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Nitin Chopra Joins Neotribe Ventures as Managing Director
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"I'm thrilled to share that I'm joining Neotribe. Venture Capital is a business about people, and the people are the reason I joined Neotribe. I'm honored to partner with Neotribe's team of well-respected, accomplished partners in an environment that takes an entrepreneur-focused approach."
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Go Long or Go Short? When It’s Time to Sell and How to Maximize Buyer Interest
Founders often feel they have to play the long game by building a unicorn and going public to win. In reality, sometimes playing the short game delivers more value.
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The Rules of VC Are Changing: Here’s What Founders Should Be Considering in the New Era
In today's economic market, many VCisms are starting to feel outdated, like "Growth at all costs" and "you need to raise capital every 18-24 months)". It’s time to ask ourselves—are these VCisms still relevant or is it time to change?
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Vexev: Innovation at the Intersection of Vascular Disease, Robotics, Imaging, and Personalized Diagnostics
The founders of Vexev sat down with Neeraj Hablani, for an interview exploring their vision to shift the approach of vascular medicine from reactive to proactive. That starts with better, simpler imaging.
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4 Keys To Create A Lasting Relationship Between Co-Founders
If you're in the market for a co-founder, Rebecca guides how to choose wisely and create a lasting, productive working relationship.
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NimbleEdge Leads the Movement Towards Edge Computing
Varun Khare, CEO of NimbleEdge, and Neeraj discuss how the NimbleEdge team is working to empower customers to build digital services that aren’t reliant on centralized cloud servers, allowing users to enjoy products that are more performant, have lower latency, and enable higher privacy standards.
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Do You Need A Co-Founder To Raise Venture Capital?
If you have ever thought about founding a company, odds are that you have also thought about having a co-founder. But do you need a co-founder to raise venture capital? Not necessarily.
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Finding your First 5 Customers in a Downturn
Now that capital markets have softened up, early-stage startups looking to raise Series A and beyond need to be obsessed with one thing—getting customers, as soon as humanly possible. Don’t despair. This can be done, and Alex dives into how to get your first five customers in a downturn.
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Design Thinking for Early Stage Companies with Jeremy Utley from Stanford
Design thinking expert, Jeremy Utley of the Stanford’s renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka the “d.school”) sits down with Alex Salazar, a Partner at Neotribe Ventures, to discuss the fundamentals of design thinking and how to apply those principles when thinking about early-stage products and companies. They further dive into how to integrate design thinking in a scaling organization and how to turn breakthrough technology into a product the market is going to care about.
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What Founders Should Know When Hit With The Reality Check Of Raising Funds
What to do when your investors tell you to raise less capital given the changing economic environment? It’s time to start planning: how to optimize how much capital you can raise and how to optimize what you can do with that capital.
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Culture, Communications, and Collaboration
Learn to create a team culture that lends itself to excellence in leadership and sustained high performance, and will become a part of a company’s DNA as it scales.
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How to Build Culture + Core Values in Early Stage Companies
Organizational leadership expert, Jocelyn Kung, Founder and CEO of The Kung Group, joins the Neotribe team for a fireside chat on building culture and establishing core values in early-stage companies. Kittu Kolluri, Neotribe Founder and Managing Director, hosts the conversation which highlights tools to help founders build trust and communication alignment within a team.
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While The Dilution Is Painful, Here’s Why Growth-Stage Companies Should Consider Raising Capital In The Downturn
Growth-stage companies, is waiting out the current market environment before your next raise the best strategy? The answer is, maybe not.
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Fortanix: Enabling the Future of Confidential Computing
We’re immensely proud to have Ambuj, Anand and the Fortanix team as a cornerstone of the Neotribe family, as our first investment in Fund I and now as a part of our new Ignite Fund with their Series C.
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How to Source Your First Sales Lead
Explore this actionable conversation on How to Source Your First Sales Lead with Chief Revenue Officer at ngrok, Ben Sabrin, hosted by Alex Salazar, Partner at Neotribe Ventures and Ben's former colleague. They dive into the intricacies of the recruiting process for hiring a sales lead, discuss the all too tricky conversation around compensation, and walk through what to do once you've actually landed a candidate.
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Neotribe at Five: Looking Back at Passionate Rage Against the Status Quo
Over the past five years, we have partnered with over 50 companies and have had the chance to work with inspiring entrepreneurs. I thought I’d take this opportunity to highlight our journey thus far and the companies and founders who have impacted us immensely.
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Startups Are Losing Top Talent: How To Combat Regrettable Turnover
"How do I prevent top talent from leaving my company?" There are a few steps you should take to encourage key talent to stay at your company.
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How to Build a Killer Product-Led Growth Strategy for B2B
Let's get into what product-led growth is, why it's all the rage, and how to develop your badass PLG strategy.
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Should Startups Ask Investors If They Have Reserves In Today’s Economy?
So—here’s a hard question—how do you ask your investors if they have reserves for you? As is the answer to many questions, the best course of action is full transparency on both sides.
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BinIt’s Bringing Data-driven Decision Making to Waste Management
Raghav Mecheri, CEO of BinIt, sat down with Neeraj Hablani, Partner at Neotribe and a member of BinIt’s Board of Directors.
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Empowering Early Stage Founders with Breakthrough Ideas
As Neotribe’s newest Partner, Neeraj is humbled by the opportunity to reflect on the past and eager to embark on the adventure ahead.
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How to Think Like an Investor: Understanding the Actual Cost of Fundraising
Investors want you to raise enough capital to comfortably reach your financial and non-financial targets before another fundraise — raise what you expect to need plus an acceptable buffer.
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Doubling Down on Theta Lake: Strengthening Enterprises Ability to Manage Security and Compliance in Modern Communication Applications
We at Neotribe are very excited to continue our relationship with Theta Lake by participating in their Series B, and we are happy to welcome Battery Ventures as the lead on this $50M round.
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Our Newest Partner: Neeraj Hablani
It gives us great pleasure and a deep sense of elation to announce the promotion of Neeraj Hablani to Partner at Neotribe Ventures.
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Neotribe Ventures Launches $90M Fund to Invest in Growth Stage Companies
We are very excited to formally announce We are very excited to formally announce the launch of Neotribe Ignite Fund I, a $90M Fund that invests in Series B+ companies.
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Neotribe Ignite Fund FAQ
This FAQ is intended to address top-level questions regarding Neotribe Ignite Fund I, our $90M fund that invests in early growth-stage companies.
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How to Get the Most Out of Your Board Members
The relationship between a board member and the company must be a two-way street. It requires expectation setting on both sides and iterating on these expectations as the company matures.
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Four Questions to Answer Before Your First Sale
Three go-to-market veterans answer questions founders ask us all the time.
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Learning How To Rock The Boat... So I Can Help Others Tip It Over
Introducing our newest Partner, Rebecca Mitchem. "The odds of me and Kittu meeting were slim and the chances of us forming a friendship were slimmer. The probability that I would join him at Neotribe was infinitesimal... Now, I am very thankful to sit here as the newest Partner at Neotribe."
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Early-Stage AI Startups & Product-Market Fit
In this episode, Swaroop “Kittu” Kolluri shares his thoughts on: his decision-making process around early-stage VC Investments, AI Startups – how to develop an unfair advantage for your AI startup, and two phases of product-market fit.
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The "Right" Leadership Style
Career reflections on situational leadership from Swaroop Kolluri, founder at Neotribe.
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Vendia raises $5.1M for its multicloud serverless platform
“When we heard the Vendia story, it was a no-brainer for us. The size of the market for multiparty, multicloud data and code aggregation is enormous and only grows larger as companies capture every last bit of data. Vendia’s serverless-based technology offers benefits such as ease of experimentation, no operational heavy lifting and a pay-as-you-go pricing model, making it both very consumable and highly disruptive."
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How to Turn an Idea into a Billion Dollar Agriculture Climate Technology Company
Kittu gives an inside view into the journey of The Climate Corporation, and shares some of the strategies that he uses to coach his founders.
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Our Investment in Fortanix
Enterprise security is a large and ever-increasing endeavor for organizations operating in public and private clouds. In spite of increased spend on security solutions, news of cyber breaches remains incessant.
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Walking Around In Your VC’s Shoes
In an industry where there will likely be less dry powder to spread around, entrepreneurs who think like investors will be in high demand. From a VC standpoint, there’s a single number that all entrepreneurs should keep their eyes on to become one of the success stories.
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A passionate rage against the status quo
Kittu Kolluri shares what entrepreneurship means to him.
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Kittu Kolluri On How He Became a Venture Capitalist
Kittu Kolluri shares how he became a venture capitalist, and how he works with entrepreneurs.
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