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January 2024

Reblaze Technologies Becomes Part of the Link11 Group

Reblaze Technologies, a leading international provider of cloud-native web application and API protection (WAAP), becomes part of the Link11 Group.

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By SONAE

The real difference between normal and corporate Venture Capitals

June 2016 SONAE The real difference between normal and corporate Venture Capitals This is the first part of a 3-part blog post called “The real difference between normal and corporate Venture Capitals”. One of the questions we get asked a lot when we meet entrepreneurs as well as other VC’s is “What is a Corporate VC? In what ways do you differ from the regular ones?” Venture Capital firms span a wide range. They go from regular firms, where the partners raise funds from institutions such as pension funds, banks, university endowments or family offices, to corporate VC’s, where large corporations set aside a certain amount of cash to invest in start-ups and scale-ups in different phases of their development for a number of reasons, one of them being, that they don’t want to miss the boat on the next big thing. The truth is that there are advantages and...
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By SONAE

Back to School

May 2016 SONAE Back to School Here at Sonae IM, we are very close to the entrepreneurial ecosystem and follow, on a daily basis, the emergence and development of the next generation of companies. In a way, it is a lot like what happens in the education sector from a teachers’ perspective – he also follows the development of the student’s next generation. During the last 20 years we witnessed so many tens of transformations and still our education system looks yet the same. Many cross-industry big buzz words like big data, mobile, customer-centrism and so on, are yet to enter our education systems. Take the shocking example of college students who are still forced to choose among a restricted set of bundled courses with barely static programs with no saying over their learning path. Besides the limitations this brings, in terms of individual development, it also has repercussions on...
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ScaleUp for Europe is coming to Porto, buckle up!

May 2016 SONAE ScaleUp for Europe is coming to Porto, buckle up! Did you ever feel you might have an interesting technological concept, a very strong team, the perfect business model, grab your first customers, and even managed to raise capital, but somehow it seems your business isn’t growing as much as you would expect or you aren’t sure of which next steps to take, in order to scale? We, at Sonae IM, know (from our own experience) that one thing is to create a business and prove a concept, but an entirely different thing is actually to grow and sustainably scale the business, without letting your company die in the middle of the process. It is hard, definitely hard. One day you’re working with a small team, taking the first steps in your brand new business, and in the next day you’re suddenly overwhelmed with a list of management...
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