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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. We spoke briefly about why.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures. Cognata (2017) – still in stealth, Cognata is developing Artificial Intelligence simulation engines for automated vehicles.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

We maintain a database of these corporations’ priority needs — allowing us to identify early clients for companies we back. – A tool to automatically update all databases (Crunchbase, CB Insights, etc.) – A database with typical major titles/hierarchy in a tech startup, plus average compensation.

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

Affectiva ’s database of facial emotional responses is in this category, as are Pallas Ludens (end to end data annotation service), and opensensors.io (adding value to public sources of sensor data). Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. But these processors were designed for graphics.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks. Serbinski has since gone on to invest in a handful of stealth startups in the gaming, mobile and location arenas. SCVNGR Uses Googles Places Database. Craig’s investment portfolio includes Graphic.ly , Klout , Postling, Mobile Roadie and MogoTix.

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Are You a Stealth Manager?

Growthink Blog

My idea -- rather than giving clients access to a large database of information, I took the database and created pre-defined reports that allowed them to access key pieces of data quickly and easily. My first job, nearly 20 years ago, was at a market research firm. About six months into the job, I had an idea for a new product.

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5 Quick & Easy Things That'll Make You a Better Manager

Growthink Blog

You see, our company had been selling access to a large database of information to our clients. This would not only help existing clients, but it would open the door to new clients who only wanted the specific information rather than paying for full database access. You see, that VP was what I consider to be a "stealth manager."

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