Bad News is Good News, No News is Bad News
How can you tell if a founding team will be honest with investors? Every day someone is trying to sell us. Our job at Promus Ventures is to cut through the chatter and figure out if the team in front of us is all that and a bag of chips or just another team with hope as its strategy.
Bellabeat
Women wearables monitoring health and wellbeing
BinPress
Marketplace for commercial open-source projects. Acquired by CodersClan in 2016.
Biocogniv
Real-time intelligence for clinical and administrative data
Build To Never Be Acquired (Don’t Listen to the VCs)
Somewhere in VC Investor Due Diligence 101, an investor is supposed to ask startup founders who would be good acquirers of their business if everything goes well. You see, most VCs invest their limited partners’ capital out of a pooled fund, and these limited partners expect said VCs to return their capital t
Burn Baby Burn
Too Much Too Soon = Disco Inferno. Early enterprise adoption success shouldn’t always translate to massive additional funding.
Call Don’t Write
The world has a communication problem. At the slightest sign of battle or a hard conversation, many revert to a text, email or even not following up at all.
Can You Hear Me Now…?
Promus Ventures is excited to invest in Mangata Network’s $33M Series A round, announced by Mangata Networks earlier this week. Mangata aims to transform how the world interacts with information and offer unprecedented connectivity through the novel system architecture the team is developing.
Cape Analytics
Property intelligence for buildings based on deep learning and geospatial imagery