Stories

Pattern is Powering the Future of Embedded Insurance

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Pattern’s impressive technology allows them to assess risk in real time, and dynamically change prices based upon evolving inputs (e.g., changing weather patterns may increase likelihood of a delay, thus increasing the price of that policy), assuring that the consumer is getting a fair price correlated with the genuine risk.

Comcast Ventures Holiday Gift Guide

A variety of holiday gifts from Comcast Ventures companies.

All of us at Comcast Ventures would like to wish you and your loved ones a Happy Holiday season. After a year like 2020, we all deserve a little something special. Shop from our CV Gift Guide featuring special discounts from our portfolio companies and their founders. Unless otherwise noted, the deals are good through Comcast Ventures Holiday Gift Guide

CTI Towers: The Pain and Progress Through a Relentlessness Pursuit

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For all of the talk about disruptors inventing the latest in Silicon Valley innovation, this is a story about what happens when entrepreneurs find success by embracing traditional technology with a relentless pursuit. CTI Towers advanced the wireless communications industry by seeing the value that existing infrastructure could bring to new technologies. To tell it, CTI Towers: The Pain and Progress Through a Relentlessness Pursuit

Software Excellence For All: Our Investment in Split

Software Excellence For All: Our Investment in Split

It’s no secret that advancements in software development have drastically accelerated the pace at which software is built and released. Distributed cloud architectures, heightened customer expectations, and changing regulations are all fueling the trend. According to DORA’s 2019 State of DevOps report, 55% of survey respondents are now deploying code to production at least once Software Excellence For All: Our Investment in Split

Investing in Visionaries: EdgeConneX acquired by EQT

EdgeConneX Co-Founders COO Edmund Wilson and CEO Randy Brouckman

By Dave Zilberman, Managing Director at Comcast Ventures Investors always have that special story featuring the “Hail Mary” or the pivot to breakout success. For me, the acquisition of EdgeConneX by EQT AB is the success story that I like to tell most — because it almost never was. About ten years ago during an EdgeConneX board meeting in Investing in Visionaries: EdgeConneX acquired by EQT

THE YES founder and e-commerce expert, Julie Bornstein, sheds lights on the future of retail

Julie Bornstein and Amit Aggarwal

Bornstein launched the new women’s shopping platform THE YES, alongside co-founder and Google alum Amit Aggarwal in May of 2020, in the middle of a pandemic when just about everything, including shopping, was virtual. With a resume including Chief Operating Officer of Stitch Fix, Chief Digital Officer of Sephora, and credited for launching Nordstrom and THE YES founder and e-commerce expert, Julie Bornstein, sheds lights on the future of retail