Continuations

Today our portfolio company Sift Science announced not only their $30 million Series C, led by Insight Venture Partners, but also several new product offerings. This is exciting because it reveals the team’s larger vision of “Powering Trust Online” and makes that concrete by going beyond payments fraud to address content, promo and account abuse. These products have been developed with customers and are available now (content abuse, promo abuse, account abuse). Sift’s execution is a great ill...

I have written about CISPA a lot but today is the first important vote on this legislation. If you haven’t done so already, please contact your representatives to let them know you are against this bill. As a reminder it provides for overly broad data sharing between private enterprises and government without any safeguards around how government can use this data. Now it is easier to be against something when you can also be for a credible alternative. What should that be? There are many priv...