Lars Leckie is a Principal at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and has played a key role in the firm’s investments in Aria Systems (SaaS billing and customer management) and vKernel (Virtualization Infrastructure). While he spends less time programming now, he started his technical career coding and hacking computer games. He is the holder of several US patents. Prior to joining Hummer Winblad Venture Partners in 2006, Lars was involved in founding and operational roles at start-up companies. He was a co-founder of AutoFarm (now Novariant), a company focused on GPS and robotics. Lars was in charge of strategy, product marketing, business development and building the sales team across three continents. Lars has also been involved with the founding team of SportBug, a GPS and Internet fitness company.
Lars Leckie's Blog
At Hummer Winblad we often joke that we focus on the "boring side of
software." By this we mean that many of our companies tend to be described
with words like core, infrastructure, B2B, backend, etc. We believe that
these companies provide the infrastructure under which the next generations
of software are built. They will be interesting and successful companies but
it is unlikely your mom will ever know their names.
A few months back one of our portfolio companies did something unexpected -
the results were even more unexpected. We don’t usually expect our
companies to make YouTube videos...but the team over at vKernel did exactly
that.
Here is a company that is busy making the system management tools to help
enterprises cope with the explosion of virtualization in their
environments...and driving traffic from a YouTube video. The team made a
q... (more)
Lars Leckie's Blog
In a recent report, Gartner made some bold predictions around the near-term
future of SaaS. In essence they are endorsing that the SaaS model has
increasing leverage over existing software models as the IT spending
tightens:
Worldwide software-as-a-service revenue in the enterprise application market
is
on pace to surpass 2007 sales by 27% and to more than double by 2012, a
market
research firm said Wednesday. Revenue this year is on track to rise above
$6.4 billion, compared with $5.1 billion last year, Gartner said. In four
years,
revenue is expected to reach ... (more)
Lars Leckie is a Principal at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and has played a key role in the firm’s investments in Aria Systems (SaaS billing and customer management) and vKernel (Virtualization Infrastructure). While he spends less time programming now, he started his technical career coding and hacking computer games. He is the holder of several US patents. Prior to joining Hummer Winblad Venture Partners in 2006, Lars was involved in founding and operational roles at start-up companies. He was a co-founder of AutoFarm (now Novariant), a company focused on GPS and robotics. Lars was in charge of strategy, product marketing, business development and building the sales team across three continents. Lars has also been involved with the founding team of SportBug, a GPS and Internet fitness company.
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