The new normal: Cloud, it’s not just early adopters anymore: Part I
With last month’s sold out AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas and the jam-packed media frenzy around cloud industry announcements, it’s clear that “the cloud” continues to drive enormous PR and...
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Why the Northeast is Best for Enterprise IT Investing
A recent look at 2015 innovations trends by IDC shows significant growth in nearly every area impacting enterprise IT – including cloud, big data and analytics, mobile and internet of things. In fact,...
View ArticleCloudLock Co-Founder and CEO, Gil Zimmermann Named EY Entrepreneur of the...
We love when our partners succeed. And today, we’re very pleased to offer congratulations to our portfolio company CloudLock, the leading provider of cloud cybersecurity solutions, and highlight their...
View ArticleWelcome Peter Lee as CEO of Rapidminer
I’m thrilled today to welcome Peter Lee as the new CEO of RapidMiner. When we invested in RapidMiner in February of this year, we enthusiastically backed founder Ingo Mierswa and his vision to bring...
View ArticleAscent B2B IT Forum: The Paradigm of Security: Turning Cyber Threat into...
The modern security landscape is becoming a competitive arms race between cyber-attackers and defenders. Threats have matured, risks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and vulnerabilities across...
View ArticleA Year in Review – A Look Back on our Portfolio Companies’ Successful 2015
We’d like to recognize the many successes and accomplishments our portfolio companies achieved in 2015. From impressive rounds of funding to key acquisitions, these companies continue to be leaders in...
View ArticleRSA 2016: Key Takeaways
This year’s RSA conference was bigger than ever with more than 40,000 attendees. San Francisco buzzed with security vendors, buyers and investors as they crowded the lobbies of hotels and coffee shops...
View ArticleFour reasons why more foreign startups are moving to the Northeast
For more than 30 years, we have been laser focused on investing in early stage business technology in the northeast U.S. because we believe an ideal combination of factors exist: B2B tech has the...
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Demystifying the “black box”: a look at hiring in the VC world
Last week, we announced that Baiyin Zhou joined Ascent Venture Partners as our newest senior associate. This is particularly exciting because adding to our team is the most important thing we do – and...
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AWS Re:Invent Recap – Hybrid Cloud is Real. Even Amazon Says So.
The highlight of AWS Re:Invent is always the much anticipated keynote from CEO Andy Jassy. This year, over a three hour span, Jassy took us slide after slide through the dozens of new features AWS is...
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