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Newsletter / The Angle
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #248: Cameras, Code and Creation
Newsletter / The Angle
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #247: Please Wait. . . Updating Priors
Newsletter / The Angle
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #246: Thinking Like a Manager
Newsletter / The Angle
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #245: What Do We Mean When We Say AI Agent?
Newsletter / The Angle
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #244: Choosing the Right Ladder
Newsletter / The Angle
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #242: Dominant Narrative vs. Specific Reality
Newsletter / The Angle
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #241: The Problem With “Selling the Work”
Blog / Am I Thinking About AI the Right Way?
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Gil shares the four AI themes and questions he's thinking about.
Newsletter / The Angle
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #240: Am I Thinking About AI the Right Way?
Newsletter / The Angle
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #239: The Magic of Flexibility
Newsletter / The Angle
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #238: The Venture Apocalypse
Newsletter / The Angle
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #237: Marketing has Become too Specialized
Newsletter / The Angle
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #236: Partnering with Founders for the Hardest Things
Newsletter / The Angle
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #235: No More Painting by Numbers
Newsletter / The Angle
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #233: SF is Back, and We Are Back in SF
Newsletter / The Angle
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #231: Engineering Success in a Technical Startup
Blog / No Sleepwalk to Success
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Engineering success in a technical startup.
Newsletter / The Angle
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #230: FalkorDB’s GraphRAG to the Rescue!
Newsletter / The Angle
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #229: The Age of Artisanal Software is Over
Newsletter / The Angle
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #228: The Eight Paradigms of AI Application Startups
Newsletter / The Angle
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #227: The End of Software?
Newsletter / The Angle
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #226: A Visit to Berlin, and a Tale of Three Cities
Newsletter / The Angle
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #224: A New Look and a Look at What’s New
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Anne, David and Gil
Team
Angular Ventures
Team
Angular Ventures
Issue #223: Angular Ventures Weekly Refresh
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #222: Commoditize Your Complement: Meta AI Edition
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #221: How are you Planning to Get Good at GTM?
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #220: A Simple Deck Framework
Blog / Revenue Durability in the LLM World
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Everything about LLMs seems to make revenue durability more challenging than ever.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #219: Revenue Durability in the LLM World
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner & David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #217: A Robotic Future for Retail Grocery, Finally. Why we Invested in Finally
Blog / A Robotic Future for Retail Grocery, Finally.
Gil Dibner & David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we invested in Finally.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #216: The Law of Diminishing Distribution Arbitrage
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #215: Leveraging Your Competitor’s Narratives
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #214: The Primitives of AI
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #213: Announcing our Investment in Portchain
Blog / A Digital Fabric for Maritime Trade
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we invested in Portchain.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Anne Blum
Head of Platform
Head of Platform
Issue #212: Crafting a Compelling Website
Blog / Three Keys to the Kingdom
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
The sometimes-competing and sometimes-aligned goals that early-stage founders must manage.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #211: A Bit of Optimism and Three Objectives
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #210: Talking to Customers Isn’t Enough
Blog / Customer-driven Entrepreneurship
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Reframing the critical unlock in early-stage venture.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #209: Customer-driven Entrepreneurship
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #208: When Growth Stalls
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #207: See You in 2024
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #206: Gearing up for Next Year
Press / Gil Dibner Makes the Midas List Europe 2023
Forbes
Gil Dibner moves up to #11 on the Midas List Europe 2023 thanks to a slew of successful investments.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #205: The Complexity of Complex Enterprise Sales
Blog / It's 3am. Do You Know What Your Third-party API Calls Are Doing?
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Announcing our investment in Lunar.dev.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #204: Why We Are so Excited to Announce our Investment in Lunar.dev
Blog / Small & Strong Beats Big & Weak
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Three startup paradigms in the LLM era.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #203: Thin and Ephemeral vs. Big and Weak vs. Small and Strong
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Venttures
Partner
Angular Venttures
Issue #202: The Value of Focused Intervention
Blog / The End of Entrepreneurship by Autopilot
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
The unicorn factory has stopped. What are the implications for founders?
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #201: The End of Entrepreneurship by Autopilot
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #200: Will LLMs abstract away humanity?
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #199: No words. The Heartbreaking Situation in Israel
Blog / 2023: The Crucible Year
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
What is in store for the next 18 months?
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Anne Blum
Head of Platform
Angular Ventures
Head of Platform
Angular Ventures
Issue #198: The Hidden Strategic Partner
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #197: The Crucible Year
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #196: The Peter Principle
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #195: ZIRP was Bigger Than we Thought / AI Might be Less Disruptive Than we Think
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #194: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #193: The Psychological Boomerang of Generative AI
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #192: Bad Startup Ideas
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #191: Mass Education Event
Blog / Kafka Survivors of the World, Unite!
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we backed Memphis.dev.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #190: Shoptalk
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #189: You are not Alone. A Few Notes From the Field.
Blog / The Problem with Startup Advice
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
The best founders and investors know the rules, but also know when to break them.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #188: The Problem with Startup Advice
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Angular Ventures Issue #187: Dialing in the Message
Talk / US Immigration Best Practices
Jennifer Schear
Founding Partner
Schear Immigration Law Firm
Founding Partner
Schear Immigration Law Firm
Angular Insights podcast episode, led by Jennifer Schear, Founding Partner at Schear Immigration Law Firm, on US immigration best practices for founders.
During the session, Jennifer discusses recent US immigration trends and updates and best practices for short and long term planning for tech founders from initial relocation through permanent residence and beyond.
During the session, Jennifer discusses recent US immigration trends and updates and best practices for short and long term planning for tech founders from initial relocation through permanent residence and beyond.
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Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #186: Recycle your Marketing Dollars by Thinking in Loops
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #185: One Piece of Practical Advice for Many Early GTM Enterprise Startup CEOs
Press / Gil Makes the 2023 Midas Seed List
Forbes
Gil Dibner moves up the Seed List thanks to a slew of successful investments, most notably developer-focused software company JFrog, which went public in September 2020 at a $6.32 valuation.
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Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #184: What is the Dominant Strategy in AI?
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #183: Minimum Viable Reporting
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #182: For the week ended April 25, 2023
Blog / Looking Back to Move Forward
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
How to survive this extraordinarily exciting and wildly disconcerting age of generative AI.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #181: A few Theories of AI’s Impact on the Enterprise
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #180: For the week ended April 4, 2023
Blog / LLMs and the Future of Customer-built Software Design
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
How will LLMs change software development and design?
Blog / Navigating AI’s iPhone Moment
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
A venture perspective on LLMs and what’s next…
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #179: Navigating AI’s iPhone Moment
Talk / Learnings from Co-Founding Peakon, Podio, and Future Five
Kasper Hulthin
Co-Founder
Peakon, Podio, Future Five
Co-Founder
Peakon, Podio, Future Five
Angular Insights podcast episode led by Kasper Hulthin. Kasper co-founded Podio (acquired by Citrix) and Peakon (acquired by Workday). He is now the co-founder of Future Five, where he’s an active entrepreneur and investor in a handful of companies. Among other things, he is currently the Chairman of Normative.io, a Swedish company that is building an emissions accounting platform.
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David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #178: Ignorance and Expertise
Talk / The Evolution of Collibra's Product Positioning & How They Created a Category
Stijn “Stan” Christiaens
Co-Founder & Chief Data Citizen
Collibra
Co-Founder & Chief Data Citizen
Collibra
Angular Insights podcast episode led by Stijn "Stan" Christiaens, Co-Founder and Chief Data Citizen of Collibra, on the evolution of Collibra's product positioning and how they successfully created a category.
Stan currently leads Collibra’s Data Office and is responsible for overall data strategy, data infrastructure and translating internal learnings into value for their customers and partners. He is also Collibra’s product evangelist and drives future innovation. Previously, Stan launched various departments within Collibra including Product, Presales, Postsales, Partnerships, Marketplace, and Research and Education.
Stan currently leads Collibra’s Data Office and is responsible for overall data strategy, data infrastructure and translating internal learnings into value for their customers and partners. He is also Collibra’s product evangelist and drives future innovation. Previously, Stan launched various departments within Collibra including Product, Presales, Postsales, Partnerships, Marketplace, and Research and Education.
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Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #177: The Limits of Advice
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #176: For the week ended February 28, 2023
Blog / Principles for AI Product Design
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Or how we could all learn a little from Google’s conversion optimizer.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #175: A Few Small Things
Blog / Has Everyone Gone Chatbot Crazy?
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Large language models have taken the (tech) world by storm, and all of a sudden it’s 2016 again.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #174: For the week ended February 14, 2023
Talk / Lessons Learned From Investing Early in Over a Dozen SaaS Unicorns
Jason Green
Founder & General Partner
Emergence Capital
Founder & General Partner
Emergence Capital
Angular Insights episode led by Jason Green. During the talk, Jason covers lessons learned from investing early in over a dozen SaaS unicorns.
Jason is a Founding General Partner of Emergence, the first early-stage venture firm focused entirely on the enterprise cloud. The firm has been an early investor in companies such as Salesforce.com, Veeva, Box, Bill.com, Doximity, SuccessFactors, Yammer, Gusto, ServiceMax, SalesLoft and many others. Currently, Jason serves on the Boards of ASAPP, BetterWorks, Drishti, Lotame and Oyster and as a board observer at Gusto and G2.
Jason was named to the Forbes Top 100 Venture Capitalists Midas List and has served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association. Jason also served as Chairman of the West Coast Research Center for Harvard Business School and on the advisory board of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.
Jason is a Founding General Partner of Emergence, the first early-stage venture firm focused entirely on the enterprise cloud. The firm has been an early investor in companies such as Salesforce.com, Veeva, Box, Bill.com, Doximity, SuccessFactors, Yammer, Gusto, ServiceMax, SalesLoft and many others. Currently, Jason serves on the Boards of ASAPP, BetterWorks, Drishti, Lotame and Oyster and as a board observer at Gusto and G2.
Jason was named to the Forbes Top 100 Venture Capitalists Midas List and has served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association. Jason also served as Chairman of the West Coast Research Center for Harvard Business School and on the advisory board of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.
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Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #173: Do ChatGPT and Dall-E 2 mark the end of an era?
Blog / Why (and How) Investing in Billboard Advertising Sometimes Makes Sense
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Venture
Partner
Angular Venture
This is part I of a series on non-standard growth experiments.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #172: For the week ended January 31, 2023
Blog / The Hierarchy Trap
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Hierarchy is an important tool for providing structure and alignment, but it can easily grow like a weed if not managed.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #171: Burn Out vs. Cash Out
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #170: The Era of Capital-efficient Growth is Upon us
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #169: On the Threshold
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #168: The Beginning of the Exponential
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #167: A Simple Format for Board Decks
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #166: The Tech Recession
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #165: No one is having fun right now, and that’s okay
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #164: Where, oh where, has all the technology reporting gone?
Blog / The Tech Recession of 2022
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
What lessons can we learn?
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #163: Quiet Quitting, Quiet Building
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #162: Will Google be Disrupted?
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #161: Engineering Risk and Go-to-market Risk
Blog / It’s Never too Early to Build your Growth Model
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
What are the specific mechanisms by which one user turns into many, and an initial investment turns into revenue?
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #160: It’s Never too Early to Build your Growth Model
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #159: Introducing Budibase (and Congrats on Budibase 2.0!)
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #158: Taking the Pricing Plunge
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #157: Grinding it Out
Blog / How to Think About Revenue Quality as an Early Stage Founder
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
What does “quality revenue” mean when you don’t have much revenue at all?
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #156: For the week ended September 13, 2022
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #155: Phoney Slowdown, Real Slowdown
Blog / It’s Not All About Bottoms-up
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Two recent trends indicate that we may finally be past the mistaken belief that bottoms-up is the only “fundable” business model in town.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #154: For the week ended August 23, 2022
Blog / Don’t be Fooled by the PLG Mullet
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
How to know if you should be building a PLG Now, PLG Later or PLG Never company.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #153: Call Ahead to the Summit, but Climb the Mountain
Blog / PLG Now, PLG Later, or PLG Never
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Why there is no helicopter shortcut to the summit of Mount PLG.
Blog / For Early-Stage Venture, it’s Go Time
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Don’t tell anyone, but this is the best venture market in years.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #152: Summer Recommendations
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #151: What Kind of Relationship Are We Having Here?
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #150: The Great Hesitation Vacation
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #149: It’s Go Time
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #148: What Goes Up, Must Come Down
Talk / The Importance of Culture and Values As You Scale a Business
Oren Kaniel
Co-Founder & CEO
AppsFlyer
Co-Founder & CEO
AppsFlyer
Angular Insights episode led by Oren Kaniel, Co-Founder & CEO of AppsFlyer, on the importance of culture and values as you scale a business.
Oren founded AppsFlyer a decade ago to solve one of the major problems in the mobile apps market – mobile analytics and user attribution.
During his Insights session, Oren discussed how he built a true unicorn in a challenging market against huge competitors - by building a people-first culture.
Oren founded AppsFlyer a decade ago to solve one of the major problems in the mobile apps market – mobile analytics and user attribution.
During his Insights session, Oren discussed how he built a true unicorn in a challenging market against huge competitors - by building a people-first culture.
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David Peterson
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Issue #147: The Importance of Talent Spotting
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #146: How to Build a Commercial Team
Blog / The Right Stuff: How to Build a Commercial Team
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
How founders should go about building a commercial team.
Blog / Mapping the New World of Business Collaboration
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we invested in Reco.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
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Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #145: How Fast is Fast Enough?
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #144: A Note on Resiliency in a Dark Time
Blog / What do a 2003 BMW and Microsoft Excel have in common?
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Leaving users feeling empowered and energized, rather than managed and disconnected.
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #143: What do a 2003 BMW and Microsoft Excel have in common?
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #142: Operating in Uncertainty
Newsletter / Angular Ventures Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #141: Speed of Learning
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #140: Go-to-Market System Design
Blog / Fewer, but Better Than Ever
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
The Israeli tech eco-system ponders a slowdown in startup creation.
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #139: For the week ended April 12, 2022
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #138: Measuring Product-Market Fit
Blog / Success Can be About Less Than You Think
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Don’t fall victim to unfocused ambition.
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #137: Success Can be About Less Than You Think
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #136: The Long Hangover
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David Peterson
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Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #135: Dotcom 2.0?
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #134: A Contrarian Bet on SaaS
Blog / Why Building a “Compound Startup” Might be the Next, Great, Non-Obvious SaaS Play
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Or why “just focus” might be bad advice.
Talk / Female Founders Building Pain-Killers for Enterprises
Eynat Guez & Neta Meidav
CEO of Papaya Global
CEO of Vault Platform
CEO of Papaya Global
CEO of Vault Platform
Angular Insights episode on compliance tech and building painkillers. This special episode is co-led by Eynat Guez, CEO of Papaya Global, and Neta Meidav, CEO of Vault Platform.
Eynat is a leading expert in global payroll and global workforce management. She co-founded Papaya Global in 2016 after seeing the technology gap in global payroll. Last September, Papaya Global announced that its valuation has surged to $3.7B following its $250M Series D.
Neta is the co-founder and CEO of Vault Platform, a venture-backed startup with a mission to help companies worldwide become the best and most ethical versions of themselves. In 2021, Neta led Vault through an $8.2M Series A funding round, attracting high profile investors such as Gradient Ventures.
During their Insights session, Eynat and Neta focus on topics including:
- ComplianceTech GTM: what works and what doesn't work
- Selling into legal and compliance departments
- The cultural enablement ComplianceTech can provide
- Fundraising as a woman
Check out and register for upcoming Angular Insights at angularventures.com/events
Eynat is a leading expert in global payroll and global workforce management. She co-founded Papaya Global in 2016 after seeing the technology gap in global payroll. Last September, Papaya Global announced that its valuation has surged to $3.7B following its $250M Series D.
Neta is the co-founder and CEO of Vault Platform, a venture-backed startup with a mission to help companies worldwide become the best and most ethical versions of themselves. In 2021, Neta led Vault through an $8.2M Series A funding round, attracting high profile investors such as Gradient Ventures.
During their Insights session, Eynat and Neta focus on topics including:
- ComplianceTech GTM: what works and what doesn't work
- Selling into legal and compliance departments
- The cultural enablement ComplianceTech can provide
- Fundraising as a woman
Check out and register for upcoming Angular Insights at angularventures.com/events
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Angular Ventures
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Issue #133: For the week ended March 1, 2022
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #132: Enterprise & Deep Tech VC in Europe & Israel 2021
Press / Angular Ventures Report on VC Investment into Enterprise and Deep Tech in Europe and Israel
TechCrunch
Blog / Shifting Left, Shifting Right
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Are we on the cusp of a new era of empowered non-engineers?
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Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #131: Shifting Left, Shifting Right
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #130: The Most Useful Hire you Didn’t Know you Needed to Make
Blog / The Problem with Engineering-led Growth for Early Stage Startups
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
What kind of growth team you need to hire depending on the stage of your company.
Talk / 20 Years of Growth Learnings
Darius Contractor
Chief Product & Engineering Officer
Vendr
Chief Product & Engineering Officer
Vendr
Angular Insights webinar on 20 years of growth learnings, led by Darius Contractor.
Darius is a growth-focused product and engineering leader. He’s grown companies and teams at Tickle, Bebo, FWD.us, Dropbox, Facebook, Airtable and now Vendr. Along the way he’s learned how to go viral, scaling infra, agile management, rapid iteration, product strategy and all aspects of growing a website.
During the Insights session, Darius highlights some key growth learnings including:
- What makes users tick
- Am I ready for a growth team?
- How does B2B growth differ from B2C
- Succeeding at growth in year 1
- Roles and careers in growth
Darius is a growth-focused product and engineering leader. He’s grown companies and teams at Tickle, Bebo, FWD.us, Dropbox, Facebook, Airtable and now Vendr. Along the way he’s learned how to go viral, scaling infra, agile management, rapid iteration, product strategy and all aspects of growing a website.
During the Insights session, Darius highlights some key growth learnings including:
- What makes users tick
- Am I ready for a growth team?
- How does B2B growth differ from B2C
- Succeeding at growth in year 1
- Roles and careers in growth
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Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #129: Firebolt, Forwrd, and Finance
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #128: The Pros and Cons of Liquidity
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Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #127: Preparing for Re-entry
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David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #126: Something Entirely Different
Blog / What Childhood Can Teach Us About Entrepreneurship
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Childhood as a solution to the early stage entrepreneurship explore–exploit dilemma.
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Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #125: 2021 Wrap-up
Press / Gil Dibner Makes the Midas List Europe 2021
Forbes
Gil's second year on Midas Europe comes as his firm, Angular Ventures, starts to expand with another full partner. His cybersecurity investment Snyk reached an $8.5 billion valuation in March 2021, adding to his September 2020 IPO from DevOps company JFrog. More recent investments include cloud data warehouse Firebolt and service intelligence provider Aquant, both valued in the hundreds of millions since. In October, Angular announced its $80 million second fund.
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Talk / Building your Marketing Engine: Where do you Start?
Leigh Moore
VP, Marketing
Snyk
VP, Marketing
Snyk
Angular Insights webinar on building your marketing engine, led by Leigh Moore, VP of Marketing at Snyk.
In this episode, Leigh highlights some key learnings about how to build a marketing foundation and some of the important areas to focus on early including:
- Messaging to your primary audience
- Why a product led approach is worth investing in
- How to think about your first marketing hires
In this episode, Leigh highlights some key learnings about how to build a marketing foundation and some of the important areas to focus on early including:
- Messaging to your primary audience
- Why a product led approach is worth investing in
- How to think about your first marketing hires
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David Peterson
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Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #124: Overcoming “Customer-Built” Software’s Learning Curve
Blog / Initial Thoughts on How to Overcome “Customer-Built” Software’s Learning Curve
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
“Customer-built” companies and the challenge of user activation.
Talk / David Peterson on Joining Angular and How the Future of Enterprise will be "Customer-Built"
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Angular Insights webinar featuring David Peterson, Angular Ventures' new partner. David is interviewed by Gil on the future of enterprise software, lessons from Airtable, "customer built" products and why he recently joined Angular.
Prior to joining Angular, David was employee #16 at Airtable, where he led growth and partnerships, a seed stage investor at Founder Collective, and bootstrapped Steward, a scalable on-demand consulting business. Prior to that, he was employee #7 at CompStak, a commercial real estate data startup based in NYC.
Prior to joining Angular, David was employee #16 at Airtable, where he led growth and partnerships, a seed stage investor at Founder Collective, and bootstrapped Steward, a scalable on-demand consulting business. Prior to that, he was employee #7 at CompStak, a commercial real estate data startup based in NYC.
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Angular Ventures
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Angular Ventures
Issue #123: What Money Can’t Buy
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David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #122: The Future will be Composable
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Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #121: Back in the Saddle
Talk / Product-Led Partnerships
Andrew Edelman
Head of Strategic & Platform Partnerships
Zapier
Head of Strategic & Platform Partnerships
Zapier
Angular Insights webinar on product-led partnerships, led by Andrew Edelman.
Andrew is the Head of Strategic & Platform Partnerships at Zapier where he is responsible for building and expanding partnerships with 4,000+ apps. With prior experience at Box, Google, and Narrative Science, he is focused on helping scale and grow innovative SaaS companies through product-led partnerships.
In this episode, Andrew focuses on topics including:
- How to think about your overall platform strategy
- When to build and how to prioritize native integrations
- How to build effective partner ecosystems
- Where do co-marketing and co-selling opportunities fit in
- How to connect partnerships to a product-led growth motion
Andrew is the Head of Strategic & Platform Partnerships at Zapier where he is responsible for building and expanding partnerships with 4,000+ apps. With prior experience at Box, Google, and Narrative Science, he is focused on helping scale and grow innovative SaaS companies through product-led partnerships.
In this episode, Andrew focuses on topics including:
- How to think about your overall platform strategy
- When to build and how to prioritize native integrations
- How to build effective partner ecosystems
- Where do co-marketing and co-selling opportunities fit in
- How to connect partnerships to a product-led growth motion
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Blog / The Long Road to Creating a Category
David Peterson
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Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Category creation strategy, with a little inspiration from Apple.
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David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #120: The Long Road to Creating a Category
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #119: Back to Basics
Talk / Open Source and Category Creation
Emil Eifrem
Co-Founder & CEO
Neo4j
Co-Founder & CEO
Neo4j
Angular Insights webinar on open source and category creation led by Emil Eifrem, Co-Founder & CEO of Neo4j.
Emil sketched the idea for what today is known as the graph database on a flight to Mumbai in 2000. As the CEO of Neo4j, and a co-author of the O'Reilly book Graph Databases, he's devoted his professional life to building, innovating, and evangelizing graph databases.
During his fireside chat, Emil focuses on topics including building a new category, open source GTM, monetization, competition and co-operation with the tech giants, and more.
Check out and register for upcoming Angular Insights at angularventures.com/events
Emil sketched the idea for what today is known as the graph database on a flight to Mumbai in 2000. As the CEO of Neo4j, and a co-author of the O'Reilly book Graph Databases, he's devoted his professional life to building, innovating, and evangelizing graph databases.
During his fireside chat, Emil focuses on topics including building a new category, open source GTM, monetization, competition and co-operation with the tech giants, and more.
Check out and register for upcoming Angular Insights at angularventures.com/events
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Angular Ventures
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Issue #118: How the “no code” design paradigm is revolutionizing enterprise software
Blog / Back to Basics: My VC Manifesto
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
A guide to navigating a manic market as a venture capitalist (part 2).
Blog / Three Methods of Venture Capital
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
A guide to navigating a manic market as a venture capitalist (part 1).
Blog / How the “No Code” Design Paradigm is Revolutionizing Enterprise Software
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Companies like Figma, Airtable, Notion, and Zapier are doing much more than vanilla PLG.
Talk / Building Developer Products and Communities
Amir Shevat
Head of Product, Developer Platform
Twitter
Head of Product, Developer Platform
Angular Insights webinar on building developer products and communities led by Amir Shevat.
Amir is the Head of Product for the Twitter Developer Platform and a Venture Partner in Innovation Endeavors. Previously, Amir was the co-founder of Reshuffle (sold to Twitter), VP of Product at AWS Twitch, Head of DevRel at Slack, and Head of Developer Programs at Google.
During his fireside chat, Amir focuses on topics including when and how to start developer product and community outreach. As well as how to measure developer products and communities success, and common pitfalls to avoid.
Amir is the Head of Product for the Twitter Developer Platform and a Venture Partner in Innovation Endeavors. Previously, Amir was the co-founder of Reshuffle (sold to Twitter), VP of Product at AWS Twitch, Head of DevRel at Slack, and Head of Developer Programs at Google.
During his fireside chat, Amir focuses on topics including when and how to start developer product and community outreach. As well as how to measure developer products and communities success, and common pitfalls to avoid.
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Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #117: Building Angular Ventures II
Blog / Introducing David Peterson
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we are adding a second partner.
Press / Angular Ventures Raises $80M for Second Fund; Adds General Partner
NoCamels
Angular Ventures announced the closing of its $80M second fund as it seeks to continue to back deep-tech companies in Israel and Europe. This second fund is almost double the previous $41M sum, which invested in 21 companies and closed in November 2019.
Blog / Why I’m Joining Angular Ventures
David Peterson
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
After almost four years at Airtable, David is thrilled to announce that he's joining Angular Ventures.
Blog / Building Angular Ventures
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Announcing an $80M First-check Fund II for Deep Tech Founders across Europe & Israel.
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #116: Go, Aquant, go!
Blog / Alpha, Beta, and an Inverted Venture Risk Curve
Gil Dibner
Partner
Angular Ventures
Partner
Angular Ventures
Making sense of a momentum market.
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Anne Augusta Blum
Head of Platform
Angular Ventures
Head of Platform
Angular Ventures
Issue #115: What’s next for Angular Insights?
Talk / Scaling Sales: Crafting the Right Approach
Ben Braverman
Chief Customer Officer
Flexport
Chief Customer Officer
Flexport
Angular Insights webinar led by Ben Braverman, Chief Customer Officer at Flexport. In this special episode featuring a live startup sales clinic, Ben discusses optimizing strategy for outbound vs inbound with three early stage startup CEOs - Vicki Knott from CruxOCM, Jonathan Anderson from Candu, and Xenia Muntean from Planable.
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Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #114: A Week of Reflection
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Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #113: Collaborative Venture
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #112: Fighting the Current
Blog / Robotic Industrial Process Automation
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we invested in Crux OCM.
Blog / Narrative Alignment
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
The key to unlocking your Series A is a tightly controlled narrative.
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #111: Narrative Alignment
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Andrew Poesaste
Senior Associate
Angular Ventures
Senior Associate
Angular Ventures
For the week ended August 3, 2021
Talk / How to Define Competitive Advantage in the AI-First Century
Ash Fontana
Managing Director
Zetta Venture Partners
Managing Director
Zetta Venture Partners
Angular Insights webinar on how to define competitive advantage in the AI-first century led by Ash Fontana, Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners and author of the AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence.
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Anne Augusta Blum
Head of Platform
Angular Ventures
Head of Platform
Angular Ventures
For the week ended July 20, 2021
Talk / Building Developer-First and Open Source Businesses
Lenny Pruss
General Partner
Amplify Partners
General Partner
Amplify Partners
Angular Insights webinar on building developer-first and open source businesses, led by Lenny Pruss, General Partner at Amplify Partners.
Lenny is an accomplished VC and has led the investments of HashiCorp, dbt Labs, Datadog, Prisma, among others. During his fireside chat, Lenny focuses on topics including why developer-driven and open sources businesses are different from typical SaaS, how to go about winning developers' hearts and minds, and more.
Lenny is an accomplished VC and has led the investments of HashiCorp, dbt Labs, Datadog, Prisma, among others. During his fireside chat, Lenny focuses on topics including why developer-driven and open sources businesses are different from typical SaaS, how to go about winning developers' hearts and minds, and more.
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Talk / Accelerating GTM with the Cloud Giants
Udi Nachmany
VP Global Cloud Strategy & Alliances
Snyk
VP Global Cloud Strategy & Alliances
Snyk
Angular Insights webinar on accelerating GTM with the cloud giants led by Udi Nachmany, VP Global Cloud Strategy and Alliances at Snyk.
As a commercial leader, if there is anything Udi has gained from a decade in the cloud market—focused on hard problems like monetizing open source and commercializing disruptive technology—it's perspective. In this webinar, he explores five of the most common pitfalls, misconceptions and myths startups encounter when they try to build their GTM with the cloud giants.
As a commercial leader, if there is anything Udi has gained from a decade in the cloud market—focused on hard problems like monetizing open source and commercializing disruptive technology—it's perspective. In this webinar, he explores five of the most common pitfalls, misconceptions and myths startups encounter when they try to build their GTM with the cloud giants.
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General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
For the week ended June 29, 2021
Talk / Building an Engineering Organization from Startup to IPO
Erez Dickman
Vice President of R&D
Lemonade
Vice President of R&D
Lemonade
Angular Insights webinar led by Erez Dickman, Vice President of R&D at Lemonade, on building an engineering organization from startup to IPO.
Erez leads Lemonade's R&D operation in Israel. Before joining Lemonade, Erez was head of PayPal’s consumer product center in Tel Aviv and head of engineering at eBay’s Israeli innovation center. In 2009, he co-founded The Gifts Project, which was acquired by eBay in 2011.
Erez leads Lemonade's R&D operation in Israel. Before joining Lemonade, Erez was head of PayPal’s consumer product center in Tel Aviv and head of engineering at eBay’s Israeli innovation center. In 2009, he co-founded The Gifts Project, which was acquired by eBay in 2011.
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General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
For the week ended June 22, 2021
Talk / Software-Defined Movements
Dana Oshiro
Partner
Heavybit
Partner
Heavybit
Netlify and JAMstack, Snyk and DevSecOps, LaunchDarkly and Feature Flagging - every truly groundbreaking technical startup requires a focus on industry-wide education, a well-aligned community and product, and great partners. They’re not just building great companies, they’re building software-defined movements.
Listen to Heavybit Partner Dana Oshiro's Angular Insights webinar as she discusses what it means to start a developer groundswell and translate it into commercial success.
Listen to Heavybit Partner Dana Oshiro's Angular Insights webinar as she discusses what it means to start a developer groundswell and translate it into commercial success.
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Talk / The State of Venture Capital
Jeff Horing
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Insight Partners
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Insight Partners
In this Angular Insights episode we are joined by Jeff Horing, the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Insight Partners.
Under his leadership, Insight has become a premier venture capital and private equity firm and has raised more than $30B. Jeff's areas of focus include data, analytics, mobile, and infrastructure and SaaS software in Europe, North America, and Israel. Jeff has invested in more than 150 companies, notably nCino (NCNO), JFrog (FROG), Alteryx (AYX), AirWatch (acquired by VMware), Shutterstock (SSTK), TeamViewer (acquired by Permira), WIX (WIX), and Greenfield Online (SRVY, later acquired by Microsoft).
In this episode, Jeff discusses:
- His VC career journey and founding Insight
- Insight’s investment approach
- Scaling as a VC fund
- Investing in Europe and Israel
- Tech markets and valuations
Under his leadership, Insight has become a premier venture capital and private equity firm and has raised more than $30B. Jeff's areas of focus include data, analytics, mobile, and infrastructure and SaaS software in Europe, North America, and Israel. Jeff has invested in more than 150 companies, notably nCino (NCNO), JFrog (FROG), Alteryx (AYX), AirWatch (acquired by VMware), Shutterstock (SSTK), TeamViewer (acquired by Permira), WIX (WIX), and Greenfield Online (SRVY, later acquired by Microsoft).
In this episode, Jeff discusses:
- His VC career journey and founding Insight
- Insight’s investment approach
- Scaling as a VC fund
- Investing in Europe and Israel
- Tech markets and valuations
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Talk / Fireside Chat with Dror Davidoff, Co-Founder & CEO of Aqua Security
Dror Davidoff
Co-Founder & CEO
Aqua Security
Co-Founder & CEO
Aqua Security
Fireside chat with Dror Davidoff, CEO and co-founder of Aqua Security, a unicorn in the cloud-native cybersecurity space. Aqua has raised over $265M and Dror brings with him a wealth of direct sales experience as a sales executive and VP sales at a number of startups before founding Aqua.
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Talk / Fireside Chat with Amir Orad, CEO of Sisense – on Scaling to $100M in Revenue and Beyond
Amir Orad
CEO
Sisense
CEO
Sisense
Fireside chat with Amir Orad, the NY-based CEO of Sisense, the leader in cloud analytics with well over $100M in revenue. Amir is a serial CEO with some very deep insights on leadership and scale, having already sold two previous companies. In this session, Amir discusses his career, Sisense, and CEO-ship.
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Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #106: Hello from Texas!
Talk / How to Market a Baby Unicorn
Asaph Schulman
CMO, Firebolt
Angular Advisory Partner
CMO, Firebolt
Angular Advisory Partner
Webinar on early stage startup marketing led by Asaph Schulman.
Asaph is an entrepreneur who has held a wide range of marketing leadership roles in startups across Israel and Australia. Asaph is currently the CMO of Firebolt, a big data analytics startup that revolutionizes the analytics experience. He is also an Angular Advisory Partner who works with our portfolio companies on their marketing strategies and initiatives.
During this session, Asaph discusses how to market a baby unicorn on a budget and covers:
- Hiring your first marketing person and if / how to work with agencies
- Tips for doing webinars
- LinkedIn thought leadership
- Why you should start a podcast
- Marketing moonshots that make a difference
Asaph is an entrepreneur who has held a wide range of marketing leadership roles in startups across Israel and Australia. Asaph is currently the CMO of Firebolt, a big data analytics startup that revolutionizes the analytics experience. He is also an Angular Advisory Partner who works with our portfolio companies on their marketing strategies and initiatives.
During this session, Asaph discusses how to market a baby unicorn on a budget and covers:
- Hiring your first marketing person and if / how to work with agencies
- Tips for doing webinars
- LinkedIn thought leadership
- Why you should start a podcast
- Marketing moonshots that make a difference
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Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #105: For the week ended April 27, 2021
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #104: The personal touch.
Blog / The Great Acceleration of Seed Investing
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Gil explains why he is starting to think that seed funds and “accelerators” basically can no longer work together. Choose one path and you self-select out of the other.
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Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #103: The great acceleration of seed investing.
Press / Gil Dibner Selected as One of the Top 100 Seed Investors by Insider and Tribe Capital
Insider
Blog / Angular’s Brand Strategy
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Revisiting our brand as we launch our new website.
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #102: For the week ended March 17, 2021
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #101: Towards a post-pandemic world.
Talk / 20 Minute Leaders: Gil Dibner
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Gil was featured in the 20 Minute Leaders series, hosted by Michael Matias. In this session, he shares the path he took to becoming a VC and the ethos behind Angular.
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Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #100: For the week ended February 9, 2021
This is the 100th time we’ve pulled this newsletter together. Thank you for subscribing, reading, sharing with your friends, and sending the occasional note back with your comments, suggestions, and words of encouragement. It means a lot!
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Blog / A No-Code ML-Powered Workflow on Every Desktop
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we invested in Levity.
Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #99: Welcome to 5Q 2020.
Press / Gil Dibner Debuts on the Midas List Europe in 2020
Forbes
Gil Dibner debuts on the Midas List Europe in 2020 on the strength of career portfolio standouts including conversation analyzer Chorus.ai, which raised $45 million in July 2020; Front, a work email startup that raised $59 million in January 2020; Snyk, a cybersecurity company that raised $200 million at a $2.6 billion valuation in September 2020; and DevOp company JFrog, which went public that same month.
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Press / Midas List Newcomer Investors Share Top Trends to Watch in Europe’s Post-Pandemic Startup Scene
Forbes
Blog / A Firebolt From the Blue
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we invested in Firebolt.
Blog / Democratizing Front-end Development
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we invested in Candu.
Blog / Unveiling Our Investment in Firebolt
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
We are thrilled to finally announce our investment in Firebolt.
Built by the founding team that previously built SiSense, Firebolt is the world’s fastest cloud-native data warehouse.
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Talk / Leading People in a Time of Crisis
Kirsten Behncke Colyer
Chief Human Resources Officer
Visible Alpha
Chief Human Resources Officer
Visible Alpha
Short webinar on leading people in a time of crisis, led by Kirsten Behncke Colyer, Chief Human Resources Officer at Visible Alpha.
Having lived and worked through crises such as the tech bubble in 2000, 9/11, the financial bubble in 2008, a blackout in NYC, Hurricane Sandy, and lately the global pandemic, Kirsten Behncke Colyer helped guide the leadership teams at various tech companies through these crises to not just survive, but also thrive during those difficult times. During this session, Kirsten will cover what she learned from those experiences so that you can be prepared with empathy, a strategy, and tactical steps to handle all types of smaller and larger disasters.
Having lived and worked through crises such as the tech bubble in 2000, 9/11, the financial bubble in 2008, a blackout in NYC, Hurricane Sandy, and lately the global pandemic, Kirsten Behncke Colyer helped guide the leadership teams at various tech companies through these crises to not just survive, but also thrive during those difficult times. During this session, Kirsten will cover what she learned from those experiences so that you can be prepared with empathy, a strategy, and tactical steps to handle all types of smaller and larger disasters.
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Talk / 20 Minute Leaders: Anne Blum
Anne Augusta Blum
Head of Platform
Angular Ventures
Head of Platform
Angular Ventures
Anne was featured in the 20 Minute Leaders series, hosted by Michael Matias. In this session, she shared some startup and career insights based off her experiences working at Angular Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Facebook and on startup accelerator programs.
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Talk / The Blazemeter Story - Navigating to an Exit
Alon Girmonsky
CEO & Co-Founder of UP9
Former CEO & Founder of BlazeMeter
CEO & Co-Founder of UP9
Former CEO & Founder of BlazeMeter
Short webinar on the Blazemeter story and navigating to an exit, led by Alon Girmonsky, CEO & Co-Founder of UP9, Former CEO & Founder of BlazeMeter.
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Talk / Hyper Growth
Geatan Gachet
Chief Strategy Officer
Algolia
Chief Strategy Officer
Algolia
Short webinar on hyper growth, led by Geatan Gachet, Chief Strategy Officer at Algolia.
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Blog / Five Mistakes Slowing Your Growth
Anne Augusta Blum
Head of Platform
Angular Ventures
Head of Platform
Angular Ventures
In a recent Angular Insights session, Guy Poreh shared five key mistakes startups make in implementing their marketing strategy.
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Talk / Lessons Learned From Successful Operational Journeys at Datorama and CHEQ
Omri Tamir
COO at CHEQ, Formerly Datorama (acquired by Salesforce), Founder of ScaleUP NY
COO at CHEQ, Formerly Datorama (acquired by Salesforce), Founder of ScaleUP NY
In this session, Omri Tamir shares his lessons learned from successful operational journeys at Datorama and CHEQ.
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Blog / Updates in US Immigration Impacting Founders
Anne Augusta Blum
Head of Platform
Angular Ventures
Head of Platform
Angular Ventures
As the pandemic and politics have led to numerous changes in the immigration process for European and Israeli founders, we invited Jennifer Schear, a US immigration expert and an Angular Advisory Partner, to lead an Angular Insights session.
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Talk / Updates in US Immigration Impacting Tech Founders
Jennifer Schear
Founder
Schear Immigration
Founder
Schear Immigration
Jennifer is the founder of Schear Immigration, a boutique immigration firm in Tel Aviv specializing in US business immigration law. She has helped countless entrepreneurs from around the world relocate to the US with special emphasis on the needs of tech companies in an ever-changing immigration environment. In this video, Jennifer discusses the top trends and challenges facing US immigration during COVID-19 and beyond.
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Data / The Startup Nation Goes to America
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Lessons on moving to the US from Israeli startups.
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Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #93: For the week ended September 21, 2020
For me, last week seemed like a unique point in time when about a decade’s worth of work suddenly came into the spotlight all at the same time.
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Talk / Five Mistakes Slowing Your Growth
Guy Poreh
Founder of Playground and Former Head of Digital BBDO Tel Aviv
Founder of Playground and Former Head of Digital BBDO Tel Aviv
As former Head of Digital for ad giant BBDO Tel Aviv, the Chief Innovation Officer at Silver + Partners in New York, and then Founder of Playground, Guy Poreh has had the privilege of observing and working with hundreds of startups, from the ultra successful like Wix, HYPR (recently acquired) and Aquant to… those that aren’t around anymore.
In this session, Guy goes over the patterns he’s seen for what a startup needs to succeed, and the five mistakes nearly everyone makes that holds them back from growth.
In this session, Guy goes over the patterns he’s seen for what a startup needs to succeed, and the five mistakes nearly everyone makes that holds them back from growth.
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Blog / Series A JFrog Investment Memo
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
What JFrog looked like in April 2012.
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Blog / Milestones, Gratitude, and the Challenges Ahead
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Reflections on an IPO, a big round, and the ones that got away.
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Talk / Data Fest 2020: Gil Dibner, General Partner, Angular Ventures
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
In this video, Gil shares insights on selecting the right problem for a data science startup and ways to build a defensible business.
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Talk / Global from Day One - Successfully Selling SaaS to Micro SMBs
Martin Henk
Co-Founder of Pipedrive and Eventornado
Co-Founder of Pipedrive and Eventornado
In this session, Martin Henk, Co-Founder of Pipedrive and Eventornado, shares advice on successfully selling SaaS to micro SMBs.
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Talk / Building your AI Stack In-House
Micha Breakstone
Co-Founder
Chorus.ai
Co-Founder
Chorus.ai
In this session, Micha Breakstone, Co-Founder of Chorus.ai, discusses how to think of the decision for building an AI-stack in-house, discussing pros and cons, and covering issues such as cost, precision, and privacy.
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Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #92: For the week ended September 8, 2020
Talk / Strategies for Bottoms-up B2B Growth
David Peterson
Partnerships Lead
Airtable
Partnerships Lead
Airtable
As an early employee at Airtable, David Peterson has learned a few things about bottoms-up growth and the no-code space. In this session, David discusses topics such as driving bottoms-up growth for a horizontal product with an ill-defined category, and leveraging no-code tools to empower early stage teams to move faster.
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Newsletter / Enterprise & Deep Tech Weekly
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Issue #91: For the week ended September 1, 2020
Blog / American VCs Abroad: League Tables
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Who are the most active US venture investors in Europe and Israel?
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Talk / The Four Trends Driving Enterprise Software Forward
Bucky Moore
Partner
Kleiner Perkins
Partner
Kleiner Perkins
In this session, Bucky Moore, Partner at Kleiner Perkins, shares the four trends driving enterprise software forward, and how to align with them as a startup.
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Talk / Pitching Media Right Now
Beck Bamberger
CEO of BAM
CEO of BAM
While some companies are certainly struggling during the pandemic, some startups are being positively impacted and have encouraging, compelling, and unique stories to offer to the media. In this session with Beck Bamberger, CEO of BAM, an agency that works exclusively with startups and VC funds, you'll learn:
- case studies of startups garnering positive press in this unprecedented time
- tactics to pursue media coverage right now
- how to delicately message your pitches to media and secure stories
- case studies of startups garnering positive press in this unprecedented time
- tactics to pursue media coverage right now
- how to delicately message your pitches to media and secure stories
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Talk / Building an AI-Driven Startup
Micha Breakstone
Co-Founder of Chorus.ai
Co-Founder of Chorus.ai
Micha Breakstone, the Co-Founder of Chorus.ai, shares his thoughts and tips on building AI-driven startups, based on his experience across 4 startups and over 12 years. Discussion will include thoughts on the founding team, hiring PhDs, and the elements that make an AI-driven startups unique.
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Talk / The Future of Retail is Digital + Stores with a Soul
Francesca Danzi
Former Chief Client Officer
Tory Burch
Former Chief Client Officer
Tory Burch
As former customer strategy and retail experience leader at Burberry and Tory Burch and founder of her customer experience and digital transformation consultancy, Francesca Danzi is well placed to speak about the future of retail and fashion.
In this session, Francesca will look at the new role that digital commerce and physical retail will play in a post-pandemic world and the new capabilities that brands will have to build to lead there. Key topics will be technology and analytics driven innovation, customer value creation, localization and new engagement models.
In this session, Francesca will look at the new role that digital commerce and physical retail will play in a post-pandemic world and the new capabilities that brands will have to build to lead there. Key topics will be technology and analytics driven innovation, customer value creation, localization and new engagement models.
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Talk / Monetizing an Open Source Project
Fred Simon
Co-founder and Chief Architect
JFrog
Co-founder and Chief Architect
JFrog
Artifactory was born as an OSS Project in Dec 2006. JFrog was founded in 2008 to monetize the success of this project. Over the years, some companies created huge commercial success out of OSS products, but many others failed. In this video, Fred talks about what can break or make it.
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Talk / Breaking Into Your First Enterprise IT Account
Ed Sim
Founder and Managing Partner
boldstart ventures
Founder and Managing Partner
boldstart ventures
As a day one investor in companies like Snyk, Kustomer, and BigID, Ed Sim, founder and Managing Partner at boldstart ventures, shares tips for closing your first enterprise IT account. This includes best ways to navigate into an organization, focusing on the pain, and why "partnering with" rather than "selling to" is the strategy to deploy.
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Talk / Enterprise Product Strategy
Vivek Saraswat
Investor at Mayfield Partners and former product leader
Docker, VMware, and AWS
Investor at Mayfield Partners and former product leader
Docker, VMware, and AWS
As a former product leader at Docker, VMware, and AWS and current enterprise venture investor at Mayfield, Vivek Saraswat has learned a few things about product strategy. In this video, Vivek dives into topics such as bottoms-up adoption, enterprise prioritization and monetization, and designing for your audience with empathy--interspersed with real world examples.
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Talk / Product Management
Jerry Dischler
Vice President of Product Management for AdWords
Google
Vice President of Product Management for AdWords
Reflecting on nearly 15 years of product management experience at Google, Jerry Dischler shares five top takeaways on effective product management and building an exceptional product team, including data analysis, gathering insights, the role of product management, and hiring new product managers.
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Talk / Startup Branding
Uri Baruchin
Creative strategist and branding expert
Creative strategist and branding expert
In this Angular Insights episode, Uri Baruchin, an award winning creative strategist and branding expert, shares his learnings from working across B2C and B2B with both household names and early stage startups. Key branding topics covered include: how and when early stage startups should invest in their branding, naming, pivots and more.
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Blog / Straight Talk on VC Fundraising Today
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Angular Ventures is “open for business” but what does that really mean in the age of Coronavirus?
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Blog / Remote Work Resources
Anne Augusta Blum
Head of Platform
Angular Ventures
Head of Platform
Angular Ventures
In an effort to support business leaders as they navigate this difficult period, we have created a short list of resources on the Coronavirus and how to implement remote work.
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Blog / Surviving Coronavirus
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
A guide for early-stage enterprise tech companies.
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Talk / The Family: US Enterprise Sales
Gil Dibner and Gaetan Gachet
General Partner at Angular Ventures and CSO at Algolia
General Partner at Angular Ventures and CSO at Algolia
Gil Dibner and Gaetan Gachet, CSO at Algolia, share tips on how to nail enterprise sales in the US and what startup founders should keep in mind in order to perform well there.
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Talk / The Family: A VC's View on Enterprise Sales
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Gil Dibner shares his view on enterprise sales.
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Blog / What is Enterprise / Deep Tech?
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
What we mean when we talk about enterprise tech.
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Blog / The Angular Ventures Team
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Introducing our core full-time team in London and New York.
Blog / Launching Angular Ventures I
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Specialist, post-geographic venture capital for enterprise tech founders in Europe and Israel.
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Blog / Us Incorporation? Just Do It.
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Why you should incorporate your non-US enterprise tech company in Delaware.
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Blog / Technology for Trust
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we invested in Vault Platform.
Blog / Don’t Go Counting Unicorns…
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
How fund economics are inflating the private tech market and wrecking companies.
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Blog / A Security Layer for the Physical World
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we invested in DUST Identity.
Blog / Accelerators or Conform-erators?
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
As a VC or investor, you go and meet companies coming out of an accelerator, and you notice, on reflection, that all the teams look vaguely the same...
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Blog / Angular’s First Investment — Aquant
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Why we invested in Aquant.
Blog / There Are Only Three Startup Stages
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Gil covers the three stages in a startup’s life - early, “Series A”, and growth.
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Blog / The Evolution of the AI/ML Application Space
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Gil covers the three evolution waves of the AI/ML space - from native, to easy, to hard.
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Blog / Startups and the Art of the “One Thing”
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
The one thing they don’t believe is the one thing that will make or break your startup.
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Blog / Why Do I Roll My Own Data?
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Gil shares why he maintains his own European and Israeli venture deal data.
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Blog / Systems of Intelligence: Is This the VC Meta-Thesis We’ve Been Looking For?
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
A look at Systems of Intelligence, barriers to entry, and enterprise VC investing in the post-SaaS world.
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Blog / Demo Day? Don’t
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Gil shares his thoughts on why he doesn't recommend founders participate in demo days - and if founders have to pitch at a demo day - how to approach it.
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Blog / Raising the Right Round
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Gil shares his thoughts on raising the right round and common pitfalls to avoid.
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Blog / Qualifying a VC Investor
Gil Dibner
General Partner
Angular Ventures
General Partner
Angular Ventures
Gil shares his approach for founders who are qualifying and assessing potential investors.
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