Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. Traditional software vs. SaaS. If I were looking at which VCs to choose I would reference strongly for which ones are supportive in good times and bad. It’s not you.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

How to execute an amplified marketing strategy. How to execute an amplified marketing strategy. Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff. Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff. Thanks for reading, and have a great weekend. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

For Ashutosh Sharma, head of India investments at Prosus Ventures, it is paramount for startups to ensure their existence at this time. How has your investment strategy changed? Focus on the core business and deprioritize experimental investments. What sets the sectors you are currently investing in apart from others?

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Moderne Ventures team of founder Constance Freedman and partner Liza Benson built a track record of top-tier returns with its novel approach to venture investing. The early-stage investment fund’s vertical specialties span real estate, finance, insurance, and sustainability.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Userpilot , a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, has raised $4.6 Userpilot CEO Yazan Sehwail told TechCrunch that they will use the latest funding to build new features that will help companies further reduce customer support and engineering costs. Userpilot, a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, raises $4.6M

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. This was a dilemma because while it seemed like easy money and a reasonable request I knew it was going to drive up our support and maintenance costs and become hard to manage. It is the opposite of what SaaS is supposed to be.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Startups and SMBs are usually the first to adopt many SaaS products. Below are four tips on how to advance your company’s infrastructure to support and grow with your largest customers. If you’re building SaaS, odds are you’re holding very important customer data. Address your customers’ security and reliability needs.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 15 Best Strategies for Developing New Business in a Crowded Market In the quest to uncover effective strategies for developing new businesses in a crowded market, we turned to fifteen Founders and CEOs for their tried-and-true tactics. In SaaS, it’s not much different. Any new local business could try this.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Sean Fanning is a vice president on OpenView ’s Investment team. Before that, he led the firm’s Proactive Portfolio Management function and acted as director of corporate development, supporting the portfolio on inorganic and balance sheet related initiatives. The flow of capital in SaaS is becoming increasingly bifurcated.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 9, 2024

After their success with AI customer support automation which manages 2/3 of their customer inquiries , Klarna is now doubling down on this strategy. Perhaps bespoke software will have the same impact in sales as in customer support. Klarna is betting AI-enabled software is the future of internal tools.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Vinehealth , a 2018-founded, London-based digital health startup that’s built an app which offers personalized support for cancer patients while also making it easier to gather patient-reported outcome (PRO) data, including for drug development and clinical trials, has closed a $5.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Leta , a Kenyan B2B supply chain and logistics SaaS provider launched last year to optimize fleet management, is looking for growth opportunities in West Africa, even as it scales operations in its existing five markets. Cellulant co-founder Ken Njoroge, and Google executive Charles Murito made investments too.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

Actually, that should be the number one strategy of a growing business. . So, here are some essential strategies that will help you to improve customer loyalty and move your business to the next level. It applies more to businesses with regularly paying customers, such as SaaS or subscription-based models. Reward your customers.

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StartupNation

JUNE 11, 2025

Today, we’ll explore actionable strategies you can use to build multiple income streams and build a more resilient, profitable business. This strategy is effective because you don’t have to reinvent the wheel for it to work. One of the best examples of this strategy is Amazon.

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StartupNation

JUNE 11, 2025

Today, we’ll explore actionable strategies you can use to build multiple income streams and build a more resilient, profitable business. This strategy is effective because you don’t have to reinvent the wheel for it to work. One of the best examples of this strategy is Amazon.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A lot of SaaS products are sold on flat-rate subscriptions. That gaming strategy has been, maybe at its most charitable, a very long-term play for AWS (although it seems there were plans to put out a GameSparks-based product that has yet to happen, five years later). ” How to be one of the ‘haves’ of SaaS.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

This article presents key strategies, backed by expert insights, to help you showcase your startup’s value and growth potential. This storytelling approach not only illustrated our impact but also built trust and authenticity, which ultimately resonated well with potential investors, leading to productive relationships and support.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Artisanal Ventures , a Bay Area venture capital firm investing in B2B cloud startups, closed on its first fund, the oversubscribed $62 million Artisanal Ventures I. “Our lens into the flow of great talent allows us to monitor and invest in spaces that are truly at the cutting edge. million in later-stage companies. .”

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Bill Macaitis, the former CMO of Zendesk, articulates how a SaaS marketing team should operate better than anybody else I’ve met. At a recent Point9 conference, Bill outlined the 9 marketing disciplines of great SaaS companies and how they fit together to create a marketing powerhouse. Ops & Analytics Team.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Transportation editor Kirsten Korosec reached out to 10 investors to learn more “about the state of mobility, which trends they’re most excited about and what they’re looking for in their next investments.” Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster? Shawn Carolan, partner, Menlo Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Now, investors see New Zealand as a country with a track record of building companies with global exits in SaaS, health tech and deep tech. Despite the pandemic, venture and early-stage investment in New Zealand is reaching record highs. In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2 million (USD $86 million), up from NZD $112.2 (USD

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. Ultimately, we chose not to pursue this model as part of our corporate strategy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

From what we understand, Orderbird had been looking at other acquisition offers, including one from another point of sale company, as well as investment options. One of those investment options would have included Toast, the U.S. We want to be at the heart of its SMB strategy.” Warm is the new hot, it seems.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. They are an open-source & SaaS provider of eCommerce solutions. I chose it because I thought it would represent who I am – mostly an entrepreneur but somebody with investment chops. accessibility. authenticity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

However , some venture firms have taken this up a notch by bringing founders to create a fund and invest together. Since the firm’s first fund launched in 2017, MAGIC has invested in 70 companies at pre-seed and seed stages across these emerging markets. Each founder wanted to invest in other companies during YC’s Demo Day.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For cash-strapped SaaS startups trying to reach scale, the math doesn’t look great. In his TC+ guest post, Owens shares several tactics “SaaS leaders can use to supercharge their expansion revenue,” such as adding upsell tiers and charging customers for priority support. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable. As we have invested millions in building out our sales organization efficiency really matters.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Montreal-based Equisoft , an insurance and investment software developer, today announced that it raised $125 million in venture equity. It’s a large amount made more significant by the fact that the investment climate for insurtech vendors is growing increasingly challenging. billion in Q3 to $1.01 billion in Q4. $70

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Various angel investors have also backed Juni, including NA-KD founder and CEO Jarno Vanahatapio and iZettle’s former chief strategy and communications officer Johan Bendz. making the need for singular platforms to support such e-commerce businesses all the more necessary,” says Cherry Ventures’ Bendz.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

million in Series A investment. It’s noteworthy that Countingup has previously taken investment from ING, and the addition of Sage as a backer is interesting since both could help the startup reach more business customers. Countingup’s business model combines both SaaS and fintech. Countingup , the U.K.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Pipefy , a “low-code” workflow management SaaS startup, announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series C funding. The company claims it can also support more complex operations in which IT teams use its tool to integrate legacy systems, like ERPs or CRMs, to orchestrate operations across multiple systems of record. .

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 13, 2023

A survey report called “The Next-Generation Cloud Strategy in Asia” show that 84 percent of the existing cloud service users are planning to increase their investments in the technology this year as more companies start to move their critical businesses online to efficiently handle their workloads in the post pandemic world.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Others investing in the burgeoning startup are Des Traynor, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Intercom (amongst other angels). Butter also supports various third-party integrations, such as for white boarding, note taking, etc. Where top VCs are investing in remote events. Backing Butter’s seed round of $2.75

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Once the parties are on the same page, Fast Forward provides the operator or founder with $100,000 — and value-add such as co-founder recruitment, engineering support, initial product strategy, execution on the growth side, administrative operations such as accounting and legal — in exchange of up to 20% of the company.

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OnStartups

MARCH 21, 2016

Late last year, I combed through the Montclare SaaS 250 — a directory of the biggest SaaS companies in the world — to find common trends in what I thought would be a significant dataset. As it turned out, 80% of the 250 biggest SaaS companies didn’t have a pricing page at all. The study’s highlights. 63% offer a free trial.

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