Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

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. You’ll find SaaS offerings for needs you didn’t know you had. Don’t drown in the options.

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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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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. www.cnp.benfranklin.org. technology to mid-market producers across several manufacturing verticals. www.Werkberry.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster? ” Offering new users frictionless onboarding, customer support and free credits is a proven method for making them more active — and loyal. So, why do public SaaS firms with usage-based pricing see faster growth ? Fifteen U.S.-based

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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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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Its embedded infrastructure powers financial services for marketplaces, vertical SaaS, and payment platforms. The latest round of additional investor support shows their confidence in Parafins approach to embedded financial services and its long-term impact on how small businesses access capital and manage their operations. and Canada.

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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 15, 2018

We talked about how startups have changed over the last few years, what support has meant to them, Startup Catalyst missions and their impact, as well as ways to get involved in the startup community. He has been a supporter of the startup community since before the word startup was in general conversation. Support does have returns.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Kenya-based Chandaria Capital, Nigeria-based LoftyInc Afropreneurs Fund, and an array of other angel investors including founders and top executives of Africa’s leading SaaS, e-commerce and education startups joined, as well. Craydel was launched earlier this year by co-founders Manish Sardana , John Nguru and Shayne Aman Premji.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Its customers hail from a variety of industries, including banking, SaaS, manufacturing, healthcare, insurance and higher education. While we support customers across the globe, we’ll stay focused on growing our North American, U.K. and European business in the near term,” Madeley said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Now empowered by $15 million in new funding , the nonprofit hopes to expand its scope and more tangibly support the class of climate-motivated founders they call “ecopreneurs.” These entrepreneurs need support for life,” said Fernandez. “The time-bound model is broken, I would say.

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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Kenya-based Chandaria Capital, Nigeria-based LoftyInc Afropreneurs Fund, and an array of other angel investors including founders and top executives of Africa’s leading SaaS, e-commerce and education startups joined, as well. Craydel was launched earlier this year by co-founders Manish Sardana , John Nguru and Shayne Aman Premji.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Axio CEO Scott Kannry tells TechCrunch that the proceeds — which bring New York–based Axio’s total capital raised to $30 million — will be put toward product and engineering team development and supporting go-to-market functions and expanding across “key geographies.” Department of Energy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

“It is still small-scale, and the most important thing we are doing that other companies should do is focus on the design, engineering and full-scale installations of vessels and the supporting systems to make a lot of it,” said Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, which sells lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor , an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting needs, has bagged €10.2 million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas.

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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 Biologics, 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

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

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Use cases include video calls, audio-only apps, webinars, live classes, interactive collaboration, e-commerce, customer support, IoT and robotics. 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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With that in mind, SaaS startup Wingback made a fractional head of remote its first hire, “and it was the best decision we made,” said Yann Leretaille, co-founder and CTO. “A Zendesk’s board of directors is a confident, secure group of individuals. By this point, most startup employees have worked remotely.

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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’ve tried to serve the demand and make sure every experience is good.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Another investor in this slice of the Series D, Gillian Tans, ex-chairwoman and CEO of Booking.com — who is investing in a personal capacity — is joining the board of directors alongside Joel Cutler, an early investor in Stripe, Airbnb and Kayak.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

ManageXR announced today it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Rally Ventures , with venture partner and previous lead angel investor Jay Borenstein joining the company’s board of directors. . Qualcomm launches new AR dev kit, acquires Clay AIR.

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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

JUNE 1, 2021

By day I would be working in the bio-instrumentation lab at MIT on medical injection devices, and by nights and weekends we were organizing students to support these janitors in their bid for better pay and working conditions,” he said. In other words, stripping out the politics, it’s a SaaS tool that makes sense.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

How Monica and Joe Priced Their New SaaS Business Product and Decided their Optimal Pricing Why customers buy based on the perceived worth that the price represents to them, and how you should price to get your fair share of that value. That’s what the VC guy, Albert, told me was the benchmark for saas companies like us.”

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2021

It also partnered with Snowflake with an integration to link Clarifai with recently released unstructured data support from Snowflake. As part of the investment, Andrew Schoen, partner at NEA, joins Clarifai’s board of directors. When the company started to see those enterprise signals in the market, it went after the Series C.

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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. Executing this strategy goes beyond conventional marketing—it’s about genuinely striving to educate and support your audience.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

The KSGC program, launched in 2016, supports international startups that want to enter the Korean market and further explore the Asian region. The program supports startups financially and gives them multiple opportunities to network with top tech companies, VCs, mentors, etc. Besides the 3.5-month Besides the 3.5-month

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Most SaaS sales processes have shifted from education to execution sales , so buyers understand their needs before speaking to an account executive. By the end of the sales process and implementation, the customer’s data team has been using Looker long enough to support their internal stakeholders.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

GCVF specializes in providing critical support to founders based in small communities, while connecting them to an unfair network well-beyond their small-town headquarters. . —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. 20% initial ownership.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Unlike with some other roles that may need filling, you can find highly competent outside lawyers to bridge the gap as you grow into needing full-time support,” she writes. 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.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

These typically have a larger support ecosystem and greater assurance of long-term stability than the custom vendors. Often they’re supported by marketing tech tools like ActiveCampaign , Act-On , or Hubspot to support their CRMs. For most investors, the most important tool for supporting their companies is their network.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

GCVF specializes in providing critical support to founders based in small communities, while connecting them to an unfair network well-beyond their small-town headquarters. . —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. 20% initial ownership.

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