TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

London-based PassFort , a SaaS provider that helps business meet compliance requirements such as KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) reporting, has closed a $16.2 The Series A is a mix of equity and debt, with $4.89M worth of venture debt being provided by Shard Credit Partners.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bill Binch is an operating partner at global, technology-focused investment firm Battery Ventures. As a revenue leader at large and small technology companies, I’ve spent the last 15 years attending a lot of quarterly board meetings. This is all necessary because the board meeting is such a high-stakes event. Deliver the goods.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Qatalog , a London-based startup that has developed a “virtual workspace” that brings together disparate SaaS tools to help teams function better, is disclosing $15 million in Series A funding. As part of the investment, Atomico partner Irina Haivas will join the board. Image Credits: Qatalog. and vice versa.

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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. Arc is also partnering with traditional capital providers, including VCs, banks and venture debt lenders. How it’s different and the same.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

When venture-backed companies were chasing growth metrics, higher cloud bills were shrugged off as unavoidable. Usage-based cloud and SaaS services, which have become a major cost center, are coming into the spotlight. Meanwhile, CFOs and CTOs need to get ready to answer some tough questions at board meetings.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Certainly any modern tooling is going to be SaaS, and as companies and employees add services, it becomes a management nightmare. Enter Torii , an early stage startup that wants to make it easier to manage SaaS bloat. Under the terms of the deal, Wing partner Jake Flomenberg is joining the board. Torii Workflow Engine.

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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. Within 5 years I was on the board of real businesses with meaningful revenue, strong balance sheets, no debt and on the path to a few interesting exits.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This has traditionally fallen under the purview of data loss prevention software (DLP), but Metomic , an early-stage startup, wants to update DLP in a modern SaaS context without getting in the way of people doing their jobs. So with Metomic we help companies protect sensitive data in SaaS applications.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

SaaS companies needs to estimate the amount of sales resources spent on clients (can be measured by activities like visits, sales calls, etc) / the clients who convert to look at sales productivity. And then of course you need to layer in marketing to understand the true SaaS customer acquisition costs. What is the LTV?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

That’s why we’ve pivoted to a SaaS model. Fortunately, the SaaS direction has delivered upsides: We’ve achieved relatively strong product-market fit and cash flow-positive status without big VC raises or burn rates. Engaged our board and investors candidly. Like any major startup redirect, there were several “a-ha!”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Venture capitalists are chatting this week about a recent piece from The Information titled “ The End of Venture Capital as We Know It.” Lessin notes that venture capitalists once made risky wagers on companies that often withered away. Thus, venture capitalists sold their capital dearly to founders. A capital explosion.

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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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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

AUGUST 2, 2022

“Once you’ve already raised a bunch of ventures, you’re kind of building a business for venture scale, whereas if you are bootstrapped … you can be really really opportunistic about what that right time is,” he told Natasha Mascarenhas. Will once-bootstrapped startups turn to venture during a watershed moment?

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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. Backing the round is Y Combinator, Mattias Ljungman’s Moonfire, Frontline Ventures and former head of Stripe Issuing, Lachy Groom. Image Credits: Humaans. “If

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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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NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Thank you to Tasha for helping to keep me sane by managing the onslaught of meeting requests, board meetings and constant change. 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.

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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. Richard Kerby, general partner, Equal Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

It’s basically SaaS for forest management, something the company calls an “operating system for forest restoration.” ” Valia Ventures, Earthshot Ventures — backed by Laurene Powell Jobs and Tom Steyer — Cisco, and Halogen Ventures also participated in the round. What does the future look like?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Opsera, a startup that’s building an orchestration platform for DevOps teams, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Felicis Ventures. Founded in January 2020, Opsera lets developers provision their CI/CD tools through a single framework.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

It was an expensive mistake, and one he wants to help Latin American entrepreneurs avoid with his new venture, Latitud. “I Many called us worried and scared that funding was drying up while some had boards telling them to fire people,” Requarth recalls. “I According to PitchBook, venture-backed companies raised $14.8

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MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. They are an open-source & SaaS provider of eCommerce solutions. I have board meetings, company pitches, internal partner meetings, etc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Volterra emerged in 2019 with a $50 million investment from multiple sources, including Khosla Ventures and Mayfield, along with strategic investors like M12 (Microsoft’s venture arm) and Samsung Ventures. Our platform will create a SaaS solution that solves our customers’ biggest pain points,” he said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A Kenya-based venture studio with a focus on tourism, Purple Elephant Ventures (PEV), has raised $1 million pre-seed funding to build the next generation of startups that use technology to modernize the tourism sector. The venture studio is currently looking for co-founders and CEOs for the two startups.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Yousuf Khan is a partner at Ridge Ventures. Customer advisory boards are a gold mine for startup brand champions. If you’re a late-seed or Series A company, you’re focused on landing those first 10-20 customers and racking up some wins to showcase in your investor and board deck. Yousuf Khan. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Cacheflow CEO and co-founder Sarika Garg told TechCrunch that the new capital doubled her company’s valuation, added prior lead investor Glenn Solomon (GGV) to its board and brought new investor Crystal Huang (GV) on as a board observer. ” Easier said than done, yeah?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Leading the round is European venture capital firm Atomico, with participation from angel investors Ott Kaukver (Checkout.com CTO), Sten Tamkivi (CPO Topia, formerly Skype), Sergei Anikin (CTO, Pipedrive) and Kairi Pauskar (former TransferWise HR Architect). Meet the makers of modular. Image Credits: Katana.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two. Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. This is how VCs feel. Now for every dollar a VC raises $2.50

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

The round was led by Pelion Venture Partners , with participation from returning investors DNX Ventures (the Japan and US-focused enterprise fund that led Macrometa’s seed round), Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), Partech Partners, Fusion Fund, Sway Ventures and Shasta Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Most board meetings are “update meetings” where management downloads its status to a group of investors. These outside board members spend most of the board meeting trying to reacquaint themselves with the company’s business and critical issues. So most board meetings become bored meetings.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Flockjay’s new product, a B2B SaaS tool, may feel like a huge leap from where it started in the world of edtech. The company most recently raised venture funding in an $11 million Series A in January 2021, per Crunchbase data. Failure is complex, especially in the world of startups.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Battery Ventures led the round with participation from existing investors Foundation Capital, Trinity Ventures, The House Fund and Swift Ventures. As part of the investment, Dharmesh Thakker, general partner at Battery Ventures, is joining the Arize AI board. Every three months, the firm picks a new theme.

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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. Based on nfinite’s performance in the past year, this is an area ripe for both e-commerce and venture capital investors. Europe and Asia so we become the standard,” he added.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

5 must-have board slides for SaaS sales and revenue leaders. Before he became a partner at Battery Ventures, Bill Binch was chief revenue officer at Pendo, a product analytics app. In his former role, he was responsible for providing his company’s board with quarterly updates on growth and revenue. “As

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