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. Walter Thompson.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? Until we weren’t.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

These events aren’t just a chance to review the latest cohort of hopeful entrepreneurs — they also showcase the technology, products and services that will compete for VC and consumer attention over the next few years. Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models.

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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. By contrast, venture capital is a craft that defies both speed and scale.

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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. It’s largely due to the changing cultural and societal value placed on sustainability. Recommerce is a concept as old as trade itself.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Edtech needs to reach beyond underfunded public school systems to become more sustainable, which is why more investors and founders are focusing on lifelong learning. Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula).

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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. There are home-grown venture capital firms doing well, too, citing Kazek’s $1 billion funds. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Why dilute themselves if they were clearly on a path towards self-sustaining growth? Mopinion wanted to grow ambitiously, but not at the doubling year-over-year rate that VCs often demand. RBF is compared to debt instead of equity, and is therefore seen as an expensive loan instead of cheap capital,” says Gijs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Startups and VC. Dakotah Rice, founder of Poolit, tells Mary Ann , “2023 will be a fantastic year in all likelihood for venture and private equity. The company raised millions to turn accredited investors into LPs in VC and private equity funds. It’s kind of like you’re starting from a new base.” Is it a plane?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

After a blockbuster year for venture capital funding in 2021, the flow of capital to Indian startups seemed like it would buck global trends in early 2022, but dried up in the second half of 2022. 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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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. Image Credits : Seedstars Africa Ventures. billion), and India ($42 billion).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. VC Funding was steadily growing before the war and there are more than 50 VC firms continuing to operating in the country. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It turns out that while later-stage investors, mostly international VC firms, grabbed headlines by writing immense checks, pre-seed and seed-stage investors were instrumental to the growth of the continent’s tech ecosystem. The most active African investors were involved in 15-20 deals, according to a report on African VC activity in 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Optimizing time-to-value, using data to calibrate customer touchpoints, and giving every employee “a shared understanding of the customer’s journey” is how PLG giants like Slack and Dropbox carved out their niche, writes Vidya Raman, a partner at Sorenson Ventures. Image Credits: Eoneren (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Our survey respondents said the city was strong across a broad range of tech industries, particularly those with practical applications: cybersecurity, energy and sustainability, fintech, health care and medtech, edtech and silver tech among others. managing director, The Lithuanian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Spark Capital led the investment and was joined by existing investors Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Social Impact Capital and Congruent VC. It is time to tip the scales back to sustainability based on small and mid-sized farmers. MilkRun founder and CEO Julia Niiro. “It

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

“Denver was ready for the Zoom boom, and is reaping the — venture capital — rewards.” My dream is to immigrate to Silicon Valley to start my own venture. Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. ” Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

For this morning’s edition of The Exchange, Alex Wilhelm interviewed three executives at cloud and SaaS companies to find out how well Q3 2020 has been treating them: Ping CFO Raj Dani. 3 tips for SaaS founders hoping to join the $1 million ARR club. ” 3 tips for SaaS founders hoping to join the $1 million ARR club.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We just wrapped up a three-day virtual event that included discussions and interviews with some of the most notable people in technology, media, government and venture capital. The whole package: How plastics and sustainability startups achieve success. The whole package: How plastics and sustainability startups achieve success.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

It’s hard to pin down where Shein is from,” answered Richard Xu from Grand View Capital, a Chinese venture capital firm. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital / Wonderschool. Veo CEO Candice Xie has a plan for building a sustainable scooter company, and it’s working. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Argentina-based clicOH is the latest shipping technology company attracting venture capital funding, raising $25 million in Series A funding in a round led by Tiger Global. Joining them is JAM Fund and existing investors Flexport, FundersClub and Vast VC. Last-mile delivery in Latin America is ready to take off.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

With capital in abundance, SaaS startups don’t seem to be too worried about how much runway they have remaining. Nowhere is this more apparent, the authors claim, than when you look at public B2B SaaS companies. “Investors have forgotten all about the Rule of 40.” ” OpenView Partners. Measuring up.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Gloat is also benefitting from a general rise in VC funding for HR tech startups. In January, VCs funneled more than $1.4 in venture capital invested in HR tech across more than 800 deals. Accel, Eight Roads Ventures, Intel Capital and Lumir Ventures also participated in New York-based Gloat’s latest funding round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Now that many consumers are buying their own e-bikes and e-scooters, shared dockless micromobility “just hasn’t proven itself to be a profitable line of business,” Puneeth Meruva, an associate at Trucks Venture Capital, told TechCrunch. European VC soars in Q1. European VC soars in Q1.

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Feedough

JANUARY 6, 2021

As you compete for VC funding , an entrepreneurship degree may add an edge to your case or argument for why you should get funded. VC funds are willing to spend money on worthy ideas. You need to be a good communicator as you need to persuade others to buy into your business idea or to purchase your app or SaaS software.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

The head VC guy seems a little bit… weird. In this stage, startups can choose to raise their seed round from early-stage VCs and angel investors. Business #3 (Scale): The only job is to create a growing but sustainable business. From Series A, VCs want to invest in well-established, growing businesses. Rinse and repeat!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Several months later, we’ve since learned that cutting marketing budgets doesn’t make early-stage startups healthier, but it is a great way for VCs to reduce burn rates across their entire portfolio. As Rebecca Szkutak reported this week, SaaS startups that ignored this advice outperformed the ones that followed it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

This February, Marketforce raised a $40 million Series A in debt and equity (equally shared across the board) from V8 Capital Partners, Ten13 VC, SOSV Select Fund, VU Venture Partners, Vastly Valuable Ventures and Uncovered Fund. As the global venture capital market slows, Africa charts its own course.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Startups and VC It’s a tough time to be a richly priced company that didn’t go public when the getting was good. A VC’s perspective on deep tech fundraising in Q1 2023 Image Credits: Xi Huo (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Successful deep tech startups and SaaS companies generally reach billion-dollar valuations in the same time frame.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

In 2005, when Y Combinator started, there was already a well developed ecosystem of venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and Boston. But access to those venture capital firms was limited. VCs preferred to fund companies that already seemed like a sure bet – in other words, were far along.

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

He’s a 30-year technology veteran and currently leading Blockperfect , a venture studio dedicated to nurturing early-stage Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), AI, and Web3 startups. So Blockperfect was founded to these entrepreneurs the resources and guidance to build sustainable revenue-first companies they can grow as large as they choose.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Grab the Wite-Out : Alex and Anna look at venture capital activity in Latin America and sense that a decline is in the cards for the second quarter, alluding to a possible correction. Startups and VC. The ability to raise capital is less impressive than finding sustainable ways to build a growing base of paying customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

virtual events platform Hopin serves as another example, rising from a seed-stage upstart at the pandemic’s outset to become a $6 billion juggernaut in just 12 months — before laying off a huge chunk of its staff in pursuit of more sustainable growth. In the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

Quality of life (personal health, sustainability, proptech, transportation). Confluent’s IPO brings a high-growth, high-burn SaaS model to the public markets. What we can see in Confluent is nearly an old-school, high-burn SaaS business. It has taken on oodles of capital and used it in an increasingly expensive sales model.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? Smaller VC fundraises? VC resets are often short-lived.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

billion of total venture capital. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. List of 60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms The following includes venture funds founded by women or those that have a focus on funding women-founded or gender-mixed startups and early-stage companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

The VC landscape has undergone a tectonic shift in the past year. A year ago, 90% of VC meetings with startups would have been about growth, with little regard for how that growth would be achieved. In 2023, most VC meetings focus on whether a business can deliver sustainable, efficient growth during the downturn.

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