TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Assembled , which bills itself as a workforce management platform for customer support teams, today announced that it raised $51 million in a Series B funding round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from Emergence Capital and Basis Set Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Every blog post, Tweet and Instagram Story is an opportunity to explain to customers (and your board) how the company creates value or is a step ahead of the competition. Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff. Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff. @yourprotagonist. How to execute an amplified marketing strategy.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 15 Best Strategies for Developing New Business in a Crowded Market In the quest to uncover effective strategies for developing new businesses in a crowded market, we turned to fifteen Founders and CEOs for their tried-and-true tactics. In SaaS, it’s not much different. Figure out where your audience congregates.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Among the trends they identified are startups in B2B, business automation processes, e-commerce, AI, SaaS and COVID-19-related solutions, as well as “smart” everything: factories, cities, offices, etc. Still, new opportunities are popping up in remote work, psychedelics and wellness. We surveyed: Petra Kon?elíková

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The country makes far too much money from oil, giving it one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds and a large system of socialized support. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city? E-commerce.

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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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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. GCVF’s Fund I raised $17.5M GCVF is industry agnostic and focused on seed stage companies.

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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. GCVF’s Fund I raised $17.5M GCVF is industry agnostic and focused on seed stage companies.

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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

Its most recent development targets two of ChatGPT’s biggest limitations: First, it generates output but can’t deliver outcomes (or act on your behalf). OpenAI’s latest announcement solves for both, introducing support for plugins and giving us a glimpse into the first AI App Store. Learning Spanish? Studying for a calculus exam?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

The original promise of Holberton was that it provided students — which it selects through a blind admissions process — with a well-rounded software development education akin to a college education for free. Edtech valuations aren’t skyrocketing, but investors see more exit opportunities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

To meet that demand, Seattle-based Knock – one startup that has developed tools to give property management companies a competitive edge – has raised $20 million in a growth funding round led by Fifth Wall Ventures. In recent years, the U.S. Competition for renters is fierce and property managers are turning to technology to get a leg up.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 22, 2017

A founder asked me if we had reached the point that SaaS is commodified. “Can you build a venture scale SaaS company anymore?” ” He made three key points to support the argument. First, the technology barriers to starting a SaaS company continue to fall. So are copycats. Inside sales models.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge to build both real-time audio and video features into products. The company provides APIs so developers can add those features into products or websites using just two lines of code.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

Each founder showcased the innovative business ideas they developed and refined throughout the Bridge2 program. i2E’s E3 and Bridge2 programs give you, the entrepreneur, the tools to communicate the problem, solution, and market opportunity — in multiple formats.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

WebOps SaaS platform Pantheon , which started out as a Drupal and WordPress hosting service many years ago, today announced that it has raised a $100 million Series E round solely funded by the Softbank Vision Fund. “They just want a partner — like any other SaaS application, whether it’s Stripe, Twilio or Salesforce.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Register The global events and meetings industry is a powerhouse, driving billions of dollars in economic activity with countless business opportunities. “We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. Jaewoo Ahn and Jungho Choi lead the development team.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

There is a unique window of opportunity today for a new 3D Creation Engine (aka game engine) to revolutionize the way we create games, film, virtual worlds, and simulations. Before the 2010s, most studios developed their own internal engines to build their games. EA’s Frostbite, Infinity Ward Engine, etc).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Media technology company Amagi announced Friday $100 million to further develop its cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected televisions. The company already supports more than 2,000 channels on its platform across over 40 countries. Nadathur Holdings continues as an existing investor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Pulumi was one of the first of what is now a growing number of infrastructure-as-code startups and today, at its developer conference, the company is launching version 3.0 Also new is support for Pulumi’s CI/CD Assistant across all the company’s paid plans. of its cloud engineering platform. Image Credits: Pulumi.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The round was led by Inspired Capital, and includes participation by Box Group, but is also supported by a number of angels who were Perry’s former colleagues at Shopify, including Shopify President Harley Finkelstein. million in seed funding – an impressive round for a company just about seven months into its existence.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

After a founder takes the quiz, the Funding Finder algorithm points them to what could be their best bets: debt financing, community development financial institutions (CDFIs), banks, bootstrapping, family and friend rounds, or even crowdfunding.

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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. The team had worked hard to develop a solid product, close deals with top notch customers, and implement the software. Why dilute themselves if they were clearly on a path towards self-sustaining growth?

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Customer success company Vitally raised $9 million in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz to continue developing its SaaS platform automating customer experiences. He expects to grow to 30 by the end of the year to support the company’s annual revenue growth — averaging 3x — and customer acquisition.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here. You will hire (over time) and manage a field and inside team of Sales Directors and Market Developers, including for each direct report creating and managing goals directly tied to Company goals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The demand for SaaS products that enables online transactions has dramatically increased during Covid-19, according to CEO of Upflowy Guillaume Ang. The startup will use a good part of the new capital to enhance its platform capabilities by leveraging data science areas like predictive personalization and developing additional features.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It’s a phenomenon Flux has been thinking about for a while now, beginning development in 2019 with a team of employees who worked at places like Apple, Facebook and NASA. The funding will go toward expanding Flux’s development team, investing R&D for additional features and increasing its marketing reach. Image Credits: Flux.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Overall, local investors cited the country’s focus on global markets from day one, general support from the Israeli government and deep relationships with Silicon Valley and other global tech centers as additional factors that are powering it forward today. What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Kenya-based Chandaria Capital, Nigeria-based LoftyInc Afropreneurs Fund, and an array of other angel investors including founders and top executives of Africa’s leading SaaS, e-commerce and education startups joined, as well. This provided a window of opportunity for the trio to bring to life a platform that would eliminate this challenge.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 4, 2016

The notion of channel sales in SaaS companies is becoming more common than in has been in the last few years, and for some businesses like Intacct, channel partnerships drive more than 50% of sales. Channels used to be about software customization, delivery and support. This increases the SaaS company’s gross margin.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In a nutshell, the SaaS business surveys students, parents and teachers to collect actionable data. And then we help schools measure social and emotional development so that in the same way you might have rigorous data on math, you can now get information about social emotional learning and well-being.”. When we looked at the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The startup provides dashboards from where users can build AI-powered workflows for tasks like claims processing, customer support and appointment scheduling, letting organizations automate both business processes and front-office, customer-facing tasks (if the sales pitch is to be believed). Fair question. After all, Jiffy.ai

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

This infusion of capital is being used to meet demand by payers and providers across the US for the company’s real-time care coordination Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform as well as to grow the engineering, development, customer success and sales teams.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As DevOps SaaS platform Esper continues to build out the category and the number of connected devices grows, the company took on another round of funding to stay ahead of demand. Today, Seattle-based Esper has more than 200 paying customers and over 2,000 developers using its platform for product development.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. With its $25 million Series B funding — which takes its total funding to over $42 million — Banyan Infrastructure is seeking to align sustainable project finance with the technology it is meant to support and develop.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Education, support and sage advice are arguably as essential to startup success as fundraising. We’re talking core startup disciplines like building a pitch deck, marketing, term sheets, fundraising, tech stack, operations, product-market fit, content development, growth and lots more. I loved that unexpected benefit.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 11, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Justin Dorfman, the Co-Founder and CEO of AssetMule , a SaaS product that product marketing and sales teams use to create personalized interactive sales assets. So we felt there was an opportunity to bring sales assets into the 21st century by making them web-based and more interactive.

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