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Lux Capital: Early stage VC focused on science and technology

Lux Capital is early-stage Venture Capital that focuses on emerging science and technology capabilities. They proudly focus on inventors challenging the status quo and the laws of nature to bring their futuristic ideas to life.

Lux does so much to inform the community there is a wealth of information on what they are focused on. But we recommend this video, which captures some of the spirit of Josh Wolfe of Lux:

For more see: Lux Capital

Datatribe: a new kind of startup studio

Datatribe is unique. It seems like a VC firm, it makes investments. But it is run more like a company focused on building businesses. It also seems like a startup accelerator/incubator, providing leadership advice, space and assistance to startups that it invests in. But it is far more than that.

Here is how they describe themselves:

DataTribe is co-building the next generation of commercial Cybersecurity, Analytics and Big Data products with game-changing technology and teams coming out of the Intelligence Community and research labs in the Washington, D.C. area.

To learn a bit more about Datatribe and what is unique about them see this video of co-founder Mike Janke:

Although Datatribe is unique, we track them with VC firms because they are on the side of creators, investing in and building great firms like Dragos, Enveil, Kesala, Prevailion, InternalSense, Refirm Labs. We will be capturing more insights on all those firms in our directory of Disruptive IT.

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Andreessen Horowitz: Investing in, and nurturing, great capabilities for the enterprise

Andreessen Horowitz has a model unlike any other Venture Capital firm, and that model is paying off for a broad ecosystem of companies, investors and enterprise IT professionals. From the standpoint of an enterprise technologist, the payoff will come by their support of firms fielding capabilities that will make a positive difference for organizations. The best way to learn about their spirit and approach is to review the blogs of their founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. But the best way to prepare yourself for coming disruption, in my opinion, is to dive right into the portfolio of firms they have invested in and are nurturing.

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JC2 Ventures: John Chambers’ New VC Fund

John Chambers is widely known as one of the great visionaries of IT, helping us all better understand the power and potential of what can be. He led Cisco Systems through exciting periods as they helped the world smartly transform to take advantage of wave after wave of technology revolution and did so with style. He is no longer CEO at Cisco (he is Chairman Emeritus), but continues to help create our collective future. One of the ways he is doing this is through this new Venture Capital fund, JC2 Ventures.

“Teaming with strategic, visionary startups, we hope to create new jobs, new markets and new possibilities for generations to come.” — John Chambers

For his vision on what the fund is to be see his short announcement below.

They already have a nice portfolio of firms (listed below). Each firm in their portfolio gets more than just investment, they get mentorship and connections by great leaders, including John Chambers himself. We have reporting on many of these firm in the past and will now renew our focus on them, clearly they are destined for big things.

For more on JC2 Ventures see: jc2ventures.com

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