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. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. Enter Amazon.

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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.

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Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners has backed a provider of cloud-based databases, MongoLab , in its Series A funding. MongoLab said it has raised $3M in a Series A funding led by The Foundry Group, and including Baseline Ventures, GRP Partners, Freestyle Capital and Bullet Time Ventures.

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GRP Partners EC2 Venture Capital Los Angeles 174

socalTECH

JULY 14, 2010

The round was led by Global Gateway Investment Group (G2iG), and also includes Frontera Group LLC, CSK Venture Capital Co. and AO Capital Partners Ltd. Tags: morph labs morphlabs winston damarillo venture capital open source software. in a Series B financing round. READ MORE>>.

El Segundo 124

El Segundo EC2 Cloud Computing Venture Capital 124

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The firm said the new product allows users to use Amazon's EC2 cloud service to deliver enterprise applications over the public cloud. Morphlabs is backed by AO Capital, CSK Venture Capital, Frontera Capital, and Global Gateway Investment Group. READ MORE>>.

Manhattan Beach 140

Manhattan Beach Cloud Computing EC2 Platform 140

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. In second venture - compared Salesforce.com vs. S3 - as platform. Many other types of applications where Ruby makes complete sense.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

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.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188