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Storm Ventures Announces Fund VII

Today we are excited to officially announce our new $200m+ fund, Storm VII. We have already added a few new investments in recent months…

2 min readDec 9, 2022

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Understanding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in the Startup World

McKinsey revealed a study not long ago demonstrating that “companies in the top-quartile for ethnic/cultural diversity on executive teams…

5 min readDec 22, 2021

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Understanding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in the Startup World

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Outside The Perimeter: The New Digital Risk Landscape

I recently sat down with Alastair Paterson, CEO of Digital Shadows (our portfolio company), to discuss the challenges his company is…

5 min readDec 15, 2021

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Outside The Perimeter: The New Digital Risk Landscape

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Bootstrapping vs investment: one venture investor says VC money isn’t always best

What a year for venture investing. Crunchbase recently released figures that show venture funding soared to a total of $288bn for the first…

5 min readDec 2, 2021

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Bootstrapping vs investment: one venture investor says VC money isn’t always best

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What is enterprise automation? Q&A with Workato’s Markus Zirn

Let’s start with a basic question: what is this idea of automation? We’ve been hearing a lot lately about RPA and enterprise automation.

13 min readFeb 17, 2021

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What is enterprise automation? Q&A with Workato’s Markus Zirn

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How to Deal with Acquisition Interest

There are many kinds of potential buyers, each with different motivations and strategies. Once you sell, you’re no longer in control.

7 min readFeb 4, 2021

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How to Deal with Acquisition Interest

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Common mistakes made by startup founders and how to avoid them

It’s tough as a founder on so many levels. As an investor in B2B startups, I’ve seen many of the same mistakes made — here are some…

5 min readJan 28, 2021

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Common mistakes made by startup founders and how to avoid them

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How to email an investor you’ve never met — and get a response

This is how I, as an investor, want to receive pitches

7 min readJan 21, 2021

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How to email an investor you’ve never met — and get a response

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Angel investor vs VC: which should your tech start-up pitch to?

Because angels are drawing from their own bank account, the checks they write tend to be smaller

5 min readJan 15, 2021

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Angel investor vs VC: which should your tech start-up pitch to?

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Workato — Future of the Enterprise

We raised the next round to go after the opportunity of helping enterprises wire their applications together in an intelligent way

3 min readJan 12, 2021

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Workato — Future of the Enterprise

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Ryan Floyd

Ryan Floyd

Founder / Partner Storm Ventures. Early stage investor in enterprise focused startups in mobile, SaaS and cloud infrastructure blog: http://ryanfloyd.org

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