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…

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…

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…

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! …

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

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…

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…

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…