Laser Sharp Competitive Positioning Is Compulsory In Crowded Markets

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Devdutt Yellurkar, General Partner at CRV, who discussed his investment principles. It was an excellent discussion!

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

Elastic Storage Solutions

As for entrepreneur pitches, we started with Udo Neustadter from Ottawa, Canada, pitching Elastic Storage Solutions, a company addressing the ballooning storage needs of the digital universe. I asked for a thorough competitive positioning exercise, including input from storage buyers on how they’re evaluating solutions.

Velox Networks

Next, Martin Nygate from Singapore pitched Velox Networks, an Asian competitor to RingCentral-like hosted PBX vendors. The company is executing well and is already in revenue.

StegoSOC

Then, Balaji Kannaiyan from Cary, North Carolina, pitched StegoSOC, a Cyber Security company that has started POCs.

Credible Ninja

From Delhi, India, Prateek Bagri pitched Credible Ninja, a company addressing the trust issues in online services like matchmaking and marketplaces.

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