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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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. Advertising changes. Inventory missteps.

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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. “We need to make this a conscious effort.”

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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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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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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Every SaaS business suffers from churn. Each strategy requires different levels of investment but achieves similar results. These strategies are often deployed in addition to a customer success team , which require their own investment. For each strategy, I show the investment required to offset revenue churn.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The co-founder, CEO and managing partner at York IE , a strategic growth and investment firm for technology companies. Advising and investing in hundreds of startups, primarily in B2B SaaS, Kyle is a board member for several portfolio companies. What is it that excites you about investing? You can learn more here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

However, in 2018, the veteran player participated in the government-backed Future Fifty scale-up program — and also took in a “ multi-million pound ” investment from the UK-based Business Growth Fund. Flexibility and sustainability. Back in April, for example, it raised a $160M Series D round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

She shared her prerequisites for making product-led efforts more successful and sustainable with TechCrunch+. Her advice skips straight past basic best practices to explain alignment and partnership strategies, recommendations for nurturing community, and other PLG tactics. Dear Sophie, Both my co-founder and I have E-2 status.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

This process-based service model is, in our opinion, the only way to grow a business in a sustainable way. Typically we focus on what we call “innovative companies” — whether that’s because they have a SaaS offering or they’re an innovator within a traditional industry doesn’t really matter. But this wasn’t the goal at all.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Although they wanted to invest more into sales and marketing, they didn’t have the capital to expand the team to meet their needs. Why dilute themselves if they were clearly on a path towards self-sustaining growth? It’s the dream for any startup: Udesh and his team had an in-demand product and a successful business model.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

” Our questions also addressed the future of influencer marketing, which automation tools they’re working with and recommending to clients and whether they’re continuing to invest in short-form videos. If it is a must, what types of companies need to invest in this area? are all tactics that I’ll be employing.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The 2010s were the decade of software and SaaS, the era when Salesforce become the first SaaS company to sail past the $100B market cap mark. The merry retail investors using Robinhood bolster the passive investment wave, and their market-shaping forces sustain stratospheric multiples in the public markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

There’s nothing like an increasing level of regulations to create spaces for new startups to appear, especially in SaaS. And, of course, Salesforce’s sustainability cloud is a huge player. Existing investors including NGP Energy Technology Partners, Sallyport Investments and strategic angels also returned to participate.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Most startups will require ongoing capital investment for years, while generating little to no income. Inventory your savings, learn your credit score, and familiarize yourself with basic financial and investment vehicles such as bank loans, grants, and investor funding.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 7, 2022

Delivery Hero Ventures, an independently managed venture capital fund backed by Delivery Hero, Asian investment management firm Spiral Ventures, and venture investor Wavemaker Partners also participated in the funding round.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As Paul Uhrig, Chief Legal and Digital Health Officer of Bassett Healthcare Network and Executive Director of Bassett Innovation Center told us, “if we can get the ultimate user excited and to be champions about this, that I found to be very much the winning strategy.” Transparency is critical.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In fact, even some of the excesses of 2021 were eclipsed when the number of investments on the continent rose higher in 2022 than they had a year earlier, boosted by early-stage firms flocking to fund startups in the wake of landmark exits of homegrown companies like Jumia and Paystack. How does this affect the investment landscape?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A SaaSy hotel lobby : Ingrid covers Mews’ $185 million fundraise for its SaaS-based hotel management platform. million investment to harden AI projects from attack, Kyle reports. “Diversify your ad strategy, test different ideas and don’t give up if your ad doesn’t show results right away.” Is it a plane?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Pivots – a change in business strategy based on a new insight or market trend – are somewhat inevitable for young companies still chasing product-market fit. Now, everyone is pivoting to more sustainable revenue models. The service will help childcare centers grow and manage their businesses, not just fill empty seats.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

SWVL said that though these acquisitions have contributed to its overall growth, it will need to make reductions on roles automated by investments in its engineering and product and support functions teams. The reduction follows an extensive evaluation of team redundancy and how this complements our strategy.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2015

SaaS Enabled Marketplaces employ elegant business models. They are verticalized SaaS companies that manage a marketplace to create winner-take-all market dynamics. At Redpoint, we’ve invested in more than 15 marketplaces and have evaluated dozens more, including more than 20 SEMs in the past year. SEM or FSEM?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

today announced it harvested a $10 million investment to make greenhouses smarter. and on the indoor climate around the plants to maximize sustainability and production. “They collaborate with the different control systems to take that strategy and actually make sure to do so implemented in the most efficient way possible.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 10, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. In order to achieve this growth, Box has invested a huge amount of capital. to 0.54, which is about 36% less than the median.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Alongside layoff support, Continuum offers executive help on a variety of use cases, from compensation strategy to talent acquisitions. Buying yet another SaaS tool or consultant service may feel like a nice to have, versus a need to have, depending on how good Continuum’s sales team is. “We’re

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Let’s get one thing very clear, not every startup has to raise investment nor it’s the job of a startup to raise money. Successful founders are not very happy when they raise a new round of investment, because they understand that they didn’t actually raise any money, they raised debt. If you don’t invest in yourself, why should I?

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Yoon founded a seed fund, Forest Ventures focusing in automotive sector and was an investment director at SAIC capital, one of the leaders in China’s automotive industry. Before SAIC, she led the Corporate Venture Group at Maxim Integrated, where she led multiple strategic technology acquisitions and venture investments.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The cost of acquiring a customer is an important metric for both: the business and the investor who invests in that business. From the investor’s perspective , this metric is essential to calculate how much investment the business requires to stay afloat. So, in freemium and SAAS products like Spotify, Dropbox, SEMrush, etc.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

GCVF will deploy the initial investments from Fund II over the next five years. in 2018 and has since made 29 investments and has realized five exits. Greater Colorado Venture Funds’ core investment thesis is to identify, invest and support founders in the overlooked rural market across rural Colorado.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

GCVF will deploy the initial investments from Fund II over the next five years. in 2018 and has since made 29 investments and has realized five exits. Greater Colorado Venture Funds’ core investment thesis is to identify, invest and support founders in the overlooked rural market across rural Colorado.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Now that remote work has become the norm, remote investment in the area has dialed up as well. How to root out shadow IT and maximize SaaS investments. Just shine a light on your SaaS portfolio, according to CEO and co-founder of Zylo, Eric Christopher. ” How to root out shadow IT and maximize SaaS investments. .

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OurCrowd

MAY 26, 2022

New York State to hand out 800+ ElliQ robots to elderly Kim Kardashian gives Beyond Meat a bounce Taranis gives farmers a down-to-earth view of crops from above Israel plans to invest $180M to develop civilian space tech Arcadia acquires world’s largest utility data provider, raises $200M Introductions More than 4,200 high-tech jobs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

4 signs to look for when evaluating ESG investments. Consumers who are concerned about sustainability appreciate seeing their contributions quantified: the company that delivers my weekly grocery box keeps a running total of how many pounds of food, water and CO2 my purchases have conserved. Image Credits: VladSt. billion in capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Research by BCG found that fewer than 15% were sustainable in the long run. “But most of the time, companies don’t know how to capture this value and don’t invest in partnerships. But in 2020, the startup began to broaden its product strategy, targeting marketers seeking to create and convert sales leads.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A shift from late-stage pre-IPO investing to renewed emphasis on early stage. From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? But this will be especially hard to deal with for early-stage investors, given that we expect most of our investments to fail to return capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

How do you think those qualities contribute to your success in working with startups and forming strategies? Marketing strategies that help find product-market fit are very different from acquiring your first 100 customers, which is very different from scaling your customer acquisition or lead generation. What value do they add?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor , an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting needs, has bagged €10.2 million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas.

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