Venture Guides Dinner Series: Modern AppSec in Hybrid Cloud Environments
The Venture Guides team recently hosted a panel of security leaders along with a roomful of members from the Venture Guides Technology Advisor Network, CISOs and AppSec leaders from Bank of America, NS1, Pega Systems, Rapid7, Salesforce, Santander, State Street and many others to discuss the evolving challenges of managing application security in ever-changing hybrid cloud environments.
Press Release: Venture Guides Launches Sales Academy to Accelerate Portfolio Company Growth
Venture Guides, an early stage venture capital firm focused on team-based investing and guiding, today announced the launch of Venture Guides’ Sales Academy for Leadership, Excellence, and Success (VG SALES) designed to accelerate sales for its portfolio companies with trained and motivated sales professionals, ready to join fast-growing tech startups.
What I Wish I Knew Series: Hire Sales Early
As I look back on the many lessons I’ve learned as a founder, one in particular stands out to me: it’s crucial to invest in sales from the get-go. There is so much value in having real-time feedback streaming into your product cycle—insights into use cases, deployment issues, and customer pain points upfront. This early interaction with customers not only accelerates product iteration but also fosters a deeper understanding of their needs, enabling companies to tailor our offerings more effectively.
Venture Guides Dinner Series: Solving the Barriers to Enterprise AI Adoption
In our first official Venture Guides Dinner series event, we wanted to explore the dynamics around enterprise AI adoption, known barriers, and novel solutions to overcome them. We brought in experts including executives from Oracle, Capital One, and Google; MIT and Microsoft Researchers; and Founders of companies like Liquid AI, AppMap, and Elastiflow for dinner, discussion, and collective learning.
What I Wish I Knew Series: Four Key Seats Every Founder Must Fill
As a technology business founder, I learn something every single day. It’s hard to pick just one thing that I wish I had known when I was getting started, but I often come back to one major learning: surround yourself with the right people, in the right seats, early on.
Venture Guides Caps off Strong Year of Growth; Announces 3 Key Milestones
The Venture Guides team launched the firm with a mission to partner closely with founders, providing both venture capital and active guidance; to remain sector-centric with a deep focus on cloud, security, and data; and to approach every deal with a team-based methodology that ensures alignment, transparency and widespread expertise for founding teams.