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Jan 12

2023 Investment Themes

Phew… 2022 was a long year. Inflation is surging, there is a war in Ukraine, capital markets have crashed, and the underlying economy is only beginning to feel the effects of what could be a prolonged downturn. I am not going to provide my macro outlook, as that has been…

VC

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2023 Investment Themes
2023 Investment Themes
VC

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May 17, 2022

Optimizing $1T of Sales Compensation- Congrats to Forma.ai!

We’re excited to announce today that Forma.ai has closed its Series B, led by ACME Capital. Crosslink’s relationship with Forma.ai began at the seed stage when we met Founder/CEO Nabeil Alazzam and his team in Toronto as they were transitioning from a bootstrapped startup into a venture-backed business. I was…

Sales

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Optimizing $1T of Sales Compensation- Congrats to Forma.ai!
Optimizing $1T of Sales Compensation- Congrats to Forma.ai!
Sales

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Jan 6, 2022

2022 Investment Themes: Data Assembly Line, Rise of “x”Ops, and Old Economy Transformation

As we turn from 2021 into 2022, there is a general feeling that I think we all share — the 2020s got off to a rough start for our world! So far… a global pandemic, disruptions to our children’s educations, mental health issues, fires / hurricanes / tornadoes, widening economic…

Venture Capital

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2022 Investment Themes: Data Assembly Line, Rise of “x”Ops, and Old Economy Transformation
2022 Investment Themes: Data Assembly Line, Rise of “x”Ops, and Old Economy Transformation
Venture Capital

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Jan 13, 2021

2021 Investment Focus: Digital Transformation (Act II), Data Agility, and Industry Transformation (Act II)

TL;DR: Integrate, Collaborate, and Automate At the beginning of 2020, I was fresh off of celebrating the birth of my first child, and it was an exciting time. I had some extra time to think through my investment focus for 2020 and was able to put pen to paper. Then, 2020 happened (eek) and the…

Venture Capital

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2021 Investment Focus: Digital Transformation (Act II), Data Agility, and Industry Transformation…
2021 Investment Focus: Digital Transformation (Act II), Data Agility, and Industry Transformation…
Venture Capital

11 min read


Jan 13, 2020

2020 Investment Focus

At the end of 2019, my wife Nadia and I were lucky enough to be blessed with an awesome gift heading into the holidays, our first baby boy! …

Venture Capital

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2020 Investment Focus
2020 Investment Focus
Venture Capital

11 min read


Nov 8, 2017

Introducing our Investment in Enview

As can be observed by our portfolio, Crosslink has been thinking a lot about geospatial analytics as an important emerging technical capability. …

Technology

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Introducing our Investment in Enview
Introducing our Investment in Enview
Technology

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Aug 25, 2017

Announcing our Investment in Descartes Labs

With the introduction of low cost shoebox-sized cube satellites and the public release of government-funded satellite imagery over the web together has created a surge in new images of our planet coming online. This rapid growth of satellite image datasets has occurred in tandem with the scale-out potential of cloud…

Machine Learning

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Announcing our Investment in Descartes Labs
Announcing our Investment in Descartes Labs
Machine Learning

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Dec 5, 2016

Takeaways and Ramblings from AWS re:Invent 2016

Last week, Amazon held its premier AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The conference essentially took over the Venetian, Mirage, Wynn, and Encore hotels, with over 30,000 attendees in attendance. This was my first time attending re:Invent and I was blown away by the quality of speakers, attendees, and content…

AWS

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Takeaways and Ramblings from AWS re:Invent 2016
Takeaways and Ramblings from AWS re:Invent 2016
AWS

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Jan 4, 2016

Enterprise adoption of Node.js: Game changer or just a fad?

Node.js is scaling rapidly within the enterprise and changing the way that companies like PayPal, Intuit, LinkedIn, and Walmart Labs program their applications. While Node was once purely a development approach utilized by early adopters and startups, the benefits experienced through performance gains, more frequent application releases, and an expansive…

JavaScript

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Enterprise adoption of Node.js: Game changer or just a fad?
Enterprise adoption of Node.js: Game changer or just a fad?
JavaScript

4 min read

Phil Boyer

Phil Boyer

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Dad, VC @ Crosslink Capital, surfer, skier, drummer. In that order.

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