David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. I asked Michael Hoffman, Partner and General Counsel of Feenix, how he compared his firm with tech-enabled Merchant Cash Advance companies, e.g., Clearbanc , C2FO , Shopify Capital , etc.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

“We try to provide Amazon-level logistics to all the other merchants out there,” Rob van den Heuvel, Sendcloud’s CEO and co-founder, said in an interview. We are pleased to partner with Rob and the Sendcloud team to support their mission of fueling the next wave of e-commerce enablement.” .

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

ML propels SaaS into a massive second wave that increases workers’ productivity measurably. Users grow accustomed to this very quickly & ML becomes a requisite feature in most workflow SaaS. More than 100 web3-enabled games launch. Here are my predictions for 2023. The Fed tames inflation. but a Fed Funds rate of 5%.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Customer success company Vitally raised $9 million in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz to continue developing its SaaS platform automating customer experiences. Co-founder and CEO Jamie Davidson got the idea for Vitally while he was at his previous company, Pathgather. SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

.” Over the course of the last year, WhyLabs has made it easier for data teams to use its service, in large part because it launched its SaaS platform with a free self-serve tier. “Because we’re a SaaS, we focused on privacy a lot. ”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Runbooks enables engineers to compose tasks and built-in integrations, like SQL, REST APIs and Slack, into workflows that run JavaScript code, can feed that into a SQL database or combine data from Stripe and be accessible to non-engineering team members. Image Credits: Airplane / Airplane co-founders Josh Ma and Ravi Parikh. “We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The company, headquartered in France, has developed a SaaS-based visual e-merchandising platform with tools for creating 3D images for e-commerce. We set out to build a SaaS e-merchandising platform to create unlimited visuals via a desktop so you can showcase your products.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

This, Banyan hopes, will enable its customers to rapidly grow their sustainable infrastructure portfolio and help to close the estimated $3.5 The climate founders’ guide to the Inflation Reduction Act The $25 million funding round was led by climate software investor Energize Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Rattle is building a real-time and collaborative “connectivity tissue” to address the siloed nature of modern record-keeping and intelligence platforms, said Sahil Aggarwal, co-founder and chief executive of the eponymous startup, in an interview with TechCrunch. “To The startup announced on Tuesday that it has raised a seed round of $2.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. As part of the investment, Priya Saiprasad, partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, is joining CommerceIQ’s board of directors. “E-commerce Meanwhile, $1.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The RejaReja retail marketplace was launched in 2020 as a brainchild of MarketForce, a SaaS product for the formal markets, founded by Tesh Mbaabu and Mesongo Sibut i in 2018. Our mission is to enable SMEs to grow, and what we’ve realized over time is that offering them loans is great, but that we need to empower them to access goods.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Kerry Wang told TechCrunch that she felt some interview processes didn’t enable enough time for them to fully demonstrate how they were different. The new funding will enable the company to make additional hires to double the size of the team next year, and invest in product development and its go-to marketing strategy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A startup called Sanity has built a platform to help businesses (and their people) do that more easily with a SaaS platform that lets developers create code and systems to manage content. Stein and Jesse Robbins, a partner at Heavybit, are both joining Sanity’s board of directors with this round. million to fuel its growth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Also of note is that Buk was bootstrapped for the first five years of its SaaS operations. Interestingly, a group of founders from unicorns such as Rappi, Kavak, Konfio, GBM, Ualá and Brex also put money in the round. . But more and more, other regions in Latin America such as Chile are also attracting global investor interest.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Portland, Oregon-based company, which has its tech team in New Zealand, began developing its SaaS customer experience management tools in 2014 for businesses that rely on humans, co-founder and CEO Aaron Ward told TechCrunch. Five Elms’ Ryan Mandl is joining AskNicely’s board as part of the funding. Image Credits: AskNicely.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Whittaker, co-founder and CEO of Audit Sight , says companies can spend millions of dollars per year on these audits, but the customer experience is lacking. The company intends to build out several SaaS applications and is poised to roll out its first two modules for revenue and accounts receivables by the end of the year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

As part of the new round, Macrometa expanded its board of directors, adding Pelion general partner Chris Cooper as a director, and Pelion senior associate Zain Rizavi and DNX Ventures principal Eva Nahari as board observers. Macrometa co-founder and CEO Chetan Venkatesh.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2023

SignalFire leads latest round for SaaS customer identity and access management (CIAM) vendor Herndon, Va. Other investors include Kevin Mandia, CEO of Mandiant and Jack Huffard, co-founder of Tenable, who will join Strivacity as Executive Chairman. The online experience is increasingly the primary customer experience.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Luos CEO and co-founder Nicolas Rabault says that as a former embedded hardware engineer, he wanted to build a solution that would simplify the way these engineers have historically worked. Prior to creating this framework, engineers would typically create custom code for each component on a board, a time-consuming and frustrating process.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Just over a year after launching its flagship product, Landing AI secured a $57 million round of Series A funding to continue building tools that enable manufacturers to more easily and quickly build and deploy artificial intelligence systems. Andrew Ng, founder and CEO. Image Credits: Landing AI.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As often as the ‘R’ word is bandied about in tech, a survey of 450 early-stage founders found that only 12% plan to hire fewer workers and 6% have laid people off. ” Eighty percent of the seed-stage and pre-seed founders who responded to January’s survey have less than a year of runway left. Engagement.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

We knew we were only scratching the surface of our vision, and knew we had a solution that could reimagine diversity hiring for everyone,” said co-founder and CEO Ben Herman. Canvas describes its SaaS offering as a “fully virtual” recruiting platform that is based on self-reported data. You know how everyone has a CRM?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

CEO Jonathan Abraham explained that Gamitee means “joined” in Hebrew, but the Jerusalem-based SaaS company decided to spell it “joy” because it aims to “spark joy in its customers’ experiences.”. That’s when he had the idea for co-browsing and began developing the company with co-founder Michael Levinson.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

I have talked at great length with the founders of Brex and Ramp in the past, as well as the individual in charge of that segment within TripActions. Image Credits: Ramp co-founders Karim Atiyeh and Eric Glyman. Image Credits: Pluto / Pluto co-founders CTO Nayeem Zen, CEO Mo Aziz, CPO Mohammed Ridwan. Here in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Pini Yakuel, founder and CEO of Optimove, Image Credits: Optimove. The SaaS company was founded in 2012 by CEO Pini Yakuel to connect customers with brands and to apply artificial intelligence to customer data to orchestrate the right message to the right customer at the right time, and do it at scale, Yakuel told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

“Think of the kind of things you’d tell a store associate helping you find the right gifts to purchase for your family,” says Ben Parr, president and co-founder of Octane AI. Sweetgreen’s IPO pricing guidance illuminates valuation range for tech-enabled companies. “That’s zero-party data.” billion and $2.7

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tackle’s co-founder and CTO “Dillon Woods says that at previous jobs, he found that it took several months with a couple of engineers dedicated to the task to get a product onto the AWS marketplace, and he noticed that it was a similar set of tasks each time.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The Scotts Valley, California-based company is using cloud technology and the Ethereum blockchain as the engine for its Paystand Bank Network that enables business-to-business payments with zero fees. This brings the company’s total funding to $85 million, Paystand co-founder and CEO Jeremy Almond told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Over the years, the company’s SaaS platform has evolved from a subscription billing/payments platform to include a broader set of offerings aimed at helping e-commerce businesses boost revenues and cut operating costs. And, it’s currently cash flow positive, according to company execs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The latest funding gives the San Francisco-based company $40 million in total funding since it was founded in 2015, co-founder and CEO Tim Zheng told TechCrunch. He believes there is still a big part of the market that is untapped, and the new funding will enable the company to accelerate marketing, engineering and product development.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 15 Best Strategies for Developing New Business in a Crowded Market In the quest to uncover effective strategies for developing new businesses in a crowded market, we turned to fifteen Founders and CEOs for their tried-and-true tactics. Geoff Newman , Founder, Starget.co.uk In SaaS, it’s not much different.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

million in total funding since the company was founded in 2016, founder Obi Omile Jr. The app also enables barbers, perhaps for the first time, to have a list of clients and keep notes and photos of hair styles, as well as track visits and spending. The latest funding gives theCut $5.35 told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The idea for the startup came to him as he listened to cardiologist, and now co-founder, Patrick Gladding explain how time-consuming and potentially inaccurate it is for doctors to have to review multiple scans manually everyday. Having more tech talent on board will help HeartLab advance its product offering. ” said Hewitt.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Current management, which includes CEO Mark Schoen and CSO/founder Jakob Schreyer (pictured below), will also stay on board post-transaction. Orderbird will continue to operate as its own brand, becoming a central part of Nexi’s push into the SMB segment.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. ARR of $500K+. Decathlon Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

We first met founders Eric Yu and Peter Zhou last year when the company raised $1.5 As part of the investment, a16z’s Kristina Shen is joining Rutter’s board. Zhou says this sector of e-commerce enablement is “an open field right now,” with a lot of demand and much of it unmet. Rutter’s authorization flow.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Join us on Wednesday, May 18 and Thursday, May 19 to watch these incredible founders take the stage. I know you want to see who made the cut.

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