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Here in the U.S. the finance sector, we’ve seen a boom in consumer financial technology companies that modernize the way people save, spend, and invest. Yet in neighboring Canada, the consumer financial sector continues to largely be dominated by a handful of legacy financial institutions. These institutions haven’t changed much in decades -- they have high costs, opaque fee structures, and have been slow to leverage technology to modernize the way they engage customers. 

Today, we are excited to share our investment in apiiro, which is coming out of stealth and announcing the launch of their Code Risk Platform. apiiro’s platform enables enterprises to accelerate application and infrastructure delivery by automatically remediating risk with every change.

The best measure of any product is change in human behavior. Remotion is the first tool we've seen whose customers say it has changed how they work together while distributed. Remotion-native teams make faster decisions, have fewer scheduled meetings, and feel more connected, creative and focused. It reduces the cost of communication in a team, and increases the likelihood of that communication.

The ability to derive insights and take action from an ever-increasing volume of data has become a critical success factor for organizations across every industry. But as business operations become increasingly digitized and move to the cloud, first-generation analytics systems struggle to deliver insights at the scale and speed necessary to build modern data applications. Rockset is a distributed SQL database that can return queries in milliseconds but under the hood, Rockset's storage architecture is more closely related to a search engine like Google or Facebook newsfeed.

Geographic location shouldn't dictate whether one can participate in the startup ecosystem. That's why Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford created Entrepreneur First – a global platform to recruit exceptional entrepreneurs, pair them with co-founders, and connect them with investors all over the world. Beyond connecting prospective entrepreneurs, the organization provides an environment where people to test out working relationships, thereby helping them figure out which complementary skills and attributes are needed in their partners before ultimately forming a team. Nearly a decade after its founding, Entrepreneur First's international footprint has given it an advantage in adapting to the now largely remote-first way of working. As the organization's network of entrepreneurs, investors and alumnus has expanded, Entrepreneur First has seen an uptick in interest from an increasingly diverse pool of founders.

Working remotely often means back-to-back scheduled meetings and a constant barrage of text and email notifications. The result is exhaustion. But that doesn't mean coworkers don't want to talk to one another. Ad-hoc conversations are energizing and foster stronger team connections, which is why Remotion built a video workspace designed to enable colleagues to virtually "glance over" at one another and just start talking.

The ability to derive insights and take action from an ever-increasing volume of data has become a critical success factor for organizations across every industry. But as business operations become increasingly digitized and move to the cloud, first-generation analytics systems struggle to deliver insights at the scale and speed necessary to build modern data applications. Rockset is a distributed SQL database that can return queries in milliseconds but under the hood, Rockset's storage architecture is more closely related to a search engine like Google or Facebook newsfeed.

Modern technology is one of the greatest opportunities for wealth creation— with most of the financial returns accruing to the founders, early employees and investors in the breakout startups from each generation.  However, Black, Latinx, and Native American people have been largely shut out of participating in tech startups and venture capital.

We are thrilled to announce that Mike Duboe has been promoted to general partner at Greylock. Today, more than ever, technology is touching every aspect of consumers’ lives. We’re excited to have Mike helping entrepreneurs who are building the next generation of commerce, marketplaces, and network-oriented businesses.