Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. US VC investment falls from $275b in 2022 to $200b in 2023 & sustains at about $200-220b in 2024 as LP interest in venture attenuates after the euphoria in 2020 & 2021. Score : 0.5.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Brian Schwarzbach Contributor Brian Schwarzbach is an SF-based investor with Cathay Innovation, a global venture capital firm investing across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. It’s largely due to the changing cultural and societal value placed on sustainability. Recommerce is a concept as old as trade itself.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

He is passionate about changing working capital dynamics to make it the main source of cash for tech companies. Securing early-stage venture financing is usually the best way to accelerate and sustain growth, but with various funding options available, how do you figure out the best course of action?

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2015

SaaS Enabled Marketplaces employ elegant business models. They are verticalized SaaS companies that manage a marketplace to create winner-take-all market dynamics. The company possesses enough capital to sustain its development despite a long latency between product release and revenue.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Performance marketing was once a steroid for company growth, enabling businesses to grow cost-efficiently as they only paid when they achieved desired outcomes. And it’s certainly not sustainable in this market; the lack of transparency from ad-tech/tech companies makes optimizing customer advertising costly and inefficient.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. That’s why we created EVENTUS, automating most tasks of business events with IT and enabling data analysis,” Ahn shares. “Events play a crucial role in B2B sales. ” Ahn highlights.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our firm’s original premise was – and remains – dead simple: Seattle is a global gravity well for engineering talent, thanks to the sustained excellence and corresponding human capital needs of Amazon and Microsoft. By contrast, venture capital is a craft that defies both speed and scale.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The company claims to be the first supermarket in Mexico with no physical store that enables customers to buy groceries directly from its website, or an app, and Jüsto will deliver the order to the customer’s location of choice. Up next, Jüsto is focused on continuing the personalization of its products in each city. is poised to be a $187.7

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Early-stage venture capital fund Newtopia VC launched Monday with $50 million to invest in tech startups based in Latin America. There are home-grown venture capital firms doing well, too, citing Kazek’s $1 billion funds. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Register Prismforce , an India-based vertical software as a service (SaaS) firm , has announced recently that it raised fresh investments amounting to $13.6 Series A was led by Sequoia Capital India and a select set of global angel investors. Chatterjee said they built the first vertical SaaS product suite designed for tech services.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Enter Assent Compliance — a Canadian company focused on supply chain sustainability management. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Within the past two years, Full Harvest’s impact on keeping food out of landfills grew five times, prompting the company to seek additional capital to keep the momentum going. Full Harvest is not alone in addressing food waste and raising venture-backed capital for their efforts. Too Good to Go secured $31.1

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

Startups have negative time to launch in many markets with Adobe, Microsoft, & Salesforce launching Gen AI enabled software in weeks. Usage & distribution, like in classical SaaS, are likely the most sustainable & repeatable. Moats : how to develop competitive advantage? Competing on algorithms is possible but hard.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

After a blockbuster year for venture capital funding in 2021, the flow of capital to Indian startups seemed like it would buck global trends in early 2022, but dried up in the second half of 2022. This has resulted in a difficult environment from a capital availability perspective in India and other emerging markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

There’s nothing like an increasing level of regulations to create spaces for new startups to appear, especially in SaaS. And, of course, Salesforce’s sustainability cloud is a huge player. Persefoni is claiming this to be the largest round for a SaaS climate tech company, although TechCrunch could not confirm that at publication.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. For example, I’m an investor via ff Venture Capital in: – Plated.com is a meal kit company, delivering you the recipe and fresh ingredients to make a gourmet meal in your own kitchen. Are you politically active?

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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. An investment in Sustain VC Impact Fund was also awarded. For more information, visit [link]. www.boostpoint.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Fez Delivery , a Lagos-based last-mile logistics startup with hubs across Nigeria, has raised $1 million led by pan-African investor Ventures Platform with participation from Voltron Capital, Acasia Ventures and other angel investors. I’ve realized we can build and create solutions around payment and core fintech.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Jarvis ML , a platform offering an AI-powered personalization engine to brands selling products, services and experiences, today announced that it raised $16 million in a seed round led by Dell Technologies Capital. “ The pandemic has accelerated the shift in consumer purchasing trends moving online. .

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enablement accelerator development sustainability 96

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.” How to root out shadow IT and maximize SaaS investments. Just shine a light on your SaaS portfolio, according to CEO and co-founder of Zylo, Eric Christopher.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2015

Worth $11.5B, ServiceNow is the third public SaaS company, after Salesforce and LinkedIn. ServiceNow grew from$19M in revenue to $178M in 4 years, sustaining a 75% CAGR during that period. Compared to other SaaS companies, ServiceNow is among the top 3 fastest growing, and isn’t showing any signs of slowing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

For decades, e-commerce giants, like Amazon and MercadoLibre, have perfected the logistics and delivery technology for their marketplaces, but more recently, startups have developed similar technology to enable any sized e-commerce business to have equal footing. Last-mile delivery in Latin America is ready to take off.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2015

Figuring out how much capital your startup may need to raise will inform lots of different strategic decisions. A startup’s growth rate is often highly correlated with the amount of capital it can invest in sales and marketing. More customers means more bookings, which means more capital and so on.

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SaaS enablement sustainability capital 40

David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. For example, I’m an investor via ff Venture Capital in: – Plated.com is a meal kit company, delivering you the recipe and fresh ingredients to make a gourmet meal in your own kitchen. Are you politically active?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

BAMF Health of Grand Rapids is a precision-medicine startup that aims to create a world-class radiotracer translational platform through AI-enabled molecular imaging and theranostics. Claira is a new Grand Rapids startup using AI to hire better and make use of human capital. BAMF Health. This year, the company raised $2.8

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Companies configure Fairmarkit for things like price, sustainability and vendor diversity and the system finds the best match for them, a process known as autonomous sourcing. “We’ve The startup makes money via SaaS licensing fees, which scale as customers process more spend through the platform. Today’s $35.6

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is Part 2 of a two-part examination of the state of the startup capital market during the past two years. This transformation has already led to an increased number of startup failures, a growing venture capital reset2 and 210,000 tech sector layoffs since the start of 2022. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset?

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. Today, we’ll look at Veeva, masters of the massive enterprise sale, and one of the most remarkable SaaS businesses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. For undifferentiated tech-enabled services like food delivery or mobility, user exclusivity is challenging to attain, as the user base is rather flirtatious and has low to no switching costs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

API based pricing (platform + utilization-based fees): others are selling access to an API atop their AI model that enables the enterprise customer to build their own custom applications. We’ve seen many companies spend more than 80% of their total capital raised on compute resources alone.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Julio Vasconcellos is the managing partner of Atlantico , a venture capital fund focused on Latin America. Much has been written about Latin American fintechs, which last year drew 40% of the region’s venture capital investment. Julio Vasconcellos. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Image Credits: Atlantico.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The direct listing enables them to go public without raising capital. With SaaS penetration roughly 20-30% by our estimates, there's several hundred billion in market cap to be created in the next few years. If a few of those IPOs do well, greed will sustain market valuations. The M&A market continues to surge.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 10, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. In order to achieve this growth, Box has invested a huge amount of capital.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

No amount of capital will turn a bad idea into a good idea. Business #3 (Scale): The only job is to create a growing but sustainable business. Businesses that are scalable like startups, but at the same time they are a well-oiled machine, sustainable, not super risky. Even if we raise, we’ve just delayed the inevitable.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Financial Readiness: Many startups fail because the founder has underestimated the amount of capital needed to reach sufficient revenue and/or profitability. Most startups will require ongoing capital investment for years, while generating little to no income. There are two types of startups: replicative and innovative.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“Boston Materials is a high-performance materials company enabling manufacturers of industrial and consumer products to break through their design trade-offs with new materials. It is produced from 100% reclaimed carbon fiber, enabling new, high-volume, energy-efficient products that have a low carbon footprint.”

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