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A fundamental shift has occurred in the way startups are financed. Our partner, Peter Wagner, just published a thought-provoking blog post on why “Seed is the New A”.

The early-stage financing world is changing rapidly. But what won’t change is what it takes to build a great company, and the absolute priority and intense difficulty of laying the foundation right the first time. The very best entrepreneurs will be extremely thoughtful about what sorts of partner...
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Our partner, Zach DeWitt just posted the results of his Crypto Sentiment Survey.

I surveyed 51 people who live and breath crypto. The goal of the survey was to better understand the near-term market sentiment from…
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Our partner, Gaurav Garg, just published an update on the 2017 IoT startup activity. Lots of interesting trends: http://bit.ly/2DlImOP

Each year Wing surveys the IoT landscape through our IoT Startup State of the Union. We do this to understand what is happening beyond the headlines, and share these insights with our community. This year, we expanded our data set to 3670 deals, across 68 IoT sub-categories, between 2013 and 2017.
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We published a Blockchain 101 primer. We are closely following the crypto space and are excited about the potential of blockchain technology.

2017 witnessed a Cambrian explosion of new cryptoasset projects and a commensurate interest in the space by entrepreneurs, investors, institutions and governments. In January 2017, the combined market…
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Congrats to the team at Snowflake Computing on the $263M in growth funding to enable data economy.

Snowflake Computing announced today that it has raised a massive $263 million round of funding to propel its cloud data warehouse business forward. The company is now valued at $1.5 billion. Snowfl…
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Securing the Internet of Things is a huge challenge for enterprises. That's why Wing recently provided seed funding to CloudPost Networks, which has come up with an exciting and innovative approach to tackling this challenge.
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Our portfolio company Aporeto has exited stealth mode and announced its series A round. In this blog post our partner Peter Wagner explains why we are so excited about its prospects.
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As more and more applications embrace the micro-service architecture, Aporeto has the opportunity to become a truly strategic security provider for the cloud-native enterprise.
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We have just published our inaugural list of 50 young startups that are using a data-centric approach and artificial intelligence technologies to revolutionize business software.

Welcome to our inaugural list of AI-powered Data-First business applications and its associated report. The report highlights 50 innovative venture-backed startups in America using a powerful combination of data-centric strategies and artificial intelligence to reinvent business software.
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A link to the latest work on our blog examining the evolution of the Internet of Things startup ecosystem.

Last October, we published a report on the state of the IoT startup ecosystem. Here's an update that includes fresh data and analysis through the end of 2016
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Wing portfolio company Snowflake is growing fast and just raised $100M to expand the reach of its next-generation data warehouse.

Snowflake Computing, the company that built a Data Warehouse as a Service cloud solution, announced a $100 million Series D investment led by Iconiq Capital..
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In this post from the Wing blog, our partner Gaurav Garg explains why we are thrilled to be backing SlashNext, an exciting new cyber security startup.

Existing cyber security products are failing to protect businesses against emerging threats. SlashNext's innovative technology catches attacks they miss.
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We're very excited to see the stellar growth of portfolio company Cohesity, in which we were an early investor. It has just raised a new round of funding to advance its reinvention of the secondary storage market.

Data centers typically have two layers of storage — primary, for mission-critical data, and secondary, for backup copies and analytics. Cohesity, a startup that specializes in the latter, tod…
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While much attention has been paid to the upcoming IPO of Snap, it's business tech companies, not consumer ones, that have been enticing investors back to the IPO market.

Snap is about to go public and the whole world will be watching. An IPO of the photo messaging company, which some believe could value it at up to $25 billion, would certainly be a landmark event. But…
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Our partner Gaurav Garg has co-authored the following article on TechCrunch about the huge potential for innovation that arises from the sequencing of whole genomes and the interplay with advances in data science. His co-author, Mahni Ghorashi, is the co-founder of Clear Labs, a Wing portfolio company.

We’ve entered a new phase in the history of whole-genome sequencing; it has opened the door to understanding our entire world at the molecular level. With..
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We're thrilled to announce the launch of our new fund, Wing Two, which will enable us to partner with more exceptional entrepreneurs creating companies that matter. The new fund is the next stage in Wing's evolution as the best-of-breed venture capital firm devoted to early-stage, long-term company building in business technology. In the blog post below, Peter Wagner, one of our co-founders, provides more details on Wing Two, and highlights our distinctive approach to engaging with our portfolio companies.

Today we announce Wing Two, our second fund and the next step in Wing’s evolution as the best-of-breed venture capital firm devoted to early-stage, long-term company building in business technology. We are honored to have the support of the industry’s most sophisticated investors, including man...
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At a recent Internet of Things conference in Santa Clara, we presented the initial results of our ongoing research work into the IoT startup ecosystem. This post from Wing's blog contains the slide show and a summary of the main findings highlighted in the presentation.

As part of ongoing research into The Internet of Things, we have been studying the state of the IoT startup ecosystem. This slide deck contains some of the data we’ve analyzed so far and we will be publishing more material in the weeks ahead. If you would like more information about o...
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Some exciting news from Palerra, one of Wing's portfolio companies.

Purchase announced just before OpenWorld conference.
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