The investors include Battery Ventures, Ignition Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective and Amplify Partners.
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Battery Ventures recently added two entrepreneurs-in-residence, says general partner Brian O'Malley, up from none six months ago.
"People don't care about the latest networking systems anymore, " says Kenneth Lawler, a partner at Battery Ventures and number 41 on the Midas list.
The tips below are compiled from a panel featuring Kent Bennett (Bessmer Venture Partners), Sunil Dhaliwal (Battery Ventures), Matthew Witheiler (Flybridge), and Jack Young (QUALCOMM Ventures).
At its height, Viddy signed on about one million users a day through Facebook, said Brian O'Malley, a general partner at Battery Ventures and Viddy board member.
Wikets, backed by Battery Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, takes the affiliate fees it gets for people purchasing via its links and turns those into rewards for top recommenders.
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Founded in November 2008, Groupon has investments from venture capital firms such as Lightbank, Andreessen Horowitz and Battery Ventures, as well as Russian Internet investment firm Digital Sky Technologies.
"Working at a venture firm, I am getting real strategic advice, and that's not something I could get playing in my own sandbox, " says Ms. Ramamurthy of Battery Ventures.
Ian Sigalow, Partner at Greycroft, Chris Moore, Partner at Redpoint Ventures and Roger Lee, General Partner, Battery Ventures provided the following perspectives from their panel titled Technology Trends: A Venture-Capital Perspective.
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Jason Matlof, a partner at venture capital firm Battery Ventures who invests in clean tech companies, says that clean tech manufacturing holds great growth potential for manufacturers like Jabil Circuit, Celestica and Flextronics.
Some of the firms that are well-represented include Accel (Qlik, Riverbed), Apax (RealPage, IntraLinks), Battery Ventures (RealPage, ITA), Bessemer Venture Partners (Postini, Cornerstone), Index Ventures (Skype, MySQL), Insight Venture Partners ( SolarWinds, Divx), Meritech Capital Partners (Cornerstone OnDemand, Riverbed), and Spectrum Equity (RiskMetrics, ITA Software).
Intellectual Ventures just had a patent issued on automatic, battery-powered glasses, with a tiny video camera that reads the image off the retina and adjusts the fluid-filled lenses accordingly, up to ten times a second.
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