Rory O’Driscoll founder of Scale Venture Partners discusses enterprise investing, taking companies public, AI, and building a long lasting VC firm
Rory O’Driscoll, Scale Venture Partners with Shruti Gandhi, Array.vc
Rory O’Driscoll is a co-founder and partner at Scale Venture Partners. Scale Venture Partners just raised their 6th fund of $400m managing over $1.5 billion in assets under management. Scale had interesting beginnings as a firm; they were an in-house VC fund inside Bank of America and spun out as a separate firm in 2007 by Rory O’Driscoll and Kate Mitchell. Scale is one of the few model VC funds in SV with a woman founder and many women investing partners .
Scale has been a helpful partner to Array since our early days and one of the few firms such as Array that focuses in enterprise investing. Rory has led investments and sits of the boards of companies such as Box, DocuSign, Pantheon and many more where Scale invested in these companies around Series A or B until they go public.
In this episode, Rory discusses the following:
- Differences in enterprise vs. consumer companies
- Deal Picking
- The Anti-Portfolio
- Gender Diversity
- Networking as a Venture Capitalist
- Edge Computing vs. Cloud Computing
- Bottom-up adoption vs. Top-down selling
and much more…
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Array Ventures: http://www.array.vc/
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