Scott was making a more nuanced point about a difference between how we look at consumer vs enterprise companies right now, and our relative preference for enterprise A's and consumer B's".
At Mayfield, Chaddha focused on consumer, enterprise and energy tech investments and has helped lead the firm's investments in Appcelerator, Bharat Matrimony (India), Brighter, CloudVelocity, Fab, Gigya, MapR Technologies, Poshmark, ShineOn (China), SwiftStack, Tejas Networks and WideOrbit.
Kang tells TechCrunch that SparkLabs Koreaa fund will look at consumer services, enterprise, cloud computing, financial tech, artificial intelligence and hardware, particularly the Internet of Things, and its typical check size will range from about $1 million to $3 million.
Enterprise security was a hot topic in 2014 due to massive breaches at consumer retailers and enterprise vendors.
The first products, he added, are likely to hit the market next year and are aimed at both the consumer and enterprise markets.
If everyone's talking about "Consumer --> Enterprise," taboutbout how "Enterprise --> Consumer" is the win.
The subtext: Microsoft's nextgen realtime strategy at the cusp of consumer and enterprise.
Editor's note: Bryan Schreier is a partner at Sequoia focusing on consumer and enterprise companies.
In the meantime, we'll be talking with Lee about what she's seeing at the early-stage consumer and enterprise companies with which Cowboy Ventures meets.
Osterhout pitches its technology — which, for example, could be used in headgear that can help the wearer detect the direction of fast-moving objects, or those that are behind closed doors — not at consumers but at large enterprises and other organizations.
