TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

She identified several factors pushing investors in major tech hubs to venture outside their own backyards in search of opportunities. Some might think “Silicon Valley’s share of US VC funding falls to lowest level in more than a decade” is a scary headline, but from my perspective as a resident, it’s great news.

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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. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Lorena Suarez, one of the managing partners of Argentina-based Alaya Capital , a 10-year-old early-stage VC firm, invests in impact-driven startups from Spanish-speaking Latin America. It focuses on early-stage B2B SaaS, so LP concerns were about how B2B software will perform in an inflationary environment, he wrote. and in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Even in person, there’s no way to absorb Disrupt in its entirety. Many reporters filed stories recapping the interviews and panels they conducted at Disrupt, and there will be more to come in the next few days. Full coverage of TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Duolingo doesn’t want to disrupt the college degree. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

At TechCrunch Disrupt, I spoke to three investors about how they use TAM to guide their decision-making. Choosing a mythical TAM won’t put dollar signs in investors’ eyes, as unrealistic numbers reflect unrealistic expectations, a red flag for any VC. 6 key metrics that can help SaaS startups outlast this downturn.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This figure puts Chinese VC investments only 30% lower than investments by U.S. Toast released an early IPO price range of $30 to $33 per share on Monday, and Alex Wilhelm digs into the S-1/A filing to “better understand how to value vertical SaaS startups that are pursuing a payments-and-SaaS business approach.”. funds and 12.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and reimagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth — new stages, new content, and new opportunities. Oh, and if you were laid off recently, we are offering a free Expo+ pass to TC Disrupt 2023.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

You have four — count ’em, just four — more days to take advantage of early-bird pricing on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , taking place on September 19–21 in San Francisco. Expand your knowledge in dozens of presentations — vote here for the Audience Choice breakout sessions and roundtable discussions you want to see at Disrupt!

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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. There may also be future acquisition opportunities on the table.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

trillion COVID-19 stimulus package this year that increased funding for affordable healthcare, Wu says opportunities are expanding for startups in this space. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Since the U.S. Congress passed a $1.9 ” Thanks very much for reading, Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook. “It’s attention.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 15, 2015

Open source is a disruptive distribution strategy. As a result of both the disruptive nature of open source distribution, and the changes in buyer preferences, the number of open source financings has increased nearly monotonically since the genesis of the movement, and it shows no signs of slowing. Mulesoft is a data movement company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

million round of funding from SoftBank Opportunity Fund and Redhawk VC. Not only is it costly to facilitate online payments for pharmacies, but they also have their own pharmacy management systems and workflows that can be easily disrupted by moving to a new payments system. HealNow has closed a $1.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In fact, among the earliest use cases for the company was helping startups track engagement with their pitch decks at VC firms. million, according to Crunchbase, but Heddleston says that he wanted to build a company that was self-sufficient and raising more VC dollars was never a priority or necessity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Despite the uncertainty in the tourism sector from the Covid pandemic, the PEV team didn’t slow down but instead went on to launch two startups — Elephant Bookings, a software as a service (SaaS) product, and Nomad.Africa, a content-to-commerce magazine.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Decipad , a no-code startup that’s aiming to disrupt spreadsheets with accessible tools that empower people to play around with numbers, has nabbed $5 million in seed funding. 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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

“The opportunity cost of dead equity is talent and capital,” Jake Jolis of Matrix Partners explains in a guest post for us this week. Why one successful early-stage VC firm is getting into SPACs now. SaaS continues to boom with Databricks funding, Segment acquisition. Image Credits: FirstMark. billion this week.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

E-commerce, fintechs and the rapid digitization of the region’s SME workforce are a few of the factors reshaping the landscape for Southeast Asia’s startups, but supply chain technology is also a major opportunity, Anand says. Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. Any advice?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. Today the U.S. Well, that was fast!

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub will host a Q&A on FC Live with Adam Draper of Boost VC on June 13th. Submit questions and watch the full event here: Q&A with Adam Draper of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series. FundersClub Portfolio News. in " Flexport to open global network of consolidation centers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Mambu raises $135M at a $2B+ valuation for a SaaS platform that powers banking services. “With so many markets still underserved, the ability to tailor offerings to a segment of one offers the opportunity to increase financial inclusion and adheres to our ideal that easy access to financial services is essential.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”. VCs say there are more startup opportunities to chase in Latin America. market in the verticals of e-commerce, marketplaces, fintech and software.

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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. elíková , partner, Nation1.vc.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

“Unsolved for a reason” — opportunity slide. “This market is bigger than you’d think” [Slide 7] A huge opportunity. Image Credits: Glambook A lot of the time as a VC, you’ll be pitched companies in industries and markets you aren’t that familiar with. Slides in this deck. Problem slide.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

“There simply aren’t enough entrepreneurs providing adequately ESG-aligned investing opportunities,” according to T. “That means your focus shouldn’t only be on passing successfully, but also minimizing the disruption to your team and your business growth.” Alexander Puutio, an adjunct professor at NYU Stern.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Consequently, there are many huge opportunities for entrepreneurs to seize. Second, the capital startups require to pursue those opportunities is plentiful. 2014 will be the third largest year in VC fundraising since 2000. For example, in January 2014, the public markets priced SaaS companies at 8x forward revenue.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

To get a better understanding of what kind of opportunities “future of work” encompasses from an investor perspective, The Exchange called on Eric Boustouller , who joined French multi-stage VC firm C4 Ventures last fall. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Travis Connors, Building Ventures At Building Ventures, we see enormous opportunities developing for the use of robotics in construction over the next 20 years.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Dixa , the Danish customer support platform promising more personalised customer support, has acquired Melbourne-based “knowledge management” SaaS Elevio to bolster its product and technology offerings. The deal is said to be worth around $15 million, in a combination of cash and Dixa shares.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

. “We can improve both outcomes and costs by moving care from the hospital back to the place it started — at home,” they write in a post that explores five innovations enabling at-home care and identifies investment opportunities like acute care and infrastructure development. Image Credits: Cowboy Ventures / Guild Education.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

If you had adopted that, this was a logical next step that you could apply, which again, was like a playbook that you could run over top of a new technological disruption that had happened. This showed up in the SaaS-pocalypse. And this is my third SaaS company. There weren’t really SaaS products or APIs at that point.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

For this survey, TechCrunch spoke to a number of investors about the area’s potential, opportunities and key players. They see a huge opportunity for the region to become a major startup hub by utilizing its diverse workforce and wonderful quality of life. In this survey, these investors agree on several aspects of Miami.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 5, 2023

and was co-led by Ironspring Ventures and Chicago Ventures, with continued participation from FUSE VC and Cercano Management. After multiple years of global supply chain disruption stemming from the pandemic, trade tensions, and reshoring, demand for industry-specific tooling has increased dramatically.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all.

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