February 6, 2017
XSeed is very excited to announce our investment in FINDMINE, a software platform that automatically curates products and product groups for use across merchant’s ecommerce, digital marketing and in-store displays or applications. The company is bringing critical technology and new data sets to retailers, allowing them not only to apply common technical advancements across their omni-channel efforts, but simultaneously to create value […]
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January 20, 2017
This article was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
A noticeable fraction of the thousands of startups I have looked at in the last seven years have made attacking a societal evil (e.g., hunger, homelessness, etc) a key part of why they exist. This is extremely laudable from a […]
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November 23, 2016
Are Bots Your New Best Friend?
This article was written by XSeed Capital Venture Partner, Lev Mass, and originally appeared on O’Reilly.
Bots are a growing segment of software that acts as an agent on a human’s behalf. These tasks range from ordering online, to making dinner reservations, to […]
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October 27, 2016
Click to play this video in which XSeed Capital Partner Robert Siegel talks with Jeff Frick after moderating the #GSBfutureofinnovation panel at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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October 11, 2016
This article originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review and was co-authored by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, co-founder and CEO of Box, Aaron Levie, and general manager of SAP.io, Maxwell Wessel.
As automation and digitization transform the economy, well-resourced incumbents in industry after industry are losing out to upstarts. Traditional retailers that have entered the […]
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August 22, 2016
This article was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on VentureBeat.
One of the most exciting things about Silicon Valley is that it constantly reinvents itself. The development of new technologies and products serves a fundamental role in the cycle of Schumpeterian creative-destruction that drives those in […]
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July 29, 2016
It’s Not Even Financial
This article was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on Fortune.
A common challenge that many companies face at some point is the issue of too much financial debt, which when used properly can be managed as an instrument to help a company […]
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July 27, 2016
This article was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on Tech City News.
Much has been said in the aftermath of the UK’s referendum on EU membership about the potential impact of the outcome in favour of ‘Leave’ on the technology startup scene in the UK.
In particular, there […]
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June 20, 2016
We at XSeed have been thinking a lot about the near future – not about the deep and disruptive social and economic impacts of ongoing innovations in autonomous and semi-autonomous systems, deep learning, bots and robots, VR and AR (all areas where we have been deploying capital for some time). Rather, we’ve been thinking about where the current economic cycle is headed and XSeed’s role […]
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May 13, 2016
This article was written by XSeed Capital Executive-In-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger, and originally appeared on TechCrunch.
In-home video entertainment is a very big deal. $381 billion globally in 2019 big. About $100 billion in North America big. Triple the revenue of apps and games big.
No wonder, then, that it won’t get […]
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