<![CDATA[ARISTOS VENTURES - Venture Capital - microThoughts]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:25:27 -0500Weebly<![CDATA[Aristos Ventures: Entrepreneurial Fundraising]]>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 18:36:53 GMThttps://www.aristosventures.com/microthoughts/aristos-ventures-entrepreneurial-fundraisingHere's a 15-minute video regarding fundraising for your start-up excerpted from an SMU presentation on Venture Capital.
]]><![CDATA[Video Intelligence For Smart Health]]>Mon, 11 May 2020 19:17:35 GMThttps://www.aristosventures.com/microthoughts/video-intelligence-for-smart-healthMost of the countries and some of the cities around the world have started enforcing wearing face mask and social distancing in public. Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technology can play a vital role to enforce these rules and help in flattening the curve.

Edgetensor provides state-of-the-art AI technology on low power edge devices that can detect people wearing mask, measure temperature and monitor social distancing. 
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]]><![CDATA[Texas Venture Capital Firms]]>Wed, 10 Apr 2019 19:33:48 GMThttps://www.aristosventures.com/microthoughts/texas-venture-capital-firmsAristos Ventures has compiled and continually updates a listing of venture capital firms, angel groups, accelerators and co-working spaces in Texas. These represent active investors and others but does not include family offices, individual investors or private equity. Aristos Ventures does this in the spirit of good faith and camaraderie. However, we would prefer for early stage technology entrepreneurs to contact Aristos Ventures first to discuss their start-up.  For the complete hyperlinked listing, please visit:

http://www.aristosventures.com/texas-venture-capital-firms.html

Leave a group off? Let us know in a comment.]]><![CDATA[Secret Venture Capital Tools I use at the Office]]>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.aristosventures.com/microthoughts/secret-venture-capital-tools-i-use-at-the-officeHere is a listing of the secret venture capital tools I use at the office:

Tools
Nimbix
Traxo

Diligence
Crunchbase
Everlaw
IBM Watson
Quandl
VB Profiles
In house tools, models and other

Infrastructure
Apple 27” Thunderbolt Monitor
Apple MacBook Pro 15” (3.1 GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD)
AWS (several tools)
Bond
Cloze
Dropbox
Google Analytics
Google Contacts
Google Domains (DNS: SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
Google Voice
Google Webmaster
Hotjar
IFTTT
Kickbox
LastPass
Open DNS
Postmark DMARC
Quill Engage
Scanable
Segment.com
Startup Hire
Textio
Uber Conference
VirusTotal
Weebly
Whoapp
x.ai

Software
Facebook
Google Sheets
Grammerly
Hiya
Hootsuite
LinkedIn
Mac Calendar
Mac Mail
MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
macOS High Sierra
QuickBooks
QuickBooks Payroll
Spritzlet
TrueCaller
Xcode

News
Axios Pro Rata
Brainspace
CB Insights
Cnet
Dallas Business Journal
Fortune’s TermSheet
Google Alerts (with RSS too)
HPC Wire
Light Reading
Mattermark
MIT Tech Review
NVCA Smartbrief
OpenLP
PitchBook
Preqin
Recode
Stratechery
TechCrunch
The Information
Twitter
VentureBeat
Visual Capitalist
Wired
various blogs

The secret is that there is no secret tool. Venture investing is hard research and diligence, utilizing years of experience as an engineer and at venture firms seeing thousands of companies. Anyone can write a check to a startup company, but the hard part is determining which company to fund and then helping the entrepreneur grow the business.]]><![CDATA[Jack Furst joins Aristos Ventures Investment Committee]]>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:58:54 GMThttps://www.aristosventures.com/microthoughts/jack-furst-joins-aristos-ventures-investment-committeeJack Furst joins Aristos Ventures Investment Committee

Jack Furst has joined the Aristos Ventures Investment Committee. Jack's biography can be found here: http://www.aristosventures.com/team.html

What isn't listed is that Jack serves as an officer and executive board member of Circle Ten Council (Dallas)-Boy Scouts of America, an advisory board member of Longhorn Council (Ft. Worth)-Boy Scouts of America, an executive board member of Boy Scouts of America (National Council), a  member of The University of Texas at Austin Mc Comb's School of Business Advisory Council and a founding Advisory Council Member of the MBA Investment Fund, a founding family and recent board member of Cross Timbers Community Church (Argyle, Texas), an advisory board member of Christian Community Action (Lewisville, Texas), and a former trustee and board member of The National Safety Council (Chicago).  Jack is a 1998 Henry Crown Fellow, a fellowship of leaders that is administered by the Aspen Institute.  He was inducted into W. P. Carey School of Business Hall of Fame at Arizona State University in 1999.  Jack is also the recipient of the 2003 Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award and the W.P. Carey School of Business 2008 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.   Recently, Jack was honored as Arizona State University’s Philanthropist of the Year 2017.

Jack, and his wife, Debra, have two children; son, Jackson (20) and daughter, Jordan (17).  

Jack completes an outstanding investment committee that Aristos Ventures is fortunate to have.

Aristos Ventures is a micro venture capital fund that invests in early-stage technology companies in Texas. Aristos Ventures is actively investing out of Fund II.
https://www.aristosventures.com​Jack Furst joins Aristos Ventures Investment Committee
]]><![CDATA[VMware acquires CloudCoreo]]>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:45:35 GMThttps://www.aristosventures.com/microthoughts/vmware-acquires-cloudcoreoVMware acquires CloudCoreo (formerly of Austin).  AristosVentures was the first investor in the company. 

VMware acquires CloudCoreo - continuing commitment to secure and manage 
applications in a multi-cloud world: 
https://blog.cloud.vmware.com/s/content/a1y6A000000aMiJQAU/vmware-acquires-cloudcoreo?src=so_5a314d05ddb83&cid=70134000001SkJd
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