Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. Understand how venture debt might shorten your projections. * If you have raised venture debt you might have even less time.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It’s not a tech company this time — Awoyemi co-founded online jobs site Jobberman (which was acquired by ROAM Africa in 2016) and Whogohost, a bootstrapped hosting platform — but instead, a venture studio: Fast Forward Venture Studio. Here are some of the startups in the venture studio portfolio.

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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. over the past 12 months. .”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Userpilot , a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, has raised $4.6 million in a seed funding round led by Silicon Badia, with participation from ScOp Ventures and 500 Global. Userpilot, a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, raises $4.6M The startup’s new funding follows $1.2

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

They monetize their work through app sales, subscriptions, or offering software as a service (SaaS). A brand advocate and star of Visa’s 2024 b rand film, “Prodigies ,” Visa will partner with Pharrell on two of his philanthropic ventures, B lack Ambition and YELLOW.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab. Each year since the Inclusive Ventures Lab’s launch in 2017, we have expanded our efforts to ensure that more entrepreneurs around the world can succeed – and this year is no different,” sums up Bueno.

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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. And so is venture capital. Think of web vs. mobile. Commitment.

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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. Colabs will support them in their journey. Our growth plan is very ambitious.

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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. Kaya Founders, a venture capital firm based in the Philippines , has introduced two new funds to support startups at different stages of their growth. million and has set a target of reaching $25 million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

SaaS tool usage is on the rise, with corporate teams now using 40 to 60 tools on average ; a 2019 report from Blissfully found companies were spending around $343,000 per year on SaaS. But while SaaS apps have become the lifeblood of organizations, they can often be unwieldy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

SaaS startup Stimulus announced today the closing of an oversubscribed $2.5 million seed round led by Black Ops Ventures. Her product is a hit with investors, the most notable of which include Morgan Stanley, The BFM Fund and Northwestern Mutual Futures Ventures. Stanard originally asked for $1.5

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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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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. This was a dilemma because while it seemed like easy money and a reasonable request I knew it was going to drive up our support and maintenance costs and become hard to manage. It is the opposite of what SaaS is supposed to be.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suzanne Xie is the business lead for B2B payments at Stripe and a former SaaS founder. It’s an unprecedented time to be in SaaS. The SaaS market could grow almost 10% every year to 2027 — and I think that’s a conservative estimate. The real rate limiter for SaaS businesses’ growth isn’t shipping software — it’s selling it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

But often this doesn’t tell the whole story because often companies are also spending money on PR and other marketing activities in order to support the sales process. And then of course you need to layer in marketing to understand the true SaaS customer acquisition costs. But none of this matters if you run out of money.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 13, 2012

One of the aspects of running a venture fund that I am most excited about is turning over rocks that other VCs might not. That's why Sherbrooke and Benchmark just put $8mm into Farmingo , to support these food communities via social software. Whatever I do, it needs to be in big enough spaces. What are the biggest opportunities?

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

However, for many early-stage ventures, hiring dedicated PR resources can take time and effort. Moreover, crafting […] The post Starseed’s Pulitzer AI, An Innovative Global PR SaaS Service based on Generative AI, Redefines Publicity Dynamics first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

venture capital market’s third quarter was far from catastrophic , it’s becoming clear that while startup investment has slowed, it’s still a great time to build a software company. Some declines are evident; you won’t get 2021’s venture capital results again for some time. SaaS deals this year.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 28, 2025

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm, says, “The thing that gets me most excited is the founder whos obsessed with solving a problem that matters, and is determined to keep going no matter what.” Learn what investors want to hear that triggers their investment decisions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Dakotah Rice, founder of Poolit, tells Mary Ann , “2023 will be a fantastic year in all likelihood for venture and private equity. Ventures Platform, a Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, has closed its fund at $46 million as it looks to double down on “category-leading” companies across the continent, Tage writes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

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. Sean Fanning is a vice president on OpenView ’s Investment team.

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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. A SaaS provider for businesses, logistics providers and marketplaces.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Today, London-based Legl — a 2019-founded SaaS startup that sells tools to law firms wanting to digitize processes and automate workflows in areas like client onboarding, payments and compliance to support a more modern customer experience — is announcing the close of an $18 million Series B round, just over a year after it raised a $7M Series A.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Moderne Ventures team of founder Constance Freedman and partner Liza Benson built a track record of top-tier returns with its novel approach to venture investing. Founder and Managing Partner Constance Freedman and Partner, Liza Benson , oversee the generalist venture capital and growth equity firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

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. I’m thankful to the associates at Upfront Ventures for helping me to evaluate our new opportunities and for helping me be prepared for issues with our portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. BTV is a venture firm that boasts two successful fintech founders as its partners. It’s committed to three so far.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A lot of SaaS products are sold on flat-rate subscriptions. million in funding from Kindred Capital, Union Square Ventures and Insight Partners, money that it will be using to continue building out its product and picking up more customers. “We are focused on being able to support high levels of complexity and scale.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Yoav Leitersdorf is the Silicon Valley-based managing partner at YL Ventures, where he accelerates cybersecurity startups in the U.S. Such metrics have been previously established for wider areas of technology, such as SaaS. Image Credits: YL Ventures. More posts by this contributor. Michael Cortez. Contributor.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

To continue its mission, the Miami-based trade finance company raised $7 million in seed funding and $75 million in a credit facility, led by Arcadia Funds LLC and Kayyak Ventures, to increase its credit line to $100 million. How tech can build more resilient supply chains.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . We’ve been impressed by the alacrity, communication skills, and high level of competence of the customer success team, who have to support a lot of custom functionality we’ve built.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Kashyap Kompella I had the pleasure of interviewing Kashyap Kompella is the founder of Talentmapp , an AI-driven people search engine designed to facilitate purposeful, noiseless networking for professionals, startups, and venture studios. He is also launching TPH Venture Studio , a pre-seed venture fund backing AI startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 3, 2025

Indias A Junior VC (AJVC), by Aviral Bhatnagar, has secured Rs 100 crore ($12 million) for its debut venture fund. The fundraising comes amid a tough environment for new investors […]

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

New Zealand, a country of just under 5 million people, has historically flown under the radar of venture capitalism. Now, investors see New Zealand as a country with a track record of building companies with global exits in SaaS, health tech and deep tech. A geographically isolated country with a “no worries!”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Overall, local investors cited the country’s focus on global markets from day one, general support from the Israeli government and deep relationships with Silicon Valley and other global tech centers as additional factors that are powering it forward today. Daniel Cohen , partner, Viola Ventures. Inbal Perlman , partner, TAU Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

At least one firm, the global investor Index Ventures, happened on an additional idea, it told the outlet. That’s not typical of what [a venture firm] would do historically. Is there anything to prevent other venture firms from doing the same thing? I almost think about it like SaaS.

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