TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. The opportunity that the company sees has really forced us to reallocate resources and strategy,” said Brown. 4 strategies for deep tech founders who are fundraising. 4 strategies for deep tech founders who are fundraising. “So the TAM is massive.”

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

In terms of the uptake of cloud services, 35 percent of organisations expanded their scope strategy and 47 percent are reportedly accelerating their adoption timelines. The post [Workspot in Digital Journals] Accelerated cloud strategies bring advantages and challenges appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

On Wednesday, January 24, the inaugural cohort of startups from i2E’s Bridge2 Pre-Accelerator program presented their groundbreaking innovations during the Bridge2 Demo Day at Sailor & The Dock in Oklahoma City. During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

After taking a hiatus from covering SaaS multiples, Alex Wilhelm took a closer look at software revenue and noted that “the upward charge has plateaued” in recent months. Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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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. Before Twitter he held similar roles at SuccessFactors (SaaS), Akamai (telecoms infrastructure), McAfee (Security Software) and was an investment banker. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Y-Combinator- backed Localyze has nabbed $12 million in Series A funding led by Blossom Capital for a SaaS that supports staff relocations and hiring across borders. The startup says it’s been seeing growth rates hitting, on average, more than 30% month-on-month, as employer demand for its services accelerates.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 15, 2022

Register Chinese e-commerce SaaS platorm Dianxiaomi has raised $110 million in Series D funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Sequoia China, with participation from Tiger Global Management, GGV Capital, and Huaxing Growth Capital. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

CEO and founder Thejo Kote told TechCrunch that generating SaaS revenue for the company remains its priority. And going forward, the 350-person company plans to operate with the same strategies that have propelled it to this point. Meanwhile, while Ramp does provide software, interchange remains its biggest revenue driver.

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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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OurCrowd

MARCH 15, 2023

The post [Workspot in Business Wire] SORAVIA, a leading real estate group in Austria and Germany, accelerates acquisition strategy leveraging Google Cloud, Workspot, Intel and Nagarro appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In response to the limitations of existing CRM software, especially the complexity of platforms like Salesforce, Relate’s founders identified the necessity for tailored features catering to B2B startups pursuing a product-led growth strategy.

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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. ServiceMax promises accelerating growth as key to $1.4B Image Credits: MKT1. Join us today at 2 p.m.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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. One potent strategy for a B2B SaaS company to enhance growth is to revisit and refine its monetization blueprint.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Between the changing tides of the economy and digital buying preferences, SaaS companies are under tremendous pressure. The question is: How do they appease customers who want self-service while accelerating profitable growth? Many of these companies understand that 80% of their interactions with buyers occur on digital channels.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Casted leverages audio and video podcasting as the core of an innovative Amplified Marketing Platform enabling B2B enterprises to drive brand awareness, thought-leadership, sales lead generation, and customer engagement strategies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

In particular, Divibank is targeting e-commerce and SaaS companies although it also counts edtechs, fintechs and marketplaces among its clients. As in many other sectors, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a tailwind to Divibank’s business, considering it accelerated the digitalization of everything globally.

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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. I try to keep things fresh, so I was dismayed to realize that I’d used the word “downturn” in two different headlines this morning.

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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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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

By the same token, adding more capital to a fund strategy doesn’t scale the strategy, it shifts it, often into a segment of the market very different from the one the GPs know best. We’re currently investing out of our fifth core fund, and since inception have backed 125 founding teams as GPs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Michael Seibel was chief executive of Y Combinator’s accelerator up until 2020, when the accelerator evolved from a more traditional partnership to no longer having multiple CEOs. YC says that no one else’s role at the accelerator has changed with today’s executive shakeup.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2016

SaaS startups often find themselves in one of three different states when contemplating their burn rate. The first is the David Farragut strategy. The more complicated state is the one in between, and that is the one that most SaaS startup operate within. You have a SaaS startup. Damn the burn rate, full speed ahead.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Now, maturing consumer behaviors and expectations are accelerating the current phase. Nacelle gives organizations a future-proof way to accelerate their innovation, leverage existing investments and do so with material ROI.”. He said Nacelle is already “the de facto standard” for Shopify Plus merchants going headless. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

SaaS companies can grow to $20M+ ARR by selling exclusively to developers. Each year, the accelerator admits only about 5% of the startups that seek to join. The hamburger model is a winning go-to-market strategy. Because the best go-to-market (GTM) strategies for startups are like hamburgers: The bottom bun: Bottom-up GTM.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

” “The funding will strengthen our balance sheet and accelerate further development of our integrated life insurance software platform and wealth products to better serve our global customer base,” Romero told TechCrunch via email. We then evolved to focus on a core set of solutions where we knew we could be the best.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 17, 2015

Leads are the lifeblood of every SaaS company. As a SaaS startup grows, the limiting factor of the business quickly becomes demand generation. Below are the five marketing channels I’ve observed at SaaS companies. Hubspot, which attracts more than 1M visitors to their blog each month, epitomizes this strategy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Once the parties are on the same page, Fast Forward provides the operator or founder with $100,000 — and value-add such as co-founder recruitment, engineering support, initial product strategy, execution on the growth side, administrative operations such as accounting and legal — in exchange of up to 20% of the company.

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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

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. origination fee.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

“This will accelerate our roadmap enabling more swim lanes of product work to be on the go concurrently,” he says. Countingup’s business model combines both SaaS and fintech. On the SaaS side, the company earns monthly subscription fees. That roadmap includes tax filing, new financial services (e.g.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 13, 2023

A survey report called “The Next-Generation Cloud Strategy in Asia” show that 84 percent of the existing cloud service users are planning to increase their investments in the technology this year as more companies start to move their critical businesses online to efficiently handle their workloads in the post pandemic world.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Various angel investors have also backed Juni, including NA-KD founder and CEO Jarno Vanahatapio and iZettle’s former chief strategy and communications officer Johan Bendz. Initially, Juni will make money on interchange fees (minus the cashback it offers) and by charging a subscription in the best SaaS tradition.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

As a partner at the accelerator from 2010 to 2015, Tan spent time working with companies to better understand what they needed from investors after they graduated. “I While Tan’s new gig is set to begin in January 2023, he sat down with TechCrunch to talk about his vision for the accelerator, its batches and his goals going forward.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

The stock market is expected to be tough for the time being, but the mobility industry will grow rapidly that we can’t miss this critical time; we will focus on accelerating mergers and acquisitions and investments in new businesses and technology.”. million users and 1.4 million monthly active users this year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Typically we focus on what we call “innovative companies” — whether that’s because they have a SaaS offering or they’re an innovator within a traditional industry doesn’t really matter. Our growth program typically unfolds in three stages as well, which we call the Foundation, Acceleration and Transformation stages.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

As this accelerates in the coming years, we must find ways to scale efficient growing solutions that lighten the footprint of agriculture,” said Lucas Mann, managing partner at Acre. The funding will be used to accelerate product development and expand commercial collaborations. We believe Source.ag

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Alternative financing options such as revenue financing or expense financing are often overshadowed by the VC model, but they can be just as, and sometimes more, useful for SaaS startups, writes Miguel Fernandez, CEO and co-founder of Capchase. Startup accelerators’ definition of ‘value add’ is due for a refresh.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2019

One well known SaaS unicorn focused itself on monthly product launches. The benefits of such a strategy were many. Third, the strategy instilled anxiety within the competition. But, the product launch can be a powerful management technique to align and accelerate teams. The company sustained this cadence for two years.

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