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This article originally appeared on Lanxess on May 08, 2019.
LANXESS glass fiber production at its Kallo site near Antwerp, Belgium.
Photo: LANXESS AG
Cologne […] – LANXESS is set to
By Megan Rose Dickey. This article originally appeared in Tech Crunch on May 07, 2019.
Square has acquired conversational artificial intelligence startup Eloquent Labs to help its merchants improve customer service.
Eloquent Labs, which raised a $1.5 million seed round back in early 2017, offers to small […]
By Chase Milsap. This article originally appeared in We Are The Mighty on April 02, 2019.
It’s raining on a Tuesday morning — pretty standard for a Marine physical fitness test — and I know that rain or shine; pull-ups, sit-ups, and a three-mile run are going to happen. I stand, shivering in the pre-dawn drizzle, […]
By Adeyemi Ajao. This article originally appeared in Forbes on April 10, 2019.
It’s 2022 and Stephanie and Brian are buying a new SUV to accommodate the growing size of their family – their third child is due in a few months. They already selected the make and model and are simply finalizing color, drive train, […]
By Simon Ogus. This article originally appeared in Forbes on March 12, 2019.
There are many skills and traits utilized for evaluating athletes, but they have never been reliable indicators. That is why unrecruited players like JJ Watt can become All-Pro’s in the NFL and why, just yesterday, Trent Brown, four years […]
By Anthony Ha. This article originally appeared in TechCrunch on February 25, 2019.
Narrative, a startup that makes it easier to buy and sell data, is announcing that it’s raised $3 million in additional seed funding.
The round was led by Glasswing Ventures , XSeed, Tuhaye […]
By Spence Green. This article originally appeared on Lilt on October 4, 2018.
Today I’m pleased to announce that we raised $9.5M in new funding led by Sequoia Capital. Bill Coughran, partner at Sequoia, will join our board. Our existing investors‒Redpoint Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners, and XSeed Capital‒all participated in […]
By Jake Bright. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch on August 10, 2018.
Emerging markets credit startup Mines.io has closed a $13 million Series A round led by The Rise Fund, the global impact fund formed by private equity giant TPG, and 10 others, including Velocity Capital.
Mines provides […]
By Ingrid Lundun. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch on July 22, 2018.
A week after PayPal led a $50 million round in the cross-border payment specialist PPRO, one of its big competitors in the developing world has announced an acquisition of its own in the same space. PayU — the payments […]
By Matt Marshall. This article originally appeared on Venture Beat in its Big Data section on June 26, 2018.
AtScale, which is building an abstraction software layer that allows companies to seamlessly work on data projects in the cloud or on-premises, today announced at least six new multi-million-dollar customers, […]
This article appeared on BASF Catalysts on June 21, 2018.
BASF and Citrine Informatics are collaborating to use artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the development of new environmental catalyst technologies. Citrine Informatics is a next-generation platform that harnesses the power of AI to bring new materials to market faster, and capture materials-enabled product value.
With […]
By Jack Stewart. This article originally appeared on Wired, June 11, 2018.
In Ensenada, A Mexican city about two hours south of Tijuana, a new crime fighter has taken to the skies. It’s not a bird, or a plane, or Superman. It’s a drone. And over a few months on patrol, it’s […]
By Ingrid Lunden. This article originally appeared on Tech Crunch, January 31, 2018.
Trifacta, a big-data startup that is building tools to help businesses structure and analyse data that gets generated in their networks through customer interactions and other actions, is today announcing that it has closed out its Series D […]
By Becky Peterson. This article originally appeared on Business Insider, January 23, 2018.
– Disco, a startup partnered with Evernote cofounder Phil Libin’s young artificial intelligence studio All Turtles, released its product to paying customers Tuesday.
– The product tracks positive language within office chat apps like Slack and Microsoft Teams, and then aggregates […]
By Ron Miller. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch, October 3, 2017.
AtScale, a four-year old startup that helps companies get a big-picture view of their big data inside their BI tools, announced a $25 million Series C investment today.
The round was led by Atlantic Bridge with participation from new investors Wells […]
By Robert Siegel. This article originally appeared on Fortune, August 14, 2017.
The chaos over at Uber is one of the most unprecedented and shocking spectacles to come out of any business context in recent memory. First, the world’s most valuable private company had its celebrated and controversial CEO, Travis Kalanick, […]
By John Dubow. This article originally appeared in the Associated Press.
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — The epiphany hit Phil Wagner about a decade ago when he was stuck in Southern California traffic pouring over reams of data in his car and he realized how he could take information about how athletes jump and land […]
Top Investors Back Team of Materials Scientists Using Artificial Intelligence to Dramatically Accelerate Time to Market
This press release originally appeared in Business Wire.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Citrine Informatics, the chemicals and materials artificial intelligence (AI) platform, today announced it has closed a $7.6 million Series A led by Eric […]
Founder Phil Wagner believes he’s uncovered the secrets for minimizing athletic injuries while maximizing performance.
By Jeff Bercovici. This article originally appeared in Inc.
Phil Wagner is a man who believes in controlling his physiological responses, not letting them control him. Each night, he uses a technique called coherence training to harmonize his heart rate […]
By Anthony Ha. This article originally appeared in TechCrunch on April 13, 2017.
We hear a lot about our online data being bought and sold by advertisers, but Narrative founder and CEO Nick Jordan said the actual process remains “incredibly cumbersome.”
And he should know, since he’s spent years in the adtech world, […]
By Ron Miller. This article originally appeared in TechCrunch on February 23, 2017.
FOSSA wants to help developers manage the tricky terrain of open source license management, and today it announced a $2.2 million seed round. The company also announced that its license management product by the same name was available in open Beta. […]
Investment funds in Nordic countries, Russia and India are shelved while China deals slow down
This article originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 5, 2017.
Dave McClure of 500 Startups is ready to conquer the world. But not all of the world is prepared for his venture-investing strategy.
With some […]
Computer Translations Have Got Strikingly Better, But Still Need Human Input
This article originally appeared within the Technology Quarterly on The Economist, January 5, 2017.
IN “STAR TREK” it was a hand-held Universal Translator; in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” it was the Babel Fish popped conveniently into the ear. In science fiction, […]
The Former Houston Texan Knows A Thing Or Two About Coming Back From Injuries
By Kevin J. Ryan. This article originally appeared on Inc., January 5, 2017.
During his eight-year football career, running back Arian Foster led the NFL in rushing touchdowns twice, led the league in rushing yards once, and became […]
By Florian Faes. This article originally appeared on Slator, October 27, 2016.
Language industry venture funding has been somewhat muted in the second half of 2016 with only SmartCat, LinguaCustodia, and Interprefy closing seed rounds. In a sign that activity might be picking up again, translation productivity startup Lilt […]
By Seth Fiegerman. This article originally appeared on CNN Money, October 16, 2016.
They say entrepreneurs need to embrace fear, but Tim Suzman may have taken that maxim a little too literally.
After watching venture capitalists and tech companies invest in virtual reality products in early 2015, Suzman decided to build one of his own. Other […]
By Rick Merritt. This article originally appeared on EE Times, October 4, 2016.
STMicroelectronics Co-Designs Triple-Band SoC
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Startup HMicro Inc. comes out of stealth mode today with a plan to create a high volume market for disposable wireless patches. Its HC1100 SoC, co-developed with STMicroelectronics, uses Wi-Fi and […]
This article originally appeared on VentureBeat, September 9, 2016.
‘The partnership-driven model of our funding approach is carefully managed to build stable, long-term infrastructure and equity for high value,’ says HMicro Inc.’s founder and CEO
FREMONT, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–September 9, 2016–HMicro, Inc., a global company that creates system-on-a-chip biosensor platform technology for medical […]
By Michelle Quinn. This article originally appeared on The Mercury News, August 31, 2016.
The tech industry is pedaling along just fine.
Nothing on the horizon seems likely to knock off Google, Facebook, Apple or the many smaller companies that are keeping up with the pack.
Except, what if, Uber, the most valuable startup […]
By Eric Newcomer. This article originally appeared on Bloomberg, August 25, 2016.
After touting profitability in the U.S. early this year, the ride-hailing company is said to post second-quarter losses exceeding $100 million
The ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. is not a public company, but every three months, dozens of shareholders get on a […]
This article originally appeared on PYMNTS.com, August 15, 2016.
Time is money for every business, but perhaps no more so than for microbusinesses. With only a handful of employees, the time wasted on manual business processes, like invoicing, means lost business (and, of course, lost money).
But there’s a section of the microenterprise community that may […]
This article originally appeared on New American Economy, August 12, 2016.
Russian-born immigrant, recent Stanford Graduate School of Business graduate, and entrepreneur Misha Esipov, 28, is “on a mission to improve immigrant lending around the world” and “build a cross-border credit bureau to connect U.S. lenders to international data.” His company, Nova Credit Inc., is developing an […]
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By Laura Sydell. This podcast originally appeared on NPR, July 5, 2016.
London-based tech companies face the uncertainty of the upcoming exit from the European Union. Many worry about less investment and less access to the talent they need to grow. Some may just leave.
**Listen to podcast featuring XSeed Partner Robert Siegel below** […]
By Deborah Gage. This article originally appeared on The Wall Street Journal, June 20, 2016.
XSeed Capital has added a partner, Damon Cronkey, as the firm seeks to step up its early-stage investments.
Mr. Cronkey was most recently a senior vice president of corporate development at SurveyMonkey Inc., and served as director of corporate development at […]
Twitter Is Expected To Invest $100 Million Into SoundCloud, With Speculation Abounding As To Why
By Ben Rosen. This article originally appeared on The Christian Science Monitor, June 15, 2016.
Twitter made noise Tuesday with a $70-million investment in the music service Soundcloud, perhaps one of social media’s latest experiments to redefine how their […]
By Dave Mariani. This blog originally appeared on AtScale, May 16, 2016.
I am excited to unveil the details of our Series B round. And I’m particularly proud of the tremendous progress we’ve made as a company since we burst onto the scene from stealth mode a little more than a year ago.
By Dennis Mitzner. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch, May 3, 2016.
As payment solutions proliferate and calls for standardization mount, Israel-based payment platform startup Zooz said it has closed a $24 million led by Target Global Ventures, to expand globally and bolster its products and services.
Zooz’s series C round […]
By Jordan Novet. This article originally appeared on VentureBeat, March 29, 2016.
Publicly traded enterprise hardware company Brocade is announcing today that it has acquired StackStorm, a startup that built software for automating data center operations. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
StackStorm launched out of stealth mode in May 2014 and announced the […]
Enterprises such as American Express, Aetna, Comcast, and Quotient join the BI on Hadoop leader’s fast-expanding customer list
This press release originally appeared on AtScale, February 29, 2016.
San Mateo, California, February 29, 2016 — AtScale, the first company to provide business users with speed, security and simplicity for BI on […]
By Oren Levy. This contributed article originally appeared on TechCrunch, February 21, 2016.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has metamorphosed over the last few years. In the future, its applications will no doubt impact industry, urban development, healthcare, agriculture and other major ecosystems. Gartner projects there will be 6.4 billion connected things in use worldwide in 2016 (a […]
By Ryan Mac. This interview originally appeared on Forbes, January 19, 2016.
It’s the day after a storm dumped a few inches of snow on Homewood Mountain Ski Resort and I’m strapping into a cheap, rented snowboard trying to take in the dramatic views. Below me, Lake Tahoe glistens in the morning sun, framed by miles of white dusted evergreens and what seems like an unlimited supply of fresh powder
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This interview originally appeared on CNN, December 21, 2015.
Cape Productions is developing automated drones to film your adventures from above. The following is a video interview with Louis Gresham, Co-Founder of Cape Productions.
*Click on image to view full video. […]
By Thomas Peipert. This article originally appeared on the San Jose Mercury News, November 20, 2015.
DENVER — A drone hovers about 30 feet above the skier’s head, then quickly swoops down for a tighter angle so its video camera can capture his every move as he carves down a steep powder stash.
It’s not a […]
Legal professionals will benefit from new, next-generation solutions that drive more informed decisions to craft winning case strategy and close business
This press release originally appeared on PR Web, November 23, 2015.
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced that it has acquired privately held Lex Machina, Inc., creator of […]
Company Announces Over $10 million in Funding from New Enterprise Associates, XSeed Capital, Madrona Venture Group, S-Cubed Capital and the Commercial Drone Fund to Offer Autonomous Drone Video Service to Skiers & Snowboarders
This press release originally appeared on Business Wire, October 13, 2015.
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cape Productions ( […]
By Gil Press. This article originally appeared on Forbes, September 17, 2015.
Results of the largest worldwide survey to date of Hadoop users were released today by AtScale, which was assisted in this project by Cloudera, MapR and Tableau. The answers from more than 2,100 participants provide insights into the current and future use of Hadoop […]
This press release originally appeared on PR Newswire, September 17, 2015.
SimplyCredit, a financial technology startup, today announced the company raised $1.5 million to build a new credit product that allows consumers to refinance their existing credit card debt at lower rates using a one-stop payment management platform. The series Seed round was led by […]
By Cromwell Schubarth. This article originally appeared on Silicon Valley Business Journal, August 17, 2015.
Josh Becker worked both sides of Silicon Valley’s startup and tech world before joining legal analytics business Lex Machina as CEO.
The former VC and entrepreneur said what he has learned at Palo Alto-based Lex Machina should […]
GeneWEAVE’s Smarticles technology enhances Roche’s role in fighting drug-resistant bacteria
This press release originally appeared on Roche.com, August 13, 2015.
Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire GeneWEAVE BioSciences, Inc. (GeneWEAVE), a privately held company focused on innovative, clinical microbiology diagnostics solutions based in […]
By Ellen Huet. This article originally appeared on Forbes, July 15, 2015.
Justin Berry is a 33-year-old heating, ventilation and air conditioning technician near Dallas, Texas. He’d like to get new customer leads and have access to software that helps him manage his jobs by communicating with clients and taking payments. He could sign up as a service […]
By Brian Howard. This article originally appeared on Lex Machina, July 14, 2015.
Patent case filings rose sharply in May (607 cases) and June (654 cases) of 2015, leaving the total for the Q2 2015 as the highest of any quarter yet observed (1,656 cases, as shown in Figure 2 below). The H1 total for 2015 is 3,122, […]
Hosted by Harry Stebbings. This podcast originally appeared on The Twenty Minute VC, June 18, 2015.
Alan Chiu is a Partner at XSeed Capital, with a strong background in enterprise software and data storage. Alan is currently Vice President for Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, an alumni association that […]
Offers New Approach to Secure SaaS Applications and Extends Enterprise Security Platform Capabilities
This press release originally appeared on Palo Alto Networks’ website, May 27, 2015.
Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW), the leader in enterprise security, today announced it has acquired CirroSecure, a Silicon Valley-based company with a highly differentiated approach to securing Software […]
Company will introduce Zip® to cardiac electrophysiolgists at annual meeting of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) in Boston, May 13-16
This article originally appeared on Business Wire, May 12, 2015.
CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ZipLine Medical, Inc. announced today that several clinical studies are demonstrating the Zip® Surgical Skin […]
Molecular Diagnostics Company Wins First-Place at 2015 DxMA Global Marketing Summit
This article originally appeared on PRWeb, May 12, 2015.
Los Gatos, CA (PRWEB) May 12, 2015 —
GeneWEAVE , Inc., a clinical diagnostics company addressing multi-drug-resistant organisms (MDRO), today announced that it received two first place DxMA Creative Communication Awards for […]
Announcing the six standout products from the thousands of new offerings at the 2015 National Association of Broadcasters conference
This article originally appeared on Streaming Media, April 15, 2015.
For the third time, the editors and writers of StreamingMedia.com have scoured the conference halls and booths of NAB to present our awards for the […]
This article originally appeared on ZDNet, April 6, 2015.
After a year-long beta project, startup AtScale has today emerged from stealth mode to launch a product it describes as a business user interface for Hadoop.
The San Mateo, California-based company, founded by staff who worked at Yahoo during the early days of Hadoop, has unveiled its […]
This article originally appeared on IAM, March 26, 2015.
Lex Machina’s second annual review of the patent litigation landscape in the US is out today and the IAM blog has had an exclusive preview of what is a very comprehensive piece of work.
The main headline figure for last year – that […]
Now Hadoop users can quickly and easily get hands-on experience “wrangling” unruly big data
This article originally appeared on Trifacta, February 18, 2015.
San Jose, Calif. – Strata + Hadoop World – February 18, 2015 – Trifacta, a leading Data Transformation Platform provider, today announced the launch of the Trifacta Trial […]
By Cyrus Wadia and Michael Stebbins. This article originally appeared on The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, February 6, 2015.
In 2011 President Obama launched the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), committing the nation to discover, develop, and deploy cutting-edge materials twice as fast and at a fraction of the cost at that time. […]
By Daniel Fisher. This article originally appeared on Forbes, February 2, 2015.
If you’re being sued for patent infringement before U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, there’s something you ought to know. Koh is tough on defendants and only grants 18% of motions for summary judgment, less than half the national average. […]
By Alyson Shontell. This article originally appeared on Business Insider, January 22, 2015.
Amanda Bradford doesn’t think her dating app, The League, is elitist. She prefers the word “curated,” the same way Ivy League schools and top employers select only the best candidates.
The League, which just raised a $2.1 million seed round, […]
By Jordan Crook. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch, December 17, 2014.
Chatous, a social messaging app that has been around since November 2012, is today closing a $2.1 million seed round led by General Catalyst, with participation from XSeed Capital and Slow Ventures. General Catalyst’s Kevin Colleran will join the board.
The […]
With CirroSecure for Dropbox, Enterprises Can Easily Share, Sync and Collaborate in Secure Cloud-based Environment
This article originally appeared on PRWeb, December 3, 2014.
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (PRWEB) – CirroSecure, a leader in cloud data security, today announced an integration with Dropbox for Businessthat enables customers to address their data loss prevention […]
Backed by Tech Luminaries, Breezeworks Brings Advanced Productivity Tools to Massive Yet Underserved Market
This article originally appeared on BusinessWire, November 18, 2014.
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today Breezeworks announced that it has raised $5 million in the first-ever investment led by Evan Williams’s recently formed Obvious Ventures. This funding fuels the […]
Award follows recent $5.7 million Series C financing round extension to expand worldwide sales and marketing activities
This article originally appeared on BusinessWire, November 18, 2014.
CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ZipLine Medical, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded “2014 Best New Technology In Spine Care” by […]
By Jonathan Shieber. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch, November 12, 2014.
Today marks the soft launch of the The League, a Tinder-esque dating app that adds a layer of class-awareness (or at least job status) for those looking for true affection in their mobile dating experience.
The pitch from The […]
By Jordan Novet. This article originally appeared on VentureBeat, November 2, 2014.
The startup StackStorm is taking the first step toward popularizing the software it’s built to help people more efficiently run and update applications in whatever data centers they choose.
Today, in conjunction with the OpenStack Paris conference, StackStorm is releasing the 0.5 […]
By Derrick Harris. This article originally appeared on Gigaom, October 30, 2014.
I’m probably guilty of spending too much time talking to startups and web companies, to the point where it’s easy to forget that not everyone is regularly re-architecting their applications and inserting new tools into their data-processing pipelines. Not every company is Facebook, where storage is […]
Extension reflects commercial sales traction for Zip®, designed to produce suture-like outcomes with significant surgical time-savings
This article originally appeared on BusinessWire, October 20, 2014.
CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ZipLine Medical announced today that it has closed a $5.7 million extension to its Series C financing, which was announced on Jan. […]
Drug manufacturers and their counsel get legal analytics for litigation in new drug applications
By Sean Doherty. This article originally appeared on Law Technology News, September 29, 2014.
Lex Machina, a provider of legal analytics from publicly available data sources, announced on Sept. 23 a new service for the pharmaceutical industry. […]
By Ellen Huet. This article originally appeared on Forbes, September 15, 2014.
Here’s the problem with dating apps in 2014: You want to be on one, but don’t want to be seen on one.
Especially if you’re someone visible, like a tech CEO, a venture capitalist, or anyone who considers himself or herself “kind of a […]
Operations automation enabler joins OpenStack foundation and partners with key contributors
This article originally appeared on Business Wire, September 10, 2014.
PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–StackStorm, a software company leading the third wave of operations automation, today revealed a strategic partnership to integrate StackStorm products with software and services […]
By Steve Lohr. This article originally appeared in The New York Times, August 18, 2014.
Technology revolutions come in measured, sometimes foot-dragging steps. The lab science and marketing enthusiasm tend to underestimate the bottlenecks to progress that must be overcome with hard work and practical engineering.
The field known as “big data” offers a contemporary case […]
This article originally appeared on PR Newswire, August 5, 2014.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The SOLAR PHOENIX: How America Can Rise from the Ashes of Solyndra to World Leadership in Solar 2.0, a new book by Silicon Valley technology pioneer and solar entrepreneur Brad Mattson, offers a detailed roadmap of how solar will lead […]
By Banny Banerjee. This article originally appeared on The Rockefeller Foundation Blog, July 29, 2014.
This post, co-authored by Jacqueline del Castillo and Theo Gibbs, is part of a series that illustrates the value of innovation labs in accelerating solutions to complex social problems, sharing lessons from the Foundation’s Innovation Lab effort from various perspectives. […]
By James Barron. This article originally appeared on New York Times, July 20, 2014.
It is not, said the pianist turned software entrepreneur Robert Taub, a karaoke app with video. Instead his new app, Hook’d, creates what he described as “musical selfies,” in which only the voice track sounds like the user. […]
By Orr Hirschauge. This article originally appeared on The Wall Street Journal, July 16, 2014.
TEL AVIV — Zooz Mobile Ltd., an Israeli based start-up that makes secure payment solutions for stores and eCommerce sites has closed a $12 million funding round led by Blumberg Capital.
Founded in 2010, Zooz started out as a mobile payments […]
Decheng Capital, Claremont Creek Ventures, and XSeed Capital Participate in Financing
This article originally appeared on PRWeb, July 2, 2014.
LOS GATOS, Calif. (PRWEB) — July 02, 2014
GeneWeave Biosciences, Inc., a clinical diagnostics company addressing multi-drug-resistant organisms (MDRO), today announced the completion of its $12 million Series B […]
Research Shows Closing the Feedback Loop Leads to Increased Satisfaction Ratings, Harvard Business School Study Reveals Higher Yelp Scores Yield 5 to 9 Percent Revenue Increases
This article originally appeared on Business Wire, June 19, 2014.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DropThought Inc., the leading instant feedback platform that enables businesses to […]
By Samir Kaji. This article originally appeared on PEVC Banker, June 2, 2014.
We recently sat down with Rob Siegel, General Partner at XSeed Capital, a seed fund based out of Portola Valley, to discuss founding team cohesion and the role it plays in a company’s success. Rob’s investment areas include enterprise software, business operations where […]
By Jonathan Shieber. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch, May 29, 2014.
While companies spend trillions of dollars on big data technologies to compile, store, and deliver the volumes of data they’re collecting and the software and services that they have to make sense of that data once it’s collected, there’s a divide that separates the […]
By Kia Kokalitcheva. This article originally appeared on VentureBeat, May 20, 2014.
SAN FRANCISCO — A statistical model is not a product — yet.
Data nerds might be incredibly good at creating fancy datamodels and tools, but if they want to take those skills and create a company, they need to make […]
By Patricia Kutza. This article originally appeared on Law Technology News, May 19, 2014.
Backers say digital media is in the DNA of a successful capital venture
Between the four of them, they’ve structured deals for the likes of Vindicia, Garage.com, Sun Microsystems and Pixim. At the final and most-anticipated panel of the Legal Frontiers […]
By Brian R. Fitzgerald. This article originally appeared on Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2014.
The patent war of attrition between Apple and Samsung may come across like the singular struggle over tech innovation, but court fights about intellectual property are a regular part of life in the tech industry.
Apple was sued 59 times in […]
By Rakesh Sharma. This article originally appeared on Forbes, May 14, 2014.
Big data meets patent litigation in legal analytics firm Lex Machina‘s report about 2013 in review. The report, which was released earlier this week, trots out interesting, though unsurprising, statistics.
For example, the number of new patent cases in district courts […]
This article originally appeared on PEVC Dow Jones VentureWire, May 6, 2014.
Operations automation startup StackStorm emerged from stealth mode with funding from xSeed Capital to introduce a private beta program for the company’s first product.
The company is focused on developing self-driving data centers that learn how to operate more efficiently. It is currently focused […]
By Jordan Novet. This article originally appeared on VentureBeat, May 5, 2014.
If you really must maintain your own data center, it’s nice if you can minimize the number of people who work there. A startup called StackStorm wants to help you do that.
Stackstorm, which has operated in stealth mode until today, intends […]
Lex Machina uses predictive analytics to harness data in IP cases, helping lawyers create litigation strategies
By Sean Doherty. This article originally appeared on Law Technology News, April 11, 2014.
A task legion to intellectual property lawyers is how to develop a litigation strategy that factors in all the complexity of a typical IP case, including […]
By Sean Kandel. This article originally appeared on Harvard Business Review, April 1, 2014.
As organizations collect increasingly large and diverse data sets, the demand for skilled data scientists will continue to rise. In fact, it was dubbed “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” by Harvard Business Review.
Unfortunately, the day-to-day […]
This article originally appeared on the Stanford Graduate School of Business Tumblr page, March 6, 2014.
In last week’s “Nuts & Bolts” talk at Stanford GSB, Lecturer Robert Siegel (MBA ‘94) shared insights on hiring and compensating employees at a startup. Read three key takeaways below, and view the slides from his talk here […]
By Rich Steeves. This article originally appeared on Inside Counsel, February 21, 2014.
Lex Machina has announced that its technology will be used to complement the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) new online toolkit, which provides free, public information about demand letters to businesses and consumers.
On February 20, the White House issued […]
By Jordan Novet. This article originally appeared on VentureBeat, February 4, 2014.
Before data scientists can uncover correlations, anomalies and other signals hidden in large volumes of data, they must perform tedious and time-consuming work: getting the data ready for analysis.
The process, known as data transformation, is not generally thought of as a sexy task. […]
By Alex Woodie. This article originally appeared on Datanami, January 24, 2014.
Having a big data set is a bit like owning a big house. There are many more activities available to you and your friends, but at the end of the day, keeping the house clean and tidy is a major expense. What the world really needs […]
By Chethan Ramachandran. This article originally appeared on VentureBeat, January 23, 2014.
This sponsored post is produced by Chethan Ramachandran, the CEO of Playnomics.
The world of mobile marketing moves fast, so why use outdated metrics that are no longer accurate representations of your application’s health? Here are five metrics you should be focusing […]
By Bernadette Tansey. This article originally appeared on Xconomy, January 9, 2014.
There’s a straight line from Amir Belson’s boyhood dreams to ZipLine, a startup exploring new ways for patients to heal after surgery.
When Belson was six or seven, he started bringing his inventions to his father. At age nine, the Israeli […]
This article originally appeared on VentureBeat, January 21, 2014.
Financing comes on the heels of clinical study showing that ZipLine produces suture-like outcomes with significant surgical time-savings
CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–January 21, 2014–
ZipLine Medical announced today that it has closed a Series C financing round in the amount of $4.3 million. […]
By Derrick Harris. This article originally appeared on Gigaom, December 31, 2013.
The legal profession is inherently conservative when it comes to adopting new technologies and practices, but firms and lawyers that want to stand out in an evolving field might want to jump on the big data bandwagon sooner rather than later.
Law firms took […]
By Phillip J. Bond. This article originally appeared on The Hill, December 23, 2013.
Somewhat late to the dance, the US legal system is finally meeting information technology. And Josh Becker has made sure there is a “law machine” ready to take patent proceedings into the 21st Century.
Becker, a successful VC and tech pro in […]
This article originally appeared on Business Wire, December 19, 2013.
CAMBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Preliminary clinical study results from a randomized, controlled, prospective clinical study comparing the ZipLine Surgical Skin Closure to traditional stitches for skin cancer excision were presented at the 16th Annual Mount Sinai Winter Symposium on Advances in Medical and Surgical Dermatology, which took […]
By Kyle Wong. This article originally appeared on Forbes, December 12, 2013.
This morning Instagram announced Instagram Direct, a new feature to privately send your friends photos and videos. Instagram refers to these photos on its blog as ‘moments’ to help people share things like “An inside joke between friends captured on the go, a […]
By Deborah Gage. This article originally appeared on PEVC Dow Jones VentureWire, December 5, 2013.
Big Data has become abundant, but the work of prepping it so that it can be understood and manipulated by humans is hard–and the more data there is, the harder that job gets.
San Francisco-based Trifacta Inc. has raised $12 million […]
This article originally appeared on Business Wire, November 6, 2013.
Zip™ Non-Invasive Wound Closure Device is Faster than Sutures, Can Produce Superior Cosmesis Compared to Staples and Can Reduce the Risk of Surgical Site Infection
CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ZipLine Medical announced today that Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center has adopted its patented […]
By Steve McClellan. This article originally appeared on MediaPost Agency Daily, October 30, 2013.
pMarketers have a new platform for sorting and ranking the millions of photos that consumers tag with their brand names. It’s called Pixlee, and is formally launching this week, although it has been quietly working with clients for a while.
Based […]
By Tam Harbert. This article originally appeared on IEEE Spectrum, October 30, 2013.
How Silicon Valley’s Lex Machina is blending AI and data analytics to radically alter patent litigation
In a low-rise building in Menlo Park, Calif., just upstairs from a Mexican restaurant and a nail salon, a Stanford University spin-off is crunching data in ways […]
By Karsten Strauss. This article originally appeared on Forbes, October 29, 2013.
Visual marketing firm Pixlee announced today that it’s raised $1.5 million to bulk up on engineering and marketing personnel. The young, image-based social media-driven company says it wants to offer brands new ways of connecting with consumers and leveraging consumer content to broaden visibility. Its product […]
By Molly McHugh. This article originally appeared on Digital Trends, October 29, 2013.
If you ever had any doubt that Instagram would become a commercial platform, that doubt should be dead – taken out back and shot with a sawed-off rifle dead. The network was bought by Facebook, did some house-cleaning with third party apps in regards […]
By Rich Steeves. This article originally appeared on Inside Counsel, October 29, 2013.
Stanford University Law School professor Mark Lemley coined the phrase “anecdata” to describe much of the information that was traditionally used in intellectual property cases. One lawyer heard from another lawyer that a particular judge usually ruled favorably towardalleged infringers, or […]
By Rakesh Sharma. This article originally appeared on Forbes, October 29, 2013.
In recent times, services such as LexisNexis and WestLaw, that crawl through multiple documents, filings, and databases, have become extremely popular with lawyers. This is because they are convenient, quick and provide their subscribers with detailed information regarding a particular topic and case. However, it is […]
By Kyle Wong. This article originally appeared on Forbes, October 17, 2013.
Starting a company is easy, building one is hard.
As a startup founder your job is to recruit a world-class team. The first step is to naturally surround yourself with a passionate founder team with complementary skill sets whom you trust and work well […]
By John D. Oravecz . This article originally appeared on Trib Live, October 17, 2013.
Editors know that images help draw consumers to news and social media websites.
Sophie Lebrecht, CEO and co-founder of Neon Labs Inc., a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company, says using powerful images as thumbnails — the small photos that link to […]
By Joanne Lipman. This article originally appeared on The New York Times, October 12, 2013.
Condoleezza Rice trained to be a concert pianist. Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, was a professional clarinet and saxophone player. The hedge fund billionaire Bruce Kovner is a pianist who took classes at Juilliard.
Multiple studies link music […]
By Deborah Gage. This article originally appeared on PEVC Dow Jones VentureWire, October 9, 2013.
XSeed Capital is stepping back from investing in life sciences and clean energy startups to focus solely on information technology, VentureWire has learned.
The firm is following what’s become a familiar path in Silicon Valley, as more venture firms find that […]
By Lisa Holton. This article originally appeared on Law Technology News, October 1, 2013.
The venture capitalist says the legal technology market is between $8 and $16 billion.
ROBERT SIEGEL
Birthplace: Los Angeles
Location: Portola Valley, Calif.
Age: 45 […]
This article originally appeared on PR Newswire, September 9, 2013.
Mobile App makers using technology to solve the most common problems between onsite service providers and customers
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Breeze, the first company to leverage the power of the smartphone to automate the $120 billion onsite service provider […]
By Ricardo Bilton. This article originally appeared on VentureBeat, September 9, 2013.
If the boundaries between mobile devices and the web are blurring, does it make sense to have checkout platforms created solely for either one?
Payments platform Zooz doesn’t think so. The company is rolling a new HTML5-based checkout product, which it says […]
This podcast originally appeared on Legal Talk Network, September 3, 2013.
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In the September edition of Law Technology Now, attorney Monica Bay, editor-in-chief of ALM’s Law Technology News, interviews Robert […]
By Patrick Hoge. This article originally appeared on San Francisco Business Times, September 3, 2013.
Federal investigators recently called for patent officials to study patent lawsuit trends in an effort to improve the quality of patents, which many critics say have been overly broad and vulnerable to litigation abuse.
To support its recommendation, the Government Accountability […]
By Christina Farr & Sean Ludwig. This article originally appeared on VentureBeat, August 5, 2013.
Venture capitalists are betting on cloud startups with a specific focus: health care, financial services, real estate, and other industries.
This more specialized, “vertical” industry approach is a stark contrast to the more horizontal approach taken by first-generation cloud […]
This article was written by XSeed Partner Robert Siegel and appeared in the Industrialists Dilemma section of casasiegel.com.
As we prepared for Robinhood’s Co-CEO and Stanford alum, Baiju Bhatt, to visit The Industrialist’s Dilemma, we thought the class session would revolve around how Millennials want to trade stocks for free. We thought this would […]
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This article was written by XSeed Partner Robert Siegel and appeared in the Industrialists Dilemma section of casasiegel.com.
I have to admit — I had this date highlighted on my calendar when AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson committed to coming to our class this year. The size, scope and challenges of AT&T are […]
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This article was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Jeff Thermond.
One of the great things about being a venture capitalist is the opportunity to meet upwards of a thousand eager entrepreneurs every year. Sometimes these meetings are great because their idea is compelling. Sometimes it is great because they are really impressive people. And every now and […]
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This blog was written by Zooz CEO and co-founder, Oren Levy.
To an entrepreneur, a successful exit represents the culmination of many years of hard work and sacrifice and the final stage in turning your company’s vision into a market-accepted reality. It is also an emotional roller coaster ride – stressful and exhilarating – all at the same time. This was […]
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This blog was written by XSeed Partner, Damon Cronkey.
As we enter the week of Thanksgiving here in the US, the XSeed team has been reflecting on the past year and how many “That’s an amazing accomplishment”, “What the f—?!?”, “Wow, how did she/he/they do that?!” and “Take a seat and listen to what I am going to […]
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This article was written by XSeed Partner Robert Siegel and appeared in the Systems Leadership section of casasiegel.com.
We finished this year’s Systems Leadership course with Tony Thomas, CIO of Nissan. The class session entailed a rich discussion of how Systems Leaders need to drive transformational change during uncertain times. Thomas joined […]
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This article was written by XSeed Partner Robert Siegel and appeared in the Systems Leadership section of casasiegel.com.
Carl Ice runs one of the largest railway systems in North America. And while most of our students may never work for a big railway company in their careers, they all gained a much clearer understanding […]
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This article was written by XSeed Partner Robert Siegel and appeared in the Systems Leadership section of casasiegel.com
The complexity facing the United States healthcare market is staggering. With the percentage of healthcare spending approaching 20% of the United States’ GDP, the importance of this issue is existential both socioeconomically for the country, as well […]
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This article was written by XSeed Partner Robert Siegel and appeared in the Systems Leadership section of casasiegel.com
We had one of our most interesting sessions to date with Ganesh Bell, President of Uptake. While we explored how Systems Leaders need to assess those parts of the technical stack where a company needs […]
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This article was written by XSeed Partner Robert Siegel and appeared in the Systems Leadership section of casasiegel.com.
Most of the companies we have been studying that are going through the digital industrial transformation have been either larger incumbents or new digital upstarts. However, one party is looking at this opportunity through […]
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