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Looking Elsewhere: VCs go beyond the coasts
“Nowhere is going to be the next Silicon Valley,” according to John Thornton, a founding partner of Elsewhere Partners. “What we believe is you can build one of these elsewhere outliers almost anywhere.” Austin Ventures general partner Thornton (pictured) and former JMI Equity senior associate Sam Kentor as principal and co-founder. The Austin-based firm
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Fast Tracking Network Automation
Itential Platform Extends Cisco Network Services Orchestrator’s Automation Service providers seeking to reduce costs and improve revenue know that increasing network automation and orchestration brings significant benefits. Traditional telco operations support systems (OSS) have tended to focus on point solutions that provide specific functions in their own attempt to automate networks. However, this approach
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Itential Secures $5.5 Million Investment from Elsewhere Partners and Adds Software Veteran Kenny Van Zant to Its Board of Directors
First Outside Funding Will Accelerate Delivery of Innovative Network Automation Solutions Atlanta, GA – September 27, 2017 – Itential, an emerging leader in automating Software Defined Networks (SDN), today announced that the company has received its first outside investment from Elsewhere Partners, a growth-stage venture capital firm that was recently launched by veteran software investors.
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Itential Selected by Cisco as Member of SolutionsPlus Program
Atlanta, Georgia, USA September 27, 2017 – Itential, an innovative software company focused on model-centric network automation, proudly announces that it has officially become a member of the Cisco SolutionsPlus Program. Through a long standing relationship with Cisco, Itential has built robust integration with the Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) ecosystem supporting complex customer automation programs.
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Austin Ventures veterans start growth firm Elsewhere Partners
A pair of Austin Ventures veterans announced they have started Elsewhere Partners, a Texas-based growth-stage firm targeting business software companies outside the country’s traditional venture-capital hubs. The investors, Chris Pacitti and John Thornton, both general partners at Austin Ventures and now partners at Elsewhere, are joined by Sam Kentor, formerly with JMI Equity. Elsewhere so far has invested $30 million, though it did not
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Elsewhere Partners launches to invest in software startups outside the coastal hubs
Today, Austin Ventures general partners Chris Pacitti and John Thornton, along with former Bain consultant Sam Kentor, announced that they are launching a new firm, Elsewhere Partners, to invest in companies outside of the traditional venture capital hubs of New York, Boston, and San Francisco. Elsewhere Partners’ focus will specifically be on business software companies that
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Austin Venture Firm AVX Partners Changes Name to Elsewhere Ventures
Austin—The founders of an Austin venture capital firm that invests in software companies have renamed the firm to Elsewhere Partners because its founders say it reflects the investors’ interest in companies located in cities that don’t traditionally have much access to venture capital. Previously known as AVX Partners, which was founded in 2015, the firm decided
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Innovation to Cisco’s Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) Offers Service Providers Future Horizontal Scalability
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Technology to Help Enable Service Providers to Manage More Than One Million Devices in Their Networks BARCELONA, SPAIN–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2017) – MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS – With more than 10 billion devices and connections projected by 2020, according to Cisco’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) Mobile Visual Networking Index Forecast (2016-2021), service providers will need the scalability
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Intent-Based Networking: Marketing Hype or a Magic Bullet for Automation?
While not a new idea, intent-based networking has recently made a resurgence as the technology catches up with the concept. In a recent Heavy Reading report, “Intent-Based Networking: Automating Next-Generation Networks,” Senior Analyst James Crawshaw examines whether intent-based networking (IBN) holds water as a promising approach for telcos looking to operate more efficient and automated
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