TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

If someone said “startup” while we were playing a word association game, I’d respond with “fundraising.” A SaaS mindset just isn’t relevant for deep tech investment, which means traditional VCs must recalibrate their behavior (and expectations) before diving in. ” (I bet you would, too.)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

venture capital market’s third quarter was far from catastrophic , it’s becoming clear that while startup investment has slowed, it’s still a great time to build a software company. Some declines are evident; you won’t get 2021’s venture capital results again for some time. What gloom?

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Sharon Lou, venture partner at Indelible Ventures , considers this as one of the top mistakes that founders commit when raising funds.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . If you can, I recommend join HubSpot for Startups , which offers generous discounts. Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It’s not a tech company this time — Awoyemi co-founded online jobs site Jobberman (which was acquired by ROAM Africa in 2016) and Whogohost, a bootstrapped hosting platform — but instead, a venture studio: Fast Forward Venture Studio. Here are some of the startups in the venture studio portfolio.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. That startup was DoorDash, by the way. Full disclosure: In 2016, I was 500 Startups’ Journalist-in-residence. Yesterday, Jon Shieber and Alex Wilhelm covered 500 Startups’ 27th virtual demo day and selected eight companies as their favorites: Stack.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

If the deluge of negative headlines feels like a pile-on, recall that in 2020 and 2021, TechCrunch obsessively covered the technology, startup, and venture capital markets’ various excesses; to not cover the party’s comedown would be a gross oversight. From here on out, we’re only talking SaaS.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

SaaS startup Stimulus announced today the closing of an oversubscribed $2.5 million seed round led by Black Ops Ventures. Her product is a hit with investors, the most notable of which include Morgan Stanley, The BFM Fund and Northwestern Mutual Futures Ventures. Stanard originally asked for $1.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Starting in early April, TechCrunch+ will dig into information relating to startup fundraising in the first quarter. The picture forming from Q1 2023 venture data is one of measured decline compared to the end of 2022. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. How’s Q1 2023 venture shaping up?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

TechCrunch has covered Acceleprise several times over the years, including a look at its mid-2020 accelerator startup batch from its three accelerators. The firm has long focused on business-to-business SaaS startups, helping them get their start in a competitive global software market. The new seed vehicle totals $13.2

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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

AUGUST 9, 2022

In this challenging fundraising environment, more startups than ever are turning to alternative financial solutions such as debt. Despite the negative connotation associated with debt, a startup should not view it as an act of desperation during downturns, as TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers and Alex Wilhelm have recently noted.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Bonfire Ventures , a Los Angeles venture capital firm, invests in seed-stage business-to-business software companies and aims to change the odds so that more than the average 33% of companies in this sector make it to Series A. Less than 33% raise an A and only 50% raise any follow-on capital. Andelman : The L.A.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Since I work with startups and investments, I thought, maybe I should let this ChatGPT write me a program about a SaaS valuation calculator? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Over the past decade, venture capital has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. Bootstrapping a SaaS company is not only possible – I believe it’s a saner, more sustainable way to build and scale a business. If you’re a SaaS founder who’s wary of VC funding, here are my best bootstrapping tips. Keep your day job.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

Based in Sydney and Auckland, Dovetail is a full-service venture studio that works closely with founders who have a great idea, but may lack technical backgrounds. million USD) fund that will be used for seed, Series A and Series B rounds in 15 of the most promising companies that have gone through its venture studio program.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Certainly any modern tooling is going to be SaaS, and as companies and employees add services, it becomes a management nightmare. Enter Torii , an early stage startup that wants to make it easier to manage SaaS bloat. “We all felt the changes around SaaS and managing the tools that we were using.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The startup is a wager that the software buying experience of today is antiquated — and a rising source of frustration. venture partners are South Asian women, meaning that getting the group onto the Cacheflow ownership docket early could provide material upside to the investor demographic if the company succeeds.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

London and Berlin usually top the lists of European startup hubs, but Central and Eastern European countries like the Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia and Poland have claimed a growing portion of the startup pie in the past few years. We surveyed: Alena Hloba , community manager, RST Ventures for Earth. This city of 1.2

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Refinery Ventures , a Cincinnati-based venture firm, announced the close of its second fund with $36 million, which was more than two times its first fund. It was that lightbulb moment that led him to start Refinery Ventures nearly five years ago. like Greycroft, Upfront Ventures and Techstars. “It

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

On October 27, we’re taking on the ferociously competitive field of software as a service (SaaS), and we’re thrilled to announce our packed agenda, overflowing with some of the biggest names and most exciting startups in the industry. Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Money continues to flow into new venture capital funds. For example, in the past month, Runa Capital , Lerer Hippeau , Razor’s Edge Ventures , First Star , OurCrowd , Northzone , Janngo Capital and Kapor Capital all announced new funds. Scale Venture Partners Raises New $335 Million Fund.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Early-stage venture capital fund Newtopia VC launched Monday with $50 million to invest in tech startups based in Latin America. The fund will invest between $250,000 and $1 million in startups at the seed stage to help them achieve the milestones needed on the path to raising a Series A.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Business Canvas , the South Korean document management SaaS company behind Typed, announced today it has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by Mirae Asset Venture Investment , with participation from Kakao Ventures and Nextrans Inc. The global market size for social software and collaboration SaaS is estimated at $4.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The decentralized reality of office work after the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drive plenty of startup activity. The startup has just closed a $10 million Series A to continue building out its workplace management SaaS for landlords and office managers — which offers features like resource scheduling (booking meeting rooms etc.),

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. Colabs wants to be the gateway to Pakistan for tech companies and a launch pad for startups.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

w/ Sandhya Hegde | Unusual Ventures Hello hello, today we have Sandhya Hegde who is a General Partner at Unusual Ventures which focuses on early-stage companies. Sandhya’s specialism is early-stage SaaS. She was previously EVP at Amplitude and worked at Khosla Ventures and Sequoia Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 14, 2023

Register The Philippine venture capital firm Kaya Founders has successfully raised $12 million in funding for two new funds. With this funding, Kaya Founders now manages a total committed capital of $16.5 The Zero to One Fund will focus on pre-seed startups, while the One to Ten Fund will cater to seed to Series A startups.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

According to a report by Capchase comparing more than 400 SaaS startups to unicorns that reached the public markets in the last two years, the top performers “are handily beating the ‘Rule of 40,'” reports Kyle Wiggers. According to its findings, SaaS founders should target at least 80% and aim to surpass 110%.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

At the same time, it’s taking a lot longer to secure startup funding than it did just a few months ago, which means many companies are burning cash faster than they can raise it. How to grow a SaaS company efficiently in a recession. Justin Overdorff, partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

At one of my first startup jobs, I walked in one day to find two sleeping co-workers who’d spent the night configuring servers at a co-locating facility 60 miles away. For most of the Information Age, companies that wanted to scale invested in server farms and hired teams to keep them running. PitchBook found that CVCs played a part in 56.2%

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

New Zealand, a country of just under 5 million people, has historically flown under the radar of venture capitalism. 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. Technology startups are the pinnacle of that strategy.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

On Wednesday, January 24, the inaugural cohort of startups from i2E’s Bridge2 Pre-Accelerator program presented their groundbreaking innovations during the Bridge2 Demo Day at Sailor & The Dock in Oklahoma City. Before this program, I had the desire to pursue venture capital funding but lacked the clarity on what steps to take.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

This event represents a significant milestone in the agency’s global startup support initiatives, offering a platform for innovative startups in Pangyo Techno Valley to attract investments and benefit from invaluable mentoring sessions. Also contributing their expertise are Jeremy A. Sim of Mistletoe, Inc., Sim of Mistletoe, Inc.,

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. Our goal is to produce a $10 billion+ winner and remain the market leader in this SaaS category of AI in Sales & Marketing. Entrada Ventures? —?that

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

4 SaaS engagement metrics that attract investors Image Credits: Tetra mages (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Past performance doesn’t always predict future results, but it’s the best place to find customer retention stats that have investor appeal. Cast your vote before Thursday, April 20!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The number of so-called unicorns minted in a particular period was a workable indicator of how hot the venture capital market was at the time. For example, the pace at which new unicorns were born grew sharply in 2020, per CB Insights data , rising from 25 new $1 billion startups in the first quarter of that year to 47 by Q4.

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