Does Operational Experience Make You a Better Investor and Entrepreneur? Published on April 8, 2019 by Clint Chao, Moment Ventures They say that in order to be an effective VC, it’s important to have operational experience. I’m not sure if that’s entirely true, as Fred Wilson makes a strong argument that some of the industry’s most successful […]
Nine years ago, a tiny software startup came out of nowhere to completely transform the transportation industry. Though not without its fits and starts, that transformation impacted not only consumers, whose lives became vastly improved by the convenience of an “Easy Button” on their phones that instantaneously transported them from one place to another, but also to […]
We’re excited to announce that Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX) has acquired Moment Ventures portfolio company Netsil. Congratulations to Founder/CEO Harjot Gill and the entire team at Netsil for such a successful outing! Netsil’s story is such a great lesson in both determination and capital efficiency. We’re humbled in that this is the 7th M&A event for our debut fund Moment I, […]
The Skilled Labor Cloud and the Empowered Worker When we first started Moment Ventures, we crafted our investment thesis around The Infrastructure of Everything, a part of which involves the movement to bring IT connectivity to age old industries built around physical networks. The Era of the Empowered Worker Has Arrived One type of company that we began […]
When we started Moment Ventures, we set off to find companies and entrepreneurs building something we call the Infrastructure of Everything, which is the multiple decade (at least!) trend of connecting digital infrastructure to physical environments. We’re seeing new categories of machines being created to serve new market opportunities, as well as applications where people play a key role in the enabling […]
On International Women’s Day for 2017, Moment Ventures is grateful to have the opportunity to work with the amazing female founder/CEOs, co-founders and senior execs in our young portfolio. They’re bold, brave and blow us away with their talent and conviction to change how the world works. Among them, they’re: Sending payloads into the stratosphere Curing-hunger-as-a-service Designing robots […]