TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. Should SaaS founders be raising capital now? Gartner recently forecast that SaaS revenue worldwide could surpass $140 billion by 2022, which would represent a 40% increase over 2019’s roughly $100 billion.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Founders’ Co-op turns fifteen this year. But as a “company town” where most engineers come for a well-paying job, not as founders seeking like-minded peers, our region’s entrepreneurial support systems are surprisingly weak. First, the increment of learning in VC is investment decisions managed to maturity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. As Ravikant puts it, “founders want to know that the people they are taking money from have first-hand experience.” . MAGIC Fund has 12 founders who act as general partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The culture is driven by the 20-something irreverent founder with huge technical chops who in a “David vs. Goliath” mythology take on the titans of industry and wins. But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game.

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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. “SaaS has become one of the most essential parts of the IT stack.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments. Stéphane Nasser is co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses. Almost every VC says that they invest in the “best” founders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Companies that have high recurring revenue and visibility into future performance — such as SaaS startups — in particular can benefit from debt financings, Alex points out. . The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. Enter Founderpath.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

By Revolution Ventures Managing Partner David Golden and VP Alex Shtarkman As voracious consumers of podcasting content, we could not be more excited to announce our investment in Indianapolis-based Casted , a company reinventing the traditional digital content marketing playbook. Stay tuned! [1]

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

The Enterprise Browser upgrades web browsers from a dedicated consumer software package to an enterprise-ready solution, said Mike Fey, Islands CEO and Co-founder. The company will continue to invest in enhancing its product, expanding global operations, and driving adoption across new markets and verticals.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

“Why do founders want to take the VCs’ money? Founders will continue to take the “growth at all options” path that leads to privacy & trust creep at places like Quora. LPs (the people who invest in VC funds) want to know what “hot” deals you’re in. Growth, again.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Traditional software vs. SaaS. I’ve been involved with SaaS companies with VCs who don’t understand demand generation, lead qualification, sales coverage ratios, sales forecasting or frankly when deals should be inside sales vs. outside sales. Fred Wilson wrote perfectly about sticking with struggling 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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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

Asking people for money is a key aspect of every founder’s journey, but Techstars Managing Director Collin Wallace says it can also “accelerate your demise.” A SaaS mindset just isn’t relevant for deep tech investment, which means traditional VCs must recalibrate their behavior (and expectations) before diving in.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

We both agree that the later-stage valuations are being driven up to a point that feels irrationally priced [he uses b-round SaaS valuations as an example and I am willing to be even more broad based]. He said that a16z prefers to invest earlier stage in these types of businesses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Varos founders, from left, Gil Shaked, Yarden Shaked and Lior Chen. He says this type of data collaboration is being done in other industries, including farming, travel and late-stage investing, where valuation is based on competitive data, but is relatively new for the e-commerce and SaaS spaces. Image Credits: Varos.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

How to grow a SaaS company efficiently in a recession. Blair Silverberg, CEO and co-founder of Hum Capital, says entrepreneurs need to resist the urge to become defensive in these sessions. “In “To ensure a timely process, you must be armed with a complete and bulletproof case for investing in your company. .”

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

The reason I’m thinking about the topic this morning is that several months ago Jason Spievak , the Founder & CEO of Invoca , the very first company I backed when I became a VC, started talking with me about whether he was the right guy to take the company to the next level. In other words, Why now?

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 16, 2025

I recently had the chance to chat with Vladyslav Podoliako, the founder of the sales acquisition agency Belkins , and the email deliverability solution Folderly. Vlad shared his founders POV on how to start and grow a business, turn mistakes into learning moments, and keep the motivation alive through itall. Bootstrap if you can.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Sharon Lou, venture partner at Indelible Ventures , considers this as one of the top mistakes that founders commit when raising funds.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

Paris Heymann Contributor Share on Twitter Paris Heymann is a partner at Index Ventures , where he invests primarily in B2B SaaS and data.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

This is one of Salesforce Ventures’ rare investments in Asia. Peddi said the startup has always looked up to Salesforce for inspiration, and investment from the enterprise giant is “nothing sort of a child receiving validation from their father,” he said.

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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. Today, the company announced a $20 million Series A investment. “So

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

A reader pointed out that avoiding Failing Fast could lead to another costly issue—namely, the Sunk Cost Fallacy (SCF), where companies double down on bad investments rather than cut their losses, potentially wasting millions. Both Failing Fast and the Sunk Cost Fallacy are two sides of one costly coin. It’s been 12 months with no results.

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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. Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 PIN, which stands for power in numbers, has freshly raised a $5.6

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

The other day I was with the founders of Vidme – Warren Shaeffer and Alex Benzer – who are two of my most favorite founders to work with almost precisely because their behavior is antithetical to the frenzied market behavior. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue? The best investors do less. You own how much?”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Partnering with the right co-founder is the biggest determinant of your future success. Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I firmly believe having the right co-founder(s) is the most significant determinant of startup success. timeframe for an exit, bootstrapped, etc.)

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Leta , a Kenyan B2B supply chain and logistics SaaS provider launched last year to optimize fleet management, is looking for growth opportunities in West Africa, even as it scales operations in its existing five markets. Cellulant co-founder Ken Njoroge, and Google executive Charles Murito made investments too.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Lead by Starseed CEO Katie Bomi Son’s ´Pulitzer AI’ Paves the Way to Global Market with Multilingual Translation Capabilities PR or Publicity remains a critical aspect for start-ups, serving as a gateway to attracting investments and expanding user bases.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser. It forces the founder to spend time in front of customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Considering our revenue is SaaS revenue this achievement is even more remarkable. The timing of the announcement of this investment couldn’t have been timed more perfectly if we tried. And before that you might enjoy this longer analysis on why I invested in DataSift in the first place , which was written 2.5 Asymmetric.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 14, 2023

Register The Philippine venture capital firm Kaya Founders has successfully raised $12 million in funding for two new funds. With this funding, Kaya Founders now manages a total committed capital of $16.5 With this funding, Kaya Founders now manages a total committed capital of $16.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2024

Overall, I learned that for me, true success comes not from financial achievements but from what will impact my time and the freedom to choose where and what I invest my time in.” — Ryan Featherby, EO Melbourne “I have joined an EO Forum — a peer group that can relate to the struggles of being an entrepreneur, a mom, and a wife.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Every so often, we meet founders with unusually strong conviction about solving systems problems. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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