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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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. Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Venture firms are advising portfolio companies to move money out of SVB Q1 2023 market map: SaaS cost optimization and management Image Credits: John Lund Photography Inc (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Since the downturn began, SaaS has become a game of fine margins. “Simply reducing costs in lieu of growth will not work.

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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. The Series A is led by European VC Atomico, with participation from Creandum, FJ Labs, S16VC, and other existing investors.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded by Yele Badamosi in 2017, Microtraction arrived on the continent’s early-stage investment scene with all intent to be “the most accessible and preferred source of pre-seed funding for African tech entrepreneurs.” Other investors include Pave Investments and US-based angel investor, Chris Schultz.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

“If you believe VR and immersive computing is the future — whether for consumer or business use cases — Activision helps Microsoft build a flywheel of content and technology that gets more users on board to this future.”. 500 Global’s Christine Tsai shares her 2022 VC predictions. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . So what is Revenue Based Investing? Absolutely not.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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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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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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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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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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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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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? I see a clear cultural change happening in the investing universe, as more people pay attention to ESG objectives and apply an ESG filter to their investments. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

GDP, so it’s no surprise that digital health is attracting record levels of investment. This year, VCs have flowed $14.7 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. billion in all of 2020.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. The first investment I ever made as a VC was in a company now called Invoca. Much more data in the full post. They have grown at a 200% CAGR over the past 4 years. THE ANNOYING THING.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. Lookout – SaaS provider of security and data back-up services for smart phones.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? I see a clear cultural change happening in the investing universe, as more people pay attention to ESG objectives and apply an ESG filter to their investments. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands.

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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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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The idea behind the data security cloud is to provide a layer of data protection wherever the data lives, whether that’s in one of the big three cloud infrastructure players — AWS, Microsoft and Google, data infrastructure players like Snowflake or Databricks or a SaaS applications like Box or Salesforce.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Swedish startup PocketLaw — a contract automation software-as-a-service legal tech platform which is mainly focused on SMEs — has pocketed €10 million (~$11M) in Series A funding led by European VC firm, Atomico, to fuel expansion in Europe. LinkSquares benefits from the legal tech boom with a fresh $100M.

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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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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems. It is unclear if VCs will agree to these terms, but LPs believe they now have more leverage. Smaller VC fundraises?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

CTO and co-founder Zain Allarakhia will remain on the board and serve as a senior advisor to the company. ‘Nasdaq for revenue’ When Pipe first started three years ago, its goal was to provide SaaS companies a funding alternative outside of equity or venture debt. He remains optimistic. Increasingly competitive landscape.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Known for backing enterprise software, the firm was an early investor in some legacy SaaS companies, including Box, DocuSign, HubSpot, RingCentral and Bill.com. It’s also invested in younger companies, like BigID, Dusty Robotics and Honeycomb. No investments have been made from the new fund yet, Niehenke said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The investor joined Tackle’s board when his firm led the startup’s Series B round, and sees it as a category leader. The VC firm has backed Tackle since its seed round, and led its $7.25 million Series A round in 2020, with partner Michael Droesch joining the startup’s board at that time.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In April, Ecologi closed a seed investment round of $5.75 Launching in 2019 and bootstrapped until now, the company also puts all receipts, certificates, board minutes and financial statements all up on their public ledger. This would compete with other carbon footprinting SaaS startups such as Normative, Spherics, Plan A and others.

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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. Cellulant co-founder Ken Njoroge, who joins the MarketForce board as chairman, also took part in the round. Image Credits: MarketForce.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 5, 2023

and was co-led by Ironspring Ventures and Chicago Ventures, with continued participation from FUSE VC and Cercano Management. In 2021, Gartner reported that 87% of senior supply chain executives planned to invest in resilience over the next two years. The raise brings GoodShip’s total funding to $7.4M

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The reason Ubiquitous’ platform caught my eye is that it raised a $5 million round led by Uncork in its largest seed investment to date (with additional funding from 100 Thieves and Starting Line VC ), and the company has seen some stunning growth. “I was head of growth and then VP of Marketing for a company called Bellhop.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2019

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern PA provides investment capital and business support services to tech-startups and small manufacturers located in our 32-county footprint. At the December 2019 Board of Director’s meeting, six companies were approved for funding. We Invest in Innovation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

At the time, Alamgir and his co-founders, Andrew Boryk and Hadi Rashid, were focused on the demand from restaurants and trying to lower the on-boarding process time to get customers up-and-running. Lunchbox raises $20M to help restaurants build their own ordering experiences.

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