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SafeGraph: Selling Data as a Service
Nanda, Ramana; Nagaraj, Abhishek; Ciechanover, Allison M.Case HBS-821082-EEntrepreneurshipSet in January 2021, the CEO of SafeGraph, a four-year-old startup that sold Data as a Service, looked to the future. His aim was to become the most trusted source for data about a physical place. The company provided points of interest (POI) and foot traffic data on nearly 7 million businesses in the U.S. and Canada from a variety of providers, then labelled attributes of the data such as the brand affiliation and how long consumers remained at ...Starting at €8.20
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NewView Capital and Venture Capital Secondaries
Bernstein, Shai; Nanda, Ramana; Ciechanover, Allison M.Case HBS-820038-EFinanceWhile still a general partner at Silicon Valley-based New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Ravi Viswanathan considered the challenges presented by evolving market dynamics in the venture capital space. Startups were staying private longer, which led to limited partners thirsty for liquidity and venture capital funds managing overloaded portfolios. Viswanathan and the senior leaders of NEA orchestrated the purchase of 31 NEA unrealized portfolio compa...Starting at €8.20
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Hyperloop One
Sahlman, William A.; Nanda, Ramana; White, Robert; Ciechanover, Allison M.; Huizinga, JeffCase HBS-817027-EEntrepreneurshipThe case explores the attempt of Shervin Pishevar, a prominent Silicon Valley investor, to shepherd hyperloop, a futuristic pod-in-tube transportation technology, from concept to transformative reality via Hyperloop One and Sherpa Capital, both companies he co-founded. The case outlines the technology-first brought to widespread attention by Tesla and SpaceX executive Elon Musk-then follows Pishevar as he builds a team, develops prototypes, recru...Starting at €8.20
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U.S. Department of Energy & Recovery Act Funding: Bridging the "Valley of Death"
Roberts, Michael J.; Lassiter, Joseph B.; Nanda, RamanaCase HBS-810144-EEntrepreneurshipThe case focuses on the US Dept. of Energy and the $38 billion dollars of stimulus funding the DOE received to encourage clean tech. They focus on "bridging the valley of death" i.e., helping young, innovative companies finance technically risky and very capital intensive development and commercialization programs. The case focuses on two DOE programs in particular, the Loan Guarantee Program and ARPA-E. The case raises the question of why these ...Starting at €8.20
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PunchTab, Inc.
Nanda, Ramana; Kerr, William R.; Barley, LaurenCase HBS-812033-EEntrepreneurshipPunchTab was a Silicon Valley startup founded in 2011 that was developing an Internet-based turnkey customer loyalty program for website owners, mobile applications developers, and brands. Founder/CEO Ranjith Kumaran must make strategic decisions about how to fund PunchTab's early operations and growth given the many options available: individual angel investors, super angel funds, incubators, and seed funds inside traditional venture capital fir...Starting at €8.20
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PunchTab, Inc. (Spanish version)
Nanda, Ramana; Kerr, William R.; Barley, LaurenCase HBS-815S05Entrepreneurshipindividual angel investors, super angel funds, incubators, and seed funds inside traditional venture capital firms.Starting at €8.20
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Financing Astroscale
Nanda, Ramana; Weinzierl, Matthew C.Case HBS-817025-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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Initial Coin Offerings
Nanda, Ramana; White, Robert F.; Tuzikov, AlexeyCase HBS-818067-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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Mytrah Energy
Khanna, Tarun; Nanda, Ramana; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-818021-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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Entrepreneurial Finance Problem Set
Nanda, Ramana; Sahlman, William A.; White, RobertCase HBS-817037-EFinanceStarting at €8.20