My focus on software beyond the screen, deeply technical founders and reasonable valuations hasn't uncovered any SF investments so far.
Add in the fact I've been learning about these industries from deeply passionate founders and seasoned executives, and you can appreciate why I wanted to get into this industry.
Though Root's investments are mostly too new to judge yet — its debut fund took stakes in 27 companies — it can easily back up claims that it invests in "deeply technical founders" who are tackling "interdisciplinary engineering problems," including in robotics, machine learning and software for physical industries.
His portfolio includes seed-stage investments in grocery-delivery company Instacart, food-delivery service DoorDash, and gif-maker Giphy, and he has developed a reputation for engaging deeply with founders and being on speed dial for some of the most respected VCs in the industry.
Deeply influenced by founder Fairfax M. Cone, he remained with the company for the rest of his career.
She became deeply involved as a founder member of Feminist Arts News and with the Women Artists Slide Library.
The brand is deeply intertwined with its founder's image — which adorns the company's pizza boxes — presenting challenges for corporate management to distance itself from him.
Another reason to be deeply envious of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, then, who casually swotted up on Mandarin while developing the global social media platform for a 30-minute address at a Chinese university in October.
His thinking was deeply influenced by Max Gluckman, founder of the department at Manchester University that gave rise to the wider Manchester school of anthropology, who had inspired him to abandon his undergraduate medical studies at Cambridge.
Although Williamson may be exceptionally outspoken, he is not alone: throughout its history, the Lefebvrist group has, like its founder, been deeply antisemitic – hence its opposition to the Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate).
