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18 investors fueling Latin America’s SaaS superstars

SaaStock

It is a venture capital firm based in Brazil and Silicon Valley. Its partners boast diverse venture experience and have previously invested in more than 70 companies. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed. Kaszek Ventures. Kaszek Ventures is among the biggest venture capital firms in Latin America.

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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We started the business in 2007. We raised $0 of venture capital. ” Now, seven years later, SalesLoft has over 400 employees, has raised over $75 million of venture capital, and in the next two years, if not sooner, my prediction is that they will be a unicorn that you’ll be able to read about on Tech Crunch.

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Subscription Rockstars: How HubSpot Went From Zero to $500+ Million in Annual Revenue

Chargify

2007: 48 customers. 2007: 15 employees. 2007:$255,000. Of course, it’s important to note that HubSpot raised a significant amount of capital in their first five years. Venture capital allowed HubSpot to prioritize expansion over profitability, helping them achieve explosive growth. . 2008: 317 customers.

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital, but has over 20 years of operational experience. Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.

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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

But I mean, if you go back to 2006 2007 2008 like that, yeah, that was just not a thing that people did. What what do you think the danger is of being too focused on those types of venture capital type ideas. Like the way that we do it. Now we take it for granted now. Alf Ruppert Yes.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

They were built in a period before internet, before e-commerce, before mobile and still in many cases debt infrastructure is being used for processing payments and it’s just not built for what it’s being used for. So there’s a lot of kind of, I don’t know, dogma in venture capital.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

We made in-app purchases available for all of our customers, and we are the only mobile app that you can run an end-to-end incident and response on, which is really important when we’re talking about supporting distributed teams. Whether we start in 2007, 2009, 2001, it’s a slow roll to Act Two, right?

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