TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

These include basic questions like how the business is doing this quarter, if there are any surprises that could throw the company off track and where are the best places to invest in the business to accelerate more quickly. The company has decided to concentrate its efforts for starters on SaaS companies and their requirements.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new company recently emerged that is targeting a popular startup niche, wanting to exclusively help early-stage SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies with their financial needs. And it’s doing it as part of a partnership with Stripe, one of the world’s largest, and most valuable private fintechs. How it’s different and the same.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2024

I highly recommend that every member get involved with their local chapter board and participate in regional and global events to significantly enhance their EO experience.” — Felix Wendlandt, EO Shanghai “EO has already been extremely beneficial to me. The trust and respect we have for each other is wonderful.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Bret Taylor is on a roll: On Monday, he became the chair of Twitter’s board, and a day later, Salesforce made him its co-CEO and co-chair. Every blog post, Tweet and Instagram Story is an opportunity to explain to customers (and your board) how the company creates value or is a step ahead of the competition.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tackle says it plans to use its new funding to accelerate the execution of its product roadmap, scale its go-to-market (GTM) teams, expand its global reach, and continue to innovate. The investor joined Tackle’s board when his firm led the startup’s Series B round, and sees it as a category leader.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The startup — which operates as a SaaS business — has seen an uptick in growth, quadrupling its revenue over the past two years. “Apartment buildings, like almost every customer-driven business, compete with each other by attracting, converting and retaining customers,” Themelis said. million apartment units using the platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Humaans , a London-based HR startup, has raised $5 million in seed funding to accelerate the development of its employee on-boarding and management platform. This is because scaling companies are increasingly rejecting all-encompassing HR software and using the best modern SaaS offerings for various different functions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Within this SaaS-based offering, Volterra integrates a broad range of services that have normally been siloed across many point products and network or cloud providers. Our platform will create a SaaS solution that solves our customers’ biggest pain points,” he said in a statement. F5 acquires Shape Security for $1B.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Four fintech startups — Cowrywise , Riby , Wallets Africa , and ThankUCash ; a crypto-exchange startup, BuyCoins ; a SaaS platform, Accounteer; an edtech startup, Schoolable ; and healthtech startup, 54gene. Half of its portfolio companies are backed by YC and other global accelerators. The introductory batch was all Nigerian.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Though the round was acquired before going into the accelerator program, the Belarus-based pair wanted to wait to publicly share the milestone. The company is already working with 4,000 clients, and will now be fast-tracking their expansion, but will need the right people on board to help the company grow, Astreiko said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Using this framework, they can then build and manage their pipelines for a variety of use cases, including their software delivery lifecycle, infrastructure as code and their SaaS application releases. Opsera plans to use the new funding to grow its engineering team and accelerate its go-to-market efforts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Securing early-stage venture financing is usually the best way to accelerate and sustain growth, but with various funding options available, how do you figure out the best course of action? Here’s a rundown of how alternative financing came to be, how it can benefit high-growth SaaS startups and how to know if it’s right for you.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Steven Kramer, board member and former EVP of Hybris, said via email that over the past two decades, the e-commerce industry went through several waves of innovation. Now, maturing consumer behaviors and expectations are accelerating the current phase.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Aviel and I are both self-taught VCs: the parts of the job we learned as founders and operators of our own companies covered just a fraction of what it means to be effective money managers, fundraisers, board members and trusted partners within the tight-knit community of professional investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook. “It’s attention.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

. “Every enterprise is either already rearchitecting themselves to be built around learning systems powered by AI, or they should be,” said Lonne Jaffe, managing director at Insight Partners and now a board member at Run:AI.”

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. The accelerator program’s positive support system helped the startup expand its business in Asia. One of the most important benefits was our accelerator, CNT Tech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Assent’s trajectory continues to grow and Waitmen projects the SaaS company will cross $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) this year after growing ARR by over 50% in the past 12 months. Vista’s Foundation Fund, which invests in middle-market companies seeking to scale and accelerate their growth trajectory, led the investment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Zviran, along with Dr. Dan Landau, faculty member at the NYGC and assistant professor of medicine at WCM, who serves as scientific co-founder and member of C2i’s scientific advisory board. This round of funding will be used to accelerate clinical development and commercialization of the company’s C2-Intelligence Platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Michael Seibel was chief executive of Y Combinator’s accelerator up until 2020, when the accelerator evolved from a more traditional partnership to no longer having multiple CEOs. YC says that no one else’s role at the accelerator has changed with today’s executive shakeup.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. You’re involved in other aspects of the firm’s activities: due diligence, portfolio acceleration, board service, etc.

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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. “We believe there is a need for the solutions Cohesion is creating,” said Steve Koch , HPA member and Cohesion Board Member.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In an interview with Natasha Mascarenhas, B2B stealth startup founder Akshaya Dinesh recounted the time her team was rejected by an accelerator because they hadn’t yet picked a CEO. 5 must-have board slides for SaaS sales and revenue leaders. 5 must-have board slides for SaaS sales and revenue leaders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

In the latest development, private equity giant Thoma Bravo is buying Proofpoint , the SaaS security vendor, for $12.3 The deal has been endorsed by Proofpoint’s board. billion in cash. Proofpoint is traded publicly on the Nasdaq exchange and as of its closing price on Friday, it had a market cap of $7.5

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Its embedded infrastructure powers financial services for marketplaces, vertical SaaS, and payment platforms. The recent closing of a $100 million Series C financing at a $750 million valuation positions the company for accelerated growth. and Canada. This is more flexible than fixed payment periods.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept. In general software has proven to be a winner and specifically SaaS as a business model has proven its resilience. Yes in many areas. the speed of creating vaccines).

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Twitter Spaces: SaaS marketing with MKT1 founders Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich. London for a Twitter Spaces conversation with Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich , founders of MKT1, a partnership that advises SaaS startups. ServiceMax promises accelerating growth as key to $1.4B Image Credits: MKT1. Join us today at 2 p.m.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

“With a step-function increase in folks working/studying from home and relying on cloud-based SaaS/PaaS applications, the deployment of scalable hardware infrastructure has accelerated,” Gajendra said in an email to TechCrunch. He claims that solutions could provide up to double the bandwidth on the same infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Benioff challenged SOA founder Daniela Fernandez to find and accelerate 100 ocean-focused startups and projects back in 2019, and the organization more than doubled that goal. “We see startups leapfrogging across multiple accelerator programs to try and access new networks and funding. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

CourseKey , a San Diego-based trade school management SaaS startup, was in a unique position. We saw a massive acceleration trend that was already going to happen. Dennis Yang, former CEO of edtech giant Udemy, and Altman now serve on its board. Demand surged and its ARR grew by 200% in 2020. Every industry had been eaten.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Their two plus year old startup just raised $20 million in funding and set up an advisory board comprised of eight unicorn founders and executives. Next, they focused on finding the best resources to start Taktile which led to their acceptance into the Y Combinator accelerator program.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

ML propels SaaS into a massive second wave that increases workers’ productivity measurably. Users grow accustomed to this very quickly & ML becomes a requisite feature in most workflow SaaS. Covid accelerated distributed work, which is now a norm. Here are my predictions for 2023. 3 of 5 isn’t terrible.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Interest from CapitalG introduced the Curated team to general partner Laela Sturdy, who is joining Curated’s board as part of the investment. This fundraising was the right thing to do, even though it was unexpected, for the purposes of accelerating into more categories of high-consideration purchases.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Demand has accelerated exponentially, and the San Francisco-based startup saw its revenue grow “3x” in 2020 compared to 2019, although execs declined to provide hard figures. Canvas describes its SaaS offering as a “fully virtual” recruiting platform that is based on self-reported data. Jumpstart nabs $8.5M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Apollo.io , which is developing sales intelligence and engagement software for business-to-business companies, brought in $32 million in Series B funding to continue with its go-to-market acceleration approach. As part of the investment, Sri Pangulur, partner at Tribe Capital, joined Apollo.io’s board.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Alternative financing options such as revenue financing or expense financing are often overshadowed by the VC model, but they can be just as, and sometimes more, useful for SaaS startups, writes Miguel Fernandez, CEO and co-founder of Capchase. Startup accelerators’ definition of ‘value add’ is due for a refresh.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Its customers hail from a variety of industries, including banking, SaaS, manufacturing, healthcare, insurance and higher education. Vena CEO Hunter Madeley told TechCrunch the latest raise is “mostly an acceleration story for Vena, rather than charting new paths.”.

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