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5 Interesting Learnings from Expensify at $140,000,000 in ARR

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Expensify: Founded in 2008 … 13 years ago. Ultimately, this leads to higher margins in payments, but also entails taking on financial risk, fraud risk, and a significant regulatory and legal overhead. #5. But after adding more credit cards and payments, and coming out of Covid … boom!! based revenue.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

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Stage: Venture Capital, Angel. For its near 30 years of existence, JAFCO Asia has turned into one of the leading venture capital firms in APAC. JAFCO Asia has invested in 13 countries in the region in hundreds of businesses. Stage: Corporate Venture Capital. Stage: Venture Capital.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

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Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. And the companies choosing the independent path are not all hipster led lifestyle businesses choosing nobility over bankroll and operating with a chip on their shoulders. TWO ESTABLISHED COMPANIES CHANGE COURSE.

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Funding in the Time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (Video + Transcript)

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Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year. In revenue, the US government takes in 3.5 That happens in venture capital, and that’s happening right now.