Podcasts about flybridge capital partners

The AI era is here – is your business ahead of the curve or playing catch-up? Willy sat down with Jeff Bussgang, Co-Founder of Flybridge Capital Partners, serial entrepreneur, and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. He and Willy explored key themes from Jeff's recent book The Experimentation Machine, including the importance of reinvention in the age of AI, why we need to have an abundance mindset when it comes to new technology, ethical leadership, rapid changes in tech-driven entrepreneurship, real-world startup insights, fraud detection, building a culture of experimentation, and advice for the next generation of professionals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The healthcare technology sector has witnessed astonishing growth in investments, skyrocketing from $3 billion pre-pandemic to $29 billion in 2021. Michael Greeley brings invaluable insights to the show as the co-founder and general partner of Flare Capital Partners, a pioneering venture capital firm dedicated to healthcare technology.Before Flare, Greeley was the founding general partner of Flybridge Capital Partners. Earlier in his career, he was with Polaris Partners, and also held positions at GCC Investments, Wasserstein Perella & Co., and Morgan Stanley & Co.  In this episode, Hercules Capital's Katie Segien is joined by Michael Greeley to discuss his experience as an early pioneer in health tech investments, the remarkable growth and challenges of healthcare technology, the impact of AI on healthcare programs and services, and much more.Topics Include:Michael's experience as an early pioneer in health tech investmentsLiquidity and scaling challenges for healthcare tech companiesHow to create a more sustainable business model in this spaceWhat Michael looks for when building out his portfolio companiesAI's impact on healthcare programs and servicesThe Flare Scholars programFuture challenges and possibilities in the healthcare sectorAnd other topics…Michael Greeley is a co-founder and general partner at Flare Capital Partners. Before co-founding Flare in 2014, he focused on emerging growth company financings as the founding general partner of Flybridge Capital Partners. Earlier, he held positions with Polaris Partners, GCC Investments, Wasserstein Perella & Co., and Morgan Stanley & Co. Greeley sits on dozens of boards and authors the blog On the Flying Bridge.Greeley received a BA with honors in chemistry from Williams College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. While he considers himself a New Yorker, he grew up in Hong Kong and currently resides in Boston. Resources Mentioned:Flare Capital Partners: https://www.flarecapital.com/ Michael Greeley's blog: https://ontheflyingbridge.wordpress.com/ Flare Capital Scholars Program: https://www.flarecapital.com/flare-capital-scholar-application 

Ahmed Elsamadisi built the data infrastructure at WeWork before realizing every company could benefit from his team's innovation. Traditional star schemas aren't the best way to manage data. Ahmed instead pioneered a new approach using a single-table column model better suited for real questions people ask. He launched Narrator in 2017 to make it easier to turn data questions into answers and has since raised $6.2M from Initialized Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Y Combinator. Ahmed received his BS in Robotics from Cornell. Hear from a pioneer (and tech provocateur) how new data wrangling techniques are making it easier for mere mortals to get more value out of their data.Listen and learn…How a roboticist who got his start building self-driving cars and designing missile defense systems ended up redefining how data is storedWhy traditional approaches that require SQL to access data are brokenHow a single-column schema eliminates the complexity of joining systems and tablesWhy it's easier to tell better stories with data using temporal relationships extracted from customer journeysWhy Snowflake, Redshift, and BigQuery are really all the same… and data modeling is the place to innovate What it means to replace traditional tables with activities… and why they'll eliminate the need for specialized data analysts How to reduce data storage costs by 90% and time to generate data insights from weeks to minutes Why data management vendors are responsible for bad decisions made using your data What is data cleaning and how you should do it What is a racist algorithm Why querying data with natural language will never work Is the WeCrashed version of Adam Neumann's neuroticism accurate? Hear from someone who lived it... References in this episode:Google's LaMDA isn't sentientChandra Khatri from Got It AI on AI and the Future of Work Derek Steer from Mode on AI and the Future of Work Barr Moses from Monte Carlo on AI and the Future of Work Peter Fishman from Mozart Data on AI and the Future of Work Ahmed on Twitter 

Produced by Foundersuite (www.foundersuite.com), "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders and investors who have raised capital. This episode is with Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan of Chief.com, a private membership network focused on women executive leaders. In this episode, Carolyn and Lindsay talk us through each round of financings, from Seed to Series A to Series B and they share exactly how they did it and what level of traction they had at each stage. They also provide tips for raising capital, managing a rapidly growing startup, and more. Chief.com has raised $140 million over three rounds: 1) Chief announced its $3 million seed round in October 2018, led by Primary Venture Capital and Flybridge Capital Partners, with participants including Accel, Box Group, Able Partners, XFactor Ventures, Silas Capital, BBG Ventures, and Alexa Von Tobel. 2) In June 2019, Chief raised a $22 million Series A, co-led by General Catalyst and Inspired Capital, with previous investors and GGV Capital participating. Ken Chenault, chairman and a managing director of General Catalyst, and Alexa von Tobel, founder and managing partner of Inspired Capital, joined the board of directors. Chief also announced an additional $15 million extension in June 2020, led by GGV Capital. 3) In March 2022, the company raised $100 million in Series B funding at a $1.1 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $140 million. The round was led by CapitalG, the independent growth fund of Google parent company Alphabet, and General Partner Laela Sturdy joined the board of directors. Previous investors General Catalyst, GGV Capital, Inspired Capital, Primary Venture Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners, and BoxGroup also participated in the round. How I Raised It is produced by Foundersuite, makers of software to raise capital and manage investor relations. Foundersuite's customers have raised over $3 Billion since 2016. Create a free account at www.foundersuite.com.

On today’s show I chat with Jeff Bussgang, Co-Founder and General Partner of Flybridge Capital Partners, a Boston based VC fund with 700M under management. As you know from previous episodes, I’ve been interviewing different VCs on the show with the goal to highlight different geographies. Jeff’s on to represent Boston. Along with being a VC, Jeff is the author of “Mastering The VC Game” and a professor at Harvard Business School, which has helped him become a true expert on VC. He’s also a bit of a mentor to the current generation of VCs. A lot of people in the industry look to him for guidance, so I’m honored to have him on the show. As if Jeff already doesn’t do enough, he also actively invests in Harvard grads through a vehicle called the Graduate Syndicate and is a Co-Founder of Hack Diversity - a non-profit focused on helping Black and Latinx/e/a/o technologists find their way into tech companies. During the chat we talk about how Flybridge Capital operates, what’s going on in the Boston VC game, some of his favorite lessons that he teaches in class, and much more.  Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bussgang (@bussgang) / http://twitter.com/mpd (@mpd) Show Notes: https://www.flybridge.com/ (Flybridge Capital) https://www.thegraduatesyndicate.com/ (Graduate Syndicate) https://www.hackdiversity.com/ (Hack.Diversity) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7904927-mastering-the-vc-game?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=Gu6Z84vXv3&rank=1 (Jeff’s Book - Mastering the VC Game) Podcast Links: http://mpd.me (Website), https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCua7T3uyg6IQeSbYyNKT_Iw (YouTube), https://twitter.com/mpd (Twitter), https://www.facebook.com/innovationwithmpd (Facebook), https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovationwithmpd (LinkedIn)

In this episode of the Agents of Innovation Podcast, David Knies breaks the news that guest Anna Palmer has joined Boston's Flybridge Capital Partners as its first-ever female General Partner. Anna is a Harvard Law graduate who chose to follow her passion for entrepreneurial adventures instead of a law career. She has been the co-founder of luxury reseller Fashion Project, women-owned business marketplace Dough, and X-Factor Ventures, a fund focused exclusively on female founders. They discuss Anna's infinite curiosity, encouraged by her parents, her reasons for choosing a different path, her approach to investing at Flybridge will be, and how to close the gap in venture funding for female founders.

The CryptoCurrencyWire segment kicked off with the news that JPMorgan is allowing crypto exchanges Coinbase and Gemini access to its banking services (http://ccw.fm/5vBmS). In April, the nation's largest banking firm took the plunge and opened accounts for the two exchanges – the first time it has served customers from the crypto sector. However, the bank will not be processing cryptocurrency transactions, only those denominated in U.S. dollars.In other news, digital asset trading platform FalconX has raised $17 million in new capital from a host of investors that includes Accel, Accomplice VC, Coinbase Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Avon Ventures, a venture capital fund affiliated with FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Investments (http://ccw.fm/Fd0jC). The funding will be used to introduce new products and expand FalconX's trade execution suite and scale infrastructure to support growing institutional demand for cryptocurrency.Finally, the tax man is coming. The IRS has initiated a plan to hire third-party contractors to help it examine crypto traders' tax returns (http://ccw.fm/fNdK6). The agency is looking for tax-software companies to assist its revenue agents in calculating taxpayers' gains or losses as a result of their transactions involving virtual currencies.

COVID-19 has become a disruptive force to the world as we know it. Beyond being disruptive, COVID-19 is proving to have a transformational impact on many industries—starting with healthcare. From unprecedented real-time scientific collaboration across the globe to relaxed regulations, new supply chain, and PPE sourcing opportunities, to a deeper reliance on digital communication than ever before, COVID-19 is transforming the way healthcare works. In this engaging discussion, we'll address how this disruption is providing opportunities for new technologies, startups, and innovation to thrive, diving into some of the ways healthcare is adjusting and transforming at every level. We invite all in healthcare—digital and beyond—to join us as we continue our practical conversations series with industry leaders, exploring the transformational trends and changes that are occurring in our healthcare ecosphere today. Guests: Chandana Fitzgerald, Chief Medical Officer, HealthXL David Chang, Entrepreneur & Angel Investor, Former Chief Operating Officer of PayPal, and current Board Member of Harvard Ventures, MITX & Flybridge Capital Partners among others. Shawna Butler, RN, MBA, Exponential Medicine Partnerships and Outreach, Singularity University Moderated by Rebecca Love RN, MSN, FIEL, Vice President Customer Strategy, and Engagement, OptimizeRx Send your questions to webinars@optimizerx.com Visit www.OptimizeRx.com/webinars for more insightful industry conversations. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn

For Episode 137 of The VentureFizz Podcast, I interviewed Jeremy Hitchcock and Gray Chynoweth of Minim. Manchester, NH…or for you insiders, Manchvegas… it is where I grew up. My dad was an entrepreneur and he ran a leather coat factory in the historic mill buildings there. The same mill buildings were the home to a major tech company that played a key role in keeping the internet running (for real) and it was called Dyn - the leading cloud-based Internet performance and DNS provider. The company was started by WPI students and it went on to scale to an eventual acquisition by Oracle for a reported $600M. Jeremy Hitchcock was the CEO of Dyn and one of its co-founders. He is on to his next company which is called Minim. Gray is also an alum of Dyn and is now Minim's CEO. Minim, as they put it, is on a mission to make home WiFi as safe and reliable as drinking water through its IoT platform that enables and secures a better connected home. The company is backed by Founder Collective and Flybridge Capital Partners. In this episode, we cover: * The current state of the tech scene in New Hampshire. * A deep dive into the story of Dyn from the early beginnings to acquisition. * All the details on Minim and their technology. * Advice for founders on raising capital. * A discussion about the acquisition process. * Recruiting members to your Board of Directors. * And more! If you like the show, please remember to subscribe and review us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play.

Lorem connects businesses owners to a curated, professional network of freelance website developers and designers who can build or improve their website, blog or online store. Founded in 2017, Lorem is the only on-demand freelance marketplace that rigorously vets the experts on its platform and integrates with the most common software tools used by business owners on a daily basis. The online platform recently secured $2.5 million to expand its on-demand freelance marketplace. Lorem’s funding was led by Flybridge Capital Partners among other investors - including HubSpot, who will be including Lorem into its own marketplace for interested customers. Now that more than a third of the U.S. workforce alone is actively freelancing in some capacity, however over 50 percent of their time is spent trying to find new projects, rather than working and getting paid. Meanwhile, business owners are now juggling 15 to 20 different “do-it-yourself” SaaS tools to build and maintain their website, yet each tool requires more technical expertise to set up, customize and manage on a continual basis. Lorem is attempting to solve these problems by automatically matching entrepreneurial business owners with high-quality freelancers to work on task-based projects at an affordable price. “Our vision is to empower the modern day business owner to succeed with instant access to high-quality and affordable freelance talent. We aim to build a global network of experts and enable freelancing as the future of work,” said Charlie Fogarty, co-founder and COO at Lorem. “This additional investment will allow us to continue to solve the problems that millions of freelancers and high-growth companies face in doing business online.” I invited Charlie Fogarty onto my daily tech podcast to learn more about his grand vision.  

It gets my goat that these days, the history of ecommerce begins and ends with Amazon. There were so many companies and big ideas that got us where we are today, and one of the most important companies was Open Market. Jeff Bussgang is here to tell us the (today) often overlooked story of the earliest days of trying to sell stuff on the web. Today, Jeff is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week’s episode is the last episode in our series on new models of Primary Care! Our guest today, Michael Greeley, is a General Partner at Flare Capital Partners. Prior to co-founding Flare Capital Partners, Michael was the founding General Partner of Flybridge Capital Partners where he led the firm’s healthcare investments. Michael’s current and prior board seats include HealthVerity, Iora Health, Predilytics, TARIS Biomedical, and Welltok. Michael also serves on the Industry Advisory Board of the Cleveland Clinic and Boston Children’s Hospital, as well as serving on several other boards including the New England Investors’ Committee of Capital Innovation. Michael is most excited about the convergence of healthcare and information technologies and the profound opportunities to transform healthcare and writes about this and other topics on his blog www.ontheflyingbridge.com In this episode we cover: Michael’s background, work at Flare Capital, and his specific areas of investment interest How Flare Capital’s  investment in Iora Health came together and what led him to say yes Michael’s general thoughts on entrepreneurs trying to build standalone primary care models and if he thinks this helps or could create more fragmentation in the system Where Michael sees the future of these New Models of Primary Care heading Michael’s thoughts around a blog post he wrote in that “if V1 of the Healthcare technology sector was triggered but the HITECH Act of 2009, the sector is now entering V2.0 where the commentary is focused on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality solutions to make the healthcare system “capital light” to drive meaningful operating efficiencies from the significant investment of the past three years." What opportunities Michael believes will develop over the next few years If Michael sees a growth in early stage investment over the next few years or if he thinks we’ll see the percentage grow in Series B and later investments Why Michael thinks "Brands will become even more important” Links mentioned in the show: Steve Kraus at Bessemer Ventures https://www.bvp.com/team/stephen-kraus https://ontheflyingbridge.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/potential-next-steps-where-to-invest/ Connect with Michael: Twitter LinkedIn Blog Connect with Flare Capital Partners: Website Connect with Healthbox Follow us on Twitter and @ChuckFeerick Subscribe and leave a review in iTunes Have guest suggestions or topic ideas for the podcast? Send them to us at ideas@healthbox.com Listen to this episode on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Libsyn

Jeff Bussgang is a lecturer at Harvard Business School and General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners.Michael Seibel is CEO of YC.

The venture capital world is growing by leaps and bounds and companies like Flybridge Capital Partners are fueling the tech and innovation behind many of the things that are transforming the world. In this conversation, I talk with Jeff Bussgang, general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners about a variety of things surrounding the venture capital space, including how he got started, what his company looks for in a startup company, and how they assess the leadership and team to make a wise early stage investment. What IS an early stage investment company? Early stage investments are nothing more than the money provided to promising companies that are not yet producing their products or services but have made significant headway toward the development or distribution of it. The money they receive is often referred to as “seed money” - the money used to enable the development, marketing, and progress of the company to move it toward profitability and sustainability. On this episode, Jeff Bussgang shares how his interest in the entrepreneurial world led him to become general partner of an early stage venture capital firm, and why startup funding is so exciting. What is a venture capital investment firm looking for in a startup? When I asked Jeff Bussgang what the team at Flybridge Capital Partners is looking for in an early stage company he gave me a number of criteria they look at to show them there is promise in the company: Innovative potential, leadership and team, the Pied Piper effect, and more. If those sound a bit vague, don’t worry. As you listen to this episode you’ll get a very clear understanding of what each of those things is and why Jeff and his team consider them vital to discerning a good investment from a bad one. It’s all on this episode of the Capital Gains podcast. The Pied Piper effect is something startup founders need - at least in this case. If the team at Flybridge Capital Partners is going to get behind a startup financially they want to see that the primary leader of the startup company possesses what they call a “pied piper” quality. That means he/she is a person who is a natural leader and attracts the interest of people to the projects they are working on. Jeff Bussgang points to the fact that we all know people whose ventures and projects are naturally of interest to us - and it’s because of who the person is and how they are wired that we are attracted. You can almost smell the excitement and potential because they are a person who tends to make things happen. Find out more about this elusive but tangible leadership quality, on this episode. If you can’t connect with me through a mutual connection, I’m not that interested. Jeff Bussgang understands that networking and connections are a huge advantage when it comes to making a company or cause successful. So much so that he’s generally unwilling to have serious conversations about funding a startup if their team did not approach him through some kind of mutual connection. He’s convinced that people who know how to make and utilize connections are also the people who will be able to build the relationships that will equip their company for future success. You can hear Jeff make the case himself on this episode. Outline of This Episode [1:04] Introduction of this week’s guest, Jeff Buskin. [1:54] The types of companies Jeff’s group invests in and what they look for in a winner. [6:50] The “winnowing” process Flybridge uses when evaluating potential companies. [10:50] Signals that a founder or leader is a “Pied Piper” who can build the company. [13:18] What does it mean to be an “early stage” investor? [18:54] Niches Flybridge tends to invest in. [21:58] Sectors on the horizon that Jeff and his team are watching carefully. [24:00] Why Flybridge has a geographic bias toward Boston and New York. [25:23] Why relationships matter so much to Flybridge. [31:23] Jeff’s path to Flybridge. [36:58] The tendency toward entrepreneurism: Is it innate? [39:03] Successes the company has had and what they have learned. Resources Mentioned Flybridge Capital Partners - Jeff’s investment company. On LinkedIn On Facebook On Twitter On Pinterest Code Academy Bitsight DataXu MongoDB Jibo Robotics Zest Finance Omni Physical Storage Upromise http://TwoBridgesMgmt.com www.TheMortarBlog.com   Connect With Capitalism.com Website: http://capitalism.com/ On Youtube On Facebook On Twitter On LinkedIn

Jesse Middleton is a General Partner @ Flybridge Capital Partners. Prior to joining Flybridge, Jesse was an early executive at WeWork, one of the fastest growing and most valuable startups in history. He co-founded WeWork Labs in 2011, and ran WeWork X, M&A, startup investments, business and digital product development as well as inside sales during his five-year tenure at the company. Prior to WeWork, Jesse was the co-founder and CEO of Backstory, a venture backed startup. Jesse also has experience as a prolific angel investor having invested in the like of Fitmob (acq by ClassPass) YourTrove acq by LiveNation and inDinero, who you might remember we had Jessica Mah, Founder @ inDinero on the show.   In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Jesse made the transition from operator with WeWork to General Partner @ Flybridge? 2.) At what stage does founder vision transition to become stubbornness? How does Jesse approach the situation of telling a founder when it is not working? 3.) How does Jesse's investment mindset shift from making the move from angel to VC with fiduciary responsibility? 4.) How does Jesse look to develop pattern recognition as a new entrant to VC? How important a role does mentorship play for Jesse? 5.) What are the characteristics Jesse looks for in a founder that suggest an innate problem solver? How does Jesse deal with problems when the 'shit hits the fan?' Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Jesse’s Fave Blog and Newsletter: Purple, The Skimm Jesse’s Fave Book: Leadership & The Challenge of Self Deception Jesse’s Most Recent Investment: Squire As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Jesse on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Eve make 1 perfect mattress – made with 3 layer technology and next generation memory foam. It comes packaged in a beautiful box and arrives the day after you order. You get 100 nights to try it with free return pick-up – it really is the perfect mattress for everyone. Just go online to evemattress.co.ukand enter the code 20VC for £50 off. Everybody deserves the perfect start with Eve.

Glenn discusses Venture Capital Funding in the Information Technology Sector with Chip Hazard, the General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. Chip specializes in early-stage company creation across information technology markets.

Glenn discusses Venture Capital Funding in the Information Technology Sector with Chip Hazard, the General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. Chip specializes in early-stage company creation across information technology markets.