Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2024

I highly recommend that every member get involved with their local chapter board and participate in regional and global events to significantly enhance their EO experience.” — Felix Wendlandt, EO Shanghai “EO has already been extremely beneficial to me. The trust and respect we have for each other is wonderful.”

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 18, 2020

At the March 2020 Board of Director’s meeting, six companies were approved to receive an investment: CPNet, located in Harrisburg , is an industrial IoT and AI company founded to bring Industry 4.0 www.cnp.benfranklin.org. technology to mid-market producers across several manufacturing verticals. www.stellerinnovations.com.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In a recent board meeting, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (Ben Franklin CNP) proudly unveiled its latest investments in six exceptional tech enterprises situated in central and northern Pennsylvania, totaling $725,000. Gig and Take, Inc.

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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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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Once the acquiring company CEO and Board is framing the transaction this way the startup has won. But they lacked the ongoing reoccurring revenue stream of a SaaS company. In Adobe’s case it was a larger percentage because Figma is way further along as a business and the certainty the future of design at least looks like Figma is high.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Since its $6 million Series A raise in May 2019, the SaaS company says it has grown its subscription revenue (ARR) by “more than 10-fold” (although it declined to reveal hard revenue figures). In a world where so many startups have yet to turn a profit, SeekOut is a refreshing exception.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

150Birds is a freelancer- aggregator -cum- SAAS-platform that provides professional marketing services with a flexible team made up of freelancers. The SAAS works on a simple revenue model. It charges $99 for its services of strategic guidance and mediator and $65/hr for every expert that gets on board.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

In the latest development, private equity giant Thoma Bravo is buying Proofpoint , the SaaS security vendor, for $12.3 The deal has been endorsed by Proofpoint’s board. billion in cash. Proofpoint is traded publicly on the Nasdaq exchange and as of its closing price on Friday, it had a market cap of $7.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

“With a step-function increase in folks working/studying from home and relying on cloud-based SaaS/PaaS applications, the deployment of scalable hardware infrastructure has accelerated,” Gajendra said in an email to TechCrunch. He claims that solutions could provide up to double the bandwidth on the same infrastructure.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Its embedded infrastructure powers financial services for marketplaces, vertical SaaS, and payment platforms. Hans Tung, Managing Partner at Notable Capital and a new board member of Parafi n , shares what made the startup an attractive investment. and Canada. This is more flexible than fixed payment periods.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Steven Kramer, board member and former EVP of Hybris, said via email that over the past two decades, the e-commerce industry went through several waves of innovation. More people shopping on their mobile devices creates friction due to downloading an app for each brand.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Canvas describes its SaaS offering as a “fully virtual” recruiting platform that is based on self-reported data. His tenacity is one of the things that attracted Sequoia partner and Canvas board member Mike Vernal to back the company. We believe representation is a huge part of what we stand for.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

Square buys majority of Tidal, adds Jay-Z to its board in bid to shake up the artist economy. As part of this transaction, Tidal owner Jay-Z got a board seat with Square, triggering conversations about the future of musical NFTs. Corporate sustainability initiatives may open doors for carbon offset startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

” We have collected a wide range of resources for founders who may be considering launching a new company; angel investing/becoming a VC; buying a company; joining boards; consulting; serving as an interim executive; or just getting a job. Versatile VC runs a no-cost community for founders in transition, “ Founders’ Next Move.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We’re thrilled to partner with SGE to support our rapid growth and continue to define the role of PRM in the SaaS ecosystem,” said Gregory Galant, co-founder and CEO of Muck Rack, in a statement. Elser and Scott Feldman of SGE will be joining the board.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Varanium Capital partner Aparajit Bhandarkar will join GetVantage’s board. Its clients have come from sectors as diverse as SaaS, direct-to-consumer e-commerce, edtech, health tech, cloud kitchens and nutrition. Other participants included Sony Innovation Fund, InCred Capital and Haldiram’s Family Office.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 25, 2024

At the recent June board meeting, Ben Franklin CNP approved investments in the following companies: Atlas Biotech (Atlas Biologies, LLC) – Penn State Affiliated : Atlas Biotech is a research tool company specializing in the development and deployment of in vitro assays for the evaluation of targeted anticancer therapies.

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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. million Series A round in 2020, with partner Michael Droesch joining the startup’s board at that time. The VC firm has backed Tackle since its seed round, and led its $7.25

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). Venture Partners may also consult with companies directly or serve on boards, in which case we’ll expedite their being compensated directly by the relevant company. How to find a job as a VC scout.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Last week, Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed experts who had some strategic advice for finding the right time to bring a product manager on board. ” We’ve also received great feedback on a recent guest post about bootstrapping options for SaaS founders written by a founder who’s actually done it.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

That may not sound like much compared with enterprise SaaS decacorns but for pre-seed founders like the ones I met in their accelerator at sea, it’s a crucial lifeline that can turn a hobby and passion into a working business. Part of that is also the ability to write bigger checks — up to $100,000 for nascent companies and projects.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The last several months, however, have seen the IPO market virtually shut down alongside a massive drop in technology stocks across the board and a wider downturn in tech investing overall, even in much smaller, earlier-stage startups. At the time Near was reportedly aiming at a valuation of between $1 billion and $1.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

“We saw how CEOs and boards of directors struggled with even approaching discussions around cyber risk. Spurred by these pressures, Gartner predicts that 40% of all public boards will have dedicated cybersecurity committees by 2025. Department of Energy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As part of the investment, Roseanne Wincek, co-founder and managing director of Renegade Partners, and Lee Edwards, partner at Root Ventures, joined Daily’s board. However, when investor Jenny Lefcourt introduced the company to Wincek, Hultman Kramer said the company didn’t want to miss the opportunity to bring her onto Daily’s board.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As part of the investment, Sri Pangulur, partner at Tribe Capital, joined Apollo.io’s board. 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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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Many called us worried and scared that funding was drying up while some had boards telling them to fire people,” Requarth recalls. “I Our plan is to become a SaaS/fintech company,” Requarth said. I ended up taking 150 Zoom calls in the summer of 2020 and heard countless stories of founders’ great ideas and amazing businesses.

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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

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

As part of the investment, Clara Sieg, partner at Revolution Ventures, is joining the company’s board. We are here to ‘arm the rebels’ and help those innovators build applications to give all end users a much better financial experience.”. She told TechCrunch she met the company’s co-founders through the Portland ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Liljendahl says the team tackled the ‘chicken & egg’ startup problem by focusing on getting larger entities on board, leveraging those businesses’ sway over their own supply chains to encourage tranches of suppliers to sign up and start reporting data. Image Credits: Worldfavor. Tanso nabs $1.9M

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

In the background, Unit begins handling the legal automation process needed before a team approaches a national union, such as the national Labor Relations Board, or local union with their pitch. In other words, stripping out the politics, it’s a SaaS tool that makes sense. Frankly as VCs, we invest in technologies that people want.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

But by the time I left and retired last summer in 2023, we were actually a top-quartile software company by revenue in terms of cloud SaaS if we had been listed just in the public markets in the U.S. for cloud SaaS software at Global Payments. You can be a great partner with people who are very good at software, which we do.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This way, not only was a profitable niche carved out for them, but it also helped them bring long-term clients on board. In SaaS, it’s not much different. The primary focus was optimizing their websites for local search, managing their online reviews, and creating geo-targeted content. Any new local business could try this.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As part of the investment, Jay Crone, investment director at Telus, joined Full Harvest’s board of directors. It’s been a while since we checked in with Full Harvest. We profiled the company at the beginning of its journey in 2016 and then again in 2017 when it raised $2 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

“Reveal allows sales teams to identify new opportunities and utilize partner connections to close deals like never before.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

The idea is that in the future SaaS applications would be built on a single database, instead of each SaaS application writing to its own proprietary database. I thought it would be cloud-prem and customers driving SaaS products to use a single database. SaaS applications also write back to the CDW directly.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Making the wrong hire could incur serious technical debt: make a bad bet, and you might even have to refactor, not something you want to explain in a board meeting. Startup hiring has always been tricky, but recruiting technical talent is harder than ever.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Caryn Marooney is general partner at Coatue Management and sits on the boards of Zendesk and Elastic. Should your SaaS startup embrace a bottom-up GTM strategy? Should your SaaS startup embrace a bottom-up GTM strategy? More posts by this contributor. Onboarding employees and maintaining culture in a remote work environment .

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