Taking Notes with NextGen

Kyle Garman is a Venture Partner with NextGen, SVP, Global Business Development at SAP, and most recently the author of The Entrepreneurial Mindset.

In this episode of Taking Notes, Kyle chats with Dan Mindus (Managing Partner, NextGen Venture Partners) about how to prepare today's kids for the future job market through ideas outlined in his new book. All proceeds of The Entrepreneurial Mindset support the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) where Kyle is on the board.

NextGen portfolio company Aceable is working to help people with life’s certification challenges. The company’s first mobile app offers accredited driver’s education courses and it is now expanding into other verticals such as real estate continuing education.

NextGen invested in Aceable in 2015, and Blake and his team prioritized building a diverse and inclusive culture from the company’s early days. Today, the Aceable team counts 200 employees and over 1.5 million users, and this priority continues. In this episode of Taking Notes, Dan Mindus (Managing Partner, NextGen VP) and Blake discuss the how around diversity and inclusion at a growing tech company.

In this episode of Taking Notes with NextGen, host and Managing Partner Dan Mindus speaks with Tom Griffiths, CEO and Co-Founder of Hone.

Hone was launched based on Tom's experience as a Co-Founder and executive of FanDuel. As the company grew, he needed to bring managers up to speed quickly, but couldn’t find any good products to do so. Tom created Hone to solve this problem, leveraging video conferencing for a new approach to management training. Dan and Tom discuss the Hone founding story, thoughts on leadership during COVID-19 and the future of leadership training.

In this episode of Taking Notes with NextGen, host and Managing Partner Dan Mindus speaks with Nick Bonfiglio and Neelesh Shastry, Co-Founders of NextGen portfolio company Syncari.

Syncari is building a distributed data management (DDM) software platform to help businesses solve data inconsistencies. Syncari uses data synchronization to coordinate the quality, availability and governance of data across applications.

In this episode of Taking Notes with NextGen, host and Managing Partner Dan Mindus speaks with Dan Abdinoor, the Co-Founder and CEO of NextGen portfolio company Fritz AI (Fritz).

Fritz has created a platform that makes it easy for mobile developers to create applications that leverage machine learning. Over time, Fritz also plans to support the full internet of things. The Dans discuss how Fritz helps developers, the kind of apps it enables and where AI/ML is going.

In this episode of Taking Notes, NextGen Managing Partner Dan Mindus speaks with Diane Strutner, Founder and CEO of one of NextGen's portfolio companies.

When someone streaming a video on the internet experiences a failure, the provider of that video often doesn't know that the failure has happened, how often, or if the viewer is leaving because of this issue. Datazoom provides tools for companies to monitor these issues, and think bout them from a business perspective.

In this episode of Taking Notes, NextGen Managing Partner Dan Mindus speaks with David Sullivan, Founder and CEO of Till, one of NextGen's portfolio companies.

To date, the home rental space has been poor in data, analytics and tools to help renters pay rent, stay in their homes and create value for landlords. David discusses how Till is addressing all of these problems, creating a win-win scenario for landlords and tenants.

In this special episode of Taking Notes, NextGen Managing Partner Dan Mindus speaks with Taylor Graff, Head of Asset Allocation Research at Brown Advisory. NextGen combined with Brown Advisory two years ago.

Dan and Taylor discuss the impact of the novel coronavirus on economic trends and financial markets, and how this relates to investing.

In this episode of Taking Notes, NextGen Managing Partner Dan Mindus speaks with Joe Saunders, Founder and CEO of RunSafe Security. NextGen recently invested in RunSafe, which sells a patented “cyberhardening” tool that is designed to help immunize software that runs on embedded systems and devices. RunSafe focuses on protecting technology across critical infrastructure, including automotive, data centers, energy, health care, manufacturing, military systems and suppliers.

Joe offers a great introduction to the cybersecurity world, as well as RunSafe's novel approach within the space.

In this episode of Taking Notes, NextGen Managing Partner Dan Mindus speaks with Tessa Lau, Co-Founder and CEO of Dusty Robotics. NextGen recently invested in Dusty Robotics which is building robots to help bring digital transformation of the construction industry. The company's first product automates the high-value and currently manual task of layout.