Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

So Nick drove strategy & tech from the UK and remained an active board member and CTO of the company. That enabled us to bring Rob Bailey on board as the CEO and it was the best decision we could have made at the time. I think it’s fair to say that Rob managed me as a board member more than I managed him.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The prices are a win across the board for Sweetgreen, which last raised $156 million at a $1.78 Sweetgreen’s IPO pricing is fascinating because it fits neatly into our budding thesis regarding the value of tech-enabled companies when they go public. billion post-money valuation, according to PitchBook data. Upper single digits.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Current round: $20mm in Series C by Accel Partners (Jim Breyer, board member at Wal-Mart, Dell, and FaceBook), KPCB, and DAG Ventures. SimpleGeo – Provider of simple, turnkey location based services to content publishers and online service providers looking to location-enable their applications or services. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 18, 2020

At the March 2020 Board of Director’s meeting, six companies were approved to receive an investment: CPNet, located in Harrisburg , is an industrial IoT and AI company founded to bring Industry 4.0 Using this platform, educators easily learn new concepts that ultimately build on the district’s goals and enable student success. [link].

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

We are pleased to partner with Rob and the Sendcloud team to support their mission of fueling the next wave of e-commerce enablement.” . Sendcloud said that SoftBank Investment Advisors’ Neil Cunha-Gomes and Monika Wilk, and L Catterton’s Ido Krakowsky, are all joining its board.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

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. When it comes to SaaS or asset-light business models, there simply isn’t an asset base to collateralize, which makes traditional debt providers uncomfortable.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 17, 2010

A step further would be to actually create a platform—a place for apps to not only play more deeply within your product with advanced functionality, but one with a marketplace that enables discovery of third-party tools and services. Some services seem to me to be much more conducive to platform plays.

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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.” ” Run.AI raises $13M for its distributed machine learning platform.

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Revolution

JANUARY 9, 2019

Senior Software Engineer at Zylo Location: Indianapolis, IN Zylo is the leading enterprise SaaS optimization platform that transforms how companies manage and optimize their SaaS applications. Its SaaS platform, SONAR, provides data and analytics to participants in the freight market. Looking for more opportunities?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

Orb powers billing for high-growth B2B technology companies including Airbyte, Dune, and Materialize, saving them engineering costs and enabling them to unlock more revenue. SaaS companies must drive sustainable and profitable growth and need solutions that deliver value without requiring additional seats or active usage.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2019

At the December 2019 Board of Director’s meeting, six companies were approved for funding. This Saas platform enables a targeted method for creating and placing ads on Facebook and Instagram at a cost-effective price point. For more information, visit [link]. An investment in Sustain VC Impact Fund was also awarded.

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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. Riskified makes e-ommerce easier and safer and enables a thriving e-commerce environment. Fintech (specifically embedded finance or financial SaaS), synthetic bio.

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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. Taktile ignited this transformation by enabling companies of all sizes to more easily build, run and evaluate automated decision flows—without requiring developers to write complex code.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The company, headquartered in France, has developed a SaaS-based visual e-merchandising platform with tools for creating 3D images for e-commerce. We set out to build a SaaS e-merchandising platform to create unlimited visuals via a desktop so you can showcase your products.

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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

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. In contrast, Nacelle enables customers to keep their tech stack and put components together as they see fit. That is your direct line to revenue.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

.” Over the course of the last year, WhyLabs has made it easier for data teams to use its service, in large part because it launched its SaaS platform with a free self-serve tier. “Because we’re a SaaS, we focused on privacy a lot. ”

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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. While half a billion dollars raised in the U.S. is not uncommon, it’s a bit more rare in the Canadian tech scene.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A startup called Sanity has built a platform to help businesses (and their people) do that more easily with a SaaS platform that lets developers create code and systems to manage content. Stein and Jesse Robbins, a partner at Heavybit, are both joining Sanity’s board of directors with this round. million to fuel its growth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The Scotts Valley, California-based company is using cloud technology and the Ethereum blockchain as the engine for its Paystand Bank Network that enables business-to-business payments with zero fees. As part of the investment, Jazmin Medina, principal at NewView Capital, will join Paystand’s board. Paystand wants to change that.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Customer success company Vitally raised $9 million in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz to continue developing its SaaS platform automating customer experiences. From the beginning, Vitally was bringing in strong revenue growth, which enabled the company to focus on building its platform and hold off on fundraising. “A

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

In addition, the company launched a SaaS merchandising product that uses machine learning to make sure products are in-stock and shelved correctly. Where he believes Clerk is getting it right is by having a “ First Principles approach,” which enables the company to offer a cheaper cost structure. Clerk’s team.

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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. More than 100 web3-enabled games launch. Here are my predictions for 2023. The Fed tames inflation. but a Fed Funds rate of 5%.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 25, 2024

At the recent June board meeting, Ben Franklin CNP approved investments in the following companies: Atlas Biotech (Atlas Biologies, LLC) – Penn State Affiliated : Atlas Biotech is a research tool company specializing in the development and deployment of in vitro assays for the evaluation of targeted anticancer therapies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In addition to hiring, the new capital will enable Bitrise to expand its product so that developers can more easily operate in the continuous integration and delivery space and have better observability into the full DevOps lifecycle.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Canvas describes its SaaS offering as a “fully virtual” recruiting platform that is based on self-reported data. It’s all about how to empower talent to self-identify…We want to enable the talent to own their data, and truly be able to represent themselves in unique ways. That’s not leveraging AI.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. As part of the investment, Priya Saiprasad, partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, is joining CommerceIQ’s board of directors. “E-commerce Meanwhile, $1.1

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Just over a year after launching its flagship product, Landing AI secured a $57 million round of Series A funding to continue building tools that enable manufacturers to more easily and quickly build and deploy artificial intelligence systems.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Endgame , enabling software companies to turn customer observations into go-to-market strategies, announced Tuesday it raised a total of $17 million in back-to-back seed and Series A funding rounds. As part of the investment, Upfront Ventures Partner Kara Nortman and Menlo Ventures Partner Naomi Ionita will join Endgame’s board of directors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Also of note is that Buk was bootstrapped for the first five years of its SaaS operations. Buk is building an HRIS suite made in and for Latin America, enabling more efficient workflows throughout the full employee lifecycle, from recruiting to off-boarding.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

“We’re thrilled to partner with SGE to support our rapid growth and continue to define the role of PRM in the SaaS ecosystem,” said Gregory Galant, co-founder and CEO of Muck Rack, in a statement. Elser and Scott Feldman of SGE will be joining the board.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

STATE COLLEGE, PA – At the September 2019 Board of Director’s meeting the largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin Technology Partners added five additional startups to its portfolio of funded clients. Below are brief descriptions of the innovations developed by the companies. www.kijenzi.com. www.constance.one.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The round of fundraising enables the company to double down on its own software platform for software testing management and further shore up its sales and operations. With the round, Jeff Williams, partner at Spring Lake Equity Partners, joins the Testlio board of directors. . Testlio’s CEO Steve Semelsberger. .”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

What Rattle does is it enables you to send all the insights from Salesforce into a messaging platform and then lets you write data from within the messaging service back into Salesforce.”. “To use Salesforce, as an example, you are using it for two things: you’re writing data into Salesforce and you’re taking data out of it,” he explained.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Runbooks enables engineers to compose tasks and built-in integrations, like SQL, REST APIs and Slack, into workflows that run JavaScript code, can feed that into a SQL database or combine data from Stripe and be accessible to non-engineering team members. As part of the investment, Eric Vishria is joining Airplane’s board.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The investor joined Tackle’s board when his firm led the startup’s Series B round, and sees it as a category leader. “Tackle is the leading player for enabling companies to sell software through the cloud,” he said. At the time, Casado referred to Tackle having more than 200 customers.

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accelerator board VC enablement 97

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Kerry Wang told TechCrunch that she felt some interview processes didn’t enable enough time for them to fully demonstrate how they were different. The new funding will enable the company to make additional hires to double the size of the team next year, and invest in product development and its go-to marketing strategy.

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