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

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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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The company has the requisite experience and expertise in the sports medicine market to provide and support the electronic documentation that athletic trainers and their school need to be compliant with other medical providers. Gig and Take, Inc. TEAMtalk is sold to school districts on an annual subscription basis. OK2StandUp , Inc.,

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2024

Founder Brad Hel ler Ecodrive – B2B platform that makes sustainability accessible, transparent and ROI effective. – SaaS MarTech startup that drives sales of travel products by connecting brands, influencers, and travelers. Founder, CEO Olivia Rutman, CTP Landng Inc. Actual amount invested depends on total dollars raised.

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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. By creating one of the world’s largest repositories of commercial real estate data, Cohesion will lead the industry’s transformation to autonomous buildings.

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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. Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 21, 2023

Register Antler , a global venture capital firm with a strong presence in Indonesia , has committed to supporting aspiring founders and early-stage teams in the country by investing in over 30 startups in 2023. The company has already invested in 25 local startups since its launch in 2022.

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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. Jaewoo Ahn and Jungho Choi lead the development team.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Featuring topics like green infrastructure, new mobilities, sustainable tech, urban mobility The Fintech Stage: Dive into the evolution of monetary exchanges and follow the technology that is powering new ways of capturing and distributing value and wealth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

After making the initial public call for its first cohort last year, Pangea vetted and onboarded nine startups that met several criteria, including high-growth potential, and long term goals aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. The nine have equity investment needs of between $25,000 and $100,000.

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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.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 20, 2016

What is the smallest price point at which a SaaS startup can justify building an inside sales team? This is a natural question that many SaaS startups raise as they begin to complement bottoms-up, product-led adoption with assisting customers through the sales process.

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Why dilute themselves if they were clearly on a path towards self-sustaining growth? Throughout that expansion, Mopinion has increased their monthly growth rate without compromising R&D or customer support. Their team of less than 20 was already juggling multiple responsibilities, but Mopinion couldn’t leave the leads unanswered.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. But over 90% of Ukrainian startups say they need financial support to survive the war.

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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. Alumni Directory: an alumni network directory to support our impacted workforce. No interview policy for Rejoiners.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The group has already invested in startups in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, including Aleph (B2B SaaS for e-commerce), Apperto (social commerce), Choiz (healthtech), Exactly (DeFi), Elevva (e-commerce brands), Inipay (fintech), Leef (sustainability), Wibson (e-privacy) and Yerbo (wellness).

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Sales and support prepare their pitches. One well known SaaS unicorn focused itself on monthly product launches. The company sustained this cadence for two years. First, the company sustained a torrid pace of product development for a long time achieving more than most thought possible. PR readies articles and interviews.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The importance of building more sustainable businesses has never been more evident, especially for those in the food and beverage space,” said Surbhi Martin, vice president of Greek yogurt and functional nutrition for Danone North America. “By Imperfect Foods brought in $95 million in Series D funding for its sustainable grocery delivery.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

Cormint”), an emerging Bitcoin miner focused on mining low-cost Bitcoin at scale while supporting a reliable and renewable power grid, announced today that it has successfully raised $30,000,000 in Series A equity. “We are thrilled to have received such strong support from our investors,” said Jamie McAvity, Cormint’s President.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Sustainability Stage: Tackles social and environmental solutions such as urban mobility, sustainable tech, green infrastructure, and new mobilities. AI Stage: Covers the latest artificial intelligence tech related to NLG, speech recognition, virtual agents, biometrics, RPA, deep learning platforms, reactive machines, and P2P networks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

To take that lesson and scale it, Church is launching a new product, available today, that will connect leadership teams to an HR executive who will help craft a company communications plan, a diversity and impact analysis, and day-of support in conducting the layoffs. 10 steps for managing layoffs respectfully.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 7, 2022

With the support of our Series A investors, we are excited to bring these benefits to more retailers and their customers across the globe,” Chen said in a statement. Blake Ong of SIG said they are pleased with Omnistream’s ability to productize what was previously a pricey yet unsuccessful way for merchants to better serve customers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

The sector is still pretty nascent in many parts of Africa and has barely scratched the surface even though the millions poured into startups — operating in various facets from haulage to last mile — are yet to build sustainable businesses. I’ve realized we can build and create solutions around payment and core fintech.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures , the pan-African early-stage fund for startups, has appointed Bruce Nsereko-Lule as its new general partner, to help it deploy more capital and provide the much-needed technical support for founders across the continent. The support is meant to help them to spend their full time building the business.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Combining TravelPerk’s industry-leading knowledge, technology, experience and first class customer support with our own is a powerful proposition and we can’t wait to get started,” McLean added. Flexibility and sustainability. TravelPerk launches an open API platform to extend its work trip SaaS.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2019

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern PA provides investment capital and business support services to tech-startups and small manufacturers located in our 32-county footprint. An investment in Sustain VC Impact Fund was also awarded. For more information, visit [link]. www.boostpoint.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

After more than a 12-year bull run for tech in the global markets supported by low interest rates, since the beginning of 2022, we have witnessed a significant slowdown in capital flows. Focus on growth with good economics and don’t “buy” growth, as that will come with poor economics and hence is not sustainable.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 14, 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. Today, we’ll look at Veeva, masters of the massive enterprise sale, and one of the most remarkable SaaS businesses.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2022

Register ESB , Indonesia’s largest fully-integrated restaurant management SaaS platform , announced that it raised $29 million in Series B funding round co-led by Northstar Group and Alpha JWC Ventures , with participation from existing investors AC Ventures, BEENEXT, and Vulcan Capital. In the end, this will help them increase their profit.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Patjane intends to invest the new funding into scaling new business models, expanding into new geographic areas with Latin America and new sustainability initiatives in line with the company’s low-carbon goals of increasing its use of electric vehicles. Last-mile delivery in Latin America is ready to take off.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

But often this doesn’t tell the whole story because often companies are also spending money on PR and other marketing activities in order to support the sales process. And then of course you need to layer in marketing to understand the true SaaS customer acquisition costs. But none of this matters if you run out of money.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Greater Colorado Venture Fund raises $25 million dollar fund, in partnership with Colorado Venture Capital Authority; Funds will be used to galvanize, support and expand rural Colorado founders and entrepreneurs in their business building efforts. GCVF’s Fund I raised $17.5M GCVF is industry agnostic and focused on seed stage companies.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Greater Colorado Venture Fund raises $25 million dollar fund, in partnership with Colorado Venture Capital Authority; Funds will be used to galvanize, support and expand rural Colorado founders and entrepreneurs in their business building efforts. GCVF’s Fund I raised $17.5M GCVF is industry agnostic and focused on seed stage companies.

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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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Feedough

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Even though CAC is a niche agnostic KPI, it is more often used by businesses operating on a SAAS and subscription-based model. So, in freemium and SAAS products like Spotify, Dropbox, SEMrush, etc. Higher than 3:1 – Usually, businesses having more than a 3:1 CLV to CAC ratio sustain for the long term. How To Calculate CAC.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In the market we’ve seen the massive uptick of SaaS valuations in the public markets and commensurate attention on private market fundings and valuations. I know your 2013 success will lead to more sustained travel in 2014. This would be an unbearably difficult job without your support. eCommerce was battered this year.

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