TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

In the latest development, AppOmni — which has built a platform not just to connect with and secure SaaS apps, but to seek out, highlight and help fix vulnerabilities that arise when different apps are used together or in tandem — has raised $70 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions have become a fixture of the modern enterprise; organizations with more than 1,000 employees use over 150 SaaS apps on average, according to BetterCloud. According to a recent survey from Workato, 57% of IT teams have received directives from the C-Suite to reduce their overall SaaS spend.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

I can't take credit for this meme, even though I've already invested in it.twice. Github is a web based hosting service for software development projects that use Git, a revision control system. Once with Docracy, once with a super cool company launching in the first quarter of 2013.).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

LPs (the people who invest in VC funds) want to know what “hot” deals you’re in. In a pool of 25-30 investments in a VC fund the goal is to have 2-3 huge outliers. Our partners have invested in more than dozen companies that became worth more than a billion dollars and that has disproportionately drive returns.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I only say that because after years as a VC I can always tell when my peer group invested in something because “it seemed like it would make money” versus when they invested out of passion. I have placed a much bigger emphasis on falling in love as a criterion for my making an investment. Does she live your journey?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. The family-owned real estate firm develops Colabs spaces. Planned national expansion.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models. Net revenue retention was near 70%, a far cry from the 100%+ that most SaaS companies aim to achieve. They invest in a frictionless customer onboarding experience and high-quality support so that new users get hooked on the platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The new cash brings the company’s total raised to $33 million, which CEO Marc Boscher says is being put toward product development and expanding Unito’s headcount from 65 people to 70 by the end of the year. But while SaaS apps have become the lifeblood of organizations, they can often be unwieldy.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

The company now boasts over 500 employees, with more than 200 focused on product development and engineering. The company will continue to invest in enhancing its product, expanding global operations, and driving adoption across new markets and verticals. Since emerging from stealth mode in early 2022, Island has scaled rapidly.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Many startups are feeling the pressure in today’s uncertain economic climate, but for SaaS companies, the next 12 months could present major opportunities for growth: 70% of small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) globally are reporting higher investments in technology this year, according to Gartner Digital Markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally. I also had the opportunity to learn firsthand how VC firms put together an investment fund and understood the type of LPs coming together to form a fund. What types of companies/sectors do you look to invest in?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Userpilot , a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, has raised $4.6 Sehwail’s entrepreneurial journey started after college in 2013, when he developed enterprise web software for the likes of BMW, a business that also inspired his Userpilot strategy. The startup’s new funding follows $1.2

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The reason one would accept losses is when they are investments in fueling faster growth. 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. But LTV / CAC is just one measure.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Traditional software vs. SaaS. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. Fred Wilson wrote perfectly about sticking with struggling investments. Think of web vs. mobile. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Connections?

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In a recent board meeting, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (Ben Franklin CNP) proudly unveiled its latest investments in six exceptional tech enterprises situated in central and northern Pennsylvania, totaling $725,000. The post Ben Franklin Technology Partners Sparks Innovation with Six Strategic Investments!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.” It’s just math.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

Everyone is a rock star developers, every company is crushing it and when they’re not crushing it they’re killing it. Do fewer business development deals but make the ones you do have more impact. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue? And do the things that you ARE doing better and with higher quality.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

I don’t meet many rational invests (VCs or LPs) who believe this will last but of course nobody knows whether we have 6 weeks, 6 months or 2 years. Let me give you some examples I see of fauxmentum: In the SaaS world I see many business plans where companies have achieved 100-300% year-over-year growth and this is truly impressive.

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Dream It

MAY 14, 2020

Net Health, a premier provider of cloud-based EHR software for specialized care settings, today announced that it has acquired Tissue Analytics , a pioneering developer of automated mobile wound and skin imaging and predictive analytics solutions. Silversmith invested additional equity to support the acquisition of Tissue Analytics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. It is the opposite of what SaaS is supposed to be. We said to customers, “We only sell SaaS and we think that’s the right solution for you. So we took a stand. How responsive are they to your needs now?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Sean Fanning is a vice president on OpenView ’s Investment team. Before that, he led the firm’s Proactive Portfolio Management function and acted as director of corporate development, supporting the portfolio on inorganic and balance sheet related initiatives. The flow of capital in SaaS is becoming increasingly bifurcated.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 15 Best Strategies for Developing New Business in a Crowded Market In the quest to uncover effective strategies for developing new businesses in a crowded market, we turned to fifteen Founders and CEOs for their tried-and-true tactics. In SaaS, it’s not much different. Figure out where your audience congregates.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. million for the debut investment vehicle — waitlist not included. million seed funding round led by Initialized Capital, with investments from GSR, NEA and Canaan.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

based caretech software-as-a-service maker, has closed a $30 million Series B funding round led by investment firm Sofina, with Omers Ventures and Index Ventures also participating — the latter reupping its backing after leading Birdie’s Series A last year. Birdie , a U.K.-based In Birdie’s home market of the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

The idea is to let developers test AI systems and biases — that is, the edge cases where the systems perform poorly — to reduce the time needed for validation, Choi explained in an email interview. ” To test models, the Bobidi “community” of developers builds a validation dataset for a given system.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

According to a 2021 Garden survey , the majority of developers found slow feedback loops during the software development process to be a source of frustration, second only to difficult communication between teams and functional groups. Managers need an unobtrusive way to proactively learn about bottlenecks affecting their teams.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

. “[Our annual recurring revenue is] $29 million and projected to $50 million before the end of the year,” Komoni told TechCrunch via email, adding that the latest investment values Tive at $300 million (post-money). ” Tracking real-time shipments. Last year saw $11.3 The company has raised $79 million to date.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

From my point of view as an angel investor and former entrepreneur, here are five essential factors I look for when considering my next investment. Be sure to showcase your unique competitive advantage — an incremental improvement over the competition is not a winning formula for attracting investment. You could say I’ve seen it all.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

They’ve often lived through the pain of bad software, diagnosed the cause of their suffering, and made it their mission to convince the world they have … The post Investing in Svix appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Every so often, we meet founders with unusually strong conviction about solving systems problems.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The way developers consume these … The post Investing in Replicate appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. If aliens landed on earth and decompiled our software, every app would look roughly the same: some combination of networking, storage, and compute.

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 12, 2022

Rapidly growing SaaS startups have high multiples. For instance a modern consultancy might have: SaaS (S), Tool Use (T), and Consulting (C). Most Return On Investment (ROI) metrics are excellent for measuring an initiative’s impact on a company’s operations. Valuation = R*M OR R*E. The Limitations of Standard ROI.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2024

Master Your Mindset In 47 years of living and seven as an entrepreneur, I’ve learned the greatest lesson of life is recognizing patterns, and then — more importantly — developing your own. Keep making bigger investments into smaller rooms, where the people in those rooms are making bigger impacts. They live in full abundance.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Our defensible infrastructure comes from the fact that we now have huge volumes of customer storage earning the equivalent of SaaS revenue and any new entrant would have to invest in the fleet of cars, bins, drivers and warehouses that we now have not to mention 4.5 years of software development.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

million seed investment. That could be cloud infrastructure services or critical applications like 1Password, GitHub, Salesforce and other SaaS applications. He says they differ from other PAM products on the market because of their focus on developers. “We Today, the company announced a $3.1 Today’s $3.1

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