Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2019

In 2015, I wrote about the trade-off facing vertical SaaS companies. Vertical SaaS companies focus their efforts on a particular group of customers. There is a new twist in SaaS with a parallel dynamic. Finding scant market demand from the incumbents whose owners prefer status quo, these startups start their own agency.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“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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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 16, 2016

A senior SaaS executive once told me, “Reports sell software.” And new SaaS companies who aim to displace incumbent systems of record will architect their products in a radically different way. They will be event-driven SaaS companies. ” In a top down sale, that’s absolutely true.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

About $1B has been invested in early stage SaaS startups as of November 1. If we compare these trends to the total aggregate market capitalization of public SaaS companies by buyer, we observe a few interesting patterns. This operations category hints at the rising importance in the fundraising market of vertical SaaS companies.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Its embedded infrastructure powers financial services for marketplaces, vertical SaaS, and payment platforms. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses. and Canada. The two co-founders leveraged their tech backgrounds to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Specifically, its latest offering is designed to serve subscription, membership and SaaS (software-as-a-service) service companies. For its part, Pipe came out of the gate with the same SaaS focus but has since expanded to working with non-SaaS companies as well.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. The company’s “big focus is continuing the vision of transforming healthcare,” said Sid Viswanathan, president and co-founder of Truepill.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2014

Vik Singh wrote a great post in VentureBeat last week titled “ Why Salesforce Needed to Buy RelateIQ ” in which he talks about a new era in SaaS, the Predictive Era, the era of intelligent software. As a result, predictive SaaS companies can easily access this data. RelateIQ showed this to some extent in CRM.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

With a large population, Pakistan is geographically smaller, well-connected with fewer provinces, has lower regulatory barriers and doesn’t have strong incumbents,” Khurshid, who is originally from Pakistan, said via email. This allows Pakistani startups to scale faster throughout the country and expand into other markets.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

TrustLayer , which provides insurance brokers with risk management services via a SaaS platform, has raised $6.6 Mort appreciates that TrustLayer is tackling the problem not by becoming the insurance broker, but by working with the incumbents as a software solution. million in a seed round.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 18, 2017

As the number of SaaS applications has exploded, the SaaS ecosystem is responding to data fragmentation with middleware. The incumbents acquire successful point solutions and combine them with an existing platform, to capture more revenue and reinforce their competitive advantage. And HR/recruiting.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

But, as we will explore, innovation in this field is also a corollary to broader trends, such as the rise of product-led growth among B2B SaaS companies, which have become both practitioners and consumers of usage-based pricing. There are also reasons to think that we haven’t seen all of it yet. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn [ … ].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Part of Mendel’s strategy is to attract customers with high payment volume and low credit risk, while at the same time charging a SaaS fee for the usage of their platform. In Latin America, larger enterprises are underserved by incumbents, and Mendel is democratizing access to best-in-class software and payments,” he wrote via email.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You know, incumbents versus startups. But in the last cycle, and maybe just from a B2B lens here, in SaaS and cloud, there were a bunch of things that made it really difficult for the incumbents to actually innovate. But it’s a real problem for the incumbent, because they can’t compromise their brand.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. They are electronic yet manual processes that make their work very inefficient. More than 3,000 users also utilize its software.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

Market : how to compete with incumbents? Usage & distribution, like in classical SaaS, are likely the most sustainable & repeatable. Startups have negative time to launch in many markets with Adobe, Microsoft, & Salesforce launching Gen AI enabled software in weeks. Moats : how to develop competitive advantage?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Last quarter, UiPath grew its revenue by 39%, so “the company fits neatly into the high-growth SaaS bucket,” wrote Ron and Alex Wilhelm. Felicis Ventures partners share the four pillars of scaling a SaaS startup. Felicis Ventures partners share the four pillars of scaling a SaaS startup. Develop new products.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2021

Should you price your SaaS per seat or per use? Sometimes, entering the market with a different pricing model disrupts incumbents. That was one of the salient questions Madhavan Ramanujam answered in last week’s Office Hours at Redpoint. Competition. Michelin developed a much more durable tires.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

That said, we’ve outlined how we’re thinking about pricing and packaging in a part of the market that’s debating how to monetize their new genAI feature— B2B SaaS and prosumer companies —and how we’re seeing other companies approach the same question so you can better understand where your strategy fits in today.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

Second, the key systems of record in SaaS are already in place. Subverting those incumbents is going to require a meaningfully better product or substantially more effective customer acquisition channel. We haven’t really seen a discontinuity of the magnitude SaaS presented to server/client, yet.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 3, 2016

In the past week, Oracle acquired two vertical SaaS companies. In addition, OPower’s gross margin at 62% is lower than the median SaaS company of 71%. Large software incumbents must bolster their product portfolios so their sales teams have new products to sell. trailing 12 month revenue multiple.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But China and the United States are far from the only technology markets with developed startup and incumbent cohorts, strong venture capital activity, and capital markets able to translate early-stage ideas into public companies. China issue. To start, a few caveats. The first data point that we need to consider is focus.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 27, 2015

Much has been written about the consumerization of IT , the movement fueling many SaaS startup’s growth by targeting individuals in a target customer called B2C2B , rather than selling top down. But until yesterday, I hadn’t found anyone who had quantified the size of the movement. This is a fundamental shift.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, including incumbents such as FedEx or DHL and last-mile startups, to reduce shipping times and costs. . Melonn then takes care of the picking, packing and delivery, so that end-consumers receive their orders on the same or next day, also taking care of returns.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 7, 2015

The role of the marketing team within SaaS has stretched from simply engendering awareness and creating interest, to guiding customers much deeper into the funnel. This change has three important ramifications for SaaS startups. Steve Patrizi created the schematic above that illustrates the idea beautifully.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome. million of Series A financing led by Trevor Oelschig of General Catalyst, who has led other enterprise SaaS deals into startups like Fivetran, Contentful, and Loom. Screenshot of Mosaic’s planning function. Photo via Mosaic.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But along with that, we have also seen a related surge in funding into companies that provide the infrastructure that financial institutions — incumbents and fintechs alike — need in order to operate faster and more competitively. As a SaaS business, Pismo mostly makes money by charging transaction fees.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

The new funding will enable CommerceIQ to accelerate its R&D and M&A activities, which Hariharan said will focus on potential opportunities to go deeper and broader into the vertical SaaS and also look at expansion into the Europe and Asia Pacific regions. “We 4 trends that will define e-commerce in 2022.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Meanwhile, SaaS Labs provides AI tools to automate certain sales and support processes. Then there’s incumbents like Automation Anywhere and UiPath, which occupy the enormous robotic process automation market. After all, Jiffy.ai

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

High-growth early SaaS companies can achieve growth rates similar to those of their AI peers In the public markets, typically, the slower the growth of the company, the less they have been investing in AI. Forward ARR Multiple As of Type 25th 50th 75th percentile 2025-01-31 Software 3.1 2025-01-31 AI 8.3

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

When Shamir was building Simple, he could see how challenging it was for incumbents to provide the tools developers need to embed financial services, and this is why we have confidence in his ability to win.”. “Sila is building an easy way for people to program money and taking a regulatory eye to things,” Sieg said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the case of AutoCloud, that’s a SaaS model that will feature pricing tiers based on the number of assets tracked. At that point, how strong the CloudGraph project has become on its own will be a key deciding point in whether AutoCloud can or cannot compete with more incumbent tech companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

As these technologies proliferate in everyday life, we’ll witness the advent of the Internet of Payments …Together, sooner than you might think, the newcomers will unseat the incumbents. The meteor is about to hit. And we’ll all be better off for it. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Vesta says its SaaS model expedites the lending process with a platform that is designed to eliminate redundancies, reduce compliance risk and help lenders better understand, measure and improve their origination processes. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2016

2016 was a year of change for SaaS, and most of the story was the public market. More than $70B of public SaaS market cap was taken private by both other publics and also by private equity firms. SaaS company formation seems to be slowing, but the companies that do raise, command larger Series As than ever.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

He said that old valuation models at banks presumed that software companies’ growth would go to zero over time, and that profits would be rare among SaaS concerns. Neobanks that are still growing; the OKR software market’s surprising depth ; the ability of M1 to accrete deposits in a market with so many incumbents and well-funded startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The B2B SaaS startup thus aims to become a command center for the finance and executive teams to see how a business is doing in real time and to be able to make necessary operational changes faster. Image Credits: Vareto. It’s a collaborative exercise with executives across the business who own the various inputs.”.

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