The firm said it recently opened a virtual reality lab and hired Exitround Chief Executive Jacob Mullins as a principal focused on emerging platforms. Exitround, a Shasta portfolio company, is a mergers and acquisitions marketplace for tech companies.
“If you take a look at the biggest companies that have been built over the last 20 to 30 years, they’ve been built around platform shifts,” said Shasta Ventures Managing Director Rob Coneybeer. “We think the next platform shift you look at is to a variety of platforms.”
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