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Ashish Aggarwal

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VC, IronArcVentures (multi-stage investor); 2x founder, prev @chamaeleonvc, @GrishinRobotics built products @yahoo, M&A @Opera, MBA @Kellogg; @sandboxers member
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Altiscale - Ex-Yahoo! CTO takes on the challenge to build an optimized big-data processor 'Hadoop...

Altiscale - Ex-Yahoo! CTO takes on the challenge to build an optimized big-data processor 'Hadoop...

yourstory.in — Raymie Stata is a visionary technologist who has contributed in multiple ways to the technology world, via development of Hadoop within Yahoo! and played a key role in spinning that project in its current form. Over the last few years, Hadoop has changed the way in which companies in various industries consume Big Data to generate insights and use those insights to make business decisions in almost real time. Raymie had tasted the entrepreneurial success after Yahoo! acquired his first company, Stata Labs, in 2004 for superior desktop search technology. Raymie played various roles within Yahoo!
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Redg Snodgrass, writing the 'wearable tech' story with Stained Glass Labs

Redg Snodgrass, writing the 'wearable tech' story with Stained Glass Labs

yourstory.in — "I want to build things that might last 10,000 years" Who says so? Redg Snodgrass, a kid who grew up in Oklahoma, a mid-western state in the US, with no roots in computer industry, but now championing the technology of tomorrow. Redg Snodgrass comes from a very humble background, but when he first arrived in the land of opportunities, Silicon Valley, he found what aligned with his calling in life. Redg, a quick rewind Redg started working early to support himself during his college days and it helped him gain valuable lessons early in life.
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ElasticBox, Deploy applications across any cloud - private, public or hybrid easily

ElasticBox, Deploy applications across any cloud - private, public or hybrid easily

yourstory.in — Configuration management and software deployment are well-recognized problem for all the companies - whether it is a 5 person startup or 10,000 + people company. There are multiple options currently available in the form of public, private and hybrid clouds, which increases the headache for the IT department to manage the complex configuration and deploy software across various platforms. Imagine if you can develop, deploy and manage your application in a cloud-agnostic manner using a platform that also empowers IT operators, developers and CIOs to manage these environments in a very easy way!!! That's what the co-founders of ElasticBox are building.
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Indian app startups are vulnerable to international cyber-terrorism, says a Silicon Valley VC

Indian app startups are vulnerable to international cyber-terrorism, says a Silicon Valley VC

yourstory.in — Background: Deepak Jeevan Kumar is a principal at General Catalyst Partners and invests in cloud computing, big data and cyberecurity. He recently wrote a post on forbes.com titled "The App Economy: A Ticking Cybersecurity Timebomb". Here is a link to that article. YourStory catches up with him to discuss the impact of The App Economy for Indian startup ecosystem and users. Here are a few interesting excerpts from the conversation. What do you think about the importance of cyber security for Indian startup companies who are linked to The App Economy? Nehru once famously said, "Dams are the temples of Modern India".
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Raghav Gupta, an entrepreneur who empowers people with accurate information during uncertain weat...

Raghav Gupta, an entrepreneur who empowers people with accurate information during uncertain weat...

yourstory.in — How often do you read an app review like the one captured above from iOS App Store for the app RadarCast Pro? This amazing app, along with a handful of other weather apps,is the brainchild of Raghav Gupta, Founder and CEO of WeatherSphere . Whether it be tornadoes and thunderstorms in the mid-west, hurricanes in the south-east, snowstorms in the north, wild-fires in the west, or just planning their routine, millions of users across the US use the apps created by WeatherSphere every single day as part of their daily lives. WeatherSphere has earned this respect and trust from its users.
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Sell a Dream: Reel In Investors with a Great Vision

Sell a Dream: Reel In Investors with a Great Vision

yourstory.in — Visionary leadership - What does these 2 words mean for the startup founders in early stage? How do VCs in the Silicon Valley describe these words? How important is the chemistry between startup and investors? How important is for startup founders to sell their dream to the investors? The Founders Space Silicon Valley Roundtable focused on discussing some of these important questions, where prominent VCs from the valley shared their opinion with a group of entrepreneurs. The first half was focused on question answer style session and second half was focused on VCs interacting with the founders in smaller groups.
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Highlights from the SF New Tech meetup July 10, 2013

Highlights from the SF New Tech meetup July 10, 2013

yourstory.in — SF New Tech is the Bay Area's largest, longest-running, and most-loved monthly technology event and networking mixer for people who can't get enough of technology. The crowd is mix of people, but common denominator that they have is the passion for technology. The main highlights of event included: Talk by Jeremy L. Wallenberg, Director of External Affairs for sf.citi() San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation (sf.citi) is an organization created to leverage the power of the technology community as a force for civic action in San Francisco.
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Highlights from the Innovation Competition at Mobile Beat Conference 2013

Highlights from the Innovation Competition at Mobile Beat Conference 2013

yourstory.in — Mobile Beat 2013 conference took place last week in the scenic SF downtown and the place was buzzing with startups, entrepreneurs, VCs and corporate companies who were at the conference to learn more about what's new in Mobile. MobileBeat 2013 is VentureBeat 's sixth annual flagship conference on the future of mobile. The finale event included startup Innovation Competition in a different format. This year the finalists were broken into two groups: Early stage companies (late seed stage to Series A), and mid stage companies (Series A to Series B funding).
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From starting companies to launching a Bitcoin fund to dreaming up an Iron Man suit, the story of...

From starting companies to launching a Bitcoin fund to dreaming up an Iron Man suit, the story of...

yourstory.com — At a young age of 26, Adam Draper wears multiple hats. From working in a startup to starting a company, founding an accelerator program and now starting a Bitcoin fund, it seems he has done it all. When I met him earlier this year, he speculated that Bitcoin will hit $1000 before the year end, and his prediction came true. Adam Draper is a fourth generation VC who loves finding passionate people and helping them in achieving their dreams. His second dream is to build an Iron Man suit (we will save that for later)!
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D-Rev, leading design innovation creates products for people living on less than $4 a day

D-Rev, leading design innovation creates products for people living on less than $4 a day

yourstory.com — "To design and deliver products that improve the health and incomes of the 4.0 billion people living on less than $4 per day" This mission statement captures the impact that D-Rev, a 10-people non-profit based in San Francisco, wants to create across the world by combining latest cutting-edge technology with design thinking principles. Two of the recent stories that illustrate the impact created by D-Rev in emerging markets are: The story of Dinesh, a young Indian amputee, who was fitted with D-Rev's ReMotion Knee in March 2013 The ReMotionKnee or JaipurKnee is a high-performance, low-cost prosthetic knee joint for above-knee amputees.
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Compass - A company on a mission to radically improve the success rate of businesses

Compass - A company on a mission to radically improve the success rate of businesses

yourstory.com — Compass - Maximizing Business Success by providing dynamic benchmarking via 30+ data sources startups to CEOs, CFOs and Founders to identify problems, set and prioritize objectives, allocate resources and control results Bjoern and his team are working hard in an open space office in the heart of Silicon Valley. Bjoern's ambitions and vision are grand. Bjoern hails from a very small village at the bottom of Alps, where he learned about entrepreneurship early in his life, but didn't know about the term Entrepreneur until later in his career. He founded and led 5 for and non-profit ventures in Germany, Bangladesh & the US.
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Kano: A computer anyone can make

Kano: A computer anyone can make

yourstory.com — In January, 2013, I met Yonatan Raz-Fridman, Co-founder and CEO of Kano Computing, in London. During our brief conversation, we discussed many things, but one thing that particularly stayed in my mind was his passion for building a computer that any child could assemble. A computer that anyone, anywhere could use to learn to code and build his or her own game. This product, to me, described the overarching vision of the company. Fast forwarding to the present, Yonatan, along with his Co-founders Alex Klein and Saul Klein, has not only put together a great team around this amazing idea, and raised seed funding from friends and family, but also built the first prototype of that computer, Kano.
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From true grit to being the change: The Journey of Kunal Sood

From true grit to being the change: The Journey of Kunal Sood

yourstory.com — Kunal Sood is an exemplary model of where the western value of true grit meets the eastern ideal of being the change. Having lived across the world from New Zealand to New York. What exactly does it take to be a change-maker in our world? Is it skill? Luck? Hard work? Is it a combination of the three? Or is there an indefinite 'X-factor' that lies deep within those who truly embody this vision. In many cases, the latter proves to be true.
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SparkLabs Global Ventures Launches New $30 Million Seed-Stage Fund To Help Great Start-ups Go Glo...

SparkLabs Global Ventures Launches New $30 Million Seed-Stage Fund To Help Great Start-ups Go Glo...

yourstory.com — Former Facebook executive, Net Jacobsson; former Horizons Ventures Board director for Summly, Spotify and Siri, Frank Meehan; and SparkLabs (Korea) co-founder, Bernard Moon, will invest across Asia, Europe, Israel and the US. SparkLabs Global Ventures is launching a new $30 million seed-stage fund that will invest in early-stage companies looking to rapidly scale their innovations. The fund's worldwide network of experienced partners identified strong demand from the best startups for on-the-ground regional support for partnerships and expansion opportunities to drive their growth. The founding partners are Bernard Moon, Net Jacobsson, Frank Meehan, Jimmy Kim, John Lee, and Jay McCarthy.
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