The Angel VC

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It’s said that a decade ago, you needed millions of venture capital in order to launch an Internet startup whereas today, thanks to open-source software, cheap hardware and new ways to acquire users for free (in particular virally via Facebook/Twitter and with SEO via Google), you can do the same with a small fraction of that.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

On one hand, the total dollars invested by VCs is relatively flat at just under $30B per year, according to the NVCA. I’ve divided the companies into cohorts by the year they raised their seed investment. First, the number of seed investments in the Crunchbase data has increased by 4x in 4 years.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 28, 2020

There is this idea in the VC community that investors usually know after the first meeting (or maybe even after the first five minutes) if they want to invest in a company. Every once in a while, though, you see a deck, try a product, or talk to a founder, and you know immediately that you just have to invest in this company.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 9, 2023

If you’re mostly selling to venture capital-funded startups a lot of them are probably trying to reduce their burn rate, so they will look at SaaS spend. (…) There are also aspects of SaaS as a business model or industry that make it really strong in tough times. It’s tied to a global macroeconomic downturn.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011. We’re an early stage venture capital firm focused primarily on B2B SaaS and B2B marketplaces.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. Back then, in 2011, Lyft was a small Series-A startup called Zimride with under 50 employees. Venture capitalists invest in startups because they believe in the founder(s) and their vision. That means a majority of their investments are write-offs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

When Marc and I started the firm in 2009, the conventional wisdom in Venture Capital was that in any given year, only 15 companies would ever generate $100M in revenue and those 15 companies would drive almost all of VC returns. Venture Capital firms configured themselves to address a market of 15 important companies.

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OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

said venture capitalist Vinod Khosla in 2011. Regardless of your point of view on age and brain development, we can agree that investors will continue to invest in both young and old founders. “People over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas.” People under 35 are the people who make change happen,” he further asserted.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. All right, so the answer is there are actually 61 a cloud unicorns, and we’ll flash them up. How long can this last?

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

According to Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, the one thing necessary for any company to succeed in China – or in any of the Asian countries – is to get local investment. SAIF Partners is one of the top private equity firms that provides growth capital financing for Asia businesses. SaaS Investments: Goodera, and others.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Their first round of Angel investment in 2008 had not been a round for the sake of raising a round, or funds really even earmarked to invest heavily in growth.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

You would take three to four years to deploy it for new investments, not follow-ons but new investments. And they’ve probably cut the amount they want to invest in the next 12 months by half to 66% because of the math. They’ve cut the amount they want to invest. So you’d raise $100 million fund.

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Hitenism

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You can even find articles from venture capital firms with pitch deck templates and fundraising advice. Hiten Shah (@hnshah) August 5, 2011. But that was back in 2011. What hasn’t changed is that today’s investors still want to invest in great businesses and the teams behind them. A lot has changed since then.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova. In 2011, he co-founded Rock Content, the top provider of content marketing solutions in Latin America.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 24, 2019

We started Mucker in 2011 with unbridled optimism and a firm belief that THIS future was certain. . We took everything we learned in the preceding decades spent inside and outside the Valley and applied it to venture in L.A. in terms of how we invested in and worked with portfolio companies. 2011: Why Now? consultant.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Since 2011, over 500,000 projects have been built with PlanGrid. You’re in the valley, you raise venture capital. My big rule is that, if you feel solid about the state the company is in today, whether it’s people or whether it’s your customers or having a good experience, then you invest in growth.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2020

Anna Talerico, Arthur Ventures Anna ( @annatalerico ) is an Operating Partner at Arthur Ventures , an early growth capital firm that leads investments in B2B software companies located outside Silicon Valley. Here are eight BIG RYG speakers and entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter: .

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

Now, I just invest in SasS companies. I just raised that venture capital. investing in customer success as a function. I’m an adviser investment since zero. I’m investing tomorrow in a company doing $2 million in revenue. It’s just an investment. That’s my background.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I think there’s this dichotomy that people swing between bootstrapping versus venture capital. And the one thing about the bootstrapping choice is you’re choosing to invest years of your life, whether you know it or not, and they’re often the best years of your career. At the time, we were all based in Dublin.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

5 Reasons I Hate the Rule of 40 by Mikael Johnsson, SaaS Nordic While not necessarily completely useless, I would strongly argue that R40 is a metric applicable to the world of PE and public markets investing and is not a good metric for assessing the quality of venture-stage companies. Because this drives investment decisions.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

To date Gainsight have raised over $156m from some of the world’s best VCs in the form of Lightspeed, Bessemer, Insight Venture Partners, Battery Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. ” Nick Mehta: Now, if they’re not, you can say should we invest in enablement to make them successful?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I run marketing and communications for Battery Ventures. It’s a global technology focused investment firm. Just as an example, at Battery we invested in a company called Bright Tree, which is outside of Atlanta, which makes software for the home health care market. We actually got to know Battery in around 2011 or so.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 5, 2020

I’d argue it’s not – the markets have changed structurally such that companies are staying private far longer and thus living off venture capital (and/or growth-stage private equity) in ways not previously seen. The interesting question here is whether mean reversion is relevant. The ongoing rise of DevOps. 2M to $4M).

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