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A Year in Review – A Look Back on our Portfolio Companies’ Successful 2015

The Investing Edge

We’d like to recognize the many successes and accomplishments our portfolio companies achieved in 2015. In 2015, the company signed almost three times as many new customers compared to 2014, along with doubling their employee count. Mobile advertising platform StartApp started off 2015 by celebrating 350 million monthly active users.

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Dissecting Alstom’s three-part IT strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Alstom builds high-speed trains, subways, monorails, and trams, but also develops turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signaling, and digital mobility. Alstom promotes the railway as the most sustainable form of mobility through digitization, among other aspects. In 2015 we decided to work with a very small number of IT partners.

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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s become a vital skill for producing mobile devices and for developing embedded systems, IoT devices, and other consumer products. SoC helps reduce power consumption, and can help ensure devices require less space and cost less to build from discrete components, making it an appealing choice for businesses developing technical hardware.

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What a quarter century of digital transformation at PayPal looks like

CIO Business Intelligence

We grew hand in hand with eBay and have continued to do so after separating in 2015.” The fourth is called the merchant, consumer, and developer experience layer, which includes the web interface, mobile applications, and APIs that allow customers to use PayPal’s service interactively and programmatically.

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The Self-Drive Dilemma: The Embryonic Issue of Self-Driving Cars

Galido

Travel between destinations without human operational involvement is no longer illogical and, according to business intelligence, 10 million self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020 (Rouse, 2017). Hence, the era of driver-less cars will likely transform our lives even more, whether we like it or not. Unexpected encounters.

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Web accessibility emerges as a top CIO priority

CIO Business Intelligence

Department of Justice’s civil rights division in December after its website and mobile apps were found to be insufficiently accessible to users with visual and manual impairments. Prescription discount company SingleCare has slowly stripped away inaccessible elements of its website since its launch in 2015.

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Investing in IT careers pays off at Capital One

CIO Business Intelligence

Eason attributes Capital One’s 2015 move to the public cloud as one of the biggest catalysts in attracting new engineering talent. Capital One’s strong focus on team culture helps it draw in and retain talent, Eason says, as does its commitment to upskilling and ongoing career development.