Q2 ElevateData: Bottom Up Adoption of Data Tech

In recent years, we’ve witnessed the meteoric success of product-led growth (PLG) and bottom up selling motions in the enterprise software market. Since we strive to have a finger on the pulse of the data world, it made us wonder: Would PLG find success within the data space? To answer this question, we assembled aContinue reading “Q2 ElevateData: Bottom Up Adoption of Data Tech”

ElevateData: Making your Mark on the CEO

Last week, ElevateData hosted its first virtual event of 2021. Many of our previous ElevateData conversations have been deep dives into the role and impact that data has within organizations and how the Chief Data Officer can optimize those results. So, in a small departure from our typical round table discussion, we were lucky toContinue reading “ElevateData: Making your Mark on the CEO”

ElevateData: Unpacking the Data Stack

Last week, we hosted our fourth (and last) ElevateData event of a tumultuous 2020. We brought data leaders together from companies like Etsy, Poshmark, LinkedIn, Udacity, Unravel Data, Bitly, SVB, and Zscaler to delve into what is working and what isn’t within the data stack. The early conversation was focused on Data Democratization, BI Tools,Continue reading “ElevateData: Unpacking the Data Stack”

ElevateData: COVIData and Beyond

For the past two years, we’ve brought members of ElevateData together over dinner each quarter to discuss the latest events and trends, to share practical knowledge, and to predict what the future holds for the world of data. Due to the special circumstances of 2020 and thanks to Zoom, we took ElevateData virtual for theContinue reading “ElevateData: COVIData and Beyond”

The State of Data – A Recap of the Q1 2020 ElevateData Dinner

Last week we kicked off our ElevateData dinner series for 2020 with our traditional first event of the year, The State of Data. Despite concerns of Covid-19 and increasing financial volatility, we were joined in San Francisco by data executives representing companies like KeepTruckin, Metromile, United Healthcare, Lime, Ethos, Salesforce, Torodata, Layer9, DataCoral, and SVB.Continue reading “The State of Data – A Recap of the Q1 2020 ElevateData Dinner”

Looking Beyond the Hype of Machine Learning – A Recap of the Q4 2019 ElevateData Dinner

Last week, we hosted an ElevateData dinner, the last 2019 gathering in the series that unites Data Leaders to delve into hop topics in the industry. Just in time for driving New Year’s resolutions, we focused on a headline-generating buzzword and a top-of-mind topic for businesses: Machine Learning (ML). Given the continued commotion around thisContinue reading “Looking Beyond the Hype of Machine Learning – A Recap of the Q4 2019 ElevateData Dinner”

ElevateData: Q3:2019 – The Next (Big) Data Tech

We hosted ElevateData’s Q3 2019 Dinner where we posed the question to the group – What is the Next (BIG) Data Technology? Our discussions covered a full spectrum of data technologies from ingestion to real time/batch processing to machine learning to privacy and security. We loved to hear unique perspectives from companies of all shapesContinue reading “ElevateData: Q3:2019 – The Next (Big) Data Tech”

Welcome to the ElevateData Blog!

Welcome to the ElevateData blog! ElevateData is an initiative started by Alex Choy, Director at Silicon Valley Bank, Barkha Saxena, Chief Data Officer at Poshmark, and Oren Yunger, Investor at GGV Capital. The mission of this initiative is to scale practical knowledge sharing among data leaders in an environment that fosters open and lively discussions inContinue reading “Welcome to the ElevateData Blog!”