TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The valuations of these companies aren’t rising at the same rate as SaaS or fintech startups, but “where edtech lacks in impressive valuations, investors see it gaining in exit opportunities,” writes Natasha Mascarenhas. Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

These include basic questions like how the business is doing this quarter, if there are any surprises that could throw the company off track and where are the best places to invest in the business to accelerate more quickly. The company has decided to concentrate its efforts for starters on SaaS companies and their requirements.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’ve written a few posts about boards recently as part of a series on the subject. I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 21, 2023

Ten startup companies located in Central and Northern PA recently received an investment from Ben Franklin that will allow them to further develop and commercialize new products, and software applications, or stabilize operations in a long-standing manufacturing business. The post Ben Franklin Technology Partners Invests in Ten Companies!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. That used to be called A-round investing. A seed round these days is $3–5 million or more! of the fund.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 13, 2023

Register Growfin, a SaaS fintech startup, has raised $7.5 The startup provides SaaS for finance departments to track and collect payments and to help manage the accounts receivable process. as it grows AI-based cash collection SaaS in US, Asia first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Abacum , a SaaS maker geared toward upgrading mid-sized companies’ financial planning and analysis tools, has fast-followed the $7 million seed it raised earlier this year ( April ) with a $25M Series A round. As part of the investment, Atomico principal Terese Hougaard will join its board.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

A lot of times it is investors approaching them, so it kind of depends on the climate, and if folks aren’t investing, maybe they’re just gonna keep chugging along.” Build a solid deck for your quarterly board meetings. Build a solid deck for your quarterly board meetings. Walter Thompson. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2022

For the last 24 months, Thomvest Ventures recorded headcount data for 150 Series A to C enterprise SaaS startups, and we have the numbers. Ackerman says he expects to see another tranche of layoffs in several weeks, after startups hold their Q4 2022 board meetings. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 18, 2020

The largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin provides investment capital and business support services to emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers located in central and northern Pennsylvania. WE INVEST IN INNOVATION. www.cnp.benfranklin.org. www.stellerinnovations.com. www.Werkberry.com. www.xactmetal.com.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member, mentor to startups and angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. From my point of view as an angel investor and former entrepreneur, here are five essential factors I look for when considering my next investment.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 19, 2024

Jennifer Li is being promoted to GP where she will continue to invest broadly within the enterprise space, focusing on infrastructure and horizontal SaaS. Jennifer joined us 6 years ago as an investment partner, transitioning from a long-time operating role running product teams, and building developer tools, and ML applications.

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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.” Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster? Shawn Carolan, partner, Menlo Ventures. Fifteen U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu , a Berlin-based startup that describes itself as an SaaS banking platform — providing, by way of APIs, technology to banks and others to power lending, deposit and other banking products — has closed a round of €110 million (about $135 million at today’s rates). That could lead to consolidation, too.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The company, with bases in Tel Aviv, New York and London, raised a $75 million growth investment led by Summit Partners. Prior to this investment, Optimove was bootstrapped for the first four years until raising $20 million. Pini Yakuel, founder and CEO of Optimove, Image Credits: Optimove.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. According to Brian Parks, “Bigfoot provides RBI, term loans, and lines of credit to SaaS businesses with $500k+ ARR. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. No board seats or personal guarantees.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

New Accounts: Key Metric for SaaS Startups As a fintech startup, we track a lot of metrics, but what really matters for a SaaS company is the number of new accounts. For instance, a recent strategic investment in a cutting-edge blockchain protocol significantly improved our III. Other tools allow a quick view of this too.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Open source has become a major force in the world of IT, and today a startup that has built a profitable operation by developing business management software on the principle is announcing a sizable secondary investment on the back of that growth. He added that this investment values the startup at over €2 billion (or over $2.3

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This by far the biggest investment Sendcloud has ever had: the Eindhoven, Netherlands-based startup has been around since 2012 and before now had raised just over $23 million ($23 million, 23,000 customers has a nice ring to it).

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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 believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Previous backer 42Cap also followed on, bringing the total investment raised by the company to date to $16 million. “We have built the world’s most self on-board-able manufacturing ERP, and that’s a very important differentiation between us and competitors,” explains Vilosius. Meet the makers of modular.

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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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HPA

MARCH 14, 2023

“With this investment and the team we have in place, I am more confident than ever Elate has the ability to become the most dynamic and comprehensive platform to drive the future of strategic planning forward.” He is a serial entrepreneur and brings strong expertise in founding and scaling B2B SaaS businesses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

As Synder ’s two co-founders Michael Astreiko and Ilya Kisel wrap up their time at Y Combinator, they also announced their seed round of $2 million from TMT Investments. Igor Shoifot, a partner at TMT Investments, said he will join Synder’s board after the company graduates from YC.

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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

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. Almost without interruption, the market grew, public investors got the hang of SaaS economics, and IPOs became more frequent and more lucrative.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

We also spoke about what it takes to be an effective board member. On the one hand I often find that some board members are seemingly reading the board materials on the fly and don’t have a firm grasp of the business fundamentals while on the other hand some board members like to tinker in the running of the business.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Then I went into banking, specifically investment banking in the early ’90s. What areas in both technology investing as well as distribution or sales do we really need a bolster to really take the company to the next level? for cloud SaaS software at Global Payments. It’s terrific to be with you today.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The US venture capital ecosystem has grown 40x in dollars from $8b to $320b invested in 10 years. Builders are re-architecting SaaS applications atop data warehouses to join data across domains in a wave that will transform software. I’ll remain on my Redpoint boards & will support those management teams as before.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 24, 2015

Over dinner, a veteran product manager argued most SaaS products’ onboarding practices miss a crucial step: create value for the user in the first session. After that conversation, I signed up for many brand-name SaaS products pretending it was for the first time, and I couldn’t help but agree with him.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

That frees up more resources—money and time—to invest in the businesses. You can find a “software as a service” (SaaS) solution for every business function —accounting, invoicing, marketing, internal communication, customer relationship management, workflow, ecommerce and video conferencing, to name more than a few.

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Revolution

AUGUST 5, 2020

In 2013, we invested in BigCommerce , a SaaS startup helping companies build, manage, and market online stores. Revolution Growth has served on the BigCommerce board since our initial investment. This morning, the Austin-based company raised its initial public offering.

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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 10, 2022

H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space. It also invested in Brazilian social grocery commerce company Favo , which raised a $26.5 million Series A last October.

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