Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 30, 2024

And we are thrilled to announce today that we have co-led Valar’s Seed and Series A financings, alongside partners at Pear VC and DCVC. Valar Labs is taking on exactly this challenge, and bringing AI into the toolbox for better cancer care. AI in healthcare: bicycles for expert minds Where will AI impact healthcare first?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

We’re thrilled to partner with Wiz in co-leading their newest round of financing and to support the company as they help businesses around the world secure increasingly complex cloud environments.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

They enable governments to finance critical infrastructure, corporations to fund growth, and individuals to make life’s most important purchases. Enter Moment , a new company building infrastructure that abstracts away the complexities of embedding fixed income investments in any application.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Equity financing is a method of capital raising via the selling of stock. They may need cash to meet immediate financial obligations or have a longer-term objective and require capital to invest in their development. What is Equity Financing in SaaS? Equity Financing 2. Debt Financing (Loan) 3. Table of Contents.

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Chargebee

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Based on a benchmark report from PwC, Finance Teams continue to spend about 30-40% of their bandwidth on data collection, quality checks, and reporting. While our customers deeply appreciate the efforts and time their finance teams invest in ensuring everything runs smoothly, we’re always looking for ways to lighten their load.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2024

Finance 101: Why Should You Care? It's important for early stage startups to focus on finance from the very beginning. Often that means trying to do things in the least expensive way possible and that means doing finance accounting on their own. They are not wholly focused on the financials.

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Chargebee

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Based on a benchmark report from PwC, Finance teams continue to spend about 30-40% of their bandwidth on data collection, quality checks, and reporting. While our customers deeply appreciate the efforts and time their Finance teams invest in ensuring everything runs smoothly, we’re always looking for ways to lighten their load.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 21, 2021

In this article, we shall get back to basics: What is SaaS finance, and what financial phases can you expect your business to go through? When it comes to understanding finance for SaaS companies, there are key differences between more traditional financial models and SaaS-specific financial modeling and forecasting. Table of Contents.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Bookkeeping, accounting, and finance management are all critical to the financial success of your business. In this article, we will explore the following comparisons: bookkeeping vs. accounting, accounting vs. controller, controller vs. finance, finance vs. bookkeeping. Controller, CFO, and finance What is a controller?

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ChurnZero

JUNE 9, 2023

Finance understands this intuitively, so they are inclined to support budget requests that will help teams close more deals. So said Randy Wootton , chief executive officer at Maxio and Alli Tiscornia , chief customer officer at ChurnZero in our webinar, “ Finance & CS: Charting a path to profitability.”

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2024

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? I invested in a company named CAT Labs in Q1 of this year. What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? My main focus is to invest in Series A with an initial check of $5-15M, although I do reserve an interest in smaller checks for late Seed rounds.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 31, 2022

We wrote about the CFO in crisis mode and the need for better software to be built for the finance suite. … The post Investing in Datanomik appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. If the average CFO is in a crisis, the emerging markets CFO serve are in an even bigger crisis!

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

He has always loved both science and people, and so when he called to say he was starting a biotech company and raising Seed financing, I knew I wanted to be involved. They aren’t afraid to build new tools and new ways of measuring the impact of a Molecular Gate, but are also keen to learn from the experience of previously ‘new’ modalities.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2022

Invoice financing is an excellent option for SaaS companies looking for a fast and easy way to earn a short-term type of funding. With this type of financing, invoices serve as collateral rather than your own assets.That means 0 borrowed money like with traditional loans. What is Invoice Financing? What is Invoice Financing?

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

There are more funding and financing options for startups today than there ever have been before. There’s also been an explosion in debate and transparency about navigating startup funding and financing. Let’s explore the funding and financing options for your startup. Funding Your Startup. How To Evaluate Funding Options.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Beyond Finance: Why Embracing Monetization as a Cross-Functional Discipline Changes the Game By BluLogix Team Redefining the Role of Monetization in Modern Businesses In the swiftly evolving digital marketplace, the concept of monetization extends far beyond the confines of the finance department.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 27, 2021

When crypto first emerged, the traditional finance world mostly ignored it. We expected these institutions would eventually want to participate in the crypto economy, and that there would be a need for a company that would help bridge the gap … The post Investing in Talos appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2024

If you have options, if more than one VC wants to invest in you — do reference checks. After all, 90% of SaaS public companies go public … with the founder CEO as CEO : More here: 5 Things To Be Wary of In VC Financings 5 Things To Be Wary of In VC Financings The post Dear SaaStr: When Do VCs Try To Replace Founders as CEOs?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 23, 2023

We just did our latest Workshop Wednesday with Omers Growth, and they only did one growth investment last year. A great deep dive on later-stage SaaS investing here: And look venture is a mess today. Crypto investments are going bankrupt. Unicorns that looked like sure things a year ago are now running out of money.

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IT World

JANUARY 24, 2022

Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are apparently eager to invest in technology to help attract — and keep — finance talent and workers with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML) skills, according to a new survey. To read this article in full, please click here

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SaaStr

MARCH 4, 2024

Non-Dilutive Financing and Venture Debt Do Have Their Place, But They Have Their Risks, Too. And They Aren’t Free, Either I am definitely a fan of non-dilutive financing and venture debt when used conservatively. For example, if you’re basically break-even and have millions or more in ARR, some debt can help you invest a smidge more.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

What are the best options for financing based on the stage of the company? What are the best options for financing based on the stage of the company? We speak about current drivers and tendencies in funding and fundraising, revenue-based financing, and the metrics that distinguish the fastest-growing companies.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2024

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? Our most recent disclosed investment is in Pika.art, a company redesigning the entire video-making and editing experience utilizing AI. What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? Why did you do the deal? And how big is your current fund?

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

They promise, among other things, to “make finance beautiful” and the whole thing strikes me as a product-led growth strategy for a new tool to build financial models outside of traditional spreadsheets. The company has raised an undisclosed amount of angel financing and has over 30 employees. They tell their story well.

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SaaSOptics

JUNE 24, 2021

Debt vs. Equity: The SaaS Financing Landscape . Deciding between raising debt vs. equity financing? In a recent webinar, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick and Bigfoot Capital CEO Brian Parks discussed the changes that have taken place across the SaaS financing landscape, particularly those in debt financing of SaaS companies. .

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 3, 2020

At the same time, tech companies are better off than any other industry, and, to answer the question posed in the headline, VCs are still investing (we’re one of them). More importantly, there can be significant and varying delays between the closing and the announcement of a financing round. But enough ado, let’s look at the data.

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2024

Lesson #1: Invest In Customer Support Early Cloudinary strongly believes that customer success and support are enablers of PLG growth and aren’t just a cost center. They made a bet to hire a CFO early in their history to help guide them in terms of what the investment model should look like with PLG and, over time, with PLG and Enterprise.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 3, 2020

Successfully financing a subscription company involves the use of specific metrics and accounting methods. Subscription business owners can take a wealth of steps to finance their brands. Financing the marketing and sales efforts that result in retention takes some work. Venture capital funds are a form of investment fund.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2023

In The Figures that Will Move the Venture Capital Market in the Next 3-5 Years , I wrote about the correlation between interest rates & venture capital investing. The chart above shows the predicted invested in grey & actuals in orange. About one third of the way through the year, early stage VCs have invested about $16.5b

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Companies are waiting too long to hire a CFO or VP of Finance. Companies Are Waiting Too Long To Hire A CFO or VP of Finance A lot of founders hire a VP of Ops instead. On the one hand, startups are much worse at finance and controls. How does he choose just 4-5 investments in these early stages?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 7, 2020

“Support isn’t just a cost center, but a strategic investment that increases customer retention and reduces churn” Indeed, if you look at the broader financial models of customer support, you’ll see that support isn’t just a cost center, but a strategic investment that increases customer retention and reduces churn.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? Bessemer’s typical growth stage investment is $20 million+ for series B+, but we invest through pre-IPO. What’s different about your fund / how you invest and support founders?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 14, 2023

The traditional practice is that VC funds have the startup pay both their fees and the VC’s legal fees in the financing. In a truly tiny financing (<$500k-$1m) or SAFE notes and the like, however, any investor-side legal fees are often just paid by the investors. It doesn’t matter in the end. It’s just a condition of the funding.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 4, 2021

Corporate finance experience is declining, while investment banking is rising, as a path to the CFO seat, CFO Dive data shows. The most sure-fire way for aspiring CFOs to attract the notice of CEOs and boards is to bring a strategic mindset, communicate well and showcase a background in operational finance, recruiters say. .

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How To Buy Saas

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It requires strategic investments and a proactive approach to growing your money. If you’re keen on multiplying your wealth, buckle up because we’re about to unveil a game-changing strategy that combines education and smart investing. By enrolling in relevant courses, you equip yourself with valuable skills and insights.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Once users are in a position to invest in such a service, your SaaS should be the first that comes to mind. Building an organic audience through content marketing is also one of the most cost efficient marketing strategies available to SaaS start-ups that can’t afford to invest in expensive ad placements. Want to try it for yourself?

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