Take a look at this PowerPoint presentation where Artiman Ventures shares their Investment strategy beginning with white spaces to concept and early stage to finally scalable business models. Read more about Artiman at http://www.artiman.com

1. A Concept Stage Venture Fund

2. CONFIDENTIAL
Artiman Investment Strategy
“White Spaces”
 Potential to dominate markets
 No identifiable competition, with 12 month lead
“Concept” & Early Stage
 “Entrepreneurs with ideas”
 World class expertise in specific market or technology
Scalable Business Models
 Develop technologies cost effectively
 Scale the business efficiently
 Fundamentally change economics of target sectors
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3. CONFIDENTIAL
My Biography
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Venture Capital Enterprise Background
Adrenaline JunkieFrom Philadelphia

4. CONFIDENTIAL
Back To The Future: Computing Technology Cycle
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Mainframe
(‘70s)
Portable
(’90s)
Mobile
(’00s)
Cloud Hybrid
(Now)
We Are Here
Personal
(’80s)
DECENTRALIZED
CENTRALIZED

5. CONFIDENTIAL
Specialization In the VC World
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➔ Diversified
➔ Capital model well understood
➔ VC firms shifting expertise
➔ Global in nature
Infotech
➔ Winner take all IPO & low value M&A
➔ <2% success rate
➔ Angel/seed or very large fund
➔ Local
Internet
Cleantech
➔ Significant CapEx investments
➔ Subsidies often required
➔ Local

6. CONFIDENTIAL
Active Private US VC Backed Companies (#)
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3,193 3,062 3,099
2,396
2,186 1,983
1,715
697 1,081 1,182
2,037 2,397 2,786 3,221
219
312
415
452
533
617
693
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1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Core Tech Internet Clean Tech

7. CONFIDENTIAL
Source
(DB)
Source
(DB)
Source
(DB)
Cube
(DB)
Warehouse
(DB)
Master Database
Query
Visualization
Query
Visualization
ETL ETL ETL
1990’s – 2000’s
“Business Intelligence”
2010 – 2020+
“Decision Systems”
• Real Time
• Individual User / One-To-One
• Action Oriented
• 3 – 30 Day Post Facto
• Groups / Aggregates
• Reporting
Stored
Data
Machine
Learning &
Correlation
Prescriptive
Action
Reporting
Closed
Loop
Decision
Ad-Hoc
Search
Real
Time
Source
s
A New Paradigm In The Making

8. CONFIDENTIAL
Two Flavors Of Big Data
Operational data
 Internal, tends to be machine generated
 Sensors, RFID (municipal, engines, devices …)
 Server/application logs
 Network packets
 Electricity flows
Customer data
 Clickstreams and other browser-captured behavioral activities
 Text – social media, customer emails & transcripts
 POS, transactions/payments, advertising

9. CONFIDENTIAL
Interesting Big Data Areas
Vertical Operational Data Customer Data
Finance Market Data, Payments
Retail POS, RFID
Telco / Media Network, Care
Services Utilities, Transport
Consumer Goods Supply Chain
Manufacturing Supply Chain
Healthcare Patients, Product
Gov’t / Defense Sensors
Context Engine
Sensors, Security
Network, Care
POS, RFID
Market Data, Payments
High Interest Medium Interest

10. CONFIDENTIAL
General Areas of Interest
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Big Data
➔ Context Engine
➔ Next Gen Security
Virtualization
➔ App Virtualization & VDI
➔ HPC Specialized Servers
Money
➔ Mobile Money
➔ Digital Currencies
Robotics Privacy, Identity Futuristic Stuff
➔ Mind - Machine
➔ Holographic Display
➔ AI / Machine Learning