Cervin Ventures Q3 2020 Newsletter

5G just got real

Cervin GP, Shirish Sathaye says, “The designers of 3G never imagined applications like Google Maps, the architects of 4G never imagined the on-demand economy. Who knows what applications will be powered by 5G?”. 5G’s impressive speed and latency will revolutionize both consumer and enterprise markets. We are big believers in this technology and would love to back entrepreneurs who are working to revolutionize the world with 5G.

Portfolio Spotlight

Coincidentally, our enterprise 5G portfolio company, Celona, just announced their new capital raise. We would like to congratulate the Celona team on their recent Series B round led by NTTVC and Qualcomm Ventures, with participation from all existing investors — Cervin Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. The funds will be used to fuel Celona’s strategic growth. The company plans to capitalize on the fundamental changes within the enterprise networking market created by the availability of localized and shared spectrum around the world.

Celona is at the forefront of Enterprise 5G innovation. Taking advantage of the Citizens Broadband Radio Systems (CBRS) spectrum, the solution is designed to simplify and automate cellular wireless technology deployment by IT organizations and managed service providers. Celona was born with the idea that a combination of 5G radio technology, edge computing, and machine learning software will change how organizations work and do business.

To learn more about the company, the capabilities of CBRS and its place in the market, check out Enterprise 5G in the age of WiFi.

Portfolio News

In the Future of Work category, Slapdash stands out with its ability to allow users to browse and organize their data across apps. With a uniform, low-latency data browser, as well as a unified command line-like interface, Slapdash takes searching, organizing and automating tasks to new levels of productivity. With a rockstar team and backing from Y Combinator, we are very excited to welcome them into our investment portfolio.

Perspectives

As always, we thank you for being part of Cervin’s community and welcome your recommendation to enterprise seed-stage founders that need engaged capital partners.

The Cervin Team

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Cervin Ventures is actively investing in entrepreneurs and companies that intend to rapidly disrupt the B2B software space

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Cervin Ventures is actively investing in entrepreneurs and companies that intend to rapidly disrupt the B2B software space