Quartz Capital

14/09/2022

The seventh annual Cloud 100 list of the world’s top private cloud companies includes 6 of our portfolio companies.

This years list is bigger than ever before, with a combined market capitalisation more than $100 billion (>2021).

Rank 25: Tanium - market leader in cybersecurity and endpoint management

Rank 30: Netskope - #1 Cloud Connectivity Security Platform

Rank 31: Rubrik, Inc. - leader in enterprise software solutions for backup and recovery

Rank 35: Intercom - leading platform for connecting businesses to customers

Rank 43: Automation Anywhere - market leader in robotic process automation (RPA)

Rank 72: ThoughtSpot - one of the world leaders in business intelligence

To view there entire list, see here: https://lnkd.in/gvMTN-AC

Forbes’ definitive ranking of the best, brightest and most valuable private companies in the cloud.

26/08/2022

Gartner’s Hype Cycle 2022 is back with a detailed view on the current stage of emerging technologies and showcasing three core themes: 👇

Theme 1: Evolving/expanding immersive experience
⁃ Decentralised identity (DCI), digital humans, metaverse & co

Theme 2: Accelerated AI automation
⁃ Causal artificial intelligence, foundation models, generative design AI, ML code generation & co

Theme 3: Optimised technologist delivery
⁃ Cloud sustainability, computational storage, cybersecurity mesh architecture (CSMA) & co

More detailed, here —> https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/what-s-new-in-the-2022-gartner-hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies

Gartner unveils our latest Hype Cycle™ for Emerging Technologies featuring 25 “must-know” innovations to drive competitive differentiation and efficiency 💯 They’re not only expected to greatly impact business and society over the next 2️⃣ to 🔟 years, but will especially enable CIOs...

18/08/2022

“Venture activity and markups have crept back towards the “normal” line, suggesting a potential return to pre-pandemic levels of activity and tenor. Whether performance continues to fall (i.e., moves southwest) or flattens remains to be seen”.

A great article by Abe Othman head of data science at AngelList, more info here —> https://www.angellist.com/blog/forecasting-a-return-to-venture-normalcy

The return of pre-pandemic VC performance?

18/05/2022

Excited to see Andreessen Horowitz state of crypto report diving into cyclical information relevant to the current downturn. Winter is coming and if you think you have missed an opportunities, keep in mind that: “You’re still early. Much remains to be done. Let’s keep building”.

https://a16zcrypto.com/state-of-crypto-report-a16z-2022/

The 2022 State of Crypto report is a16z crypto's first-ever data-driven overview and analysis of web3 and crypto.

27/04/2022

🌐 Crypto exchange Kraken Exchange has received a full financial license to operate in the UAE to provide access to virtual assets through regulated funding, trading, and custodial services.

▫️“We congratulate Kraken in securing its financial licence, and warmly welcome them to Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)’s fast-growing international virtual assets community,” Dhaher Al-Mheiri, CEO of ADGM Registration Authority said.

▫️Since 2018, Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) in Dubai established itself as a leading global hub and business platform for virtual asset activities for local, regional and international firms.

The exchange joins several counterparts plotting moves to or gaining licenses in the United Arab Emirates.

05/04/2022

Klarna completes its acquisition of PriceRunner to enhance the shopping experience for Klarna's 147m global consumers.

In a market where taste, authenticity and logic matter, an easy and unique is a key attribute in retaining consumers. By applying a rich product discovery, adding price comparisons and product reviews - Klarna X PriceRunner are at the forefront to help:

▫️consumer save time and money, and make informed decisions so they can take control of their and
▫️retail partners to benefit from increased website traffic from high intent consumers and optimised marketing opportunities to further drive

PriceRunner will bring new features to the Klarna app globally to help consumers save time and money, and make informed decisions to take control of thei

31/03/2022

🔥 Exciting to see that BYJU'S - India's leading education technology provider becomes the official sponsor of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 What a remarkable way to be seen!

We invested into the company believing that by backing the right global players in ; collectively, we will be able to put a small dent into a universe called . Byju's leadership has proven to scale towards unreachable heights and we can not wait to see how this success story unfolds further.

Indian education technology firm BYJU'S was named as a sponsor of the 2022 Qatar World Cup on Thursday.

31/03/2022

Last year, Visa surprised the European fintech industry as it announced that it would acquire Tink for €1.8 billion ($2.15 billion at the time of the deal). Klarna now wants to compete directly with Tink with a new business unit that has its own brand — Klarna Kosma. Like Tink, Klarna offers an ...