TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. Why more SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based pricing. The consequences of SaaS sprawl: A real-world study. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt has a long history of bringing leading venture capitalists to the stage to yammer about their industry. Our impending TC Disrupt conference happening on September 21-23 is no different.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

John Danner , managing partner, Dunce Capital (an edtech and future of work fund with portfolio companies Lambda School and Outschool). Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula). Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

At TechCrunch Disrupt, I spoke to three investors about how they use TAM to guide their decision-making. The way it’s calculated and the way the founder is thinking about it tells us not necessarily about the business or its future, but about how the founder thinks about company creation,” said Deena Shakir, a partner at Lux Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and reimagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth — new stages, new content, and new opportunities. Oh, and if you were laid off recently, we are offering a free Expo+ pass to TC Disrupt 2023.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Runa Capital’s Asia business development manager Denis Kalinin studied data from iTjuzi, a database of Chinese venture capitalists, and found: “…Chinese funds invested around $250 billion in 2020 (three times higher than the figure reported in Crunchbase). 3 keys to pricing early-stage SaaS products. funds and 12.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What has particularly surprised me is how many funds tell exactly the same story and invest in exactly the same areas: B2B SaaS, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure tech, e-commerce brands and crypto/fintech. What is amazing is how many marketing SaaS companies still get funded: Image Credits: Scott Brinker of chiefmartec and MartechTribe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. 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. VCs say there are more startup opportunities to chase in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The rising tide of venture capital that has lifted startups around the world also splashed over America’s Midwest this year. While it was not a unicorn when it last raised capital, NYC-based customer engagement software startup Braze may just crash through the $1 billion valuation mark when it finally goes public.

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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 22, 2021

GoDaddy led the round as a strategic partner and was joined by OurCrowd and existing investors Pitango Growth, Mangrove Capital Partners, Armat Group, Disruptive VC and Whip Media founder Richard Rosenblatt. Tailor Brands has now raised a total of $70 million since its inception in 2015.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

You have four — count ’em, just four — more days to take advantage of early-bird pricing on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , taking place on September 19–21 in San Francisco. Expand your knowledge in dozens of presentations — vote here for the Audience Choice breakout sessions and roundtable discussions you want to see at Disrupt!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This collaborative program also includes prominent VC organizations like Kleiner Perkins, Salesforce Ventures and Initialized Capital to develop lasting mentorships with the TC Include founder cohort. We’re disrupting boring, inefficient and outdated diversity training through real talk and interactive gaming.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Decipad , a no-code startup that’s aiming to disrupt spreadsheets with accessible tools that empower people to play around with numbers, has nabbed $5 million in seed funding. We see ourselves as a service enabling communities and businesses to create value through what they create on Decipad , not a vertical SaaS tool.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Despite the uncertainty in the tourism sector from the Covid pandemic, the PEV team didn’t slow down but instead went on to launch two startups — Elephant Bookings, a software as a service (SaaS) product, and Nomad.Africa, a content-to-commerce magazine. Investors participating in this round include Klister Credit Corp.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In fact, among the earliest use cases for the company was helping startups track engagement with their pitch decks at VC firms. million, according to Crunchbase, but Heddleston says that he wanted to build a company that was self-sufficient and raising more VC dollars was never a priority or necessity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

“The opportunity cost of dead equity is talent and capital,” Jake Jolis of Matrix Partners explains in a guest post for us this week. “Compensating talent and raising capital are the (only) two things you can use your startup’s equity for, and you need to do both in order for your company to grow large.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

billion through Q3 of 2021 — more capital in less time.” “Denver was ready for the Zoom boom, and is reaping the — venture capital — rewards.” Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. ” Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. Any advice?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

After staging our first TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in three years, Slack is much quieter than usual this morning. 2023 VC predictions: Finding an exit from the ‘messy middle’. 2023 VC predictions: Finding an exit from the ‘messy middle’ Read this before you reprice your SaaS product because of the downturn.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That sort of multiple wouldn’t be out of line with other major fundraises for star companies with SaaS-based business models. million in VC according to Crunchbase. One source told TechCrunch that the company’s ARR has grown to $60 million, implying a valuation multiple of 80-100x if the valuation we’re hearing pans out.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. It made sense because a common playbook for consumer-facing startups was to build the product, prove PMF, raise capital from investors, and then deploy some/much/most of that capital in paid media to grow quickly.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Startups and VC. ARR : Userpilot, a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies , raises $4.6 warned its community of disruptions while the district manages an ongoing ransomware attack , Carly reports. DAO makes us proud : Gaming guild Metaverse Magna is now valued at $30 million after raising $3.2 million in a recent round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

In announcing the deal, they said: “DeFi-enabled B2B payment networks that are on chain can unlock transformative working capital efficiencies, and make financial services more fair and open, especially in developing markets like LATAM.”. Specifically, it said, in Q2 2022, “ VC investment in fintech companies fell 17.8%

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

” TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 is underway! After taking a hiatus from covering SaaS multiples, Alex Wilhelm took a closer look at software revenue and noted that “the upward charge has plateaued” in recent months. “So, what’s driving Klarna to be afraid of going public?” of that equity class.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

If you’ve been to Disrupt before, you’ll remember we had a stage or two or three. New for Disrupt 2023: The Security Stage , for those of us who love us some hacking, security, and everything in between. Startups and VC Comixology was genuinely a game changer. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Thursday, Crunchers! Get the revenue.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Cloudy with a chance of embedded analytics : Nothing but blue skies so far for Cumul.io, a low-code embedded analytics platform for SaaS companies. Startups and VC. Extra, extra, read all about how the Royal Mail confirmed a cyberattack that disrupted postal service in the United Kingdom. The company raised $10.8 Big Tech Inc.

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub will host a Q&A on FC Live with Adam Draper of Boost VC on June 13th. Submit questions and watch the full event here: Q&A with Adam Draper of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series. FundersClub Portfolio News. in " Flexport to open global network of consolidation centers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

and mentally preparing ourselves for TechCrunch Disrupt. Startups and VC. A strong sales organization is the tip of the spear for every SaaS startup, but because so few founders have meaningful experience in this arena, they don’t know how to set their teams up for success. PDT, subscribe here.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

If you’re still on the fence about whether you want to come along to Disrupt, we’ve got you covered: There’s a Disrupt pass for every role and budget. Swimming upstream : Sturgeon Capital launches $35 million fund aimed at emerging startups in Central Asia, Mike reports. Thursday is here — how in the world did that happen?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Here’s how to give it to them For deep due diligence, minimize disruption to maximize success Image Credits: Vectorian (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Putting together a legitimate data room for due diligence is no small undertaking: stakeholders from multiple departments need to contribute reams of documents and keep them regularly updated.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Zoe Jervier Hewitt is a leadership coach and talent partner at multi-stage VC fund EQT Ventures , where she helps portfolio companies structure and accelerate their search for talent by facilitating connections to the right technology and people required to source candidates at each stage of company growth. Zoe Jervier Hewitt. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

For most products and services, TAM is presented in nine figures or more, but when you’re sitting around a kitchen table eating cold pizza while planning to disrupt a billion-dollar market, these numbers can create a lot of cognitive dissonance. It was always the last slide we worked on. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Forgive the incoherence, we are entering TechCrunch Disrupt silly season over here. Also, there’s just a few hours left to apply to volunteer at TechCrunch Disrupt and attend for free , if you want to get your application in for next week! Startups and VC. We are psyyyyched. Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Second, the capital startups require to pursue those opportunities is plentiful. 2014 will be the third largest year in VC fundraising since 2000. For example, in January 2014, the public markets priced SaaS companies at 8x forward revenue. But at the moment, founders are building impressively large, disruptive companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Image Credits: Glambook A lot of the time as a VC, you’ll be pitched companies in industries and markets you aren’t that familiar with. The important part of this particular slide is illustrating that there’s a huge market that’s ripe for disruption. I had to sit with that for a moment in this case.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

To get a better understanding of what kind of opportunities “future of work” encompasses from an investor perspective, The Exchange called on Eric Boustouller , who joined French multi-stage VC firm C4 Ventures last fall.

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