American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2024

Investment Accelerates the Development of SaaS Solutions Suite Featuring API-based Pharmacy and Telehealth Products SAN FRANCISCO, CA – March 11, 2024 – Foundation Health, a pioneering healthcare technology company, today announced the closure of a $6 million seed funding round.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

The easy-to-use, comprehensive supply chain management system among top applicants selected for Newchip’s online accelerator NEW FREEDOM, Pa., Past accelerator cohorts averaged more than 17.5 The equity-free, fully digital accelerator has helped over 2,500 founders from more than 110 countries and 250 cities raise over $2.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The company announced a $6 million seed round today led by Foundation Capital with help from Quarry VC, Partech Partners, IGSB, Bow Capital and SVB. The company has decided to concentrate its efforts for starters on SaaS companies and their requirements. DataJoy , an early stage startup, wants to solve that issue.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. million for the debut investment vehicle — waitlist not included. million seed funding round led by Initialized Capital, with investments from GSR, NEA and Canaan.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. These events aren’t just a chance to review the latest cohort of hopeful entrepreneurs — they also showcase the technology, products and services that will compete for VC and consumer attention over the next few years. Paper plane made from a ten-dollar bill.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Antler, a global early-stage VC firm headquartered in Singapore, has announced its largest pre-seed investment round to date, committing $5.1 The portfolio encompasses a wide range of sectors, including AI, B2B SaaS, fintech, and healthcare, addressing various regional challenges. million to 37 startups across Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff. Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff. Singapore’s population is under 5 million, but according to KPMG, fintech investment in the nation-state will reach $3B this year, a significant chunk of the $42B global total. How to execute an amplified marketing strategy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founded in Estonia and now headquartered in New York, the company has taken a majority investment from U.S. Cue statement from current CEO Raj Sabhlok: “Reaching ‘unicorn’ status and partnering with Vista will enable us to accelerate our mission to support SMBs as they continue to digitize their businesses in order to grow.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Aviel and I are both self-taught VCs: the parts of the job we learned as founders and operators of our own companies covered just a fraction of what it means to be effective money managers, fundraisers, board members and trusted partners within the tight-knit community of professional investors. The implications of this are many.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Global data was clear: The 2021 venture capital startup investment cycle was record-breaking ; around the world, startups raised more money than ever before, with individual geographies posting all-time hauls. PitchBook data collected on the European 2021 investment cycle pegs venture activity at €102.9 Africa had a killer year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tackle says it plans to use its new funding to accelerate the execution of its product roadmap, scale its go-to-market (GTM) teams, expand its global reach, and continue to innovate. The VC firm has backed Tackle since its seed round, and led its $7.25 That’s quite a list; with $100 million it may be possible.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Some of its well-known investments include South African car subscription company, FlexClub; Kenyan on-demand logistics company, Sendy; and Nigerian fintech company, Lidya. Before becoming a VC firm, Savannah Fund started as an accelerator program in Kenya. Mbwana Ally (Managing Partner, Savannah Fund).

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s hard enough to raise capital from VC, private equity fund, and family offices. The vastly larger universe of B2B companies, many of which have teams focused on pushing VC and private equity funds to evangelize their product to their portfolio. In roughly descending order of impact, I suggest: Invest in funds.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. Which VCs are comfortable using this approach? This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. ARR of $500K+.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Twitter Spaces: SaaS marketing with MKT1 founders Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich. London for a Twitter Spaces conversation with Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich , founders of MKT1, a partnership that advises SaaS startups. The good news for biotech startups is that investment in the sector is soaring. Image Credits: MKT1.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. My angel investing hobby was making me a better Founder, CEO, and business leader.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

M&A accelerates throughout the year. US VC investment falls from $275b in 2022 to $200b in 2023 & sustains at about $200-220b in 2024 as LP interest in venture attenuates after the euphoria in 2020 & 2021. SaaS did see a second wave fueled by AI, but the productivity gains remain to be seen. Score : 0.5.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities via a community-driven B2C SaaS model — has raised a $3 million seed investment round led by I2BF Global Ventures, TMT Investments and Techstars. StudyFree has now received a total of $3.6 million in funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and reimagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth — new stages, new content, and new opportunities. Happy Tuesday Crunch! Panzer breaks down what you have to look forward to in his post today — don’t miss it!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Despite the quickening pace of layoffs, there is some good news for SaaS startups: 70% of SMBs plan to increase IT spending in 2023, and the procurement process is getting faster. “Where else can you invest to drive higher returns and to build a more durable competitive advantage?”

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2020

Within it, Adil Syed, (a former Redpoint VC!), Where does ZCP fit into the panoply of metrics for SaaS companies? The magic number answers the question: if we invest $1 in sales and marketing, how much new bookings can we generate? ZCP answers the question: if we invest $1 in sales costs (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Sequoia Capital and Bain Ventures are among the high-profile investors that have backed the venture firm Kearny Jackson’s second fund, the early-stage focused firm said Wednesday as it gears up to invest in more startups. It has also roped in Sunil Chhaya , formerly a VC at Menlo Ventures, as a co-GP.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In fact, even some of the excesses of 2021 were eclipsed when the number of investments on the continent rose higher in 2022 than they had a year earlier, boosted by early-stage firms flocking to fund startups in the wake of landmark exits of homegrown companies like Jumia and Paystack. billion, according to data from Partech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

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. ” Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment. While half a billion dollars raised in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Friederike Grosse-Holz, a director at impact investment firm Blue Horizon, said lab-grown meat is “a little like a moonshot,” but predicts that 11% of the seafood, meat, eggs and dairy consumed globally in 2035 will come from alternative sources. Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures – which is part of Seedstars Group, an accelerator and VC that is active globally in over 30 emerging markets – provides early-stage capital of up to $2 million in seed and Series A rounds. He had previously worked as an investment banker in the U.K. Chandaria Capital backed 38 startups .

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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. Existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused VC) also participated. The company will use the capital raised to accelerate product development.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

India, which has doubled its pool of unicorns to over 100 in the past two years, has attracted over $75 billion in investments from tech giants Google, Meta and Amazon and venture funds Sequoia, Tiger Global, SoftBank, Alpha Wave, Lightspeed and Accel in the past half decade. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Who’s most vulnerable, who stands to benefit, and what are some of the long-term implications for VC? “It was already on the way, but this is probably going to accelerate it, because SVB was also a preeminent provider of loans for GPs to make their capital commitment polls.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. In 2020, the venture industry continued to invest in startups, despite the COVID-19 crisis. For this survey, we interviewed the following Amsterdam-focused investors: • Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

What data the startup collects is based on the needs of its customers who use its SaaS product. Rwazi, which was part of the Techstars Los Angeles accelerator program last year, currently has a network of 50,000 consumers. Rwazi collects data such as product usage, frequency of consumption, and household budgets and income.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

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

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Some well-known VC firms have spent the last few months crunching data while working to chart, graph, and map the world of venture investing. It was even accelerated last summer as the pandemic gripped the global economy. The logic is sound enough. I can doodle on it in a future column if you’d like.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

With the move, Life House has essentially evolved from a tech-enabled hotel operator into a (70-person) SaaS company. “Our investment will help accelerate innovation and the expansion of Kayak’s hotel initiatives,” said Hafner. “We We’ve been pretty efficient,” said CEO Zeidan. “In

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

” This is a frequent theme of mine when asked to speak to audience about the VC industry. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. I was recently talking to a VC about a business I was looking at and I was asking whether he found the business interesting, too. It is VC math, like it or not.

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