TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? If you have ideas for how to improve venture capital for founders, please tweet me or send me an email with the link above. in the New Yorker.

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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. This year, that figure rose to 45%.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Even more likely is eventual technology disruption where drones deliver foods and make it hard for existing car delivery services to compete. ChowNow is simply a SaaS enablement product.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. But finding a market which is large, out-dated, has zero tech and is ripe for disruption can lead to very large outcomes. With our increases in capital we hope to be able to serve you in the near-term future.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

That’s why we’re excited to announce that Mathilde Collin, co-founder and CEO at Front, Deidre Paknad, co-founder and CEO at WorkBoard and Adriana Roche, chief people officer at Mural, will tackle this topic onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco. Early action equals bigger savings.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

As the market swoons, venture capital firms continue to announce new funds. As the global venture capital market slows, is the US dodging the downturn? Lorena Suarez, one of the managing partners of Argentina-based Alaya Capital , a 10-year-old early-stage VC firm, invests in impact-driven startups from Spanish-speaking Latin America.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

After a decade-long bull run, many venture capital funds have found themselves holding overvalued shares of companies whose IPO prospects have been either eliminated or significantly delayed. Greater geopolitical tensions around Taiwan The case for US venture capital outperformance by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 At TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , you’ll find AI’s influential fingerprints throughout the show’s programming. The SaaS Stage Fireside with Thomas Dohmke, CEO at GitHub. Join the global startup community at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , September 19–21 in San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

million in seed funding from Sequoia Capital India. The new capital will be used for tech development and hiring, and brings Outplay’s total raised so far to $9.3 Its previous funding was a $2 million raise from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge announced in March after Outplay took part in the program’s fourth cohort.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Zenskar , a startup that is aiming to help SaaS companies automate their billing workflows, has raised $3.5 The market is flooded with similar SaaS billing platforms, but Bansal said Zenskar allows companies to configure its solution in a no-code, low-code manner, without requiring them to rely on engineers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The language learning company launched nearly a decade ago on the Disrupt stage with no monetization plans. CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn returned to TechCrunch Disrupt this year to explain how the sophistication of public markets impacts the company’s strategy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The capital market for startups has perhaps never been more attractive than it is today. Not only are venture capitalists raising more capital than ever , but new methods of financing startup activity are maturing. Not just SaaS. That fact may lead to startups not wanting to pursue equity-only transactions when possible.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For cash-strapped SaaS startups trying to reach scale, the math doesn’t look great. In his TC+ guest post, Owens shares several tactics “SaaS leaders can use to supercharge their expansion revenue,” such as adding upsell tiers and charging customers for priority support. Thanks very much for reading, Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Now, a startup building SaaS software to help finance departments manage this more intelligently is announcing some funding to expand after seeing strong demand. ” Singapore’s SWC Global led the funding round with participation from existing backers 3one4 Capital and angel investors. million Series A.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital led the round, marking the first time the New York-based venture firm has led an investment in a Brazilian startup. Pipo, she said, was created to “disrupt this landscape” with the use of technology and data. Although, notably, Thrive has also put money in Nubank and Loft.). Image Credits: Pipo Saude.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Everstream Analytics , a supply chain insights and risk analytics startup, today announced that it raised $24 million in a Series A round led by Morgan Stanley Investment Management with participation from Columbia Capital, StepStone Group, and DHL.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 20, 2023

Register Singapore-based private equity firms Capital Square Partners (CSP) and Basil Technology Partners (BTP) have publicly announced a partnership that seeks to build a leading regional technology investment platform. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand. Indian logistics SaaS startup FarEye raises $100 million. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Our four primary conclusions: Public theses are often inconsistent with how firms actually deploy capital. Public theses are often inconsistent with how firms actually deploy capital. and Germany; and “tech” means B2B SaaS/fintech or consumer apps. of venture capital deals. 36 theses pulled directly from U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

This is a Series C and it’s being led by Balderton Capital out of London, with participation from Jerusalem Venture Partners, a previous backer. We are excited to partner with Coro’s innovative team and participate in their journey to make non-disruptive security a mainstay of growing businesses across industries.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

The other day I wrote a post about the lack of Enterprise Software disruption coming out of NYC —and a lot of people responded that I wasn’t citing Buddy Media. ” In fact, it’s this press release that, according to the Google News archives, appears to be the first time Buddy was described as a SaaS company anywhere.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt has a long history of bringing leading venture capitalists to the stage to yammer about their industry. Our impending TC Disrupt conference happening on September 21-23 is no different.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Existing investors, including Lightspeed India and Sequoia Capital India, also participated in the round, which brings the five-year-old startup’s raise to-date to about $35 million. “In HR tech and SaaS space, we are now only behind SAP and Oracle in India in terms of revenue,” he said.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Their headquarters in Indianapolis is notable as the city is a recognized martech hub and the SaaS capital of the Midwest, which strongly aligns with our underlying approach of investing in disruptive startups across the country.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition, 25% of the capital was raised from underrepresented communities, Bhettay said. He called Bhettay “an energetic and smart entrepreneur” who is building a strong team to go after a space that is ripe for disruption. Fuzzy live chat via its app. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

At TechCrunch Disrupt, I spoke to three investors about how they use TAM to guide their decision-making. The way it’s calculated and the way the founder is thinking about it tells us not necessarily about the business or its future, but about how the founder thinks about company creation,” said Deena Shakir, a partner at Lux Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Runa Capital’s Asia business development manager Denis Kalinin studied data from iTjuzi, a database of Chinese venture capitalists, and found: “…Chinese funds invested around $250 billion in 2020 (three times higher than the figure reported in Crunchbase). 3 keys to pricing early-stage SaaS products.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We wanted to bring it online at checkout and empower businesses by making access to capital easy.”. Today, the company announced $8 million in seed funding from a group of backers that include Global Founders Capital and founders of Dropbox, DoorDash, Opendoor, Plaid, PlanGrid, Mercury and Pilot.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

It’s clear that the additional overhead is generating higher prices, but not necessarily better results, according to Sumi Das and Nina Gerson, who lead healthcare investments at Capital G. India’s path to SaaS leadership is clear, but challenges remain. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin. Ritu Narayan founded Z?m Since then, Z?m

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This collaborative program also includes prominent VC organizations like Kleiner Perkins, Salesforce Ventures and Initialized Capital to develop lasting mentorships with the TC Include founder cohort. We’re disrupting boring, inefficient and outdated diversity training through real talk and interactive gaming.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The idea of getting on a Zoom or a call with a sales rep in order to try out a vendor’s product feels disruptive to a users’ needs and flow. The PLG market is also growing so quickly, and our worlds are almost entirely virtual at this point.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The startup has already amassed dozens of exporters on its platform — despite the hands-on nature of this business, which as you can imagine, has been severely disrupted by the coronavirus. (The startup makes money by charging a licensing fee for its service to exporters.).

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2024

– SaaS MarTech startup that drives sales of travel products by connecting brands, influencers, and travelers. The fund’s portfolio companies have raised about $191 million so far as they scale and disrupt industries.” Founder, CEO Olivia Rutman, CTP Landng Inc. Actual amount invested depends on total dollars raised.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It’s when it feels like the New Thing has limitless upside, that “anything is possible and everything before will be disrupted” mindset. Investopedia So to suggest we’re in an AI Bubble is to say that the total enterprise value of AI that can/will be captured by private companies is less than the capital being invested into them right now.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

The new round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors TLV Partners and S Capital. In Run:AI, we’ve found disruptive technology, an experienced team and a SaaS-based market strategy that will help enterprises deploy the AI they’ll need to stay competitive.”

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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. Walter Thompson.

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