We’re excited to be announcing our investment into Gitpod. It’s a small round, but our ambitions are big. It’s also atypical for us to invest this early this far away in the world — in this case, Kiel, a maritime town a few miles north of Hamburg. …

Originating in Facebook, GraphQL is technology developed to allow Facebook’s front-end teams to build apps and make optimal back-end queries without worrying about how the data was organized in the back-end systems. The design pattern, and by extension the organizational pattern of how engineers work, soon caught on at other…

Vertex US invites graduate students in business and computer science/engineering to apply for a 8–10 week market-focused summer internship at our offices in Palo Alto or San Francisco — Vertex US partners with founders of early-stage technology-driven startups that are building the next generation of B2B products and services. We’re based next to Antonio’s nut house in Palo Alto and in South Park in SF. …

The recent frenzy around tech-enabled full-stack services like Compass for real estate brokerages, SoFi for lending, WeWork for commercial leasing, and others in insuretech, accounting, and even cybersecurity, prompted debates among the Vertex team as to what kind of investment is best suited for this market category — private-equity style…

(co-authored with Vertex summer associate Kevin Ondyak) “Industry 4.0” is a classic buzzword frequently paired with grandiose statements and trillion dollar prognostications. The term is meant to describe the increasing digitalization of manufacturing, driving increased connectivity between machines, devices, sensors, and people to enable even greater levels of productivity. …

Vertex Ventures US invites graduate students with a background in business and computer science/engineering to apply for a 7 week summer internship at our offices in Palo Alto focused on Industry 4.0. — Vertex partners with founders of early-stage technology-driven startups that are building the next generation of B2B products and services. The role will offer an opportunity to learn about venture capital by working with the investment team and our extended network of company founders, collaborators and senior executives.

The biggest transformation to enterprise software in the past 15 years has been the move from on-prem enterprise software to SaaS. Most of the customer value from that move has accrued not to end-users of this software but to enterprise IT departments managing and maintaining them. IT teams that previously…

Lots has been written on agile development processes — heck there is even a unicorn built around selling an agile project management tool. Given that software applications no longer merely support business operations, but are business operations themselves — finding product-market fit faster than your competitors is easiest if you…

No matter where one stands on the religious divide on private vs public clouds, one thing is certain — getting a private cloud up and running, and then keeping it going, is tough as nails. First, whereas IT Ops teams want to provide Private Cloud services to their internal line-of-business…