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

JANUARY 6, 2021

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. More recently, we have seen numerous new investment models and financing instruments, including shared earnings agreements and point-of-sale capital.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Microsoft has amassed the most extensive channel for SaaS companies, and each of these vendors pushes teams to current customers, many of whom are moving to the cloud and relying on Microsoft for guidance. Sales acceleration, marketing, finance tools all built on Salesforce data with Slack delivering the user interface.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Register SatSure , an Indian business that is at the convergence of spacetech, artificial intelligence (AI), and software as a service (SaaS), has raised $5 million in a round led by Baring Private Equity India Pvt. Ltd, joining ADB Ventures as investor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff. Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff. One factor driving Singapore’s fintech success is its high consumer adoption rates, but its government also directly supports related initiatives through its Green Finance Action Plan. How to execute an amplified marketing strategy.

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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

JULY 29, 2022

How to grow a SaaS company efficiently in a recession. ” In classic TC+ “how to” style, Raissi, a former software engineer, explains the process his team used to accelerate their Series B, the tactics they used to manage investors and how the strategy led to a $40 million round. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Ramp confirmed in March that it had secured $550 million in debt and $200 million in equity in a new financing that doubled its valuation to $8.1 Last week, another player in the space, Airbase, said it had secured $150 million in a debt financing led by Goldman Sachs.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. The accelerator program’s positive support system helped the startup expand its business in Asia. Besides the 3.5-month ” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. What Has Changed in Financing? Of course we can’t.

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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. The project is backed by Kelli Jones of Sixty8 Capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The research shows business teams (executives, manufacturing, R&D, marketing, finance, etc.) Observability is a highly strategic area for ServiceNow and our customers as they think about accelerating their digital business,” said Pablo Stern, SVP & GM of technology workflows at ServiceNow.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence SaaS voice automation company Skit, formerly known as Vernacular.ai, developed its AI-based voice automation platform VIVA, short for Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant, which enables corporations to automate 90% of their call center operations powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

But co-founder and CEO David Cancel did say the SaaS company saw 70% growth in its annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2020 compared to the year prior and is on target for a similar metric this year. Unfortunately, neither party would disclose the amount of the investment, or Drift’s new valuation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

It’s also a useful overview for early employees and co-founders who may be new to startup financing. Topics covered: How financing works: SAFEs versus equity rounds. Founders: How well do you really understand seed-stage financing? Twitter Spaces: SaaS marketing with MKT1 founders Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Divibank , a financing platform offering LatAm businesses access to growth capital, has closed on a $3.6 The company has built a data-driven financing platform aimed at giving businesses access to non-dilutive capital to finance their growth via revenue-share financing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Such mistakes will only accelerate their move off the cliff and to their deaths. And in this new environment in which interest rates are climbing, access to capital is diminished and investors are “fleeing from the riskiest companies,” meaning nascent companies are in an even more precarious position.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

M&A accelerates throughout the year. The BTC ETF drives a resurgence in interest in web3 financing. Grading last year’s predictions : ML propels SaaS into a massive second wave that increases workers’ productivity measurably. SaaS did see a second wave fueled by AI, but the productivity gains remain to be seen.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

InVideo ’s $15 million Series A financing round was led by Sequoia Capital India. Prateek Sharma, VP at Sequoia Capital India, said that InVideo is part of a growing number of startups in India that are building a SaaS platform for the world. Some of these customers are white-labeling InVideo platform to their own clients.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The account receivables automation startup is out to change how businesses manage the debt owed to them by their customers through its SaaS product, which automates the processes of reconciling incoming payments and invoices, a labor-intensive process that is still predominantly manual for most local companies. SMEs have a huge financing gap.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Whether you’re going through an accelerator or you’re at some kind of speed dating event, short “office hours” meetings present both an opportunity and a problem for investors. We’re an enterprise SaaS company solving X problem using Y solution. That the market size justifies venture financing.” You don’t have the time for that.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Yet another SaaS startup, which began its journey in India, has attained the much coveted unicorn status. BrowserStack, a startup that operates a giant software testing platform , said on Wednesday it has raised $200 million in a new financing round that valued the 10-year-old firm at $4 billion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

The fund, whose name is inspired from the street names where the two longtime friends have hung out over the years, plans to continue to invest in SaaS, fintech, infrastructure security firms, aiming to spot them early and fund their pre-seed and seed rounds, it said. The two hit it off and First Round Capital led the seed round of Sprig.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook. “It’s attention.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The new round follows quickly behind a $23 million Series D extension the company announced in April, led by new investor Goldman Sachs Asset Management to bring its total Series D financing to $80 million. Meanwhile, the company recently began operations in Mexico and intends to expand its footprint across Latin America next year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

.” Just as virtualization and then container technology transformed CPU-based workloads over the last decades, Run:AI is bringing orchestration and virtualization technology to AI chipsets such as GPUs, dramatically accelerating both AI training and inference.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Chili Piper , which has a sophisticated SaaS appointment scheduling platform for sales teams, has raised a $33 million B round led by Tiger Global. This brings the company’s total financing to $54 million. The company will use the capital raised to accelerate product development. So all the way until 2019 we bootstrapped.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The financing follows a $131 million Series C raise led by Warburg Pincus, which remains the company’s largest shareholder. Assent’s trajectory continues to grow and Waitmen projects the SaaS company will cross $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) this year after growing ARR by over 50% in the past 12 months.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Since our model is a transactional SaaS, the revenues have also been increasing,” he told TechCrunch. With the raise of new capital, however, we will also offer a self-service SaaS to fintechs soon.”. “We Previous backers including FinTech Collective — which led its seed round in 2021 — also participated in the financing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Though the round was acquired before going into the accelerator program, the Belarus-based pair wanted to wait to publicly share the milestone. It was originally founded as CloudBusiness in 2016 and developed accounting automation and management of business finances for small and mid-size businesses.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Some investors limit their activities to a specific region: Some might invest only in Silicon Valley, others may focus only on Germany, and some accelerators will be based in a specific region or city. Are you in finance, healthcare, consumer hardware or climate tech? Here’s why you should care Where are you located?

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HPA

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Cohesion , a leader in smart building and digital twin SaaS technology, announced raising $15M in a Series A round co-led by HPA and Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund. With a career in finance, government and mobility, Steve brings a unique perspective on how to successfully grow companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Redpoint Ventures, Thrive Capital, D1 Capital Partners, Spark Capital, Coatue Management, Iconiq, Altimeter, Stripe, Lux Capital, A* Partners, Definition Capital and other existing backers participated in the financing. There are more B2B growth SaaS companies than ever before, and they’re better at charging than they’ve ever been,” he noted.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

At the time TechCrunch commented that the company’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup service was tackling a large market. Since then SaaS has continued to grow at a rapid clip, including a strong 2020 spurred on by COVID-19 boosting digital transformation efforts at companies of all sizes. Start the countdown.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Those looking to push ahead with their plans to go public will face another obstacle: Several global public funds including Invesco that ardently finance the pre-IPO rounds are retreating from the Indian market after getting hammered in China and other emerging markets this year, according to people familiar with the matter.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

The company has two revenue models: First is a SaaS platform that collects, verifies and tracks compliance documents like business licenses and W9 forms for general contractors, developers and property managers. The second model uses the data from the SaaS platform to operate a marketplace that provides insurance solutions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Initially, Juni will make money on interchange fees (minus the cashback it offers) and by charging a subscription in the best SaaS tradition. Former Spotify marketing exec-turned-VC Sophia Bendz on her love of early-stage investing. Meanwhile, the business model is straight forward enough. Credit is also an obvious revenue stream, too.

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