Christoph’s post a while ago on Point Nine’s Tech Stack was a great read. I love it when people pull back the curtain to demystify what can be quite an aloof industry. At InReach we build and use software to power everything we do. From discovery to executing an investment…

I haven’t been brewing for that long but I thought I’d share my process and the reasons behind its peculiarities. Caveats: much busier and be-childed people than I use more complicated, all-grain brewing methods and get a lot out of them. During the summer of 2015 we had a baby…

I’m probably not giving away any deep secrets by telling you that the InReach platform hits the AngelList API from time-to-time. gasp We figured we’d release the simple Java8 client-library that we’ve built so others may benefit: https://github.com/inreachventures/angellist-client As always, contributions are extremely welcome. Only part of the API has been implemented so if anyone fancies filling in the rest of the calls we’d be eternally grateful.

Snappy name, no? Amazon released their packaged version of ElasticSearch. For those on AWS this means you can stop the madness of managing your own cluster and gain a big security win over third-party hosting. What Amazon have done is take the native HTTP API and bolt their fruity request-signing…

Roberto told the world what we were up to at InReach and for the past month I’ve been doing what no VC partner should ever do: hiding in the corner, coding. It may seem like I have the wrong job, but our statement-of-intent is to tackle VC by employing software-engineers…