My interest in personalized health began at the park with my son, shortly after his first brain surgery to treat a condition called hydrocephalus. I remember the moment in full color. Im pushing my five-month-old son in the baby swing, his head in a beanie to hide the semi-circular scar left behind by brain surgery.…

Bitcoin and all of the related technology behind it seems to divide people sharply into two camps: those who think it is revolutionary and those who think its a scam waiting to collapse in on itself. Im more of a…

Warren Buffet famously quipped: only when the tide goes out do you discover whos been swimming naked. Every startup is a skinny dipper slipping into the ocean while swimmers are looking the other way. The hope is to find a suit before the tide goes out.

Console Wars debuts on CBS All Access, September 23, 2020 featuring Tom Kalinske, Venture Partner at Alsop Louie Partners.

Ernestine Fu was interviewed by Business Insider on what venture capitalists consider to be the most promising private companies in the electric vehicle industry. She mentioned ChargePoint, as well as Alsop Louie Partners' investment in Ion Storage Systems. Electric vehicles…

Former CEO of BEA Systems and Veritas Technologies Bill Coleman is interviewed by instructor Ernestine Fu. 5G will bring much faster wireless broadband speeds to smartphones and other devices on mobile networks. This will undoubtedly bring massive change to industries…

Gilman Louie, Member of National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, is interviewed by Linus Liang with during the Stanford Spring Quarter 2020 in MED/CEE 214: Frontier Technology. These days, the term artificial intelligence is used all the time; individuals use…

Two researchers explain why designers should focus on developing systems that make it easy and natural for passengers to take control in an emergency. By Ernestine Fu and David Hyde | May 28, 2020 Not so long ago, science fiction…

6 Leading Mobility VCs Discuss the Road Ahead Millions of consumers sheltering in place to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus sent shockwaves through the global economy. Transportation-related companies were not spared in the upheaval. Mobility startups consolidated, pulled…

Herewith a briefing on all things television which is now called streaming video, Live TV, and a bunch of other things, including confusing. For a friend, I recently took on the task of trying to provide an overview of this…

by Giovanni Rodriguez Originally published in Forbes. Reprinted with permission from the author. On a bright weekday morning last Spring, Ifound myself stranded outside a small, non-descript building on Howard Street in San Francisco, desperately trying to figure out how… The post Meet The VC Who's Betting On A Better World In 3D: Gilman Loui...

Gilman Louie on what this current administration must address in order to meet the growing cyber challenges of the 21st century. This article was originally published on The Cipher Brief. U.S. failure to fully develop and implement a comprehensive cyber… The post Gilman Louie: Cybersecurity: Time for Action appeared first on Alsop Louie Partn...

Gilman Louie and Joseph DeTrani address how the new administration can navigate the U.S. – China relationship. This article was originally published on The Cipher Brief. President Trump said he wants to improve relations with China, but he has expressed… The post Gilman Louie: The Art of the Deal – with China appeared first on Als...

This article was originally published on The Cipher Brief: President-elect Donald Trump recently announced he will nominate retired United States Marine Corps General James Mad Dog Mattis for Secretary of Defense. Gilman Louie, founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, the… The post Gilman Louie: An Open Letter to the Secretary of Defense Nominee a...

Stewart spoke toSramana Mitra at 1M/1M for their 305th online mentoring session. The post Stewart Alsop: 305th 1M/1M Roundtable appeared first on Alsop Louie Partners.

This article was published at Business Insider. The Department of Defense is about to undergo its biggest transition since 1946. After winning World War II, the United States military had to transform itself in order to meet the demands of… The post Gilman Louie: The DoD is About to Undergo its Biggest Transition Since WWII appeared first on ...

Gilman Louie spoke to ABC7 Bay Area News about one of our newest investments, Blackstorm Labs, which just launched globally with Facebook Messenger yesterday. The post Gilman Louie: Blackstorms EverWing on Instant Games appeared first on Alsop Louie Partners.

Jonathan Bloom at ABC 7 news interviewed Ernestine Fu about teaching a startup class at Stanford. Ernestine also talked about Black Storm Labs, a new Alsop Louie portfolio company she helped to co-found. The post Ernestine Fu: Silicon Valley's Youngest VC Now Teaching Class at Stanford appeared first on Alsop Louie Partners.

In January, Gilman Louie was the keynote speaker at the 49thHawaii International Conference on System Sciences(HICSS).HICSS isan annual conference for Information Systems and Information Technology academics and professionals. Itis widely considered to be one of the most prestigious international IS/IT… The post Gilman Louie: Human Factors an...

Ernestine Fu discussed All You Need to Know About Venture Capital at Stanfords Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital course. The post Ernestine Fu: All You Need to Know About Venture Capital appeared first on Alsop Louie Partners.

Ernestine Fu discussed All You Need to Know About Venture Capital at Stanford's Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital course.

Stewart Alsop authored this post forAs The Cipher Brief. Our government should not want a backdoor to encrypted messages. The government says it wants to have a special set of keys to decrypt any encrypted data transmitted across the Internet. The computer industry says it isn't possible. The government says it is a matter of national... Read more...

Stewart Alsop authored this post on Medium, and it was republished by?Business Insider. The word is embedded in their name, but Apple doesn?t have any DNA for making apps. Why do they insist on making us use theirs? The one thing that REALLY pisses me off about IOS? I can?t delete Apple?s own apps, no... Read more »

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Gilman Louie discussed Government Strategic Investing at Stanford?s Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital, a course created by our senior associate Ernestine Fu.  

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 22, 2014 Alsop Louie Partners Led the Original Investment in Twitch Interactive Inc. San Francisco venture capital firm was the original investor in the company that Amazon acquired today in a significant strategic move. ?Friday, August 22, 2014 ?– Twitch Interactive Inc., acquired by Amazon Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) fo...

At DEF CON 2014, Ernestine Fu learned from security expert Kevin Mitnick how to steal an identity in three minutes or less. ?She authored this post, which was?published by?Forbes on August 15, 2014. Last weekend, thousands of hackers joined security?experts, federal agents, and general enthusiasts for the annual DEF CON conference in Las Vegas. The...

Gilman Louie discussed "Disrupting Gaming" at the D.I.C.E. Summit in February 2014.

Our portfolio company Framehawk Inc. was acquired by Citrix in January 2014. Prior to founding Framehawk, Peter Badger had nineteen years of experience in software product management and product development, overseeing groups mostly in the financial services industry. Rocket scientist Stephen Vilke, the company?s other founder, started his career w...

This post was authored by Gilman Louie and published by?Business Insider?on December 4, 2013.? Last week, Philadelphia became the first city in the United States to pass a 3D-Printer gun ban. Some critics feel that the city was premature given the state of 3D printing technology. Others believe that this preemptive measure will help that... Read m...

We discussed Investing in a Brave New World at our 2013 Annual Meeting. View the presentation?here.

According to common wisdom, Apple and Samsung are in a death fight to lead the world in smartphone market share. But that?s the problem with common wisdom; it?s usually wrong. I was really looking forward to using the Samsung Galaxy S4?to get back into the Android ecosystem after more than a year of using just... Read more »

Gilman has a fantastic presentation on??The Myths About Risk Taking?, although it?s better to hear him talk about it in person.

One of our associates, Ernestine Fu, created a course at Stanford that examines entrepreneurship through the experiences of venture capitalists. ? The full course can be found here. Gilman Louie presented on the importance of ?paying attention to details for startups.

This is the tale of how a group of four founders morphed over the last five years into four distinct companies. We were the only VC firm crazy enough in 2007 to invest in four kids (age ~22) with a really crazy business ? promoting video broadcast 24 hours and 7 days a week by... Read more »

Why the heck did VMware pay $1B for Nicira, a company that was just starting to generate revenue? You can (and many have) asked why did Facebook pay $1B for Instagram or Microsoft $1B for Yammer or Dell $1B for Equalogic? In each case, the decision to buy the startup had nothing to do with revenue or earnings or fundamentals; instead it was a ?stra...

This post was authored by Rohit Turumella, an associate of Alsop Louie Partners, who will be a junior at UC Berkeley this fall, after serving an internship at Microsoft this summer.? Over the past five years, the way people communicate has drastically changed ? from phone based voice calls to computer-based data, even for voice. Five years ago, eve...

This is a thought piece speculating on Apple's plan with Messages and iCloud. Are you an?iPhone?user who uses the?Messages?app (what Apple calls its built-in text messaging app)? Have you noticed that some of the texts you send are blue and some are green? Some of you may have figured out the difference: Simply, the blue... Read more »

Have you heard the term ?mobile first?? It?s an idea that Fred Wilson labeled first in the fall of 2010. Some startups (including our own Ness Computing and Socialcam) have been starting since then with the idea that this means, in the extreme, that you should build your company?s product to work only on a mobile smart phone without any reference t...

William P Crowell is the author of this post. Crowell is former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency as well as a respected executive and director of private companies in the security space.? Our cyber defense is in a state of crisis. That?s right: The United States of America is vulnerable in cyberspace in a way that should not be accep...