Levaraging from Silicon Valley

Shashi Kumar

Ecosystem Involvement

• Scouting• Due-Diligence• Proof Of Concept• Strategic Investment• Product • Mentoring

• Startups• Corporations• Investors• Universities

3D Printing

Datacenter - Cloud - Big Data

Device Solution

Financial Tech

Healthcare Device - BioInformatics

IoT

New Materials - Components

Next Gen Commerce

Robotics - AI - Deep Learning

Semiconductor

Shared Economy

Telecommunication - Network

Transportation - Connected Car, EV

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Silicon Valley

US VC Investment in 2015

• $58.6 Billion• $11.3 Billion into 962 deals Q4 2015• 185 Seed Stage deals for an amount of $9.02 Billion • 2,215 Early Stage deals for an amount of $19.83 Billion• Leading Sectors Software, Bio-Technology, Media

• 13 % of US population is foreign born• 24 % of tech and engineering companies from 2006 to 2012

had an immigrant founder• 44 % of tech and engineering companies in silicon valley from

2006 to 2012 had an immigrant founder• $27.3 Billion investment in Silicon Valley• 1,333 Deals done in Silicon Valley out of 4,380 entire US

Valley Uniqueness

• Investments• Tech Knowledge• Sharing Attitude• Educational• Built with

outsiders

Entering Into Silicon Valley

• Be clear on the problem you are solving

• Have a credible story • Think bigger from this

fragmented market• Have a smart strategy • Focus on Scaling

Knocking Busy Opportunities

• Due Diligence• Visual Database• Open Innovation• Intellectual Property• Events

Intro With Founders

• Problem Being Solved• Market and Business Model• Product Stage and Traction• Team Background and link to

the solution• Disruption• Competition• Strategic Partners • Present Investors

Real Business Value + Market Sentiment

• Revenue• Revenue growth • Gross margin • Customer acquisition metrics: MRR, Churn, Site

traffic, CAC, LTV• Cash: In the bank, Burn rate, Runway• Funding history• Funding plan• Future funding• Other metrics: Time to break-even, Current accounts

receivable / accounts payable

Mobility UI Investments Form Factor Design 1

•Touch Screens: Capacitive, Resistive, Infrared, Ultrasound• Touch Screen Haptics (Feedback - Sensation): Differentiated haptics (Surface Sensation), speakerless audio (Surface Sound), Microfluidics, Ultrasound, electrical-mechanical polymers, piezoelectric discs, florescence nano crystals• Speech Recognition, Language Processing, MEMS Microphone• Security Biometrics: Fingerprint Recognition, Facial Recognition, Eye Recognition, Voice Authentication, Other Biometric Security• Sensor Fusion - Middleware: Accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, CMOS image sensors, microphones, calibration - contextually aware• Gesture Recognition• Eye Tracking

Mobility UI Investments Form Factor Design 2

• Biometric Sensors: Brain, Heart ECG, Neuro EEG, Pulse Rate, BP• Affective Computing/Emotion Analytics• Image - Vision Processing: Image Capture Sensors CCD CMOS, light field cameras Plenoptic, 3D, time of flight (ToF) image sensor• Image Recognition: Flow technology with Search, recognize-track objects from many positions for AR• Vision Processing: high pixel count sensors, 3-D depth sensors, light field sensors, simultaneous localization and mapping - SLAM, DSP, GPU, VPU, Project Tango• Virtual and Augmented (Mixed) Reality: Holographic Imaging

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scouting.html• http://www.successfulworkplace.org/2013/10/31/leveraging-silicon-valley-from-

wherever-you-are/• http://harp-onthis.com/due-diligence-checklists-for-commercial-real-estate-

transactions/• http://www.smcs-risk.com/due-diligence/• http://blogs.creditcards.com/2015/09/visa-mastercard-test-biometric-card-

security.php• http://www.qore.com/noticias/44137/Apple-quiere-descubrir-cuales-son-tus-

emociones-con-solo-ver-tu-rostro

Dale CarnegieMost of the important things in the world have been

accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all

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