operations experts. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: ITRS 2.0

According to the latest International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors report, after 2021, it will no longer be economically desirable for companies to continue to shrink transistors. Chip manufacturers will turn to other means of boosting density. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: NYC Tech Ecosystem

In this feature on the New York City Tech Ecosystem, FirstMark VC Matt Truck says that it is coming of age now. Today, New York is the epicenter of the redefinition of media, and also home to many great companies in adtech, marketing, and commerce. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>