Inside Intel’s New VC Strategy: Fewer, Bigger Bets

Intel Capital has put over $12 billion into 1,500 startups since it was founded in 1991. Mark Rostick offers explains how it has endured.

By Scott Kirsner · August 12, 2019 · 1 min read

Intel has been making investments in startup companies since around 1991 — an initiative that then-CEO Andy Grove supported as a way to get “insights into where users were headed,” explains Mark Rostick , a Senior Managing Director at Intel Capital who joined the chip maker and…