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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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Starting up down under: The guide to Australia’s growing startup scene

The Next Web

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. If it is, then Australia does start to look appealing as a startup destination both as a founder and an investor.

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Announcing NextView Operator Guilds

View from Seed

The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Brian Balfour, Founder & CEO of Reforge. Product Guild.

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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walker

“Admirer from outside of the cap table” is how I approached Kieran Snyder , Cofounder of Textio. If 2024 Kieran could whisper something into the ear of 2014 Kieran, what would you have told her about the difference between leading a team vs leading a company? But that’s not really how we saw ourselves when we started.

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Making Social Media Work For SMEs

YoungUpstarts

Small businesses rarely have the time or resources to invest in outsourced customer service support, and some are finding it more efficient to serve customers via social media platforms: one LinkedIn study from 2014 revealed that 81 percent of North American SMEs use social media [5]. This was the experience of Herschel Supply Co.,

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data. Fraugster (2014) – Technically based in Berlin, the company uses AI to predict malicious attacks before they happen. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers.

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Announcing our investment in Ada Support – the AI support platform that’s answering 2 million questions a month

Version One Ventures

million seed round, we’re looking back at our journey with founders Mike Murchison and David Hariri. Just after closing Fund II in October 2014, Boris took a trip to Toronto. As Ada Support launches its automated chat platform from stealth and announces an impressive $2.5 We led the Volley pre-Seed round.