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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. Current rount: $8.14mm in Series A from Redpoint (lead), Foundry Group, with previous investors, First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital (Chris Sacca), Ravi Narasimham. Competition: McAfee , Symantec.

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

Both Sides of the Table

So riffing off the famous Andy Grove statement that “only the paranoid survive” and believing that “only the most exceptionally talented startup teams survive” — most get washed out by the constant cycle of change and competition. And of course we welcome Microsoft Ventures. Why Invest?

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