The Rise of SMB SaaS & Adaptive Planning
Historically, we saw venture investing trending toward technology opportunities catering to either large enterprises or consumers. Many VC’s avoided investing in technology companies focused on small...
View ArticleTOTAL ACCESS Speaker Series Recap – Consumer-Driven Technology on the Rise
I was recently interviewed by John Bautista, Partner in the Emerging Companies Group at Orrick, regarding the areas in which I am interested in investing, as well as the up-and-coming trends that are...
View ArticleGoing for The Hat Trick
It’s rare, when you have a chance to back a successful entrepreneur three times in a row, and that’s exactly what we are doing today with our venture investment in ClearDATA. ClearDATA CEO Darin...
View ArticleRevving The Innovation Engine: Trends to Watch for at Structure
This post originally appeared on GigaOM. Click here to view the livestream of Structure 2012. Matt Howard will serve as a judge on the LaunchPad panel today at 5:00 p.m. GigaOM’s Structure event this...
View ArticleHow SaaS is triggering the rise of mid-market companies
This post originally appeared on VentureBeat. The mid-market — companies with 50 to 2,000 employees — is a sleeping giant about to be energized by productivity-boosting software-as-a-service (SaaS)....
View ArticleThe Rise of Vertical-Specific SaaS Vendors
While the most publicized SaaS stories of the last 18 months have predominantly been about horizontal solutions such as WorkDay and ServiceNow (both whom sell extended product suites into a variety of...
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