New Platforms

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In the past five years, new distribution platforms have blossomed, providing startups access to billions of users and redefining customer acquisition. There is tremendous opportunity to build new social, mobile and cloud services atop these distribution platforms. Through the iOS and Android market places, mobile applications may reach more than a billion devices. In addition, social networks amplifies word-of-mouth marketing, growing userbases exponentially. As a result, many new products will be social-centric and mobile first.

In addition, new platforms will arise that create additional distribution channels and redefine existing ones.

In the news

https://www.theinformation.com: Snapchat's Real Business Plan is Platform, Not Ads

TechCrunch: Salesforce Buys Big Data Startup RelateIQ For Up To $390M

: You Can Now Buy a Car With BitCoin and Have It Delivered With a Bow

TechCrunch: Beepi Raises $5 Million From Redpoint To Simplify Buying Or Selling A Used Car

Washington Post: Landover-based Education Company 2U Debuts on the Public Markets at $13 Per Share

Forbes: As It Learns New Ways To Make Money, Curious.com Gets $15 Million In Funding

TechCrunch: Curious Launches On The iPhone

TechCrunch: Homejoy Raises $38M As It Looks To Expand Beyond Home Cleaning

New York Times: Homejoy Raises $38 Million in New Round

AllThingsD: Founded Just 18 Months Ago, DraftKings Picks Up $24M for Fantasy Sports

SV Business : Ex-Virgin Hotels CEO to resell fashion at thredUP

All Things D: Path Names Kallol Das New VP of Engineering

Fortune: 10 questions for Fanhattan CEO Gilles BianRosa

All Things D: AOL Makes the Biggest Buy of the Tim Armstrong Era: $405 Million for Adap.TV

All Things D: Qwilt, Maker of Super-Caching Gear for Video, Lands $16 Million Series C Round

The Next Web: Private social network Path will now come preloaded on Xperia devices sold in the Asia Pacifc region

The Verge: Sonos can now stream music stored on Android phones, tablets

The Next Web: Path 3.1 brings stickers to feed comments, QR code invites and updated iPad navigation

Venture Beat: Cox Cable is the first to get Fanhattan’s new Fan TV set-top box Read

TechCrunch: Scripted Gets $4.5M Series A To Build Out Its Online Marketplace For Freelance Writers

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Next Gen Media

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Since Netflix, the web has driven the reinvention of entertainment delivery. New distribution platforms like YouTube and internet connected hardware like Sonos and mobile phones empower new services to reach huge audiences bolstered by broad trends in the market includinng subscription business models, content unbundling and audience fragmentation. As users clamor for more diverse entertainment across a larger number of platforms, the opportunity to build new media businesses and media distribution businesses becomes increasingly attractive.

In the news

TechCrunch: Tastemade Raises $25M From Scripps And Liberty Media, Will Release An Android Mobile App Soon

TechCrunch: Wochit Raises $11 Million for Text-To-Video Content Creation Platform

GIZMODO: Meet the Crazy Camera That Can Make Movies for the Oculus Rift

GigaOM: Oracle adds BlueKai to its marketing automation hit list

re/code: AOL Buys Personalization Startup Gravity for $90 Million in Cash

TechCrunch: Game Maker Kabam Doubles Its Annual Revenues To $360M

USA Today: Startup Gravity aims to personalize news feeds

New York Times: HarperCollins Pursues E-Book Subscription Service With Scribd

VentureBeat: With 20M registered users, Path releases major update and premium service

TechCrunch: Tastemade Raises Another $10 Million And Launches An iPhone App For Video Reviews Of Local Restaurants

VentureBeat: Path gets a little friendlier with extended API access to WordPress, Viddy, others

Forbes: Qwilt Helps Network Operators Cope With 85% Growth In Video

Reuters: HomeAway acquires vacation rental startup travelmob, eyes Asia Pacific market

TechCrunch: Video News Specialist Wochit Raises $4.75 Million From Redpoint, Cedar Fund, And Greycroft

All Things D: Demand Media Vets Launch Tastemade, a Machinima for Food Videos

MediaPost: Adap.tv's New Technology Could Draw TV Crowd to Online Video

Gizmodo: Sonos Playbar: The Awesomest Wireless Music System Wants to Be Your Home Theater Too

NYT: Twitter Buys Company That Mines Chatter About TV

G4 TV: Fanhattan App For One-Stop Movie and TV Streaming

GigaOM: It pays to know you: Interest graph master Gravity gets 10.6M

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Data Explosion

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Data volumes are growing exponentially. There is a wealth of insight within this data that requires new infrastructure technologies for data processing, new applications for data analysis and new companies to bring these innovations to market. Insights from this data will inform decisions across most industries from advertising to retail, from media to consumer packaged goods.

In the news

Bloomberg: Reading Between the Tweets: What Social Media Musings Really Mean

VentureBeat: Datameer picks up $19M to help companies do analytics along with Hadoop

Reuters: Big-data firm MapR appoints first CFO, eyes IPO

AllThingsD: TideMark Pushes Out Fall Update That Answers What-If Questions About Your Business

PandoDaily: Looker announces a $16M Series A and a savvy new CEO to rise above stodgy old BI solutions

ZDNet: Datameer 3.0 Announced

GigaOM: Infer takes $10M to find the sales leads most likely to pay off

Fast Company: Tidemark's Infographics Could Change How Your Business Is Run

Fast Company: The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Big Data

MediaPost: Pioneering Internet Ads

TechCrunch: Analytics Company Datameer Raises $6 Million From Redpoint Ventures and Kleiner Perkins

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Enterprise, Cloud & Mobile

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The consumerization of IT has changed the way new software enters the enterprise. Offering a disruptive sales channel to enterprise software companies, this trend empowers new entrants to disrupt incumbents with more efficient distribution for newer, better products.

In addition to innovation for the employees, enterprises are benefiting from public and private cloud infrastructure for internal elastic computing demands - a wave enabled by innovation within the data center. From innovations in flash storage, to virtualization of the entire stack, data centers are experiencing a revolution in performance and efficiency.

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WSJ: H-P Move Highlights Disruption in Tech

Marketwired: Platform9 Announces Series A Funding From Redpoint Ventures to Bring the Power of SaaS to Private Clouds

Marketwired: VMware Veterans Launch Platform9 - 1st 100% Cloud Managed Platform for Docker, KVM & VMware vSphere

USA Today: Gogobot has a new look, feel in online travel wars

TechCrunch: Tactile Raises $11M to Help Workers Sync Their Personal and Professional Data

WSJ: Big-Data Startup RelateIQ Raises Another $40 Million

WSJ: Next-Generation Cybersecurity Ratchets Up

IT World: How Cyanogen plans to make Android even more open

WSJ: Zendesk Hires Bankers for IPO

VentureBeat: Cyanogen raises another $23M to grow like crazy and become the No. 3 mobile platform

Rayno Report: Cyanogen, 2U, and WebRTC: Flash Q&A With Scott Raney

TechCrunch: Brazilian Antivirus Startup PSafe Raises $30M Series C

Read Write: Cyanogen's Steve Kondik: Building A Better Android

TechCrunch: Redpoint Adds More Investment Talent; Nabs Former Twitter Platform Director Ryan Sarver

TechCrunch: Zuora Lands $50M From Next World, Paul Allen, Marc Benioff & More To Help Fuel The Rise Of The Subscription Economy

Bloomberg: Pure Storage Valued at Over $1 Billion in T. Rowe Price Funding

SF Chronicle: Kabbage and Stripe Partner to Fuel Small Business Growth

Forbes: Jeff Lawson's Twilio Disrupts Telecom Industry

Bloomberg: Millennial Media Will Acquire Jumptap for About $225 Million

TechCrunch: Path Opens Its API To 13 New Partners, Including PicStitch, Strava, WordPress, And Viddy

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