ZapThink Startup Insights Week of June 21, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Neill Occhiogrosso- Highland Capital Partners For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Neill Occhiogrosso, Principal at Highland Capital Partners, a venture capital firm focused on building companies in the communications, consumer, digital media, healthcare and information technology markets. Highland Capital Partners has 77 portfolio companies, [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of June 15, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Elon Bloms – LaunchCapital For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Elon Bloms, Managing Director of LaunchCapital LLC, a market-agnostic, early stage seed investment firm. The company doesn’t specifically focus on IT, but they do look at around 100 deals a year in the IT [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of June 8, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Adam Berrey – General Catalyst and the Startup Blender Blog For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Adam Berrey, entrepeneur-in-residence at General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm with $1.4B under management, and also writes the Startup Blender Blog on topics of [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of June 1, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Woody Benson, Prism VentureWorks For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Woody Benson at Prism VentureWorks, a venture firm founded in 1996 with over $1.25 Billion under management. Woody has been in Venture Capital for over a decade, with the last 5 years in digital [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of May 24, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Richard Dale – Sigma Partners For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Richard Dale, Principal at Sigma Partners, a 25 yr old Venture firm with offices in Boston, Menlo Park, and San Ramon. The firm is an early-stage seed / Series A round investor with [...]
Announcing the ZapThink Startup Insights Newsletter ZapThink Startup Insights is a newsletter focused on three main audiences looking for insight into startup and innovation trends in the enteprise IT landscape: Enterprise IT startups – Looking for the latest information on what’s happening in the funding landscape or new companies to partner with or sell to? [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of May 17, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Eric Hjerpe – Kepha Partners For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Eric Hjerpe, Partner at Kepha Partners, a $100M software venture fund, and formerly Venture Partner and Partner at AtlasVenture. What’s Hot IT Sold to Business Units, not IT Departments Hjerpe sees significant opportunities [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of April 26, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Simeon Simeonov – FastIgnite This week, ZapThink spoke with Simeon Simeonov, Entrepreneur / Investor / Advisor, head of FastIgnite, and formerly Technology Partner at Polaris Venture Partners. What’s Hot While Simeon didn’t quite see the enterprise / B2B marketplace as we did, he did [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of April 19, 2010 Funding Insights Interviews: Foundry Group & Techstars This week, ZapThink spoke with Brad Feld, Managing Director of the Foundry Group, a Venture Capital firm based in Boulder, CO, David Cohen,CEO and Executive Director of Techstars in Boulder, and Shawn Broderick, Executive Director of Techstars in Boston, MA. [...]
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