Advice for Would-Be Entrepreneurs: The 7 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself, Before You Look for Funding

The single biggest factor in a startup's success is its founders. From founder-market fit, to ego management, Kittu Kolluri shares "green flags" to help entrepreneurs build a founding team with the best odds of success.

Announcement

Neotribe Ventures Backs Pangeam's Mission to Help Companies Transform Their Office Into a More Intelligent, Productive, and Enjoyable Work Environment

We’re excited to announce that we led Pangeam’s Seed financing round and can’t wait for more people to discover how Pangeam’s recommendations can change how organizations set up their physical spaces and increase employee productivity.

Announcement Featured

Neotribe Backs Lineaje’s Mission to Lead the Way in Software Supply Chain Security Management

We’re proud to announce our participation in Lineaje’s Series A. Lineaje's mission is to provide a comprehensive governance platform for Software Supply Chain Security Management, addressing the critical need for securing software across various sources.

Portfolio Featured

AI-Driven Breakthroughs in Dentistry: Neotribe Invests in Pearl's Mission to Elevate the Global Standard of Care for Patients

We're thrilled to back Ophir Tanz and the Pearl team on their Series B as they pursue their mission to elevate patient care in dentistry through cutting-edge computer vision technology.

Fundraising Featured

How Startups Can Best Leverage Their Strategic Advisors and Investors

Rebecca Mitchem lays out the advantages and potential pitfalls of engaging strategic advisors and strategic investors, while providing best practices to ensure the relationships operate smoothly.

Generative AI Featured

4 Essential Questions for Enterprise Leaders to Consider Before Implementing Gen AI in 2024

Kittu lays out the four essential questions enterprise leaders are grappling with while attempting to embrace Generative AI, following sit-downs with C-level executives of Fortune 500 companies in banking, retail, software, and food & beverage.

Featured

Straight Talk, Operational Excellence: Meet Neotribe’s Newest Advisor, Amy Gershkoff Bolles

Our newest advisor, Amy Gershkoff Bolles, joins Nitin Chopra for an interview to share learnings from her experiences ranging from startup founder to Fortune 500 operator to public company board member to PE and VC investor.

Featured

Inside-Led Rounds: The Risks For Founders

In part two of the series, Rebecca reviews the risks founders should be aware of when considering Inside Led Rounds and how to mitigate them.

Machine Learning Featured

The Rapidly Diminishing Cost Curve: Why We May Not See a Winner Take All in Generative AI

GenAI may not follow the "hyperscalability winner takes all" effect that was seen for cloud resources. Why? The rapidly diminishing cost curve. Neeraj explores why we may in fact see a diverse cast of domain-specific competitors bubble up instead.

Fundraising Featured

Inside-Led Rounds: A Founder’s Friend Or Foe?

Rebecca explores what propelled the increase in inside-led venture financing rounds over the last decade and whether or not startups should avoid inside-led rounds going forward.

Security Featured

Weaponized Generative AI: Combatting This Rising Threat To Security

Nitin Chopra shares the upsides and downsides of Gen AI for cybersecurity and points out the untold opportunities for cybersecurity companies that discover novel ways to use this technology for good.

Early Stage Featured

Neotribe Ventures Backs Auquan's Mission to Accelerate GenAI for Financial Services

Neotribe Ventures is proud to partner with Auquan and its team as it transforms the way research is conducted and utilized in financial services.

Why Founders Need External Counsel to Sit-in During Board Meetings

Legal counsel has many crucial responsibilities outside of formation docs, patent applications, and negotiating financing docs. We identify the important role that’s often overlooked—which is sitting in on their board meetings.

Infrastructure Featured

Opportunities in Climate Tech (That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of)

There are things that we can do to slow down, pause, and ultimately even to reverse climate change. Innovation in this area goes well beyond the most commonly known solutions and collectively, they represent some of the biggest investment opportunities that the world has ever seen.

Featured

How do you Come Up with a Great Idea? (Its starts with coming up with a bunch of dumb ideas)

Where do great ideas come from? There’s really no magic to coming up with good ideas. It just takes consistency and effort to generate a lot of ideas, test the best of them, and honestly evaluate their appeal to the marketplace.

Culture Featured

The Alchemy of Leadership Styles: Building High-Performance Executive Teams, Part Two

Leadership teams need a complementary set of skills to quickly and effectively surmount the many challenges facing start-ups. There are four complementary leadership strengths: Vision, Execution, Speed, and Empathy.

Portfolio Featured

Revsure: The Next Big Thing in Demand Gen

Introducing Revsure, our latest investment at Neotribe. RevSure uncovers what's happening in your marketing funnel so you know exactly what's working, how much leakage is occurring, and where to focus resources/budget to win more revenue.

Fundraising

Is the Pendulum Swinging Too Far? From Growth at All Costs to No Growth

Many growth-stage founders are trading growth for profitability, but the solution is not to grow at all costs or conserve at the cost of all growth.

Announcement Featured

1touch.io: Improving Data Visibility and Security Posture with Sensitive Data Intelligence

We're to welcome 1touch.io to the Neotribe family. 1touch.io helps customers improve their data visibility and security posture with sensitive data intelligence.

Infrastructure Featured

Federated Learning on the Edge May Out-Compete the Cloud on Privacy, Speed, and Cost

A deep dive into how federated learning at the edge can improve latency, reduce network calls, drive efficiency, improve model accuracy and promote privacy.

Featured

Martini.ai: The Future of Corporate Credit is Here

We could not be more excited to join Rajiv, Rohit, and the entire Martini team in democratizing access to debt financing with AI.

Founders Featured

How ThirdAI is Democratizing AI Through CPUs

In an Interview with ThirdAI CEO and Founder, Dr. Anshumali Shrivastava, we take a look at the technology, algorithms, and hardware that power the Generative AI movement and the realities, cost, and energy that it will take for generative AI to be truly accessible to all.

Security Featured

The World Has Gone Digital, and It Is Time For Investors To Spend Like It

The digital economy is not a bubble: It is our current and future reality. While markets may feel deflated at the moment, the opportunities for investors, startup entrepreneurs and larger companies over the next ten years should be astronomical.

Growth Stage Featured

Go Long or Go Short? When It’s Time to Sell and How to Maximize Buyer Interest

Founders often feel they have to build a unicorn to do right by their constituents. In reality, sometimes playing the short game delivers more value.

Early Stage Featured

The Rules of VC Are Changing: Here’s What Founders Should Be Considering in the New Era

In today's economic market, many VCisms are starting to feel outdated, like "Growth at all costs" and "you need to raise capital every 18-24 months)". It’s time to ask ourselves—are these VCisms still relevant or is it time to change?