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In addition to the usual Thiel, Matrix, Giva, directors, Milford Asset, Blackstone mentioned in article,
I guess six USA venture capitalists are in Top 20.
They are cloud-focused investors from *Data Collective, General Catalyst, Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, and Illuminate Ventures.
They checked out hundreds of SaaS businesses, and picked six winners,in Aug13.
Xero is top of the list.
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Focus is key:
6 cloud startups kicking ass by going narrow
5, August 2013
Venture capitalists are betting on cloud startups with a specific focus: health care, financial services, real estate, and other industries.
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To create this list, we reached out to cloud-focused investors from Data Collective, General Catalyst, Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, and Illuminate Ventures.
The companies on our list are all tackling different sectors but share a capability to surmount regulatory hurdles, win over large corporate customers, and pull in sizable revenues.
Or they simply are tackling a challenge in their sector in an eye-opening and innovative way that’s begging for attention.
Here are six cloud vertical startups you should be keeping an eye on...
http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/05/top-vertical-cloud-startups/
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Director Marc Andreessen sells 2.28 million shares in Facebook
(for a cool $111m)
November 11, 2013
http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/director-marc-andreessen-sells-228-million-shares-in-facebook-20131110-2x9y1.html
Other minor sh/h in Top 50 will include with 'fingers in the pie' are
Accountants and bookkeepers
(from Oz, NZ, UK, USA,Canada,India,HK,Spore),
500 xero managers and staff,
and
300 Add-on partners and their employees.
( just a guess here, again)
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Who owns a slice of Xero pie?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/xero/search/results.cfm?kw1=xero&kw2=&st=gsa
