A Founder’s Board of Directors: Six Tips for Success
November 16, 2022 | By Anik Bose, General Partner at BGV You’ve recruited a talented team and designed a great product. You’ve set a staged growth plan, and gained initial traction selling to enterprise customers. Now you’re closing in on a round of institutional financing, and it’s time to focus on your board of directors. […]
Spyderbat Raises Series A to Deliver Runtime Security throughout Cloud Native Software Development Environments
For original article, click here. Spyderbat, a cloud native runtime security company, today announced it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The funding was led by NTTVC with participation from LiveOak Venture Partners, Benhamou Global Ventures and John McHale to fuel product development and go-to-market activities. The Enterprise shift-left trend toward a more embedded approach […]
Spyderbat Pioneers Automated Runtime Security for Cloud-Native Applications
October 25, 2022 | By Anik Bose, General Partner at BGV “Everything is moving to the cloud” is old news. So old, in fact, that applications that are born and bred in the cloud are quickly becoming the norm. Kubernetes- and other container-based architectures are widespread, with 93% of developers using or planning to use […]
Responsible AI Has Become Critical for Business
Claudia Zeisberger , INSEAD, and Anik Bose , BGV Investors need to prioritise the ethical deployment of AI – too much is at stake if they don’t. Investors, take note. Your due diligence checklist may be missing a critical element that could make or break your portfolio’s performance: responsible AI. Other than screening and monitoring companies for future […]
The Role of Ethics When Investing in AI
July 8, 2022 | Anik Bose, General Partner, BGV What role should ethics play in investing in AI ? That’s a question I have begun to hear more frequently as a general partner at BGV and as an investor who cares deeply about responsible tech and AI governance. Imbedding ethics in company culture and product […]
Spyderbat: Containing Container Escape Exploits
For original article click here. Container escape attacks rose 700% between 2020 and 2021. Simultaneously, the time to detect a misconfigured container using scanning tools like Masscan fell to an average of just five hours, with 50% occurring in less than an hour. While crypto-mining appears to be the goal of most container escape attacks – with […]
Constella Intelligence and Telefónica Tech Announce Partnership to Increase Digital Protection for Customers
For original article click here. Los Altos (Calif, EEUU) y Madrid (Spain), 08 June 2022 — Telefónica Tech, Telefónica’s digital business unit, and Constella Intelligence, a leader in digital risk protection and identity threat intelligence, announce within RSA Conference a strategic partnership that will combine Constella’s extensive data lake with Telefonica Tech’s cloud, cyber security and […]
Why Labor-Based ROI Models Can Stymie Innovation And How To Fix It
For original article click here. Dr. Prasad Akella is the founder and chairman of Drishti, which uses AI and video to empower manufacturing workers and optimize production. There’s a lot of expectations around what the digital-physical convergence that defines Industry 4.0 means for manufacturers, especially in terms of how innovation can help them respond effectively to […]