Top stories published by Origin Blog in 2017

In the 10 years since the first iPhone was released, the number of applications in the Apple mobile app store has swelled to over 2 million. There are another 2.2 million apps on the Google Play store. There have been 268…

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Apr 27, 2017

Origin Ventures Closes $80M Fourth Fund

Early-stage VC fund announces five investments; opens Salt Lake City office

Chicago, IL (April 27, 2017) — Origin Ventures is pleased to announce the final close of its fourth venture capital fund at $80M, bringing its total assets…

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Aug 16, 2017

Apptentive’s Inaugural Customer Love Summit

Engaging with customers is fundamental for every company and their brands. Creating a positive and rewarding customer experience has been shown to increase both revenue and customer loyalty. So what are tangible ways companies can improve their customer…

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Apr 27, 2017

Our Investment in Kidizen

In late March, we announced our investment in Minneapolis-based Kidizen, leading a $3M Series A round.

We first heard about Kidizen when we traveled to Minneapolis for office hours with the companies participating in the Techstars Retail Accelerator. As an…

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Jul 3, 2017

Our Policy on Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment in the VC and tech startup ecosystem persists as a problem, and recent events at Uber and Binary Capital are regrettably only the latest high-profile examples.

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Jun 7, 2017

Blue Apron Food, for Thought

As investors across a variety of food service related companies (Tovala, Tock, and GrubHub), we at Origin Ventures are constantly looking to further our understanding of this trillion dollar segment of the US economy. We are also avid eaters ourselves, so whether it is fine…

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Apr 12, 2017

The Future of the Venture Capital Business

The deep irony about the venture business — a business that lives and dies by innovating/disrupting other industries — is that it hasn’t experienced much change since General Georges Doriot aimed to get veterans back to work after WWII.

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Apr 12, 2017

We’re Hiring: Marketing & Community Manager for Origin

Whether it’s a smart oven that cooks prepared meals by scanning a barcode, a marketplace for kid’s clothes, or software that sells tickets and accepts reservations to the world’s greatest restaurants, our companies are working on big…

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