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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tomasz Tunguz

Your Startup’s Unit Economics Your pricing plan has to enable the company to become profitable at some point. Enables natural expansion : MongoDB and Ethereum, two database companies with nearly identical revenue trajectories through 2020, both employ usage-based models that have supported their explosive growth.

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Headwinds, Tailwinds, and Crosswinds Ahead for Rising Startup Ecosystems

Revolution

In 2025, startups beyond the coasts and outside of the traditional tech hubs will face new challenges and, with customary resourcefulness, also seize new opportunities. With scarcer exit opportunities and LPs looking for returns, VCs may retreat further to perceived safety in traditional techhubs.

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How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Without industry-wide master unique identifiers for medical-surgical (med-surg) items, hospitals cannot easily compare products by their attributes to identify cost-savings opportunities, or map product selection to the best patient outcomes. This challenge spelled fear and opportunity in equal parts. We didn’t know the domain.

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FintechOS nabs $60M for a low-code approach to modernizing legacy banking and insurance services

TechCrunch

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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The gray revolution: Fundraising within the older adult space

TechCrunch

We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. There is a massive opportunity to provide products and services that will make life better for today’s seniors and future generations of older adults to come.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities. “Sima.ai’s software and hardware platform can be used to enable scaling machine learning to [a range of] embedded edge applications. “Sima.ai

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African healthtech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth, spurring a $7M investment initiative

TechCrunch

The models of these B2B companies mirror their retail e-commerce counterparts such as Wasoko and TradeDepot, as they use tech-enabled solutions to digitize medicine distribution to underserved pharmacies, drug shops, clinics, and hospitals. As such, their growth has been rapid, Salient says.

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