Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?

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Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Eucaplytus Systems , the cloud management software firm backed by New Enterprise Associates, Benchmark Capital and BV Capital, said earlier this week that it has linked up with newScale and rPath on a new private cloud platform. The firms said that the solution will be delivered by MomentumSI. READ MORE>>.

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EC2 Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Conference 133

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the venture-backed developer of cloud computing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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S3 EC2 Product Cloud Computing 140

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Eucalyptus is a spinout of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is venture backed by Benchmark Capital and BV Capital. READ MORE>>.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Marketing 124

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

RightScale's software helps companies deploy servers into cloud computing clusters such as Amazon EC2. RightScale is venture backed by Index Ventures and Benchmark Capital. RightScale said that its Cloud Computing Management Platform can be used with New Relic's RPM software. READ MORE>>.

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Cloud Computing EC2 Santa Barbara Platform 100

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

“By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188