Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. That used to be called A-round investing. The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier. However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. of the fund.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

Autocase’ Williams is Automating Business Case Analysis for Investments in Buildings and Infrastructure I had the pleasure of interviewing John Williams, CEO at Autocase. Billion in annual revenues and Autocase into a leading SaaS company that automates business case analysis for investments in buildings and infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

For a few years now the Sustainable Ocean Alliance has been a stalwart advocate for the “blue economy,” and an incubator for ocean-focused early stage startups. Upon joining the program, startups receive investment from SOA and access to support for the lifetime of their ocean startup.” Here at the U.N.

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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. This year, that figure rose to 45%.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Berlin-based Hive announced $34 million in new investment Wednesday as it continues developing its technology that provides direct-to-consumer brands an alternative way to manage operations. That’s why we doubled down on our investment in this round.”. Hive founders, from left, Oskar Ziegler, Franz Purucker and Leo von Kleist.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2024

Angel investment fund selects six companies to pitch live on USD campus on May 9. Over 100 companies applied for SDAC VI, hoping to land at least $200,000* in angel investment or attract investors interested in funding their companies. Actual amount invested depends on total dollars raised.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

In short, the city appears to be strong in areas such as B2B, SaaS, marketplace, B2C, gaming and medtech. The country’s capital Warsaw has an angel investment scene, but founders instead often look to Germany for smaller investments because “the distance from Wroc?aw Which sectors is your tech ecosystem strong in?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The valuations of these companies aren’t rising at the same rate as SaaS or fintech startups, but “where edtech lacks in impressive valuations, investors see it gaining in exit opportunities,” writes Natasha Mascarenhas. Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

based caretech software-as-a-service maker, has closed a $30 million Series B funding round led by investment firm Sofina, with Omers Ventures and Index Ventures also participating — the latter reupping its backing after leading Birdie’s Series A last year. Birdie , a U.K.-based In Birdie’s home market of the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Walter Thompson Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+ @yourprotagonist 13 VCs talk about the state of robotics investing in 2023 Vote for TechCrunch in the Webby Awards! 4 SaaS engagement metrics that attract investors Ask Sophie: How many employment green cards are available each year? . Cast your vote before Thursday, April 20!

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Register SatSure , an Indian business that is at the convergence of spacetech, artificial intelligence (AI), and software as a service (SaaS), has raised $5 million in a round led by Baring Private Equity India Pvt. Ltd, joining ADB Ventures as investor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

“More companies are disclosing and acting on water security and other water matters, but there’s a need for a SaaS platform to quantify and mediate water risk,” said Galindo. They started the company and took it through Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 cohort.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Brian Schwarzbach Contributor Brian Schwarzbach is an SF-based investor with Cathay Innovation, a global venture capital firm investing across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He focuses on early-stage investments in commerce, marketplaces and consumer. Recommerce is a concept as old as trade itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.” It’s just math.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our firm’s original premise was – and remains – dead simple: Seattle is a global gravity well for engineering talent, thanks to the sustained excellence and corresponding human capital needs of Amazon and Microsoft. First, the increment of learning in VC is investment decisions managed to maturity. The implications of this are many.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Disrupt will have six industry tracks , each with its own stage, including AI , fintech , hardware , SaaS , security and sustainability. In fact, storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022. Come join us !

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Consequently, when it comes to investing in e-commerce, you’ll hear many VCs say they’re “waiting for the dust to settle.” And it’s certainly not sustainable in this market; the lack of transparency from ad-tech/tech companies makes optimizing customer advertising costly and inefficient. Existing platforms (i.e., Stay tuned.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

These metrics serve as the lifeblood of a company’s financial structure, offering a clear picture of immediate fiscal stability and long-term sustainability. New Accounts: Key Metric for SaaS Startups As a fintech startup, we track a lot of metrics, but what really matters for a SaaS company is the number of new accounts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

Investors have raised expectations around SaaS profitability and growth since the downturn began. Bearing that in mind, listing more logos on your customer page isn’t just good for morale: it also creates “increased conviction around investing to fuel future growth.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The ability to raise capital is less impressive than finding sustainable ways to build a base of paying customers. ” After surveying 14 public B2B software companies, Townshend says firms that built for discoverability and deployed usage-based pricing had a median growth rate of 141%, compared to 21% for traditional SaaS.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

“While the amount of funding invested in startups in Africa has grown over the years, it is still negligible compared to the need. The nine have equity investment needs of between $25,000 and $100,000. And that is why we are working towards unlocking diaspora remittance as a source of funding,” said Lawi.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 11, 2023

The company’s easy-to-deploy technology stack, and scalable SaaS model, not only make it a compelling partner for enterprises everywhere seeking to achieve energy savings and efficiency but also a perfect addition to the AgFunder SIJ Impact Fund portfolio.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Enter Assent Compliance — a Canadian company focused on supply chain sustainability management. Assent’s trajectory continues to grow and Waitmen projects the SaaS company will cross $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) this year after growing ARR by over 50% in the past 12 months. It’s an enormous market.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Hit up the Disrupt stage for in-depth interviews with top-tier founders, CEOs, investors and tech-savvy celebrities — like Serena Williams and Kevin Hart — actively building or investing in startups. You asked for more say in the programming and we heard you loud and clear. Check out the stages and the tech they cover.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

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. Grading last year’s predictions : ML propels SaaS into a massive second wave that increases workers’ productivity measurably. Score : 0.5.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. EVENTUS automates tasks through event SaaS, reducing workforce and costs while recording and scoring attendees’ behaviors and actions during the event.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. If participating fellows succeed in founding a startup, Sopoong could make a seed investment, Han said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

It’s the background of the team that first attracted investors like Pia d’Iribarne, co-founder and managing partner, New Wave , which made their first climate-focused investment into the software developer. . “ We decided to invest before we even closed the fund,” d’Iribarne said of the investment in Sweep.

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HPA

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Cohesion , a leader in smart building and digital twin SaaS technology, announced raising $15M in a Series A round co-led by HPA and Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund. Investing in technology that ensures commercial real estate is a positive contributor to our world is central to our company ethos.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Lunden wrote that it is “the first fund EQT Growth has raised specifically for tech investments, and it stands as one of the biggest first-time growth funds in Europe to date.”. and primarily investing at the Series A and B levels with some selective seed investments. One of the firm’s most notable exits is Spotify.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As part of the investment, Jay Crone, investment director at Telus, joined Full Harvest’s board of directors. By sourcing produce online through Full Harvest and selecting fruit for our products that would otherwise have gone to waste, we are answering the growing consumer demand for more sustainable food options.”.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2021

However, from his time at Salesforce he feels he got an education like going to “Marc Benioff’s School of SaaS.” Our mission is to improve the lives of consumers by bringing forth more sustainable products and packaging, but also helping companies be more agile and handle changes as the biggest change is happening.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.” I have many investments with early traction and I the entrepreneurs I work with must tire of my constantly saying, “Are we really making a difference?

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Register Prismforce , an India-based vertical software as a service (SaaS) firm , has announced recently that it raised fresh investments amounting to $13.6 million in seed funding from select industry thought leaders, serial entrepreneurs and SaaS founders as angels. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Remember Me.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

David Smith is VP of data and analytics at TheVentureCity , a global early-stage venture fund investing in product-centric startups across the U.S., Of every 100 deals a VC firm considers, about a quarter get a meeting, and only one ends up securing investment. Europe, and Latin America.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 10, 2016

There many ways of measuring a SaaS company’s efficiency: magic number, payback period on cost of customer acquisition, lifetime value to cost customer acquisition ratio, quick ratio. A SaaS company’s revenues are a collection of annuities, contracts that pay fees on an ongoing basis. Imagine the same company with 0.5%

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