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MARCH 6, 2023

Now, a startup building SaaS software to help finance departments manage this more intelligently is announcing some funding to expand after seeing strong demand. That first push into more finance visibility caught on. million Series A.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Miguel Fernandez is CEO and co-founder of Capchase , which provides non-dilutive financing to SaaS and comparable recurring-revenue companies. Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership. But in recent years, more options have become available to founders. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. Put simply, Crowdz started out by giving small and medium-sized businesses a way to sell invoices for financing to funders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

It offers information on loans and grants and is accompanied by a quiz that provides specialized answers for founders regarding their capital needs and wants for expanding their businesses. It also has a long-running partnership with the Bank of America Capital Program to help provide affordable loans to women founders.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

Most founders I speak to agree that the startup journey is generally discouraging, overrun with unsolvable challenges and many many mistakes. I posed a question to twenty-one other founders, across many different industries from media to finance, from SaaS to urban farming. And I do remember them. my friend asked.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

From Dorm Room to Dominating the Finance and Tech World: A Deep Dive with Michael Mills, CEO of Infinitary Fund I had the pleasure of interviewing Michael E. Additionally, he is the founder and CEO of Infinitary Advisors , a SaaS consulting firm where he spearheads comprehensive competitive analyses for both startups and scaleups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

For one thing, the processes remain largely manual, with financing in this sector remaining reliant on emails, spreadsheets and documents in a variety of formats. For Banyan, these inefficiencies in communication and monitoring are pain points it wants to solve with its purpose-built project finance software.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Put simply, Money Minx aims to build a “Personal Finance OS” for every household. Alexa von Tobel outlines how founders should manage personal finances. As many founders do, Hussein says he and Jessica developed the platform to meet a need of their own. “We Its user base is growing by 40% month over month.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

“It is still small-scale, and the most important thing we are doing that other companies should do is focus on the design, engineering and full-scale installations of vessels and the supporting systems to make a lot of it,” said Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, which sells lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Varos founders, from left, Gil Shaked, Yarden Shaked and Lior Chen. He says this type of data collaboration is being done in other industries, including farming, travel and late-stage investing, where valuation is based on competitive data, but is relatively new for the e-commerce and SaaS spaces. Image Credits: Varos.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. Thomas Rush. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Bluecopa , an Indian startup building a finance operations automation platform for high-volume companies, has raised $2.3 The seed funding round was led by Mumbai-headquartered Blume Ventures, with participation from Titan Capital, T-Fund, Speciale Invest, Bharat Founders Fund, T2D3, Amplify and Force Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

is a weird world, and you should use end-to-end encrypted messages if you’re going to DM your friends about things that are potentially illegal. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 “Power”ing up Marqeta’s portfolio : Marqeta made its first acquisition, securing Power Finance in a $275 million all-cash deal, Mary Ann reports.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

So, Cacheflow is building a hybrid buying service and financing solution to make it simpler. Cacheflow CEO and co-founder Sarika Garg emphasized to TechCrunch the importance of having a diverse cap table in the round, and at her company more broadly. Anyone who has friends working in SaaS sales can confirm this.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The company seems confident that its model can apply to many verticals beyond SaaS, which is where it started. Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. Women in Fintech.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Leta , a Kenyan B2B supply chain and logistics SaaS provider launched last year to optimize fleet management, is looking for growth opportunities in West Africa, even as it scales operations in its existing five markets. Cellulant co-founder Ken Njoroge, and Google executive Charles Murito made investments too.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. Why more SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based pricing. Chris Toy, CEO and co-founder, Marketer Hire. This year, that figure rose to 45%.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brent Leary, founder and principal analyst, CRM Essentials. Leary said Taylor’s elevation likely signals that Salesforce founder Marc Benioff is getting ready to transition “into the next phase of his life, whatever that may be.”. Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff. Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

How to grow a SaaS company efficiently in a recession. Blair Silverberg, CEO and co-founder of Hum Capital, says entrepreneurs need to resist the urge to become defensive in these sessions. “In Addie Lerner, founder and managing partner, Avid Ventures. Jay Ganatra, co-founder and managing partner, Infinity Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Today, London-based Legl — a 2019-founded SaaS startup that sells tools to law firms wanting to digitize processes and automate workflows in areas like client onboarding, payments and compliance to support a more modern customer experience — is announcing the close of an $18 million Series B round, just over a year after it raised a $7M Series A.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

A year after the FTC blocked Harry’s from getting acquired by Edgewell Personal Care, the direct-to-consumer razor startup raised $155 million in Series E financing to give it a $1.7 million in a new financing event. In other words, it may not appear as SaaS growth, but it could appear as value growth. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

All these inefficiencies, asides from being time-consuming, lead to errors and affects cash flow and finance, which is why almost nine out of 10 small businesses in the country fizzle out in the first five years. The startup’s new financing round was led by Berlin-based VC Target Global. million in pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Outvio , an Estonian startup that provides a white-label SaaS fulfillment solution for medium-sized and large online retailers in Spain and Estonia, has closed a $3 million early-stage financing round led by Change Ventures. Also participating were TMT Investments (London), Fresco Capital (San Francisco) and Lemonade Stand (Tallinn).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2022

For the last 24 months, Thomvest Ventures recorded headcount data for 150 Series A to C enterprise SaaS startups, and we have the numbers. If you’re a founder who’s reading this: When layoffs are in the cards, you have a moral and ethical responsibility to let your employees know as soon as possible. Do the right thing.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Register India’s SaaS-based logistics management platform Shipsy has secured US$25 million funding in its Series B financing round led by Z3 Partners and A91 Partners along with participation from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. As Ravikant puts it, “founders want to know that the people they are taking money from have first-hand experience.” . MAGIC Fund has 12 founders who act as general partners.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Harry Hurst is the co-founder and co-CEO of Pipe. Recurring revenue financing (RRF) isn’t just a new package for lending, it’s a whole new model for financing a company, and that’s crucial. Recurring revenue financing treats your revenue as a tradable asset, which you then sell to investors. How founders are using RRF.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Startup pitching has become an existential drama, in part because so many founders exaggerate the size of the total addressable market (TAM) in which they hope to compete. It is almost guaranteed you’re going to be wrong,” said Aydin Senkut, the founder and managing partner of Felicis Ventures. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

MarketForce , the retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, has raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa. We started a pilot and it is going well,” MarketForce CEO and co-founder Mbaabu told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The startup has just closed a $10 million Series A to continue building out its workplace management SaaS for landlords and office managers — which offers features like resource scheduling (booking meeting rooms etc.), employee/co-working space member engagement, and financial management tools through web and mobile applications.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

4 SaaS engagement metrics that attract investors Image Credits: Tetra mages (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Past performance doesn’t always predict future results, but it’s the best place to find customer retention stats that have investor appeal. Cast your vote before Thursday, April 20!

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

In the coming months, it will make a move into a SaaS model — which Wiliot likes to say refers not to “software as a service,” but “sensing as a service,” using its AI to read and translate different signals on the object attached to the chip — to run and sell its software.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Many Southeast Asian digital businesses run into obstacles when seeking early-stage growth financing. That’s where Singapore-based Jenfi comes in, providing revenue-based financing of up to $500,000 with flexible repayment plans that co-founder and chief executive officer Jeffrey Liu refers to as “growth capital as a product.” .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

No one likes dilution, and that’s why every founder is looking for alternatives to traditional equity investing by venture capitalists. SaaS securitization will disrupt VC’s biggest returns this coming decade. SaaS securitization will disrupt VC’s biggest returns this coming decade. to deliver fast cash to SaaS companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

When Keto Kitchen had good sales in the first quarter, Meyer went to the bank to ask for expansion financing and recalled the banker asking him what a ghost kitchen was. That told him there was an opportunity for a data-driven financing tool for these types of restaurants. Ghost Financial founder John Meyer.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Absolutely not.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

This, the startup claims, allows companies to establish new revenue channels by increasing SaaS pricing bundles and charging processing fees for payments on their platform. Digitalizing finance workflows through existing SaaS players is a game-changer, and we allow our clients to become an all-in-one financial OS for their industry.”

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