11.27.2012 - Forbes
Snapchat doesn’t yet generate revenue but look closer and you’ll find an important, maybe even thoughtful, reaction to the one of the biggest shortcomings of social media.
11.26.2012 - AlwaysOn
Congrats to Chris Schaepe and John Vrionis for being named to this year’s list of top 100 VCs.
11.26.2012 - Economic Times
In a unique display of hands-on investing, Lightspeed Venture Partners incubated two startups in the past year, providing money and mentoring to them. Successful venture investing requires a combination of ideas, entrepreneurs and the potential for technology-driven dislocations, says Bejul Somaia, managing director at Lightspeed.
11.25.2012 - New York Times
You might have heard Jessica Alba on daytime TV talking about her new e-commerce company, which sells diapers and other baby supplies, or seen Kim Kardashian pitching her online shoe store in the tabloids. The man behind the companies, Brian Lee, is far from a household name. Yet in the world of tech start-ups, he is an emerging force.
11.20.2012 - GigaOm
ZestFinance, the big-data-driven loan-underwriting company from former Google CIO Douglas Merrill, is trying to lower the interest rates on short-term loans by blending machine learning and human judgment.
11.20.2012 - TechCrunch
Baseball, more so than other sports, is known for its massive data collection, complex statistics and informed managerial decisions. So it should be no surprise that, just as corporate enterprises are going through a big data revolution, so will baseball.
11.19.2012 - Press Release
MuleSoft, provider of the world’s most widely used integration platform, today announced another record-breaking quarter, increasing bookings 191 percent year-over-year. In Q3 2012, MuleSoft built upon strong customer momentum with notable enterprise wins across its leading Mule ESB and CloudHub platforms.
11.19.2012 - Entrepreneur
Jeremy Liew evaluates the ptiches from the hit ABC television show Shark Tank through the eyes of a venture-capital investor. This week he looks at a pitch from a used wedding dress site for Entrepreneur.com.
11.15.2012 - TechCrunch
“In the Studio” welcomes an engineer, originally from India, who came to the U.S., earned an MBA, worked stints as a software engineer, investment banker, and database architect before becoming a venture capitalist and now, an up-and-coming investor who makes big bets on both consumer and enterprise IT products.
11.14.2012 -
Origami Logic a startup developing a self-service, visual marketing analytics platform to help marketers gain insight from siloed data, today announced that it raised $9.3 Million in Series A financing from Accel Partners’ Big Data Fund along with Lightspeed Ventures Partners and other investors.
