David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . HubSpot makes it easy to sync data as needed, or set up certain triggers for action, with other SAAS tools. Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

As the global startup market digests a changing valuation environment and climate for venture investment, not every sector is taking the same amount of damage. Instead, it’s the tried-and-true software-as-a-service (SaaS) category that appears to be in the best shape to fend off a slowdown in private-market investment.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

The firm has long focused on business-to-business SaaS startups, helping them get their start in a competitive global software market. As of today, Acceleprise is now Forum Ventures, according to the group’s CEO and managing partner, Michael Cardamone , and it has a bushel of funds to power its work. Why is it so much bigger?

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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.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity. years for 2022 and 5.0 years in 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

venture capital market’s third quarter was far from catastrophic , it’s becoming clear that while startup investment has slowed, it’s still a great time to build a software company. Some declines are evident; you won’t get 2021’s venture capital results again for some time. What gloom?

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

If the deluge of negative headlines feels like a pile-on, recall that in 2020 and 2021, TechCrunch obsessively covered the technology, startup, and venture capital markets’ various excesses; to not cover the party’s comedown would be a gross oversight. From here on out, we’re only talking SaaS.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

A SaaS mindset just isn’t relevant for deep tech investment, which means traditional VCs must recalibrate their behavior (and expectations) before diving in. TechCrunch+ roundup: Deep tech tips for SaaS VCs, toxic fundraising, student visa startup options by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

The picture forming from Q1 2023 venture data is one of measured decline compared to the end of 2022. And March brought with it something akin to a boomlet in domestic venture activity, which could become an even brighter spot if the last bits of first-quarter data further bolster the month’s totals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Cloud is the big buzzword these days, with people talking about why it’s a smart move for companies , and lots of venture-backed startups developing easy ways for companies to make the shift. Van Nest was previously a venture investor at Blumberg Capital. So far that strategy has worked in Artisanal Ventures’ favor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Early-stage startups are increasingly looking for alternative ways to access capital, meaning not every company wants to raise money from VCs or take on debt. Specifically, the new firm aims to provide non-dilutive or less-dilutive financing options to asset-rich fintech, e-commerce and SaaS companies in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The Abundance of Late-Stage Capital Benefits All A lot has been said about the negatives of the late-stage capital that has entered the VC world but the reality is that it also is incredibly important at funding “the long game” and letting many of these companies remain independent and ultimately IPO. Entrada Ventures? —?that

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Sharon Lou, venture partner at Indelible Ventures , considers this as one of the top mistakes that founders commit when raising funds. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally. I have got to say B2B SAAS just because we are focused on that!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

The Tory Burch Foundation announced Tuesday the launch of its Funding Finder tool, an interactive guide that breaks down capital options and resources for women-owned businesses. It also has a long-running partnership with the Bank of America Capital Program to help provide affordable loans to women founders. of the approximate $238.8

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Certainly any modern tooling is going to be SaaS, and as companies and employees add services, it becomes a management nightmare. Enter Torii , an early stage startup that wants to make it easier to manage SaaS bloat. “We all felt the changes around SaaS and managing the tools that we were using. Torii Workflow Engine.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Over the past decade, venture capital has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. Bootstrapping a SaaS company is not only possible – I believe it’s a saner, more sustainable way to build and scale a business. If you’re a SaaS founder who’s wary of VC funding, here are my best bootstrapping tips. Keep your day job.

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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. This year, that figure rose to 45%.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Bain Capital Ventures has named Christina Melas-Kyriazi, a former Affirm executive and angel investor, as its newest partner. Matt Harris, partner at Bain Capital Ventures, agrees. As an angel investor, Melas-Kyriazi has invested in over 20 startups, many of which are in the fintech, proptech and enterprise SaaS sectors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Battery Ventures has backed Databricks since 2017, so Alex Wilhelm interviewed General Partner Dharmesh Thakker to understand why he thinks the company may be undervalued. For this edtech investor survey , she interviewed: Deborah Quazzo, managing partner, GSV Ventures (an education fund backing ClassDojo, Degreed and Clever).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

w/ Sandhya Hegde | Unusual Ventures Hello hello, today we have Sandhya Hegde who is a General Partner at Unusual Ventures which focuses on early-stage companies. Sandhya’s specialism is early-stage SaaS. She was previously EVP at Amplitude and worked at Khosla Ventures and Sequoia Capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Venture capital is a popular source of capital for early-stage startups, but it’s definitely not the only one. Both Clearco and Pipe offer revenue-based financing and both have raised large sums of venture capital themselves, some might say ironically.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

On the money side of things, GGV’s Glenn Solomon led the company’s seed round, which also saw participation from Pelion Ventures and Neythri Futures Fund , a collective of South Asian women looking to change the ratio in venture capital investing. Anyone who has friends working in SaaS sales can confirm this.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It’s not a tech company this time — Awoyemi co-founded online jobs site Jobberman (which was acquired by ROAM Africa in 2016) and Whogohost, a bootstrapped hosting platform — but instead, a venture studio: Fast Forward Venture Studio. Here are some of the startups in the venture studio portfolio.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. The family-owned real estate firm develops Colabs spaces.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The startup has just closed a $10 million Series A to continue building out its workplace management SaaS for landlords and office managers — which offers features like resource scheduling (booking meeting rooms etc.), employee/co-working space member engagement, and financial management tools through web and mobile applications.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Business Canvas , the South Korean document management SaaS company behind Typed, announced today it has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by Mirae Asset Venture Investment , with participation from Kakao Ventures and Nextrans Inc. The global market size for social software and collaboration SaaS is estimated at $4.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

How to grow a SaaS company efficiently in a recession. Blair Silverberg, CEO and co-founder of Hum Capital, says entrepreneurs need to resist the urge to become defensive in these sessions. “In Alda Leu Dennis, general partner, Initialized Capital. Justin Overdorff, partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Companies that have high recurring revenue and visibility into future performance — such as SaaS startups — in particular can benefit from debt financings, Alex points out. . The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. Enter Founderpath.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

SaaS startup Stimulus announced today the closing of an oversubscribed $2.5 million seed round led by Black Ops Ventures. Her product is a hit with investors, the most notable of which include Morgan Stanley, The BFM Fund and Northwestern Mutual Futures Ventures. Stanard originally asked for $1.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

According to a report by Capchase comparing more than 400 SaaS startups to unicorns that reached the public markets in the last two years, the top performers “are handily beating the ‘Rule of 40,'” reports Kyle Wiggers. According to its findings, SaaS founders should target at least 80% and aim to surpass 110%.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Coral Capital , a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today that it has closed its third fund, Coral Capital III, raising $128 million (14 billion yen). Coral Capital’s total assets under management (AUM) is now $275 million. LINE Ventures merges with YJ Capital, launches $271M fund.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

Before this program, I had the desire to pursue venture capital funding but lacked the clarity on what steps to take. The learning sessions were game changers that provided me with all the necessary details on how to approach and attract venture capitalists.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

On October 27, we’re taking on the ferociously competitive field of software as a service (SaaS), and we’re thrilled to announce our packed agenda, overflowing with some of the biggest names and most exciting startups in the industry. Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Bonfire Ventures , a Los Angeles venture capital firm, invests in seed-stage business-to-business software companies and aims to change the odds so that more than the average 33% of companies in this sector make it to Series A. Less than 33% raise an A and only 50% raise any follow-on capital. Andelman : The L.A.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

million, led by Paladin Capital Group and joined by Osage University Partners, Brighteye Ventures and existing investors Marathon Venture Capital. Hack The Box is using a SaaS business model. Talent and capital are shifting cybersecurity investors’ focus away from Silicon Valley.

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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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