May - 2014 - issue > VC talk
The Industry has to Improve on Focus and Discipline
Ravi Viswanathan
General Partner-NEA
The trends impacting the healthcare and technology sectors, which are our prime areas of focus, remain centered around mobility, cloud and e-commerce. Large-scale investments are materializing in the world of mobiles during the last few years. From payments, marketing to content, the e-commerce sector is undergoing an interesting phase in terms of progress. Coming to cloud, though it is in its nascent stages, several apps are being upgraded into the technology, thereby resulting in enhanced usability and functionality.
Targeting the Potential Areas for Investment
In recognition of the trends, we have made huge investments in cloud, portfolio education, healthcare, and infrastructure technology sectors. The Internet of Things or (IoT) is another area with huge amounts of potential. NEA’s established investment strategy covers all stages of a company's development, from seeding innovations in promising markets to backing early-stage companies in high-growth verticals to enhancing the growth of market leaders. In other words, NEA would prove to be the best venture capital firm for companies, during any stage of the process and in any location.
The recent innovations are also noteworthy in terms of investment. A few years ago, such innovations of high-level were not present, and we are currently looking for stand-out innovations.
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