It's not too late to join us tomorrow at #SFTechWeek for a discussion of cybersecurity trends, co-hosted by Enrique Salem and AWS Startups. Hear from Paul Valente (VISO TRUST), Ankur Shah, Kris Lamb (Halcyon) and Kamal Shah (Prophet Security). We'll cover the future of AI in security, the evolving threat landscape, defensive strategies, governance and responsible AI use. #techweek
Bain Capital Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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BCV helps founders build iconic businesses that transform the way we live and work. We invest in B2B software startups from seed to growth across our four domains of Fintech, Commerce, Apps, and Infra. For over 20 years and with over $10B under management, BCV has helped launch and commercialize more than 400 companies, including Attentive, Bloomreach, Clari, Docusign, Flywire, LinkedIn, Moveworks, Rapid7, and Redis. BCV has offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, and Boston, and you can follow us on Twitter @BainCapVC.
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It's common to start a company with a talent or HR generalist, but there's a tipping point when it's time to hire a people leader. When is that tipping point, and what type of people leader should you hire? Laura Hilton and Leslie Crowe created a handy field guide for founders to navigate this important decision. Broadly speaking, there are four common people personas: 📈 The "up-and-comer" has climbed the ranks of one function and is ready to take over as a first-time people leader. Best for a company seeking a hands-on approach. 🎬 The "been there, done that" saw hyper-growth before and is ready to do it again. Best for a company that needs more of a quarterback than a player-coach or is preparing for a big transformation. 🌶 The "seasoned specialist" held a top job at a large company and wants to build again at a smaller org for a faster pace. Best for a company focused on a specific specialty, like talent acquisition. 💼 The "business transplant" held a role adjacent to people and wants to apply their business acumen to this area. Best for a company that values data fluency and a leader who can speak the language of the business. Check out the link in comments for the full guide, and let us know if there are other personas you've worked with before.
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We're happy to be part of poolside's journey as they make progress toward AGI and continue building the world's most capable AI for software development. Congratulations to Jason Warner, Eiso Kant and the rest of the poolside team on their Series B.
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Congratulations to Pallet on announcing their $18M Series A to bring logistics into the 21st century. Pallet's all-in-one transportation and warehouse management system uses AI to help businesses streamline their operations from order entry to dispatching drivers, managing inventory and accounting. Sushanth Raman, Andrew Spencer and the rest of the Pallet team are working tirelessly to help businesses meet increasing consumer expectations while saving time and money. Since launching April 2023, teams using Pallet have seen nearly 70% reduction in manual-intensive workflows like order entry. Read more in Frederic Lardinois' TechCrunch story.
Pallet uses AI to bring logistics into the 21st century | TechCrunch
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Join us next Tuesday, 10/8 during #SFTechWeek for a discussion of cybersecurity trends. We'll cover the future of AI in security, the evolving threat landscape, defensive strategies, governance and responsible AI use. Enrique Salem is co-hosting with AWS Startups and will be joined by Paul Valente (VISO TRUST), Ankur Shah, Kris Lamb (Halcyon) and Kamal Shah (Prophet Security). It's sure to be a lively #techweek discussion.
#SFTech Week: Cybersecurity Talks with AWS Startups, Enrique Salem and Bain Capital Ventures · Luma
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"You've got to earn your seat" every day. - HYCU, Inc. founder Simon Taylor offers great advice for startup founders and anyone else looking to make an impact in their career.
Welcome Simon Taylor, Founder & CEO of HYCU, Inc. on this episode of 🔥 The Lantern 🔥 HYCU is the world’s fastest growing data protection as a service company and the world’s #1 leader in backing up and recovering SaaS data across the 30,000 SaaS services in the world. With a click of a button, they can recover data lost to an unforeseen event or ransomware attack. 🔍 What’s going on inside the startup this fall? 🔎 HYCU has about 4,200 customers in 78 countries. They backup and recover data for every branch of the U.S. military and government. They recently launched a powerful relationship with Dell pairing HYCU’s data protection expertise with Dell’s leading storage business 🤔 What has Simon learned building startups that he would pass along? 🤔 1.) Starting a company is not glitz and glamour. It is fun! But you can be the janitor on a Monday, king on a Tuesday, and back to washing floors on Wednesday. You need to do it all! 2.) You’ve got to earn your seat. As the company starts to scale, your business has an entirely set of requirements and needs. Every day I come in and say “I need to earn the seat today”. The person I was yesterday isn’t the right CEO for this company 3.) Partner, partner, partner. As you scale, there is always somebody much bigger than you. Get the leverage to build true value added partnerships, where both sides are winners. Lead with the business value you can provide and their goals, with technology as the enabling function 🤝 How can we help? 🤝 Back your SaaS up. Ransomware attacks are off the charts. SaaS is so dominant in our lives (look at what happened with Crowdstrike’s bad patch). Take stock of where all your data is, who is managing it, and back up all of your data to make sure it is protected. And perhaps HYCU can help! The Lantern is brought to you by MGMT Boston and Innovation Economy Banking at J.P. Morgan this September
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Bain Capital Ventures reposted this
On this CNBC segment we hear a teacher say: "AI is here. It's here to stay and how do we adapt and adjust to that?" One thing that has struck me is how fast sentiment has changed in education around AI from trepidation to embrace. Every industry is grappling with their own AI moment and writing a new playbook of how to adopt it responsibly. In education, there are multiple forces at play: the pull of it's incredible usefulness to do work, the fear of how teaching will need to adjust to allow students to show 'proof of work' and 'proof of knowledge,' and the nascent acknowledgement that AI literacy is a skillset that will allow future AI-native generations to be incredibly more productive than ours in ways we can't even imagine. MagicSchool AI is answering the call, and it's been incredible to watch Adeel Khan's thoughtful leadership in this domain during a time of rapid progress. And most importantly, see the insane teacher love for what he has built.
Teachers turning to AI for help as students head back to school
cnbc.com
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Bain Capital Ventures reposted this
On this CNBC segment we hear a teacher say: "AI is here. It's here to stay and how do we adapt and adjust to that?" One thing that has struck me is how fast sentiment has changed in education around AI from trepidation to embrace. Every industry is grappling with their own AI moment and writing a new playbook of how to adopt it responsibly. In education, there are multiple forces at play: the pull of it's incredible usefulness to do work, the fear of how teaching will need to adjust to allow students to show 'proof of work' and 'proof of knowledge,' and the nascent acknowledgement that AI literacy is a skillset that will allow future AI-native generations to be incredibly more productive than ours in ways we can't even imagine. MagicSchool AI is answering the call, and it's been incredible to watch Adeel Khan's thoughtful leadership in this domain during a time of rapid progress. And most importantly, see the insane teacher love for what he has built.
Teachers turning to AI for help as students head back to school
cnbc.com
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The Kiva Systems founders are being inducted into the Logistics Hall of Fame. In 2003, they developed a method for picking, packing, and shipping orders using a system with autonomous mobile robots that could deliver any item to any operator at any time. The company was later acquired by Amazon in 2012. Thanks to their innovation, long walking distances and transport by forklift trucks--where there is always a risk of accidents--are now a thing of the past in many retail warehouses. Congratulations to Mick Mountz, Peter Wurman, and Raffaello D'Andrea for the well-deserved recognition! https://lnkd.in/gv44ZAaN
Kiva Systems founders to enter Logistics Hall of Fame as mobile robot pioneers - The Robot Report
https://www.therobotreport.com
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Congratulations to Ryan Janssen, Paul Blankley and the entire team at Zenlytic on announcing their Series A to scale their AI-powered business intelligence platform so that everyone can easily analyze their data and take action.
Zenlytic secures $9 million in Series A funding led by M13 to scale AI data analyst
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