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computing software developer Collabnet, and Palo Alto developer of quality management,
regulatory compliance, risk management, and corporate governance IT solutions MetricStream.
Mallik has advised and invested in Silicon Valley startups as an angel investor and through his
early-stage VC firm Skyblaze Ventures, which recently invested in Santa Clara mobile software
and services provider Webaroo. “When you think of the Bay Area you think value creation,” he
explains. “It’s a huge marketplace in itself. The source of technology is already big. It’s not like
we have to invest. The issue is how to monetize prime source technology.”
He sees global opportunities in coming years in enterprise search (“Can you reach with one click a
single reference stored in a database over a decade?”), IT security, natural language processing, and
green data centers that run faster, cheaper and cooler on less power. Mallik does not necessarily see
specific revenue streams from COIN in the short term, but more likely over two to six years.
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