Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. And then of course you need to layer in marketing to understand the true SaaS customer acquisition costs.

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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? Choosing the right financing partner can be tedious, as they need to align with your mission, values and objectives. Revenue financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I’m super proud to announce that DataSift has just completed a $42 million financing round coming at the end of a year where its revenue grew several hundred percent year-over-year. Considering our revenue is SaaS revenue this achievement is even more remarkable. Now can we please do at least one board meeting in LA?!?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

That’s the gap that revenue-based financing platforms like GetVantage want to fill. Varanium Capital partner Aparajit Bhandarkar will join GetVantage’s board. GetVantage says this includes several debt lines with non-banking financial companies to help scale its financing platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. Almost no financings, many VCs and tech startups cratered for the second time in less than a decade following the dot com bursting. Until we weren’t.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x The Invoca board and Mark gathered and discussed how our process was going. As I mentioned, at the start of the process median SaaS multiples were around 7.3x FOMO was NOMO.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Existing backers Madrona Venture Group, Lead Edge Capital, Second Avenue Partners and Seven Peaks Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings the company’s total capital raised to $47 million. hire across product, engineering, sales, marketing, customer success, finance and human resources divisions.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 13, 2023

Register Growfin, a SaaS fintech startup, has raised $7.5 The startup provides SaaS for finance departments to track and collect payments and to help manage the accounts receivable process. as it grows AI-based cash collection SaaS in US, Asia first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You can find a “software as a service” (SaaS) solution for every business function —accounting, invoicing, marketing, internal communication, customer relationship management, workflow, ecommerce and video conferencing, to name more than a few. You’ll find SaaS offerings for needs you didn’t know you had. Don’t drown in the options.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

US startups seeking funds shouldn’t overlook financing from the government. ” US startups seeking funds shouldn’t overlook financing from the government. Build a solid deck for your quarterly board meetings. Build a solid deck for your quarterly board meetings. I know people who’ve worked with the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

MarketForce , the retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, has raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa. Cellulant co-founder Ken Njoroge, who joins the MarketForce board as chairman, also took part in the round. Image Credits: MarketForce.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

FlapKap , using its revenue-based financing platform (RBF), is helping these stores solve the growth-destructive challenges emerging online stores encounter when trying to meet customer demands. and witnessed the rise of revenue-based financing platforms in the country and the West, including Clearco and Wayflyer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

For one thing, the processes remain largely manual, with financing in this sector remaining reliant on emails, spreadsheets and documents in a variety of formats. For Banyan, these inefficiencies in communication and monitoring are pain points it wants to solve with its purpose-built project finance software.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Today I’m excited to announce we’ve recently raised $30 million in growth finance led by 8VC , with Kimmy Scotti joining our board. If you have a storage need in one of these cities please consider checking out MakeSpace. We’ve been delighted with 8VC as a co-investor. years of software development.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu , a Berlin-based startup that describes itself as an SaaS banking platform — providing, by way of APIs, technology to banks and others to power lending, deposit and other banking products — has closed a round of €110 million (about $135 million at today’s rates). That could lead to consolidation, too.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2022

For the last 24 months, Thomvest Ventures recorded headcount data for 150 Series A to C enterprise SaaS startups, and we have the numbers. Ackerman says he expects to see another tranche of layoffs in several weeks, after startups hold their Q4 2022 board meetings. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Embedded finance infrastructure makes financing decisions based on real-time data. Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. and Canada. This is more flexible than fixed payment periods.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster? So, why do public SaaS firms with usage-based pricing see faster growth ? Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster? From dorm rooms to board rooms: How universities are promoting entrepreneurship. Fifteen U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

It was originally founded as CloudBusiness in 2016 and developed accounting automation and management of business finances for small and mid-size businesses. 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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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Any spreadsheet that Adobe’s corp finance function used to justify the multiple, or the bankers presented to suggest what valuation it would take to get this deal done, is basically CYA math. Once the acquiring company CEO and Board is framing the transaction this way the startup has won. Is Figma really worth $20 billion?

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

This is why Paystand is surfing the next wave of fintech, driven by blockchain and decentralized finance, to transform the $125 trillion B2B payment industry by offering an autonomous, cashless and feeless payment network that will be an alternative to cards, Almond said. I’ve wanted something like this to exist for 20 years,” Almond said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Existing backers Madrona Venture Group and Mayfield also participated in the financing, which brings SeekOut’s total funding since inception to $73 million. In a world where so many startups have yet to turn a profit, SeekOut is a refreshing exception.

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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

JUNE 15, 2021

billion after raising a $300 million Series D round led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. Today’s financing event similarly brings in a strategic investor, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. The Ontario-based company is now worth around $3.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

5 must-have board slides for SaaS sales and revenue leaders. In his former role, he was responsible for providing his company’s board with quarterly updates on growth and revenue. “As 5 must-have board slides for SaaS sales and revenue leaders. Choose your job title before you name your startup.

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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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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Absolutely not.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Worse, CFOs are expected to be more strategic than ever about finance, but can struggle to deliver important forecasts and projections given the lack of availability of key data. Mosaic is a “strategic finance platform” that is designed to ingest data from all sorts of systems in the alphabet soup of enterprise IT — ERPs, HRISs, CRMs, 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

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. million, according to Yahoo Finance data. billion in cash. This bid, which will see the company go private, is a big hike on its latest share price.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

It’s also a useful overview for early employees and co-founders who may be new to startup financing. Topics covered: How financing works: SAFEs versus equity rounds. Founders: How well do you really understand seed-stage financing? Twitter Spaces: SaaS marketing with MKT1 founders Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. As I’ve pointed out previously, this is perfectly captured by Joe Floyd here tracking SaaS multiples over time. forward revenue for SaaS businesses when in the years before it had been less than 5x. This is how VCs feel.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

.” After surveying 14 public B2B software companies, Townshend says firms that built for discoverability and deployed usage-based pricing had a median growth rate of 141%, compared to 21% for traditional SaaS. “Across the board, the variance in metrics is stark,” says Townshend. The TechCrunch+ team is growing!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

As part of the financing, Vista Equity is taking a minority stake in the company. The round follows $25 million in financing from CIBC Innovation Banking last September, and brings Vena’s total raised since its 2011 inception to over $363 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The financing follows a $131 million Series C raise led by Warburg Pincus, which remains the company’s largest shareholder. 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.

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