The latest from Wildcat and our portfolio companies.
May 2, 2020
“Every decade or so, dark clouds will fill the economic skies, and they will briefly rain gold” - Warren Buffett, 2016 The COVID-19 epidemic has had a…
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Wildcat Venture Partners
March 24, 2020
Busting at the Seams & Screaming for an Outlet: Data Liquidity in the Healthcare Industry By Phyllis Whiteley, Partner, Wildcat Venture Partners, in conversation with…
October 17, 2019
Living in an Age of Disruption can be exhilarating, but it is also unpredictable. Forecasting during the early stages of a technology adoption life cycle is…
September 30, 2019
As we continue our run on legendary VCs, we feature today Bruce Cleveland, an entrepreneur, executive, venture capital investor and best selling author of Traversing the Traction Gap. We…
Follow Your Different
July 19, 2019
As part of my series about “the five things we need to do to close the VC gender gap,” I had the pleasure of interviewing…
Authority Magazine
July 11, 2019
Digital Oil and Trapped Value are two key concepts we embrace at Wildcat Venture Partners, anchoring our mindset as we seek and evaluate investment opportunities. They define “what”…
Forbes
July 9, 2019
Range of classes to focus on formula for helping early stage startups scale and reduce risk of failure using Wildcat Venture Partners' Traction Gap Framework®…
June 30, 2019
Anybody can trade stocks these days, whether from a computer or smartphone. But that doesn't mean that they should. Certain things — financial investing top…
Disruptor Daily
Unless you still bear the mental scars of the Great Depression, odds are you've got some money invested somewhere. Once you taste those sweet returns of…
June 29, 2019
Without the ability to invest, who knows how long it would take the average joe or jane to reach retirement? Despite the inevitable, at times…
June 26, 2019
I spent the early part of last week speaking with enterprise thought leaders and executives from some of the world’s largest organizations at the Enterprise Transformation…
Accelerate Innovation
There has been a significant uptick in marketers’ efforts to prepare and deliver more personalized messages and experiences to targeted audiences across all channels. Forrester…
May 23, 2019
Bruce Cleveland of Wildcat Ventures (wildcat.vc) speaking at Lean Cutlure Meetup on Tue-Apr-23-2019. His talk was based on his new book "Traversing the Traction Gap"…
May 13, 2019
Welcome to the NVCA Blog series, Building Better, where we celebrate the dynamic relationship between our VC members and their innovative portfolio companies around the…
National Venture Capital Association
May 8, 2019
This is the first in a three-installment series that is designed to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step survival guide for…
Young Upstarts
May 6, 2019
Finding Your Path “There is more than one way to skin a cat.” It’s a family expression that I used to love until I actually thought about…
May 3, 2019
Every entrepreneur dreams of turning their big idea into a real business. That said, 85 percent of startups end up failing to get off the…
April 9, 2019
Microsoft took advantage of the Adobe Summit in March to get in front of 17,000 marketers and tout its partnership with Adobe. Particularly, Microsoft and Adobe…
CMS WiRE
July 15, 2018
Conversational commerce is exploding in chat, delivering what you want, when you want it. Get to know the VCs and angels making it happen. Hey…
BuzzFeed
April 27, 2018
HR Leaders is a weekly Podcast Show where Chris Rainey chats with today's most successful and Innovative HR Practitioners. Episode #64: How Do Companies Succeed…
February 7, 2018
When Amazon, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Berkshire Hathaway launched their partnership in the healthcare space, they left more questions than answers about their new venture. The…
Becker's Hospital Review
January 18, 2018
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, one of the early employees at Oracle, as…
December 21, 2017
A lot of people who come from big “category king” companies think they can automatically build a legendary business. How has history proven this notion…
December 19, 2017
A few weeks ago, I spoke with Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, Katherine Barr, about ideas that disrupt markets. Katherine is a board member for…
Iridescent
November 17, 2017
DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday.…
October 6, 2017
Venture capitalists at Health 2.0 explained what it takes to get noticed. Every day a cadre of PR pitches are created to hype the latest…
HealthcareDRIVE
This year was the 11th anniversary of Health 2.0, a yearly health tech conference that explores the newest in digital health with eyes for what’s…
April 28, 2017
Tom Mohr, Founder and CEO of CEO Quest, shares his research-backed insights and best practice advice for choosing channel partnerships that maximize company acceleration and…
March 23, 2017
Less than 24 hours after Finance Minister Bill Morneau had unveiled his second federal budget, Kurtis McBride was already taking and making calls to help…
Communitech News
March 15, 2017
Accelerating the Success of Next Generation’s Healthcare Entrepreneurs In this exclusive Slone Partners interview, Dr. Phyllis Whiteley, seasoned venture capitalist and life science consultant, shares…
March 12, 2017
Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh how times have changed. While there are…
Vator.tv
March 2, 2017
Wildcat Venture Partners Closes on New Fund to Help Companies Traverse the “Traction Gap” Four Established Founding Partners Share Operating Experience and Best Practices to…
December 7, 2016
With its stone chimneys and wooden verandas in the Queen Anne Revival style, the house that Thomas Willson, the Ontario inventor and industrialist, built on…
Financial Post Magazine
November 7, 2016
When we built the 2016 Power List, we used financial records, corporate documents and analyst reports to help quantify the influence of business leaders. This…
Canadian Business
October 10, 2016
Bryan Stolle is one of the happy venture investors who celebrated Coupa Software's IPO success last week. He led the San Mateo startup's Series D funding…
Silicon Valley Business Journal
August 20, 2016
Elizabeth Burstein, Principal at Wildcat Venture Partners and Ex-PM at Linkedin sat down with host of Yours Productly podcast, Ravi Kumar. She discussed the Traction Gap framework,…
Yours Productly
June 27, 2016
Paul Teshima, Co-founder and CEO of Nudge, shares the top 7 things he learned at C100's 48 Hours in the Valley 2016 5. Venture Capital is Still…
Nudge
June 2, 2016
Partners from two longtime Silicon Valley venture-capital firms said they are launching a third: Wildcat Venture Partners, a firm focused on the stage where young…
Reuters
April 19, 2016
Katherine Barr is one of more than three dozen leading executives who will be speaking at the Catalyst Conference. Read her interview with Girls in Tech <here>.
Girls in Tech