By Kevin M. Kelly, General Motors The rapid pace of development in autonomous vehicle technology is capturing headlines every day. The speed at which the technology is advancing surprises even the most ardent of technology watchers. But two questions that seem to be lost in all the tech frenzy is why this technology is important… Read More GM: Autonomous Vehicles: An Investment in Safety
By Dave Famolari, Director, Verizon Ventures Forty years ago, a small group of researchers at Stanford Research Institute laid down the foundational principles that underpin what is now the Internet. In agreeing to build a modular, robust, and highly extensible end-to-end network, this team could not have appreciated the enormous economic engine they were about… Read More Verizon Ventures: Building a Platform for Drones to Take-Off
Welcome to the final issue of the NVCA Connection for 2016! The theme for this issue of The Connection is cybersecurity and we have a host of very interesting articles covering many aspects of the cybersecurity ecosystem. As we all know, security concerns continue to grow as we hear about hacking attacks and other misdeeds… Read More Welcome to the December 2016 Issue: The Cybersecurity Ecosystem
By Teresa Shea, Executive Vice President and Director of Cyber Reboot at In-Q-Tel 2016 was another banner year for cyber security, due heavily to the dizzying number of attacks and data breaches. As is custom at the end of a year, let’s recap some of what we’ve learned and experienced: The Internal Revenue Service reported… Read More Rebalancing the Cyber Equation
By Robert R. Ackerman Jr. If you want to get a sense of the size and significance of the U.S. cybersecurity ecosystem in one location, a must-visit is the National Business Park at Fort Meade in Maryland. It is highly impressive and may someday serve as a stellar example of an effective new way to… Read More Building a New Cybersecurity Startup Platform: DataTribe
By Sean L. Cunningham Cyber attacks are growing worldwide and targeting: F-100’s, SMBs and consumers, while disrupting business functions, stealing sensitive data and intellectual property. Juniper research recently predicted that the rapid digitization of consumers’ lives and enterprise records will increase the cost of data breaches globally to $2.1 trillion by 2019 increasing to almost four… Read More Accelerating Cybercrime Drives Cybersecurity Venture Investment
By Jack Crawford, General Partner, Impact Venture Capital On November 14th, newly launched Impact Venture Capital hosted the first ever Impact Global Venture Summit at the brand new Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California. The event drew over eight hundred investors, entrepreneurs, corporate innovators, students, researchers, and policy makers. The goal of the summit was… Read More Ecosystem converges at Impact Venture Capital
By George Popovich, Motorola Solutions Security The information security community faces increasing challenges from the wholesale migration to the cloud and the rapid evolution of modern software development/deployment models. DevOps, agile development (often lumped under the DevOps umbrella), and the ever-accelerating “cloudification” of applications/services create new challenges on mitigating today’s cyber threats. Combined with the… Read More A Rapidly Changing Security Technology Landscape
By Tom Weithman, CIT GAP Funds To know MACH37 is to know something about the Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) and CIT GAP Funds. A Virginia-backed non-profit based in Herndon, Virginia CIT and its venture investment arm, CIT GAP Funds, provide seed and early stage equity capital to the Commonwealth’s most promising start-ups in the… Read More MACH37: Launching New Cyber Start-Ups Reach Escape Velocity
Since 2010, the number of US corporate venture capital investments in cybersecurity—more specifically, those that contain at least one minority investor that is either a corporation or corporate venture arm—has more than tripled, according to PitchBook data. That multiple seems surprisingly low, especially when you consider that it resulted in just 53 venture investments last… Read More Why CVC Investment in Cybersecurity Startups Seems Low
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