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Be the change that you seek. Today, we are thrilled to announce our newest and largest program yet: the Black Venture Institute. We’ve been busy working on this initiative all summer with incredible partners that include Operator Collective, Salesforce Ventures, and UC Berkeley Haas. …

Today we are extremely excited to announce our investment in Syte, a company that is completely changing the way eCommerce companies leverage visual AI. Syte powers visual search for some of the world’s largest eCommerce companies. By partnering with Syte, eCommerce businesses are able to provide image based search functionality…

Something I’ve been spending increasing amounts of time thinking about particularly in the back of my mind is the power of brand. Especially when it comes to personal brand. I see it manifest itself within our portfolio companies all the time when strong CEO’s become thought leaders in their markets…

Last week I presented my GovTech Business Model Canvas to a great group of about 40 founders & civil servants. It was a great event that was sponsored by Bosch and 1776 and was located at the Connectory — which is an incredible space for founders. Given the event, I thought I’d share my presentation.

I recently started a book called “Regulatory Hacking” by Evan Burfield, and in it he talks about this concept called Power Mapping. It’s something I’d never heard someone talk about, and so I quickly started to scour the internet to learn more about it. As it turns out, the term…

One of the goals I always had when I started blogging was consistency. I wanted to make sure that I kept consistently writing so that it became habit forming, and for awhile I was successful. And then life caught up and other priorities began to take precedence. It’s a story…

The following is a blog post written by Andy Wilson, the CEO at Logikcull — a Storm Ventures investment. We have some exciting news to share today: we’ve raised a $25 million Series B round! …

I thought long and hard about whether I wanted to write one of “these” posts. And by “these” I mean one of those posts that build on a previous years work and attempt to look forward and either dictate trends I think will be key to the following year or…

At Storm, we mostly invest in Series A companies. But because of that, I spend a lot of time meeting companies that are raising a Seed round or just finished raising their Seed. …