TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Common Fate, an Australian startup from a couple of former cyber security consultants, wants to help with an open source tool and an early access cloud service. That could be cloud infrastructure services or critical applications like 1Password, GitHub, Salesforce and other SaaS applications. Today, the company announced a $3.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities via a community-driven B2C SaaS model — has raised a $3 million seed investment round led by I2BF Global Ventures, TMT Investments and Techstars. Also participating was PandaDoc CEO Mikita Mikado and Google’s ex-director of product, Andrey Doronichev.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The other SaaS solutions in the childcare space have gone after the providers first and that’s been really hard and challenging because it’s a very fragmented market and it’s really hard to get traction,” Mauskopf said. It’s time for the VC community to stop overlooking the childcare industry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Think of it as a two-sided marketplace: Continuum brings together executives with experience from VC-backed companies, including leaders from Tesla, Plaid, Intercom, Snap, Carta and Twitch, and connects them with companies that need help with a specific challenge or pivot.

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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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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. . I’m very interested in the tech stack of private equity/VC firms , both to improve the efficiency of Versatile VC and also as a focus area for our investing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Kruze Consulting, an accounting firm for startups, mined through over 750 companies’ finances, which includes upward of $300 million in quarterly revenue and over $750 million in quarterly spend. But one could argue that new VC fund announcement dates, much like the phrase “oversubscribed,” don’t mean much in practice.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Participants included Blume Ventures, Good Capital, Zerodha’s Rainmatter Fund, Loyal VC and angel investors. It is also used by consulting firms that are serving real estate and infrastructure companies that have set net-zero goals. It’s already been deployed to over 20 million square feet of real estate in Asia and announced today $2.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The idea for Decipad was sparked when its other co-founder, Nuno Job, was running YLD, an engineering and design consultancy which worked with a range of businesses. 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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. Every consultant was pitching a process for reinventing your organization through BI. If your investor worked inside of a SaaS company for years and disagrees with me then listen to them. It’s when the game slows.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC. ” Day 2 .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 14, 2023

I learned a lot about the details that make B2C SaaS/Recurring revenue business models work well that I have yet to see written down anywhere. These lessons directly apply to freemium/SaaS businesses and (probably?) apply to other recurring revenue businesses such as subscription e-commerce, agencies, consulting, etc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

The round was co-led by African early-stage VC firm Future Africa and Japanese but Africa-focused VC Kepple Africa Ventures. The CEO consulted for these companies and leveraged emails to retain customers, but as he found out that this process was lethargic, he sought other channels as a replacement. million seed round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Pre-pandemic, VCs were notoriously reluctant to invest in education-related companies. Today, edtech startups are seeing higher average deal sizes, more seed and pre-seed funding from non-VC investors, and an influx of generalists. Here’s how far VCs have lowered revenue expectations for seed through Series B.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

I began my career at Oracle in the mid-1980s and have since been around the proverbial block, particularly in Silicon Valley working for and with companies ranging from the Fortune 50 to global consulting companies to leading a number of startups, including the SaaS company I presently lead.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Pierre-Alexandre is an Investment and M&A director at HoriZen Capital — a team of experienced SaaS operators, digital marketing and finance experts helping micro-SaaS companies deliver their growth potential. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A startup called Sanity has built a platform to help businesses (and their people) do that more easily with a SaaS platform that lets developers create code and systems to manage content. million to fuel its growth. million to fuel its growth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

We start with a historical run of stories beginning last December, threading through the start of the year until we reach the latest data from the VC ecosystem. Here’s how far VCs have lowered revenue expectations for seed through Series B (January 2022). Consumer fintech trading revenues don’t measure up to SaaS ARR (April 2022).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In this week’s edition, we discuss all things 6-figures: Building a 6-figure consulting business Six things you need to give up to make 6-figures online Selling your online business for 6-figures ( In partnership with our friends at They Got Acquired ) Let’s get to it. Create the systems for infinite monetization?—?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Nervous as a service : After a lengthy period of experimentation, investors have decided that consumer fintech trading businesses are not SaaS companies. Startups and VC. If you’ve got 1337 doxxing skillz , here’s your chance to actually do some good. Go on. ?????. It’s fundraising season for venture funds, apparently!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Here’s how I read that comment: It may be natural for a SaaS product like Airtable to have a community where power-users can share hacks or inspiration, but is there a more specific way to empower those users to trade notes? It’s part consultant, part software services. Image Credits: Commsor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. VC Funding was steadily growing before the war and there are more than 50 VC firms continuing to operating in the country. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

In this TechCrunch+ piece , Amsterdam-based Grant Easterbrook (fintech consultant and co-founder of Dream Forward) focuses “on fintech ideas that received some degree of initial hype and momentum, but ultimately did not live up to their promise.” Last August, the firm made its first investment in Africa. For those of you in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Mambu raises $135M at a $2B+ valuation for a SaaS platform that powers banking services. And the founders of the startup themselves come from consulting backgrounds so they well understand the role these companies play in the process of bringing technology into big businesses.).

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

.” Laying the groundwork for growth, Manta today announced that it raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Forestay Capital with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, SAP.io, Senovo VC, Credo Ventures, Dan Fougere, and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2022

VC firm General Catalyst, a new investor in the business, along with existing backer Kinnevik. based corporate responsibility consultancy, called Susterra, to beef up its ability to offer tools for customers to calculate a travel-related carbon footprint. The final tranche of the D round was led by U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

My first job after graduation was with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). I wanted to do business projects and I got in touch with a guy from the strategy consulting practice in the telecoms & high-tech practice in London. I was a strategy consultant. I talked with a few VCs and batted around the idea of becoming a VC.

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Unvalidated Learnings

MAY 26, 2015

Healthcare (doctors consultation, prescription drug delivery, etc.) and enterprise services are being tipped by VCs as the next categories where very large companies are likely to emerge. Services with in-built virality (eg. sending parcels/flowers to someone w.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Companies are also using the tool as a management consultant to talk to industry experts or on academic research. Many users leverage the technology to talk to customers to understand their challenges and get feedback on a design or product. Today, the company is coming out of private beta and announcing an earlier pre-seed round of $3.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Startups/VC. And then startups started to have names like Vertical SaaS 4 Ur Industry, and it all got a bit corporate. TechCrunch wants you to recommend software consultants who have expertise in UI/UX, website development, mobile development and more! That or founding your own company to do the damn work. TechCrunch Experts.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Our ongoing search for the best startup growth marketers is yielding results: reporter Anna Heim interviewed SaaS and early-stage startup marketing consultant Lucy Heskins to learn more about the mistakes her clients are most likely to make before they seek her help. India poised for record VC year as unicorns head for decisive IPOs.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

He’s a 30-year technology veteran and currently leading Blockperfect , a venture studio dedicated to nurturing early-stage Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), AI, and Web3 startups. Prior to Blockperfect, Nick had success at several startups, three of which exited at valuations over $100M, as well as success at two big 5 consulting firms.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

It was once common practice for doctors to visit sick patients in their homes: In 1930, 40% of all consultations were house calls. Tomorrow’s episode of Extra Crunch Live will feature guests VC Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and Rachel Carlson, CEO and co-founder of Guild Education. By 1980, that figure was less than 1%.

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