TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Bret Taylor is on a roll: On Monday, he became the chair of Twitter’s board, and a day later, Salesforce made him its co-CEO and co-chair. Every blog post, Tweet and Instagram Story is an opportunity to explain to customers (and your board) how the company creates value or is a step ahead of the competition.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

.” After surveying 14 public B2B software companies, Townshend says firms that built for discoverability and deployed usage-based pricing had a median growth rate of 141%, compared to 21% for traditional SaaS. “Across the board, the variance in metrics is stark,” says Townshend. The TechCrunch+ team is growing!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. Venture firms in those countries are also raising funds; for example, this month, Colombia-based Marathon Ventures announced its first fund of $26 million. It also invested in Brazilian social grocery commerce company Favo , which raised a $26.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

For most of the Information Age, companies that wanted to scale invested in server farms and hired teams to keep them running. SaaS customers that reduced headcount are buying fewer seat licenses and sales cycles are taking a little longer than they used to, says Ryan Neu, CEO and co-founder of SaaS-buying platform Vendr.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Transportation editor Kirsten Korosec reached out to 10 investors to learn more “about the state of mobility, which trends they’re most excited about and what they’re looking for in their next investments.” Shawn Carolan, partner, Menlo Ventures. Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster?

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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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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. 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.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The US venture capital ecosystem has grown 40x in dollars from $8b to $320b invested in 10 years. Fueled by this capital, startup company formation rates touched fifteen-year highs in 2021. I’ll remain on my Redpoint boards & will support those management teams as before.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Leading the round is European venture capital firm Atomico, with participation from angel investors Ott Kaukver (Checkout.com CTO), Sten Tamkivi (CPO Topia, formerly Skype), Sergei Anikin (CTO, Pipedrive) and Kairi Pauskar (former TransferWise HR Architect). Meet the makers of modular. Image Credits: Katana.

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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. Walter Thompson.

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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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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. Based on nfinite’s performance in the past year, this is an area ripe for both e-commerce and venture capital investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Thus entrepreneur is no stranger to early-stage investing – nor the famed accelerator to which he will soon run. YC itself says it was founded in 2005 as “an antidote to the classic venture capital firm.” Since inception, my goal has always been for Initialized to outlive its founders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Ben Blume, partner at the venture capital firm, is joining the board as part of the investment. The round brings the startup’s total raised since being founded back in 2018 to €14M. LinkSquares benefits from the legal tech boom with a fresh $100M.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

What are the ‘jobs to be done’ of an investment manager? The macro trends forcing change on the investment management industry. The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a scout, getting compensated for sourcing investments. More posts by this contributor. Akshat Dixit. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser for portfolio companies. Raising the right amount of capital after a correction. Raising the right amount of capital after a correction. Andy Stinnes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Money continues to flow into new venture capital funds. For example, in the past month, Runa Capital , Lerer Hippeau , Razor’s Edge Ventures , First Star , OurCrowd , Northzone , Janngo Capital and Kapor Capital all announced new funds. Scale Venture Partners Raises New $335 Million Fund.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Of those funds, $345 million will come from Tailwind Two’s contribution, plus $50 million PIPE provided by AE Industrial Partners, Beach Point Capital, Daniel Staton, Lockheed Martin and Fuel Venture Capital. In a statement, Bell called it the new SaaS: “satellites as a service.”.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A few years ago, during a YC cohort (before Demo Day), a few sources told me about a SaaS founder in the batch who was on a mission. On this blog, I want to simply highlight that in my five-plus years of investing, Oleg is simply one of the most driven, most aggressive, most focused founders I’ve had the pleasure of backing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

It’s also an idea that will be welcomed by many remote workers trapped in a groundhog day full of back-to-back Zooms — and one that has already attracted venture capital. Others investing in the burgeoning startup are Des Traynor, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Intercom (amongst other angels).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Jamie Viggiano is the chief marketing officer at Fuel Capital , an early-stage venture capital firm investing in consumer, SaaS and infrastructure businesses. Make liberal use of a whiteboard (take pictures of the board as you go) and encourage note-taking. Jamie Viggiano. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

AskNicely is the latest company attracting capital for its app targeting shift or frontline worker success as more businesses rightly begin to see how valuable these employees are to their bottom line and how technology can ensure these key employees are empowered to help the company grow. Aaron Ward, CEO, AskNicely. Image Credits: AskNicely.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Microtraction , an early-stage venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria, saw funding nearly quadruple for its portfolio. Other investors include Pave Investments and US-based angel investor, Chris Schultz. But as a sign of how the market is firming up, that changed last year and now the firm invests $25,000 for 7% equity.

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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. Davidson intends to use the new funding to scale Vitally’s team across the board and build out its marketing efforts to introduce the company to the market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. As part of the investment, Priya Saiprasad, partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, is joining CommerceIQ’s board of directors. “E-commerce

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

GDP, so it’s no surprise that digital health is attracting record levels of investment. Simon Wu, an investment director with Cathay Innovation, says he’s paying particularly close attention to these areas of convergence : Data and the transition to value-based care. This year, VCs have flowed $14.7 billion in all of 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The company serves mainly SaaS and e-commerce platforms like most revenue-based financing companies but has more clientele on the former than the latter. SaaS is still growing in its early stage in the Middle East, but it’s not yet sizable. In 2021, Coucha spent some time in the U.S. Wayflyer raises $150M on a $1.6B

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2023

SignalFire leads latest round for SaaS customer identity and access management (CIAM) vendor Herndon, Va. SignalFire, based in San Francisco, led the Series A2 investment with additional participation from Ten Eleven Ventures. The new investment brings Strivacity’s total funding to $28 million. With over $1.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Finix announced today that it has raised $30 million in new venture capital, bringing its total known raised to $133 million. The SaaS startup’s core business helps software companies process their own payments through flexible software, though it has since expanded into being a direct payments facilitator itself.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Talent comes in all shapes and sizes, and Searchlight is the latest to see its approach backed by venture capital. Wang also shared that after using Searchlight, many of its customers are doubling down on their investment in the product. It gives the company total funding to date of $20 million, which includes a $2.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The SaaS Success Database. Brandon Gleklen is a principal at Battery Ventures. He focuses on software investments in companies at all stages of maturity. Jack Mattei is an analyst at Battery Ventures. More posts by this contributor. T2D3 Software Update: Embracing the Founder to CEO (F2C) Journey. Brandon Gleklen.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

There’s BetterUp, a re-skilling platform that wants to bring executive coaching to employees , and Sounding Board, which mixes SaaS and coaching services. The coaching world is crowded. Along with the funding, Leland announced eight new coaching categories, growing past its initial focus on helping people get placement in MBA programs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Traditional software vs. SaaS. I’ve sat on ad tech boards with board members who clearly knew little about impressions, fill rates, CTRs, RTB, eCPMs or the difficulties & opportunities of embedded mobile SDKs vs. HTML5. And so is venture capital. Think of web vs. mobile. Now you’re talking.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. The reason one would accept losses is when they are investments in fueling faster growth. But LTV / CAC is just one measure.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Raising early money this way provides some obvious benefits: For example, “they typically don’t come with any control or board seats.” ” However, notes can also create risk, like setting valuation caps too low, failing to raise enough capital or other poor planning that can hand investors more equity than you intended.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Since our initial investment, Miro has scaled with tremendous momentum, strong market leadership, and incredible product velocity,” said Matthew Jacobson, general partner at Iconiq Growth and Miro board member, in a written statement. “We We aim to increase the pace of innovation, and that will be a big area of investment.

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