Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 12, 2017

“Would you compare a bootstrapped SaaS company to a seeded company? The company that raises the seed round has more capital to acquire customers earlier in its life. Reverting to the original question, when should a profitable company raise capital, if ever? There are tradeoffs to raising capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

million seed funding round led by Initialized Capital, with investments from GSR, NEA and Canaan. The company says that it provides interested clubs with the back office framework, legal and tax support and has a platform where leaders can look for capital raise opportunities, meet other members and manage portfolios.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

A portion of the capital — $10 million — was debt, while the rest was a Series A equity tranche led by Georgian Capital Partners. Beyond this, Savana offers a low-code UI framework to build internal and customer-facing apps that interface with the aforementioned APIs. million in capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Connie Loizos sat down with Jason Green of leading enterprise-focused firm Emergence Capital to get his view of SPACs , and how they are likely to be used next year and beyond. A framework for how to think of higher education’s main three products (including which is most defensible over time). Virtual fundraising is here to stay.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

But in 2019, various policymakers across different parts of the continent signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement — a framework for Africa to be a single market for trade and services — to make intra-trade less painful (side note: the agreement is yet to make any significant impact.).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

In what they describe as “a non-exhaustive list of why Marc Andreessen and Adam Neumann have misread America’s housing problems,” reporters Tim De Chant, Dominic-Madori Davis and Amanda Silberling share their respective takes on the deal: Amanda Silberling: Venture capital won’t save us. Dominic-Madori Davis: Diligence?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital , a former entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, teaches entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. This framework for marketing technology products has been one of the canonical foundational concepts to product-market fit for the three decades since it was first published in 1991. Jeff Bussgang.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity. years median time since founding versus to 2.7

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

But Articulate , a SaaS training and development platform, is not your typical company and today it announced a whopping $1.5 With the new capital, that number could triple over the next several years. billion investment on a $3.75 billion valuation. Fourteen years after launching, 1Password takes a $200M Series A.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Recently, the two-year-old company launched a SaaS platform in addition to its APIs. “That makes us different from anyone in the market because today, we’re the only providers of both an API and a SaaS-based solution for verification. To add, we have more data points than most providers in the region.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Lead Edge Capital is leading the round and eFounders is investing once again in the company. Yousign is a certification authority and complies with eIDAS — a European framework for e-signatures. It’s a SaaS product, which means you have to pay a subscription fee to access the service. French startup Yousign has raised a $36.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

. “It was already on the way, but this is probably going to accelerate it, because SVB was also a preeminent provider of loans for GPs to make their capital commitment polls.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Andy Stinnes, a general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners, says founders who are between angel and Series A should seek out investors who are satisfied with $200,000 to $500,000 in ARR. How much to pay yourself as a SaaS founder. How much to pay yourself as a SaaS founder. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch. “But

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

5 must-have board slides for SaaS sales and revenue leaders. 5 must-have board slides for SaaS sales and revenue leaders. In a detailed TechCrunch+ post, Kharchenko uses examples to explain how companies can set up data fabrics, AI and decision intelligence frameworks to build a data-driven business without sacrificing user trust.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Strapi , an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures, and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Burgy, Georget, and Laurie published Strapi on GitHub in 2015.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . So what is Revenue Based Investing? He said, . “[W]e

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

It’s too early to determine whether SVB’s downfall heralds a new era for venture capital, but based on anecdotal evidence, off-the-record discussions and chats with co-workers, it seems like we’re back to business as usual as far as pre-revenue startup fundraising is concerned. There’s plenty of tactical advice here, and much more to come.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Software companies that sell directly to end users share a simple framework for managing growth that leverages discoverability, desirability and do-ability — the “aha!” SaaS companies can grow to $20M+ ARR by selling exclusively to developers. Is there a creed in venture capital? ” Is there a creed in venture capital?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

With only two venture capital firms operating in the capital of Zagreb, the startup scene is still young, but the country’s relatively recent EU membership has given it access to a growing set of direct investment instruments. Julien Coustaury , partner, Fil Rouge Capital. Julien Coustaury, partner, Fil Rouge Capital.

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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. With CMS so close to my roots, I couldn’t be more delighted that Sanity is the inaugural investment for Monochrome Capital.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 20, 2014

One of the single most effective tools SaaS companies can use in order to grow faster isn’t tweaking the product in a particular way or implementing an AB optimization framework or adopting new marketing tactic. Rather, it’s financial judo for structuring contracts and cash collection. Cash is the lifeblood of startups.

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FundersClub

JUNE 8, 2017

The nature of capitalism means that lucrative job categories that experience shortages are typically fed with hordes of newly-trained workers who even out the imbalance. Or, quite simply, capitalism finds a way to go *around* these workers, to automate what it is they do, even if it's at a high cost. In the history of the U.S.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Understand the buyer’s roadmap, their build vs. buy framework, and their best alternative Once you’ve identified the buyer and, ideally, a champion for whom you’re solving a problem, the next step is to understand the buyer’s process. We’ve seen many companies spend more than 80% of their total capital raised on compute resources alone.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

While software development frameworks make developing software faster and easier than ever, pre-deployment testing gets more and more complex by the day. Our strategy here is to keep the total capital into the company less than our revenue run rate. million in seed and Series A capital. ”

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Too Much Capital Too Fast. Do these folks want to be the 100th investor chasing SaaS or do they want to define/invent new categories where they can be the thought leaders? Creativity is happening within communities and platforms which bring together distribution and collaboration. ” Chen penned “ Creator Economy 2.0:

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 6, 2014

He is a brilliant marketer and created the notion of the three doors to SaaS success. Tien Tzuo’s three doors is a simple framework for creating SaaS websites that tell customers a story of why they ought to use a product. It’s concise and elegant and a simple way to organize content for SaaS companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

In this comprehensive article, Puutio provides an overview of ESG disclosure frameworks, including action items for startups that hope to be acquired or go public. . “There simply aren’t enough entrepreneurs providing adequately ESG-aligned investing opportunities,” according to T. Investors want best-of-the-best ESG data.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

New backers Forgepoint Capital and Endeavor also put money in the round. The new capital brings its total equity raised to date to $54 million. . Instabug has a standard SaaS business model, charging companies that are building mobile apps an annual subscription fee based on how big the app is.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Pierre-Alexandre is an Investment and M&A director at HoriZen Capital — a team of experienced SaaS operators, digital marketing and finance experts helping micro-SaaS companies deliver their growth potential. Why did we include NWC and net debt? That is because they often have an indirect impact on adjusted EBITDA.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

We’re living in a historic period of very inexpensive venture capital. Today, the early and growth stage SaaS market prices companies on a forward revenue multiple. The top quartile public SaaS companies trade at about 7.5x Now, let me say a few things about this framework. forward revenues.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

In 2005, when Y Combinator started, there was already a well developed ecosystem of venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and Boston. But access to those venture capital firms was limited. How tech startup fundraising changed from 2005 to now. Then, the cost to start a tech company plummeted.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

NightDragon led the funding with participation from Snowflake Ventures as well as existing investors Dell Technologies Capital, DFJ Growth, IAG, Intel Capital, March Capital, StepStone, Ten Eleven Ventures, and Wipro Ventures. Immuta recently launched a software-as-a-service deployment, Immuta SaaS.)

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

From the hottest year in startup venture capital history to a period of pessimism, how did we get to where we are today? Just how much has late-stage venture capital slowed? Consumer fintech trading revenues don’t measure up to SaaS ARR (April 2022). The market for startup investment has changed. April 2022).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Seattle-based modular and headless commerce company offers more than 300 commerce APIs and associated framework to connect a company’s sales channel to one place and the ability to use the entire commerce platform or individual products. The new capital gives fabric $293 million in total funding raised to date. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Backers in the round include 8-Bit Capital, DCF Capital, Data Community Fund, AIX Ventures, Italmobiliare, Streamlined Ventures and some individual strategic angel investors like Adam Metzger and Mazen Al-Jubeir.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The product — which is built as a SaaS product but can also be accessed via APIs — is still in beta but aims to be open to general availability later this year. Anthos Capital is leading the round with Section 32 also participating alongside Greylock and Moonshots Capital. million to date.

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