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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Why dilute themselves if they were clearly on a path towards self-sustaining growth? Mopinion wanted to grow ambitiously, but not at the doubling year-over-year rate that VCs often demand. More Money, More Money Revenue-based financing (RBF) grants business owners an amount of capital based on their gross revenues.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The BTC ETF drives a resurgence in interest in web3 financing. US VC investment falls from $275b in 2022 to $200b in 2023 & sustains at about $200-220b in 2024 as LP interest in venture attenuates after the euphoria in 2020 & 2021. SaaS did see a second wave fueled by AI, but the productivity gains remain to be seen.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Edtech needs to reach beyond underfunded public school systems to become more sustainable, which is why more investors and founders are focusing on lifelong learning. Some readers say they use our surveys to study up on an individual VC before pitching them, so let us know which format you prefer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Enter Assent Compliance — a Canadian company focused on supply chain sustainability management. The financing follows a $131 million Series C raise led by Warburg Pincus, which remains the company’s largest shareholder. ” Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

She shared her prerequisites for making product-led efforts more successful and sustainable with TechCrunch+. Cloud providers’ default retention policies are not enough: You better back your SaaS up. A lot of work today has moved to the cloud as SaaS tools replace traditional on-prem software in the enterprise.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is helping startups that innovate in areas like payments, financing, insurance and compliance. For this morning’s edition of The Exchange, Alex Wilhelm interviewed three executives at cloud and SaaS companies to find out how well Q3 2020 has been treating them: Ping CFO Raj Dani. trillion by 2024.

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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. Battle of the bridge: Startups struggle to secure runway financing.

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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. Victoria holds an MBA and M.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Collective , an all-in-one back-office finance platform for the self-employed, which has raised over $28 million in funding, is hiring for five roles across engineering, marketing and member services (tax, accounting). Collective raised its latest round , a Series A, in May 2021. Last August, the firm made its first investment in Africa.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

With capital in abundance, SaaS startups don’t seem to be too worried about how much runway they have remaining. Nowhere is this more apparent, the authors claim, than when you look at public B2B SaaS companies. “Investors have forgotten all about the Rule of 40.” ” OpenView Partners. Measuring up.

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Feedough

JANUARY 6, 2021

The most significant advantage of joining an entrepreneurship course in a formal university setting is that it helps you learn from the professionals who can teach you various aspects of entrepreneurship – including but not limited to marketing, finance, psychology and leadership.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

. “[But a major challenge] is that the tax industry is often forced to play catch-up to the realities of a rapidly expanding tax code, with changes from remote work, recent global regulations, tax incentives for climate, and sustainability and new assets like crypto and NFTs. Financing climbed to $131.5 moving to another state).

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2014

2014 will be the third largest year in VC fundraising since 2000. As long as there is more demand than supply, and investors can generate “reasonable” returns, prices will be sustained or will increase. For example, in January 2014, the public markets priced SaaS companies at 8x forward revenue.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

GM Vice President of Innovation Pam Fletcher is in charge of the company’s startups that tackle “electrification, connectivity and even insurance — all part of the automaker’s aim to find value (and profits) beyond its traditional business of making, selling and financing vehicles,” Kirsten Korosec writes. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 6, 2014

Because GoPro is the first sizable consumer hardware IPO in eons and because the startup world has a blossoming hardware segment, I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast a top consumer hardware startup with the benchmarks of public SaaS companies using GoPro’s S-1. The average for the most recent SaaS publics is 2.0,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

After years of sustained growth, the pandemic supercharged the outdoor recreation industry. European VC soars in Q1. European VC soars in Q1. How are VCs handling diligence in a world where deals open and close in days, not months? How are VCs handling diligence in a world where deals open and close in days, not months?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The initiatives were painful for both the engineering and finance departments, they say — which is when the pair realized that they wanted more flexibility over how software-as-a-service (SaaS) products were billed and monetized. “They should, instead, enable the flexibility to meet customers where they are.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

This February, Marketforce raised a $40 million Series A in debt and equity (equally shared across the board) from V8 Capital Partners, Ten13 VC, SOSV Select Fund, VU Venture Partners, Vastly Valuable Ventures and Uncovered Fund. Mbaabu founded the company with Mesongo Sibuti in 2018 as a SaaS platform for retail distribution.

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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. So Blockperfect was founded to these entrepreneurs the resources and guidance to build sustainable revenue-first companies they can grow as large as they choose.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Startups and VC. The ability to raise capital is less impressive than finding sustainable ways to build a growing base of paying customers. Finance me, please : Luxury electric vehicle maker Lucid Group joined with Bank of America to offer financing to customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

virtual events platform Hopin serves as another example, rising from a seed-stage upstart at the pandemic’s outset to become a $6 billion juggernaut in just 12 months — before laying off a huge chunk of its staff in pursuit of more sustainable growth. In the U.K.,

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

They are joined by base case capital, The Cannon Project, Data Community Fund, Essence VC, FOG Ventures, Scribble Ventures, South Park Commons, and SV Angel, as well as founders and executives from leading companies such as Asana, Datadog, HubSpot, Braze, Notion, Plaid, Replit, and Vercel. That changes today with Orb.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The terrible consequence is that some great companies struggle to get financed. I am a VC so this will be seen as self serving. But given that I’m not likely to back 99.999% of the people reading this (I do 2-3 deals maximum per year as a VC) I’m really just trying to offer honest advice. Start early.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems. It is unclear if VCs will agree to these terms, but LPs believe they now have more leverage. Smaller VC fundraises?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Igor Shaverskyi Contributor A finance nerd with a decade of experience across various industries, Igor Shaverskyi is a partner at Waveup , where he helps startups fulfill their growth potential. The VC landscape has undergone a tectonic shift in the past year. How do you fix a situation like this?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

And it just closed on $15 million in a Series A funding round led by proptech-focused VC firm Fifth Wall to grow its business. Rather, he describes the startup as a SaaS-enabled marketplace for residential construction, starting with custom ADUs. Czarnecki emphasizes that Cottage is not a prefab homebuilder.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 25, 2022

The demand for animal-free protein is rapidly growing as consumers seek healthy and sustainable alternatives. Australia’s Seed Partnerships offers VC with OurCrowd. Rogynskyy, a Ukrainian native residing in Silicon Valley for over a decade, had his company finance and help with the logistics of his workers’ escape.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 25, 2022

The demand for animal-free protein is rapidly growing as consumers seek healthy and sustainable alternatives. Australia’s Seed Partnerships offers VC with OurCrowd. Rogynskyy, a Ukrainian native residing in Silicon Valley for over a decade, had his company finance and help with the logistics of his workers’ escape.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

I published a scoop earlier this week that Coursera is filing to go public soon, which would be one of the first debuts that will let us see how an education company’s finances changed, and accelerated, amid the pandemic’s impact on remote learning. Corporate sustainability initiatives may open doors for carbon offset startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. In Norway, sustainability-focused companies. Our portfolio is heavy on SaaS, which has weathered things well. In some cases yes, including our e-commerce SaaS companies and my recent Bitcoin exchange investment (MiraiEx). Dignio (SaaS/medtech).

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? – Forte has developed an innovative structure to finance vocational reskilling at no cost to individuals or governments. How do you leverage your VC expertise in politics? Are you politically active?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? – Forte has developed an innovative structure to finance vocational reskilling at no cost to individuals or governments. How do you leverage your VC expertise in politics? Are you politically active?

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