Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? Capital is a lot less patient at scale. Of course we can’t. dot-com bonanza.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Ghauche and Douglas Reed started Constrafor, a SaaS construction procurement platform, to provide embedded financing and software for general contractors to manage their subcontractor workflow. Since then, the company tweaked its credit origination and is now growing at 25% month over month this year “in sustainable growth.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

“More companies are disclosing and acting on water security and other water matters, but there’s a need for a SaaS platform to quantify and mediate water risk,” said Galindo. They started the company and took it through Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 cohort.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

4 SaaS engagement metrics that attract investors Image Credits: Tetra mages (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Past performance doesn’t always predict future results, but it’s the best place to find customer retention stats that have investor appeal. Cast your vote before Thursday, April 20!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Spark Capital led the investment and was joined by existing investors Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Social Impact Capital and Congruent VC. It is time to tip the scales back to sustainability based on small and mid-sized farmers. She is also unique in they way she started a technology company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Patjane told TechCrunch that he wasn’t immediately looking for additional capital after closing the Series B, and in fact had plans to begin raising again this year. However, opportunities with new customers came along, the company was growing and there was a ton of interest from venture capital firms.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

Investors have raised expectations around SaaS profitability and growth since the downturn began. Down rounds are prevailing as power shifts to VCs again TechCrunch+ roundup: AI ethics investor survey, B2B SaaS KPIs, don’t frown on down rounds by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? They were a way to gather cheap capital.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The ability to raise capital is less impressive than finding sustainable ways to build a base of paying customers. ” 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.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Greater Colorado Venture Fund raises $25 million dollar fund, in partnership with Colorado Venture Capital Authority; Funds will be used to galvanize, support and expand rural Colorado founders and entrepreneurs in their business building efforts. ” “The impetus for our work originally at GCVF was the Colorado Venture Capital Authority.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Greater Colorado Venture Fund raises $25 million dollar fund, in partnership with Colorado Venture Capital Authority; Funds will be used to galvanize, support and expand rural Colorado founders and entrepreneurs in their business building efforts. ” “The impetus for our work originally at GCVF was the Colorado Venture Capital Authority.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2024

Founder Brad Hel ler Ecodrive – B2B platform that makes sustainability accessible, transparent and ROI effective. – SaaS MarTech startup that drives sales of travel products by connecting brands, influencers, and travelers. Founder, CEO Olivia Rutman, CTP Landng Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Disrupt will have six industry tracks , each with its own stage, including AI , fintech , hardware , SaaS , security and sustainability. In fact, storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022. Come join us !

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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? Revenue financing.

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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

APRIL 7, 2022

New and existing investors, including Tarsadia Capital, Citius, Arago Capital, Foundation Capital and Quiet Capital also participated in the round to bring Jüsto’s total venture capital investment to date to over $250 million. Up next, Jüsto is focused on continuing the personalization of its products in each city.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

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. Grading last year’s predictions : ML propels SaaS into a massive second wave that increases workers’ productivity measurably. Score : 0.5.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2022

Applications for the Recovery Challenge and Sustainability Challenge are due March 25 and are accessible here. This new capital will be used to fund the development of the company’s sixth-generation electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Is driverless vehicle data a trade secret? certification process.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

SaaS companies can grow to $20M+ ARR by selling exclusively to developers. ” Similar to the way companies must file a Form S-1 that describes their operations and how they plan to spend capital, TechCrunch EC-1s are part origin story, part X-ray. Is there a creed in venture capital? Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 21, 2023

Register Antler , a global venture capital firm with a strong presence in Indonesia , has committed to supporting aspiring founders and early-stage teams in the country by investing in over 30 startups in 2023. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? We also focus heavily on geographies.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Udesh understood there was an opportunity for growth, the demand is there, but the financial resources to capitalize on it are not. Here the lack of available growth capital is just slowing down expansion, a great moment to start fundraising. Why dilute themselves if they were clearly on a path towards self-sustaining growth?

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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.

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HPA

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Cohesion , a leader in smart building and digital twin SaaS technology, announced raising $15M in a Series A round co-led by HPA and Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund. By creating one of the world’s largest repositories of commercial real estate data, Cohesion will lead the industry’s transformation to autonomous buildings.

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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

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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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

After making the initial public call for its first cohort last year, Pangea vetted and onboarded nine startups that met several criteria, including high-growth potential, and long term goals aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. The nine have equity investment needs of between $25,000 and $100,000.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

These metrics serve as the lifeblood of a company’s financial structure, offering a clear picture of immediate fiscal stability and long-term sustainability. New Accounts: Key Metric for SaaS Startups As a fintech startup, we track a lot of metrics, but what really matters for a SaaS company is the number of new accounts.

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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. EVENTUS automates tasks through event SaaS, reducing workforce and costs while recording and scoring attendees’ behaviors and actions during the event.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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. FlavorCloud , a logistics SaaS platform that facilitates cross-border e-commerce, exemplifies this approach. Stay tuned.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

She shared her prerequisites for making product-led efforts more successful and sustainable with TechCrunch+. “Founders need someone who gets the big picture, understands the business domain, loves the technology, and, crucially, asks a lot of questions,” says Andy Stinnes, general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Sustainability Stage: Tackles social and environmental solutions such as urban mobility, sustainable tech, green infrastructure, and new mobilities. AI Stage: Covers the latest artificial intelligence tech related to NLG, speech recognition, virtual agents, biometrics, RPA, deep learning platforms, reactive machines, and P2P networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.” But if users don’t come back to your product directly and often I question whether you have a sustainable product / company. Success for many is ephemeral.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Aforza , developing cloud and mobile apps for consumer goods companies, announced a $22 million Series A round led by DN Capital. However, from his time at Salesforce he feels he got an education like going to “Marc Benioff’s School of SaaS.” Joining DN Capital in the round were Bonfire Ventures, Daher Capital and Next47.

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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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