How Farmers Business Network Plans To Disrupt Big Agra, One Farm At A Time

Since CEO Amol Deshpande and Baron sat down with the idea of a data network for farms in 2014, Farmers Business Network has built a network of 3,400 farms, spanning 12 million acres of farmland (roughly the size of Maryland and Delaware) and...

An Inside Look into the Democratization of Data

We’re excited to announce our investment in Looker, an analytics platform that makes it easy for everyone to find, explore and understand the data that drives their businesses.

A Breakthrough Approach to Making Data Useful

Every day, we create 2.5 billion gigabytes of data. New developments in data storage, ranging from Hadoop to object-oriented approaches, have enabled us to store that data more efficiently, and advances in visualization technology turn the data...

The Dawn of a New Era for Data Storage

In this edition of the “Voices of KPCB” podcast series, KPCB partners Creighton Hicks and Wen Hsieh talk to Peter Godman, CEO of Qumulo, about the new era of data storage we’re in. In fact, they agree that “data storage” is no longer what...

Food for Thought: Why Investing in Agriculture is the Next Big Thing

In this edition of the Voices of KPCB podcast series, KPCB partner Randy Komisar speaks to Brook Porter, partner in KPCB’s Green Growth Fund, and Amol Deshpande, CEO and founder of Farmers Business Network, about innovations and advancements in...

Why We Invested in Qumulo

Several trends – the decline in the cost of data storage, the growth of the Internet of Things, and the rise of consumer-generated data – have converged to double the amount of data in the world every two years. Enterprises feel comfortable...

How To Get In On A Multi-Billion Market With Big Data

Big data keeps getting bigger. Last year, VC firms invested $3.6 billion – 75 percent of what they invested in the previous five years combined. The pace has continued this year, with several firms announcing new funding rounds in the tens and...

You Should Share Your Health Data: Its Value Outweighs the Privacy Risk

From genome-based therapeutics and diagnostics to pulse-monitoring smart watches, health data is transforming medicine. But it is also alarming patients, who—aware of the recent cyber-attacks against Target, Home Depot, and JPMorgan that stole...

Setting the Record Straight on Big Data

In this episode of “Voices of KPCB,” KPCB Partners Anjney Midha and Mike Abbott join RelateIQ’s VP of Product DJ Patil to discuss all things big data. Is there too much hype? What will be the hits of the future? And, most importantly, where will...

10 Trends Transforming Enterprise IT

When it comes to corporate IT, revolution is in the air. The way companies buy, build, manage, optimize and secure information technology is changing dramatically. From cloud computing to big data analytics to ubiquitous mobile connectivity,...

Obamacare: Spurring A New Generation Of Healthcare Startups

Spurred by the Affordable Care Act, the American healthcare system in 2014 has entered a period of titanic change. The process will be messy and disruptive – it already is. While challenging for consumers of healthcare services, the shifting...