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From Dorm Room to Dominating the Finance and Tech World: A Deep Dive with Michael Mills, CEO of…

Jason Malki

Additionally, he is the founder and CEO of Infinitary Advisors , a SaaS consulting firm where he spearheads comprehensive competitive analyses for both startups and scaleups. We believe that the research and data analysis methods used by other funds are fundamentally flawed. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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Singapore’s KNN3 wants to enable social discovery for decentralized apps

TechCrunch

There’s no shortage of startups trying to make sense of the explosive growth of data generated from blockchain applications. Nansen has the support from a16z to provide on-chain data analysis for crypto investors. The Graph offers an API for developers to query blockchain data. KNN3 said it has raised $2.4

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Benchmarking Tableau's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tomasz Tunguz

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. All of the businesses we’ve looked at in the past have been purely SaaS businesses.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

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Alternative financing options such as revenue financing or expense financing are often overshadowed by the VC model, but they can be just as, and sometimes more, useful for SaaS startups, writes Miguel Fernandez, CEO and co-founder of Capchase. With more data available than ever, are companies making smarter decisions?

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Enso emerges from stealth to help enterprises make sense of their data

TechCrunch

The situation hasn’t changed much in recent years, even as companies invest greater amounts of capital in data initiatives. A 2021 Databricks and MIT survey found that only 13% of organizations are delivering on their data strategy. Wojciech Danilo and Sylwia Brodacka are well-acquainted with the struggle.

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Series A SaaS Startup Benchmarks for 2018

Tomasz Tunguz

How far along was the typical SaaS Series A in 2018? The chart below shows a representative sample of SaaS Series As’ ARR and projected ARR growth rate for 2018. In 4 years, we’ve seen a 4x increase in the median MRR of a Series A SaaS company. The usual caveats to this data analysis apply.

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Acho takes in seed funding to build super app for data workers

TechCrunch

When Vincent Jiang was working as a software developer, his daily job was to build tables for financial analysts so they could create financial reports on trading strategies. Vincent is a super gritty entrepreneur that built a strong core team,” Chan added. That’s the thing that attracts us in this category of enterprise businesses.