Lending is an ancient business model—borrowing was invented early in the economic development of our species. Yet, we appear to have forgotten many of the fundamental elements of a profitable lending business in recent years.
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How Business Technology Companies Have Opened The IPO Window For Snap
Snap is about to go public and the whole world will be watching. An IPO of the photo messaging company, which some believe could value it at up to $25 billion, would certainly be a landmark event. But…
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The Genomics Intelligence Revolution
At Wing, we are hugely excited about the potential of advances in genomics and data science to produce innovative startups. In a recent article in TechCrunch, I and Mahni Ghorashi of Clear Labs explored the changes driving the Genomics Intelligence Revolution.
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Wing And The Internet Of Things
Two of our partners were interviewed recently about their views on the Internet of Things and its likely evolution. Gaurav Garg appeared on Stacey Higginbotham's IoT Podcast: The interview with…
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Announcing Wing's Investment In Clear Labs
Helping companies and governments to investigate and respond to food-related safety problems is a vital mission in today’s increasingly interconnected world. That’s why we’re delighted to announce our investment in Clear Labs, the world’s first food analytics platform for retailers and manufacturers.
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The Wing Manifesto: Welcome To Wing Two
Today we announce Wing Two, our second fund and the next step in Wing’s evolution as the best-of-breed venture capital firm devoted to early-stage, long-term company building in business technology. We are honored to have the support of the industry’s most sophisticated investors, including many of the world’s leading universities and private foundations.
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IoT Insecurity: A Clear And Present Danger For The Enterprise
The implications of an internet of insecure things were highlighted once again recently, when hackers leveraged tens of millions of IP addresses from a range of connected devices, including IP cameras, baby monitors, and home routers, to launch a massive Distributed Denial-of-Service attack on Dyn, a domain name systems service provider.
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IoT Startup State Of The Union 2016
As part of ongoing research into The Internet of Things, we have been studying the state of the IoT startup ecosystem. This slide deck contains some of the data we’ve analyzed so far and we will be publishing more material in the weeks ahead. If you would like more information about our work please email us at info@wing.vc
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Juvo: An Authentically Mobile, Data-First Application For Finance
Juvo, a Wing portfolio company that announced its global launch today, provides a financial identity and mobile financial services to prepaid phone users. Its strategy makes Juvo a perfect fit with two of our investment initiatives.
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A Q&A With Mohit Aron, CEO Of Cohesity
Wing is an investor in Cohesity, whose CEO, Mohit Aron, is a pioneer of hyper-convergence. As Cohesity approaches its first anniversary, it seemed a very good time to catch up with Mohit, and to talk about the company's progress.
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Investing In Tigera And The Digital Dialectic
Today Tigera is announcing its $13 million Series A financing from Wing and NEA. This new company has emerged as the driving force behind 3 key open source projects: Calico (which the Tigera team originated while at Metaswitch), Flannel (in collaboration with project originator CoreOS) and Canal (a new joint initiative with CoreOS). All three projects work together to bring policy-driven, secure networking to cloud-native applications.
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DevOps And The Digital Trialectic
The interplay between infrastructure, applications and software development/IT operations helps explain the rise of cloud-native infrastructure today.
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The Ruckus Wireless Story
The proposed acquisition of Ruckus Wireless by Brocade is a personal milestone for me. After Redback Networks, it's the second occasion that I have been a co-founder of a built-from-scratch, venture-funded public company. Here are some of the lessons from Ruckus's journey.
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Speaking In Code: Microservices Are A Platform For The Next Wave Of Mass Communications
Next-generation ambient IT infrastructure—and the ability to use it without the cognitive burden of having to understand how it works—will bring a whole new dynamic range to the creation and dissemination of ideas.
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Jasper: An Incredible Journey
Cisco's proposed acquisition of Jasper is a significant milestone in the development of the Internet of Things. In this post, I look back on my 11 years working with an incredible company and an exceptional entrepreneur--and explain why Jasper is a great example of Wing's approach to working with startups.