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June 8, 2018

Hospitality Tech Funding Is on a Downward Trend So Far in 2016

Though meat loaf's backseat, teenage melodrama has been played nearly 10 million times on spotify, one wonders just how many listeners stuck with it all…

June 8, 2018

Bruce Cleveland to Speak at Bonfire

Bonfire 2016 is an exclusive invitation-only event for 75 visionary business leaders, venture capitalists and select start-up CEO's. Date: October 5-6, 2016 Location: Bend, OR…

Wildcat Venture Partners

September 19, 2016

Meet Reserve, the OpenTable-killer that’s taking Philly restaurants by storm

Vedge isn’t just considered one of the best restaurants in Philadelphia. The all-vegetable dining room makes lists when some of the most-respected publications in the…

Danya Henninger

Billy Penn

September 19, 2016

Raising The Next Round (Part II)– Proving Minimal Viable Traction (MVT)

“I know it when I see it,” said Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, talking about pornography. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs get much the same answer from…

Bryan Stolle

Forbes

September 16, 2016

InsureTech Guest Speaker Bryan Stolle

Rapid technological innovation along with an in escapable shift in consumer behavior is creating nothing short of a revolution. Those who don’t change won’t just lose business;…

Wildcat Venture Partners

September 9, 2016

What You Should Know About the IPO From This Oracle and SAP Rival

It possibly saved businesses roughly $8 billion in corporate expenses. And then there were three. Coupa Software, a specialist in software for managing corporate spending…

Heather Clancy

Fortune

September 9, 2016

Cloud spend management company Coupa files to raise $75 million in IPO

Coupa, a company that offers cloud services for managing invoices, expenses, inventory, and procurement, today filed preliminary paperwork to go public, revealing plans to raise…

Jordan Novet

VentureBeat

September 9, 2016

Zebit Helps Educators Across America Equip Their Classrooms For The Back To School Season

Zebit's interest-free credit gives teachers a better way to afford necessary classroom supplies SAN DIEGO, Sept. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- , a company committed to…

Zebit

September 7, 2016

HealthTap Announces Global Expansion and Invites the World to Help Make Instant Doctor Knowledge Accessible to Billions Worldwide

HealthTap, the world’s first Global Health Practice providing 24/7 immediate access to top doctors via video, text, or voice, announced today a first of its…

HealthTap

September 2, 2016

Many of today’s martech companies that espouse machine learning capabilities simply offer a workbench for data scientists

Editor in Chief Ankush Gupta chats up Matt Fleckenstein, Chief Product Officer at Amplero, the predictive marketing platform that reduces churn for CX-focused B2C companies…

Ankush Gupta

MarTech Advisor

August 31, 2016

Kabbage Co-Founder Named Top-ranked woman for venture capital raised

You've heard there are fewer women in STEM fields, or that fewer women lead technical companies. Well, the ones that do are raising significant capital…

Lisa Calhoun

Inc.

August 31, 2016

What exactly are Values of a Two-Year University.

Sophisticated schooling within this nation is soon turning into a need in the firm group in lieu of an extravagance. Within the previous the men…

August 31, 2016

Abhas Gupta speaks at MATTER Insights

Abhas brings his deep and broad experience to MATTER, where he will discuss his digital health investment thesis: where he thinks the biggest opportunities are,…

Wildcat Venture Partners

August 29, 2016

Zebit Launches Offering On The TriNet Marketplace

Zebit fills an essential financial gap for over 325,000 Americans employed by TriNet clients. SAN DIEGO, Aug. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Zebit, a company committed to…

Zebit

August 25, 2016

SAP is acquiring big data startup Altiscale for over $125 million

Enterprise software company SAP is acquiring Altiscale, a startup that offers a cloud-based version of the Hadoop open source software for storing, processing, and analyzing…

Jordan Novet

VentureBeat

August 23, 2016

How to bridge the Traction Gap

Editor’s note: Bruce Cleveland discussed the Traction Gap in a column earlier this month. This is his second article on the topic. As I discussed earlier…

Bruce Cleveland

PeHub

August 20, 2016

Podcast with Elizabeth Burstein

Elizabeth Burstein, Principal at Wildcat Venture Partners and Ex-PM at Linkedin sat down with host of Yours Productly podcast, Ravi Kumar. She discussed the Traction Gap framework,…

Ravi Kumar

Yours Productly

August 18, 2016

Retail Ascendant Guest Speaker Katherine Barr

The Ascendant is an exclusive, nomination-based professional network for the most prominent and progressive senior executives at the forefront of marketing transformation. Along with hard-hitting…

Wildcat Venture Partners

August 18, 2016

SVIA Insurance Disrupted with Guest Speaker Abhas Gupta

Join us as we explore the next wave of disruptive big data, advanced analytics and AI as it meets new business and engagement models, interconnected digital ecosystems,…

Wildcat Venture Partners

August 15, 2016

Amplero Named Cool Machine Learning Startup to Watch

InformationWeek named Amplero one of “10 cool Machine Learning Startups to watch”. Machine learning is technology that trains software so developers don't have to code it…

InformationWeek

August 9, 2016

HealthTap Introduces Virtual Consults with Live Translators and Top Doctors

With the all new HealthTap Group Consults multiple participants, including translators, family members, and specialists can now join doctor-patient consults, expanding access to healthcare for…

HealthTap

August 8, 2016

Understanding the Traction Gap

Venture capital’s grief might be wider than the industry thought: A Series B crunch may be upon us. And this puts more pressure on entrepreneurs…

Bruce Cleveland

PeHUB Network

August 1, 2016

Improving Outcomes Is Hard, But Here’s Why We Know It’s Worth Doing

Nine years ago, I did not realize that buying a hospital would lead to a massive education in everything right and wrong with the healthcare…

Vivek Garipalli

Medium

July 28, 2016

Neon Pro Boosts Clicks, Likes and Shares for Videos and Images

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - July 28, 2016) - , the video and image performance company, today announced the availability of Neon Pro, a free web…

Neon Labs

July 22, 2016

Scholarship in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

CMU Graduate Students Apply Here. Also, it doesn't matter if you think my fees are reasonable, because you don't get to negotiate them you just…

Wildcat Venture Partners

July 18, 2016

Splice Machine’s New Open-Source RDBMS Sandbox Goes Live on AWS

San Francisco, CA – July 18, 2016 – Splice Machine, the open-source RDBMS powered by Hadoop and Spark, today announced a cloud-based sandbox for developers…

Splice Machine

July 14, 2016

Amplero raises $8 million to help predict the future and increase customer value

Amplero — the predictive customer lifetime value (CLV) management platform, which helps its clients reduce churn and increase average revenue per user (ARPU) — has today…

Stewart Rogers

VentureBeat

July 12, 2016

HealthTap makes a bigger push into continuing studies for doctors

HealthTap, a six-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based telehealth startup that says 102,000 doctors now use its platform to connect with patients, has officially snapped up DocPhin, whose…

Connie Loizos

TechCrunch

July 11, 2016

The 10 Coolest Open-Source Products Of 2016

Splice Machine named 1 of the 10 coolest open-source products of 2016 by CRN Magazine Startup Splice Machine began its life as a proprietary software…

Kyle Alspach

CRN Magazine

July 7, 2016

Product Sync Event Recap

Last week Wildcat Venture Partners co-hosted Product Sync, a meet-up for Silicon Valley’s top product managers, entrepreneurs, and VC’s. Following up on our recent launch…

Wildcat Venture Partners

July 7, 2016

”Tinder for friends” app VINA scores $1.4 million in funding

After launching earlier this year, VINA announced Thursday its seed round of funding: $1.4M led by NEA and including Greylock and Wildcat Partners Ventures, and…

Fast Company

July 6, 2016

What’s up, doc? Tell me over my smartphone, please

High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our…

Charles Wallace

Financial Times

July 5, 2016

The Silicon Valley Investors You Need to Know in 2016

Investors are an essential part of a startup. Without funding, it can be very hard to scale faster than any other company out there. Over…

John Rampton

Inc.

July 5, 2016

Austin’s Key Concierge raises $3.75 million for expansion and development

Key Concierge, an Austin-based concierge service company, has raised $3.75 million in a Series A funding round led by Silicon Valley-based Wildcat Venture Partners. ATX…

Omar Gallaga

512Tech

June 27, 2016

Top 7 Things I Learned at C100 48 Hrs in the Valley

Paul Teshima, Co-founder and CEO of Nudge, shares the top 7 things he learned at C100's 48 Hours in the Valley 2016 5. Venture Capital is Still…

Paul Teshima

Nudge

June 27, 2016

FIGS is the Company Making Scrubs Look Good

Fitted workwear for medical professionals means scrubs you'll want to wear. Practically every industry has seen startups come in and shake things up; taxis, blow outs,…

Chavie Lieber

Racked

June 22, 2016

Scotiabank teams up with ‘fintech’ startup Kabbage to provide business loans

Scotiabank is pairing up with online lender Kabbage to handle business loans for customers in Canada and Mexico. Ironically, this was best year for album…

The Canadian Press

Toronto Star

June 10, 2016

48 Hours in the Valley with Guest Speaker Katherine Barr

Twice a year, C100 brings up to 20 promising Canadian companies to Silicon Valley for 48Hrs of mentorship, networking opportunities, investor meetings, and unparalleled access…

Wildcat Venture Partners

June 8, 2016

Traversing The Traction Gap Event Recap

Last week, Wildcat hosted “Traversing the Traction Gap,” where we debuted the Traction Gap – a framework that describes progressive stages of startup maturity, not…

Wildcat Venture Partners

June 6, 2016

Traction Gap: A new startup-focused framework

Wildcat Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, has launched a tool that helps explain why some startups thrive and thus raise more capital,…

Sharmistha Mukherjee

TechSeen

June 4, 2016

Wildcat Venture Partners & The Traction Gap Framework

Well, I know it has been quite some time since my last post – some of you have emailed me asking what’s up. As you will…

Bruce Cleveland

Rolling Thunder

June 3, 2016

Wildcat Venture Partners Tackles the “Traction Gap” Facing Early-Stage Companies

Venture Firm Debuts Innovative Framework to Guide Startups through the Go-to-Market Phase Menlo Park, CA – June 3, 2016 – In an era when early-stage…

Wildcat Venture Partners

June 3, 2016

Raising The Next Round — Proving Minimal Viable Repeatability (MVR)

When an entrepreneur takes investor money, they are expected to deliver on the plan and milestones they “sold” to investors during the fund-raising process. These…

Bryan Stolle

Forbes

June 2, 2016

Wildcat Venture Partners launches, focuses on early-stage startups

Partners from two longtime Silicon Valley venture-capital firms said they are launching a third: Wildcat Venture Partners, a firm focused on the stage where young…

Sarah McBride

Reuters

June 2, 2016

Visible Measures Partnership with Twitter Enables Brands to Align Video Ads Programmatically with Premier Content Across Hundreds of Publishers

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Visible Measures, the leader in content advertising data and technology, today announced its partnership with Twitter to enable global brands to promote short- and…

Visible Measures

Business Wire

May 31, 2016

Apps to help organize student debt

Managing your student loan debt can be difficult at times, CNBC’s Sharon Epperson highlights a few apps for college grads that will help organize their…

Sharon Epperson

CNBC

May 31, 2016

Bosses Turn to Loans to Help Employees

Pam Dimitro, the controller at JNET Communications LLC, realized employees were often turning to payday lenders or high-interest credit cards in a financial pinch. So…

Rachel Emma Silverman

The Wall Street Journal

May 27, 2016

Where Angels Fear to Tread – How Angels Get Screwed in The Startup Game

An angel investor friend recently got a bit of hard news – they were going to get significantly less on a recent acquisition of an…

Bryan Stolle

Forbes

May 26, 2016

The Traction Gap

My friend and a partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, Bruce Cleveland, along with his associates, has come up with an idea that helps explain why…

Denis Pombriant

CRM Buyer

May 20, 2016

This Health Tech Company Just Raised $160 Million

Clover Health raised new funds for its data-driven health insurance service. Clover Health, an upstart health insurance company, just raised $160 million in new funding,…

Leena Rao

Fortune

May 18, 2016

The Latest Job Benefit: Paying Employees’ Student Loans

When Brendon McQueen graduated from Columbia University in 2009, he had 12 different student loans totaling $120,000. On the one hand, it is absolutely true…

Donna Fuscaldo

Fortune

May 10, 2016

OpenTable rival Reserve launches restaurant table reservation platform

Reserve thinks that the restaurant reservation process is broken and has doubled down on fixing it with the launch of Reserve for Restaurants. This table…

Ken Yeung

VentureBeat

April 27, 2016

Rihanna Calls The Tech Bubble Like It Is

I’ve shelved this post for almost a year now because though I’ve been in venture for five years across both Wildcat Venture Partners and Mohr…

Abhas Gupta

Medium

April 25, 2016

Sorting Out 2016: Seven MegaTrends

An awful lot of tech stuff is going down these days, and it is creating some serious confusion. Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot is rapidly becoming the…

Geoffrey Moore

April 19, 2016

WorkFusion is trying to win the race to automate corporate jobs

In 2008, Max Yankelevich was in India, visiting the cubicle farms where big banks and insurance companies outsource business processes — the invoices, memos, and other papers pushed…

Drake Baer

TechInsider

April 19, 2016

Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference with with Speaker: Katherine Barr

The Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference is a three-day event showcasing women at the forefront of the technology and start-up spaces, with inspiring keynotes from…

Katherine Barr

April 19, 2016

Catalyst Conference 2016: Interview with Katherine Barr of Wildcat Venture Partners

Katherine Barr is one of more than three dozen leading executives who will be speaking at the Catalyst Conference. Read her interview with Girls in Tech <here>. The…

Katherine Barr

Girls in Tech

April 12, 2016

Spring 2016 Viseo Talent Summit with Panelist: Elizabeth Patterson

The Viseo Talent Summit will bring together the tech industry’s best and brightest head of talent, recruitment, PE and VC investors and CxOs at the…

Elizabeth Patterson

April 11, 2016

Why We Invested in Clover Health

As early stage venture investors who only invest in a select number of companies annually, we unfortunately have to pass on many great entrepreneurs and…

Abhas Gupta

Medium

April 5, 2016

OpenTable Challenger Reserve Acquires Restaurant Payment App Dash

Reserve has announced its latest acquisition — Dash — which brings with it the technology for direct integration with Point-of-Sale (POS) systems. This marks the fifth acquisition by the OpenTable…

Ken Yeung

VentureBeat

March 14, 2016

Where Product/Market Fit Breaks Down

A tweet from GrowthHackers caught my eye recently — “Our #product market fit and NPS are off the scale, but we’re struggling to grow. Any…

Bryan Stolle

Forbes

March 14, 2016

SXSW | 6th Annual Start-up Mixer

Every year, SXSW Interactive takes over Austin, transforming the city into a networking hub for professionals, budding business people and everyone in between. This year…

Amanda Maestri

March 9, 2016

20 fastest-hiring San Francisco tech employers (No. 15: Earnest)

Our friends at Earnest are in the news again, check out the full article here The long and short https://college-homework-help.org of these statistics is the…

Wildcat Venture Partners

BizJournals.com

February 25, 2016

Earnest – Fast Company’s The Most Innovative Companies of 2016

Earnest earns #42 spot on Fast Company's The Most Innovative Companies of 2016. Read the full article <here> Beauftragen https://ghostwritinghilfe.com/bachelorarbeit-schreiben-lassen/ sie autor master5243 ber content

Wildcat Venture Partners

February 12, 2016

Student Lender Earnest Breaks Fintech Deal Drought

Credit fears are swirling around banks, but investors are still betting Harvard grads are a good bet to pay back their student loans. Online student…

Wildcat Venture Partners

Wall Street Journal

February 10, 2016

BuildDirect Launches Home Marketplace

Very exciting news for BuildDirect on the launch of their new Home Marketplace!! They have created an entirely new way to sell home improvement products…

Wildcat Venture Partners

January 21, 2016

Splice Machine Receives $9M in Additional Funding

Investors increase funding to accelerate product development, sales and marketing as demand grows for a scale-out, affordable database San Francisco, CA – January 20, 2016 – Splice Machine, provider…

Splice Machine

January 14, 2016

8 Key Startup Lessons-Learned 2015 Style

As we kick-off 2016, I reached out to my entrepreneur network and asked, “What was your biggest ‘lesson learned’ last year?” Introspection is a very…

Bryan Stolle

Forbes

December 9, 2015

Why We Invested In Earnest — Inside A VC’s Mindset

Earnest recently announced a $275M total raise (Series B + lending capital) on the back of well-earned momentum. As Series A investors in the company, I’ve been asked a…

Bryan Stolle

Forbes

November 18, 2015

Tuition.io Secures $5M in Series A Financing from MassMutual Ventures and Wildcat Venture Partners

Diese fhigkeit schtzen kunden hausarbeit schreiben beispiel bachelorschreibenlassen.com/hausarbeit-schreiben/ aus den unterschiedlichsten bereichen und branchen seit mehr als 20 jahren

Tuition.io

PR Newswire

November 17, 2015

Earnest Secures $275 Million of Total Financing to Power the Modern Bank for the Next Generation

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Nov 17, 2015) – Earnest () today announced the close of $275mm in total financing, including the company’s next stage of…

Earnest

PR Newswire

November 17, 2015

Online Lender Earnest Raises $275 Million; Has Originated $400 Million In Loans This Year

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Laura Shin

Forbes.com

November 13, 2015

CodeGirl And Inspiring Advice From Top Entrepreneurs (Who Happen to be Women)

The statistics are dismal: 74% of high school girls show an interest in STEM subjects, but only 4% of college girls choose to major in…

Katherine Barr

Inc

November 11, 2015

CodeGirl Screening & Panel Discussion

Wildcat Venture Partners and Mohr Davidow Ventures announced that they will be hosting a private screening of CodeGirl, the latest documentary from Director Lesley Chilcott (executive producer…

Wildcat Venture Partners

October 27, 2015

Zebit Launches To Provide No-Cost Financing To The Underserved; Secures $10 Million In VC

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Zebit, Inc. today launched the first fully automated payment system that provides zero-interest credit to the 68 million Americans…

Zebit

PR Newswire

October 27, 2015

9 Reasons Why Now Is The Time For Fintech

Next week is Money 20/20 in Vegas, a conference that is fast becoming the Fintech confab. This conference’s remarkable growth (5x in four years) parallels the emergence…

Bryan Stolle

Forbes

October 27, 2015

Big Money2020 Playlist

As I navigate Money20/20 this week, I couldn't help but think about my big Money20/20 playlist: Old Money - Lana Del Ray Gold Digger - Kanye West, Jamie…

Elizabeth Patterson

October 23, 2015

SVBJ Social Capital: Katherine Barr: Horseback rides and Ontario summers

Barr has had a taste for adventure since she left the farm she grew up on in rural Ontario. A competitive skier in high school, she…

Cromwell Schubarth

Silicon Valley Biz Journal

October 13, 2015

Wildcat: Run lean. Stay sharp. Learn fast. Win big.

After investing together for 7 years at Mohr Davidow Ventures and helping talented entrepreneurs build products that shape the way businesses interact with targeted customers…

Wildcat Team

October 8, 2015

Pandora Buys Ticketfly, a Competitor to Ticketmaster

Pandora Media, the biggest player in Internet radio, has moved into the ticketing business with an agreement to buy Ticketfly, an independent firm that competes…

Ben Sisario

The New York Times

September 26, 2015

How Lending Club Is Shaping the Future of Small-Business Loans

It did not take long for the daily rhythms of prosperity to establish themselves at Hungry Ghost Coffee Bar and Café, a recent arrival in…

Robb Mandelbaum

Inc.

September 26, 2015

The race for growth: Why SaaS marketers are feeling the pressure

This week at Dreamforce, cloud applications businesses will come together to celebrate product announcements, impressive growth, partnerships and much more. That momentum is also reflected…

Indy Guha

Venture Beat

September 23, 2015

Roundtables at Dreamforce: Part 3 of 3 (One Disruption In Three Ways Out)

This is part 3 of a 3 part series. Read Part 2 Here. This is the final installment in a series of blogs about a…

Geoffrey Moore

September 21, 2015

Roundtables at Dreamforce: Part 2 of 3 (The Hierarchy of Models)

This is part 2 of a 3 part series. Read Part 1 Here. In the previous post, I reported out on a series of executive…

Geoffrey Moore

September 18, 2015

Roundtables at Dreamforce: Part 1 of 3

This is Part 1 of a 3 part series. Okay, it wasn’t exactly the World Series of Poker, but at Dreamforce this week I hosted…

Geoffrey Moore

September 17, 2015

You Don’t Need to Move to Silicon Valley, but You Do Need to Spend Some Time There

Borders continue to shrink and global markets are increasingly open. But are Canadian startups siezing these unprecedented opportunities? Turns out, they might not be. In…

Knowlton Thomas

Techvibes

September 17, 2015

Headhunting Basics (Part 1) — When to Engage a Professional Search Firm

At some point, a startup will exhaust the founders’ networks for recruiting/hiring purposes, and must turn to professional recruiters to fill key positions. When the…

Bryan Stolle & Elizabeth Patterson

Forbes

September 16, 2015

6 Magic Tricks to Noticeably Increase Your Productivity (and Your Happiness)

I was recently asked, "Aside from world peace and the elimination of poverty, if you had one wish, what would it be?" At first, I…

Katherine Barr

Inc

September 8, 2015

Ten States That Matter

We’re not talking politics here, people—we’re talking technology adoption. In any major technology adoption life cycle there are two trajectories of development, the first led…

Geoffrey Moore

August 31, 2015

TO THE BATCAVES | VP of Product Meetup

The rumors are real. Word on the street is that a certain Fortune 40 company has been preparing for a first-of-its-kind experimental retail space - their own Bat…

Wildcat Venture Partners

August 27, 2015

Don’t panic, startups: Advice from veteran VCs who weathered the dot-com bust

It has been an erratic week for the global markets, but should startups be concerned? Depends who you ask. “Worrying about the stock market at…

Alice Truong

Quartz

August 26, 2015

Storefront Launches RetailGrade, A Scoring Tool for Pop-Up Shops

Despite a growing number of direct-to-consumer brands, brick-and-mortar shopping still accounts for 94 percent of retail sales in the U.S. That’s why Storefront, a startup that provides brands…

Christine Magee

TechCrunch

August 21, 2015

Return on Innovation: Are You Playing Offense or Defense?

One of the key lessons I learned from posting on LinkedIn an early draft of my next book (Zone to Win: Organizing to Compete in…

Geoffrey Moore

August 19, 2015

FounderLine Episode 33 – Katherine Barr of MDV

FounderLine is a live weekly webcast devoted to helping startup founders succeed, hosted by seven-time startup entrepreneur and investor Joe Beninato. Each week, Joe welcomes…

Joe Beninato

FounderLine

August 6, 2015

OneSpot Signs CPG Marketers In ‘Content Sequencing’ Deal

Content marketing is all the rage. But despite the underlying idea that digital media can serve each person unique content, in practice it often means…

Jack Neff

Advertising Age

August 5, 2015

Neon Awarded as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Neon announced that it has been selected as a 2016 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a group of the 49 most innovative global companies…

Nicole Halmi

Business Wire

July 27, 2015

China’s Startup Boom in Online Learning

Will a surge in distance learning for traditional subjects, test prep, language, and trade skills leave the poorest out? China knows a thing or two…

David Talbot

MIT Technology Review

July 24, 2015

Atlantic Fintech Kabbage Raising $150M at $875M valuation

Financial technology provider is raising a massive $150 million investment at a valuation that has the Atlanta company flirting with "unicorn" status. The Series E raise…

Urvaksh Karkaria

Atlanta Business Chronicle

July 22, 2015

Systems of Engagement and User Experience Design

We are now well into the decade of Systems of Engagement. Enterprises in all walks of life are waking up to a world where their…

Geoffrey Moore

July 21, 2015

Coupa Software Acquires TripScanner

Spending-management platform Coupa Software acquired travel-technology startup TripScanner on Monday for an undisclosed sum. TripScanner, based in Brooklyn, New York, bridges the gap between employees’…

Gina Hall

Silicon Valley Business Journal

July 16, 2015

Ticketfly raises $50M in funding round

Software company Ticketfly has closed a Series D financing round, raising $50 million. The round was led by Riverwood Capital, a globally-focused private equity firm that…

Coral Williamson

Music Week

July 7, 2015

San Mateo’s Coupa Software Buys Australian Company to Boost Savings-as-a-Service Value

Coupa Software, a cloud-based invoice management platform, acquired InvoiceSmash on Monday for an undisclosed sum. CEO Mark Burch founded the Sydney, Australia-based InvoiceSmash in 2012 as a…

Gina Hall

Silicon Valley Business Journal

June 26, 2015

U.S. Tech Funding — What’s Going On?

What’s going on in the public markets? What are all these so-called “unicorns”? What’s going on in venture capital? “This time is different.” It is…

Morgan Bender, Benedict Evans, Scott Kupor

Andreessen Horowitz

June 5, 2015

BuildDirect CEO Jeff Booth Wins “Person of the Year” At the BCTIA Awards

At the 22nd annual BCTIA Awards last night in Vancouver, BuildDirect CEO Jeff Booth was awarded “Person of the Year”. Booth, whose voice typically rises…

Nick Waddell

Cantech Letter

June 3, 2015

Hurry up, please. It’s time.

We’ve been talking about the disruptive impact of digital forever. Time to stop talking. Here’s why. As we all know, digital has already reset the…

Geoffrey Moore

June 1, 2015

Cloud Startup Coupa Lands $80 Million Round At $1 Billion-Plus Valuation

Say hello to the latest cloud company to take an investment at a valuation of more than $1 billion. Coupa Software, a cloud startup that…

Arik Hesseldahl

Recode

May 28, 2015

Business Software Giant To Buy Boulder’s Rally Software In $480 Million Deal

Business software giant CA Technologies is buying Boulder-based Rally Software Development Corp. in a $480 million deal announced Wednesday. New York City-based CA (Nasdaq: CA) said Rally agreed to…

Greg Avery

Denver Business Journal

May 21, 2015

25@25 | 25 Leaders at 25 Lusk

Katherine Barr of Wildcat Venture Partners would like to invite you to an intimate dinner for visionaries who have become leaders in their fields, changed the game,…

Wildcat Venture Partners

May 19, 2015

8 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make That No One Talks About

Entrepreneurs are commonly described as: competitive, evangelizing, risk taking, nimble, scrappy, and visionary. However, there is a broader skillset and mindset that entrepreneurs require to…

Katherine Barr

Inc

May 13, 2015

Chapter Six: The Transformation Zone

This post is the sixth in a series of posts that will eventually become a book. I am looking to improve the text by incorporating…

Geoffrey Moore

May 12, 2015

Kabbage, The Small Biz Lending Platform, Now Has A Debit Card

Money is tricky for small businesses—which is to say that it tends to be tight. Pretty much everything about money—securing it, managing it, spending it—requires…

John Paul Titlow

Fast Company

April 29, 2015

7 Startups That Are Radically Altering the Apparel Industry

The apparel industry is dominated by huge chains and major labels, but startups are making a name of their own by offering unique products and…

John Brandon

Inc.

April 24, 2015

Startup Cooking: 5 Ways to Manage Like Joe Torre, Former New York Yankees Manager

It’s baseball season again, so what better than a blog with a baseball theme? I ran across a piece a while back about how Joe…

Bryan Stolle

Forbes

April 23, 2015

5 Jedi Mind Tricks to Dramatically Improve Your Performance

Andy Puddicombe spent 10 years studying to become an ordained Tibetan monk and is now the successful co-founder of the meditation app Headspace. In his TED talk, he…

Katherine Barr

Inc

April 16, 2015

Fishing with Spears | All About Account Based Marketing

Account based marketing is the next big thing in B2B marketing. In this short but fact-filled talk, Jon Miller will explain how ABM is different…

Elizabeth Patterson

April 9, 2015

The Gender Bias Question In Technology and the Tech Startup World

I was asked to help address the tech/startup gender bias question a couple of times recently at SxSW in Austin. The first opportunity was as a…

Bryan Stolle

Forbes

April 1, 2015

Finding The Best Executive Talent: Can Recruiters Really Help?

When it comes to hiring a key member of your executive team, hiring a recruiter can seem expensive initially. However, do not underestimate the value…

Katherine Barr

Inc

March 27, 2015

10 Lessons from The Pitch: How to Pitch Your Startup and Win, SxSW Style

Mark Twain is often associated with the quote, “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter." It was in fact Pascal…

Bryan Stolle

Forbes

March 25, 2015

The Benchmark Way: Five Partners Who Make Other VC Firms Look Outgunned And Overstaffed

The first topic of conversation at one of Silicon Valley’s most exclusive dinners is usually the table. Made of a deep brown walnut, the table…

Alex Konrad

Forbes

March 24, 2015

Kabbage’s SMB Loan Platform Moves Into Asia Pacific As A White-Label Service

has taken root in the U. S. and UK markets as a platform where small businesses can quickly apply for and receive working capital loans —…

Ingrid Lunden

TechCrunch

March 20, 2015

Ticketfly Challenges Industry Leader With Canadian Acquisition

After years of over-hyped upstarts and relative stasis, the Canadian ticket sales market may just be getting the shake-up customers have been waiting for. In…

David Kennedy

The Globe and Mail

March 19, 2015

SXSW 2015: Startup Mixer

SXSW is a crazy week of panels, parties, and networking. In the thick of it, Neon teamed up with Mohr Davidow Ventures and their other partners,…

Nicole Halmi

Medium

March 11, 2015

The Top 3 Ways To Be a Powerful Business Leader In 2020

Entrepreneurs have always embraced innovation and change, and reinventing oneself as an entrepreneurial leader will be critical over the next handful of years. Here are…

Katherine Barr

Inc

March 9, 2015

People Pattern Digs Marketing Data Out of Social Media

Twitter emerged with a splash at South by Southwest in 2007, unleashing an ever-growing barrage of tweets, posts, photos, and other social media interactions. People…

Tim Green

Silicon Hills News

March 4, 2015

Startup Cooking: 10 Rules For Making a Successful Startup Pancake

There is plenty of discussion about how to build a valuable and sustaining business. Yet, I don’t often see much coverage of the building blocks that…

Bryan Stolle

Forbes

February 23, 2015

Ready! Aim! Fire!: How To Execute Successfully Every Time (Part 2)

This is the 2nd installment about startup planning and execution based on the concept of “Ready, Aim, Fire” – a time-tested, tried-and-true adage that applies as…

Bryan Stolle

Forbes

February 18, 2015

6 Ways To Get The Most And Best From Your Board

Thoughtfully selecting and effectively working with your investor board members and independent board members (who are not typically investors in the business but asked to…

Katherine Barr

Inc

February 12, 2015

Coupa Named to OnCloud Top 100 List for 2015

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — Coupa Software, the leader in cloud-based spend management, announced today that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as a. OnCloud’s Top…

Coupa

The Herald

February 4, 2015

Ready! Aim! Fire!: How To Execute Successfully Every Time (Part 1)

Ready! Aim! Fire! It’s a very old, tried and true adage. This legendarily accepted process of operations works universally whether shooting a gun, a bow…

Bryan Stolle

Forbes

February 4, 2015

How to Become a Great Leader

Be authentic. Figure out your values and who you are, and be true to both. Trying to be who you aren't will impede your company…

Katherine Barr

Inc

January 14, 2015

The 7 Must-Have Qualities Investors Look For in Entrepreneurs

Early stage venture is a lot about the entrepreneur--who that person is and what she or he is capable of. As an investor, my filter…

Katherine Barr

Inc

December 11, 2014

These LendingClub investors will reap the richest rewards in today’s IPO

VC still has the email that introduced her to LendingClub. She might want to print out that email and have it framed in gold after…

Cromwell Schubarth

Silicon Valley Business Journal

December 9, 2014

Everyone’s a Critic Book Party

Imagine choosing a restaurant without checking Yelp. Or booking a hotel without first consulting TripAdvisor. Or finding a renovator without Angie's List. Everything is now…

Elizabeth Patterson

October 21, 2014

25@25 | 25 Leaders of 25 Lusk

Mohr Davidow Ventures, Forerunner Ventures and Porter Gale invite you to an intimate dinner for women visionaries who have led the pack, changed the game,…

Elizabeth Patterson

August 27, 2014

Lending Club Files for IPO; Startup Emerged During Credit Crisis

on Wednesday filed for an initial public offering, a deal that’s likely to be closely watched as online nonbank lenders continue to gain market share…

Maria Armental and Lizette Chapman

Wall Street Journal

July 15, 2014

The people behind the money matter

Why Neon picked MDV to lead our recent investment One afternoon in April, I was having a coffee with Bill Ericson, our General Partner from…

Sophie Lebrecht

Medium

June 24, 2014

Technical Leader Summit Hangout

Mohr Davidow Ventures, in conjunction with Tesla Motors, hopes you will join us at our Technical Leader Summer Hangout, an afternoon of supercharged networking and…