SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

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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Venture Capital SaaS Healthcare Finance 155

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2016

For all the talk about late stage rounds, megarounds and unicorns, early stage startups are benefitting disproportionately from near-record years of venture capital investment. The 35% attained in 2013 share for early investment ties the 1996 record. Perhaps the strong IPO year in 2013 enticed investors.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 15, 2017

The article pointed to the seeming collapse in the amount of venture capital raised by San Francisco startups relative to other regions. The slowing of venture investment more broadly across the US serves as a backdrop to San Francisco’s particularly strong correction. Note, the levels still exceed 2010-2013.

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Investment Startup Venture Capital Trends 187

The Angel VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I think that Silicon Valley as a whole or that the venture-capital community or startup community is taking on an excessive amount of risk right now. In 2013, that number was $7B and in the first half of 2014 it reached $4.9B. Unprecedented since ?'99. and $41.8B in Internet companies in 1999 and 2000, respectively.

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Venture Capital Interviewing Startup Benchmarks 167

Kellblog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Skilljar , founded in Seattle in 2013, is a fully distributed, ~150-person company that provides a customer education platform to over 400 customers that’s raised $50M+ in venture capital from top investors including Techstars Seattle, Trilogy, Mayfield, Shasta, and Insight Partners.

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Technical Cofounder Venture Capital SaaS Startup 78

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

In 2011-2013, about 1450 software companies were founded each year on average. This is counterintuitive considering the broader venture capital backdrop of near record venture investment in software. The rate of new software company formation seems to have declined materially in the past few years.

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SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

I wrote–I looked a little while ago and I wrote an early SaaStr post in 2013. I rented a small office in downtown Palo Alto, and it was middle of 2013 when the last boards came down on a retail store. Jason Lemkin: It was boarded up until 2013. Jason Lemkin: 2013 had been boarded up. It’s near Wahlburgers.

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Venture Capital Travel PayPal Scale 169

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

According to Crunchbase data, the number of seed rounds in US companies has grown by 10x in 6 years from 200 per year to more than 2,200 in 2013. This is driven by the expansion of the institutional seed investor and the tripling of seed stage capital available to founders. Seed investments are booming.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 19, 2014

Each year the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters release data characterizing the state of the startup market. I’ve analyzed the 2013 data and there are three important trends I observed. All in all, the startup exit market is quite healthy. The data is almost universally positive for startups.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 7, 2014

I started working in venture capital three months before Lehman imploded. The amount of capital raised by VCs in 2014 is on track to double the capital raised in 2013. This data indicates this additional capital seems doesn’t inflate Series As. Or at least, that’s the way it feels to me.

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Venture Capital Startup Marketing Trends 100

FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Bootstrapped businesses don’t have the luxury of venture capital behind them meaning the team is under pressure to create a product that provides real value as fast as possible. What Is Messente?

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SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Payment Services Payments 118

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 14, 2014

The chart above compares the total number of MegaRounds, those VC investments of $50M or more, from 2001 through 2013. Rather, they empower startups to remain private longer and continue to grow, which enables them to command higher valuations and raise more capital at IPO. Last year, there was 1 MegaRound for every 2 IPOs.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Data from 2012 and 2013 will show lower success rates because most of these companies won’t be mature enough to be in the market for a B.

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Kellblog

JULY 25, 2020

in 2013) it can get well above 10x. Only in 2013 did it get close to these levels. Looking at the blue line, you can see that while it’s pretty volatile, eyeballing it, I’d say it normally runs in the range between 5x and 10x. Sometimes (e.g., 2008) it can get well below 5x. Sometimes (e.g.,

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to execute on this mission, founders can bootstrap their company, raise outside money ( venture capital is the most popular), or use a combination of both to help build their business. Raised seed in 2013. Founded in 2013. Raised seed in 2013. Total funding raised: $147.9 Founded in 2011. Sumo Logic.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Startup Outsourced Development 77

The SaaS Garage

APRIL 27, 2017

Bayern Kapital und Vogel Ventures investieren gerade gemeinsam mit den Business Angels Michael Brehm und Andy Goldstein sowie dem Altinvestor Linden Capital eine siebenstellige Summe in Cobrainer. Gegründet wurde enmacc von Volker Puck und Marc Trieschmann. Im Rahmen der Finanzierungsrunde komplettierte Jens Hartmann das Gründerteam.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Tiny Capital. Tiny Capital is a different breed in the micro acquisition space. Unlike some of the other tools mentioned above, it’s a traditional venture capital firm, with a twist. There is also a 10% success fee on each sale, and you can upgrade your listing with various packages starting at $295. Who Is It For?

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

I looked a little while ago and I wrote an early Sastry post in 2013. I rented a small office in downtown Palo Alto, and it was middle of 2013 when the last boards came down on a retail store. Jasom Lemkin: I was boarded up until 2013. Jasom Lemkin: 2013 had been boarded up. Does venture capital even need to bother?

Investment 147

Investment Scale Travel Venture Capital 147

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Arbor Ventures is a visionary VC focused on shaping the way the world transacts by investing in early stage companies at the intersection of financial services, data and digital commerce, through partnering with extraordinary founders and accelerating the growth of next-gen FinTech, facilitated by unparalleled strategic networks. JAFCO Asia.

SaaS Payments 190

SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 14, 2018

In most cases, the “founded” date corresponds with the year in which the company was founded, but there are a few exceptions, like Slack, which started in 2009 with a completely different product and didn’t launch Slack as we know it today until 2013. In that case, I used 2013 for the “founded” year.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 5, 2019

Our love affair with our neighbors to the West dates back to 2012/2013, when we invested in Algolia, Mention, and Front. In the following years we invested in another six companies from France, and in the last ~12–15 months alone, we added another three French startups to our portfolio.

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CTO Startup Investment B2B 50

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 5, 2021

The oldest data pair is from 2012/2013 (ServiceNow, in case you’re curious), but the vast majority of data pairs are from 2014–2019. Since companies rarely provide revenue data for more than one or two years leading up to the IPO, ARR data below $50–100M or so is usually not available.

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SaaS Scale Data Venture Capital 80

Kellblog

AUGUST 1, 2019

For example, back in 2013, shortly after I joined Host Analytics, I discovered that there were a number of deals that sales had signed with customers that our professional services (PS) team had flat out refused to implement. (Huh?)

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Churn Systems Review Customer Success Software Review 75

SaaSOptics

JULY 7, 2022

The State of VC Funding in Europe: How to Raise Capital. So, you’ve decided on European venture capital to scale your SaaS. . Even after all that hard work, without capital to scale your idea, your progress could screech to a halt. Compared to the United States, venture capital in the EU is still very new. .

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Venture Capital Scale Sales Hiring Technical Review 79

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

And my first investment ever in 2013, in the old, old days, was Pipedrive which ended up selling for well over a billion dollars cash during the peak. I believe you, it’s true, but venture capital is a weird niche thing that… Frankly, venture capital at any stage only wants to invest in folks that are already off to the races.

Scale 178

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 178

SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2022

Back in 2013, it was quite rare to hear terms like billion-dollar valuation, unicorn valuation, or unicorn startup. Unicorn is a venture capital jargon that is used to refer to the startups whose valuation has touched 1 billion dollars. Today, as the startup ecosystem gains traction, these terms are often heard. contact-form-7].

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B2B Startup Technical Review SaaS 11

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil. In 2013, Thiago joined Resultados Digitais, one of the most renowned SaaS businesses in Latin America.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 7, 2016

But it’s not a compelling if it’s a single data point, because the market reached this level in Q2 2013 and Q1 2012. Cooley’s data indicates the supply of venture capital dollars exceeds founder demand and VCs are competing by continuing to offer very founder friendly terms, even in down rounds.

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Venture Capital Startup Finance Consulting 100

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. I work at a firm called Shasta Ventures. So they had an idea and fast forward 2013 the company went public. We were trying to go public in 2013.

SaaS 138

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Innovation 138

ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2020

A three-time entrepreneur, Todd teamed up with fellow product leaders and technologists from Red Hat, Cisco, and Google to launch Pendo in October 2013. The company has since raised $206 million in venture capital, landed more than 1,400 customers, and now employs more than 400 people across six offices around the globe.

Scale 69

Scale Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 69

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

These factors resonated well with the investment theses of venture capital firms. In 2013, Veeva Systems’ results showed a ~$550,000 Average ARR and a revenue mix of 56% to 43% for Subscription to Professional Services revenue, as expected for an Enterprise SaaS business model.

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Business Model SaaS Business Scale 52

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Lars was one of his early customers at Cloudera and I met him at Dreamforce in 2013 and unbeknownst to me and my business partner Matt Gourniak, he came up to us. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. Lars said, “Hey I found a much better CPQ.”

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 159

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

I’ve been working remotely since 2013, when I walked into the office of the best boss I’ve ever had and asked for permission to work remotely. It’s a common sentiment that one year of start-up experience is equivalent to two years of experience at a larger company, which I wholeheartedly agree with.

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Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When you look at venture capital, there’s a whole thing going on about how many funds are and how many seed funds there are. Aileen Lee: 2013. And I do think that’s a really valuable skill. I did it for myself just because I had this new fund and I was like, “What should I invest in?”

Investment 154

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 154

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet.

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SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40