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Why would they choose no-name investors? Maybe these investors are the new A16Z
by xxcode 11y ago
Why would they choose no-name investors? Maybe these investors are the new A16Z
- xxcode 11y agobtw, huge congratulations to the team there. Really awesome people.
- yurisagalov 11y agoAvalon and NHN are actually far from no name :) Avalon has been our partner from our Series A and has funded some amazing startups like Indix, SkyCatch, Nanigans, CloudKick (YC S09), Chartio (YC S10), and Cloudant (YC S08). As an aside, Rich Levandov, who is on our board, was also one of the founders of Phoenix Technologies, creators of Phoenix BIOS NHN is not well known in the valley, but it's Naver Corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naver_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naver_Corporation) which is one of South Korea's largest telecoms, and is also the parent company behind the Line messaging app. We haven't talked much about it in our release, but one of the reasons we partnered with NHN is that there's a lot of need for data sovereignty in EMEA, and NHN is in a position to help us enter the asian markets.
- walterbell 11y agoWhat's your take on TiSA prohibitions against data sovereignty, http://www.innovationaus.com/tisa-threatens-data-sovereignty http://www.innovationaus.com/tisa-threatens-data-sovereignty?
- sytse 11y agoCongrats Yuri! Well deserved.
- objectivefs 11y agoCongratulations! It is great to see more focus on data sovereignty and security.
- graceofs 11y agoCongrats, Yuri!
- SandersAK 11y agoAvalon is a no name? That's new to me.