In just a few years of hyper growth, Snyk has become a $2.7B unicorn, most recently raising $200M in September 2020. A developer-first security company, it has also helped usher the “DevSecOps” category. At our…
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Top Insights Products must begin with only 2-3 key features. Once there is traction, you can prioritize what features to build next by asking users for feedback. Fewer features allow you to launch quicker, at…
Paul Judge on helping lead SoftBank’s $100M Opportunity…
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Insights from Giggster Co-founder Hank Leber on building…
Top Insights Building a business on top of another platform is risky, as revenue can go to $0 overnight by no fault of your own Adding simple and easy solutions to archaic industries and business…
20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition…
Guillaume Pousaz is the Founder and CEO of Checkout.com, one of the world’s leading global payments solutions providers and one of Europe’s most valuable private companies. Guillaume founded Checkout.com in 2012 and bootstrapped the business…
20VC: Revolut Founder Nikolay Storonsky on His Leadership…
Nikolay Storonsky is the Founder & CEO @ Revolut, one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing fintechs offering everything from personal to business banking, providing a better way to manage your money. To date, Nikolay…
20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a…
Wade Foster is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Zapier, the company that moves info between your web apps automatically, so you can focus on your most important work. Post YC in 2012, Wade raised $1.4M…
20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning…
Peter Reinhardt is the Founder and CEO @ Segment, the leading customer data platform with over 20,000 companies using Segment to collect, clean, and control their customer data. Prior to their $3.2BN acquisition by Twilio…
VCAP At Year 7: More Canadian Companies &…
It has been seven years since the Government of Canada’s Venture Capital Action Plan (VCAP) was implemented. A unique program, VCAP leveraged CAD $350M of government funds to attract an additional CAD $904M in private…