Ram Iyer

This year will be more about nailing it than scaling it The momentum of the most active 12 months ever for venture investing did not carry over well into 2022, to say the least. As interest rates and inflation spiked, geopolitical challenges arose and the economy began trending downward,...

Vishal Lugani Contributor Vishal Lugani is general partner and co-founder at Acrew Capital. I have recently been a part of a few M&A processes at companies I work closely with. These transactions involved private companies selling to larger companies (public and private) and were all-cash transactions. This inspired me to chronicle best...

Josh Berman is president of C2C Global. He is an expert in community building with a long track record of establishing connections between technology companies and their target audiences. In many ways, 2022 was a year of growth for the cloud technology space. Unpredictable macroeconomic developments saw many organizations...

Peter Hazlehurst Contributor Peter Hazlehurst is the CEO and co-founder of Synctera. He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist with nearly 30 years of experience in creating financial products for banks, fintechs and large tech companies. The decade-long summer of free money is over. Venture funding declined by $90 billion (53%) in...

David Magerman Contributor The global economic and political turmoil of the past year has had a meaningful impact on corporate innovation in the technology industry and beyond. The worldwide battle with COVID, the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the economic fallout of the COVID lockdowns and supply chain disruptions have together created a...

Talia Rafaeli Contributor Talia Rafaeli is a partner with Kompas, an early-stage European venture capital fund investing in digital transformation technologies within the built environment and industry 4.0 domains. Investors and entrepreneurs began 2022 bright-eyed and optimistic as startups raised nearly $13 billion in the first quarter, making it the fifth-highest...

Corey Massella Contributor Corey Massella is a partner at UHY LLP and is managing director at UHY Advisors. He has more than 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, tax and business advisor, and as a specialist in SEC accounting and audit services. Economic uncertainty, market volatility, rising interest rates, inflation...

Which sectors have the greatest potential? Victoria Treyger Contributor It’s been quite an eventful year. Fintech has fallen a long way from the highs of 2021, and while 2022 was largely about the reset of the funding environment, 2023 is going to be a year of recalibration for fintech companies. The great...

Holden Spaht is a managing partner at private equity firm Thoma Bravo. A new year is upon us, and with it comes uncertain, and uncomfortable, market conditions. Accompanying those conditions are equally uncomfortable decisions. For startup founders, determining which path is right for their business may require fundamentally rethinking...

Prior to becoming CMO at Hum Capital, Scott Brown led marketing for Sapphire Ventures, a $6 billion VC firm based in the U.S. and Europe. He has had a 20+-year career in enterprise technology, holding senior marketing roles at Facebook, Google, Cisco and several startups. Late-stage startups are...