Steve Sloane

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Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures where he invests in inflection-stage companies.

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For years, the narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors. Less heralded has been the next wave these disruptors often catalyze: Digital enablers.

The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win

SaaS businesses uniquely benefited from falling infrastructure costs, superior business models, low interest rates and a shift from on-premise IT systems, but these tailwinds won’t last forever.

Software’s meteoric rise: Have VCs gone too far?

The 2018 Holiday shopping season was the biggest on record for e-commerce, with nearly $126 billion in online sales. But as e-commerce continues to expand, the demand for warehouse workers is growing…

The shift to collaborative robots means the rise of robotics as a service

I don’t think anyone would disagree that building a successful hardware business has quite literally many more moving parts than software.

The many twists and turns of hardware
Fintech

The mystery of the public marketplace

The two most highly valued private tech companies (outside of China) are Uber and Airbnb. Both also happen to be marketplace businesses, and their success has helped encourage a rush…

The mystery of the public marketplace

Valuation concerns are top of mind for many investors. For those in tech investing, this concern is perhaps most acute, given the generally high multiples assigned to the sector. There…

Getting to the root of the revenue multiple

The rise of APIs

It’s been almost five years since we heard that “software is eating the world.” The number of SaaS applications has exploded and there is a rising wave of software innovation…

The rise of APIs