The Angel VC

JANUARY 3, 2014

I hope you've had a great start into the new year, and I wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous (and of course SaaSy ) 2014. Here are six things that I think SaaS founders should keep in mind in 2014. Which additional ones do you think SaaS founders should pay attention to in 2014? Fixing your weaknesses is the tougher part.

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Scale SaaS Sales Hiring Technical Review 155

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2021

In 2014, when I invested in then up-and-comer Talkdesk , it had long since IPO’d and was struggling at a $200m market cap. Five9’s revenues were 60% enterprise at IPO in 2014, but now are 83% enterprise. And Five9 has grown from just 3 $1m ACV customers in 2014 to 91 today: #2. Five9 is particularly interesting.

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SaaStr

MAY 1, 2023

UiPath has had an incredible history, taking 10 years to get to that first $1m in ARR … and then turning into one of the fastest growing software companies to $1 Billion in ARR ever ! UIPath History 2005: Started as a tech outsourcing company 2014: $500k rev. seed round 2015: $1m rev. 2016: $3.5m rev 2017: $30m rev. 2016: $3.5m

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2022

2014 $4.1B. I don’t do a lot of predictions, but I very strongly believe enterprise software companies are going to do really well over the next 18/24 mos…. It’s not slowing down Salesforce, Snowflake, or almost any other SaaS or Cloud leader. Salesforce Growth: 2023 $31.8B (guidance) 2022 $26.5B 2021 $21.25B 2020 $17.1B

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SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2023

PSG is a growth equity firm that partners with software and technology-enabled service companies to help them navigate transformational growth, capitalize on strategic opportunities and build strong teams. Founded in 2014, PSG has since raised over $14 billion in capital and has a team of more than 150 investment professionals.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Jay focuses most of his time working with the current portfolio companies and looking at new investments in the software-as-a-service, Internet media and green tech space. Since 2014 Jay has invested in over 90 startup companies with 35 successful exits. Jay Levy is Managing Partner of Zelkova Ventures.

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SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2023

Later on, when we thought a new acquisition of raw technology was ready to scale (it wasn’t – it is now) In 2022 (like many companies), when we misread the “COVID bump” of 2021 for a secular change in software In each case, the mistake wasn’t being aggressive. So at Pulse 2014, I became a “grown-up CEO.” I wore a boring suit.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2014, I published a post called Do Startup Require Less Capital to Succeed than 10 Years Ago ? In 2014 we saw increasing efficiencies over time, which was very exciting because it reaffirmed the efficiency of SaaS go-to-market. It’s been five years and time to see how things have changed. The chart above updates that analysis.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 23, 2021

Over the last ten years, the 75th percentile post-money valuation of a cloud software or infrastructure company has grown 11% annually. 2014: Alibaba. In 2021, the post-money valuation has spiked 60% from $48.1m 3 of the 11 years recorded 40%+ growth. 3 of the years saw declining prices. 2012: Facebook.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2021

UiPath is one of the most amazing not-really-an-overnight success stories in Cloud, SaaS and software. It was founded way back in 2005 as an outsourcing company, then developed Windows software to automate scripts and more, and turned this into a powerhouse for automating complex functions integrating Cloud and on-prem. seed round.

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Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Payment Features Cloud 358

Stax

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

About Stax Payments Stax Payments is a leading, high-growth payments technology provider that helps software companies, resellers, and SMBs realize the value of integrated payments for their business. Since 2014, Stax has grown to process over $30 billion in payments and serve more than 30,000 businesses and software platforms across the U.S.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

In the last 22 months, there have been 4 $1B+ software IPOs and 3 $1B+ software acquisitions. But compared to 2014, 2015 was a meager year for startups looking to go public or be acquired. In 2014, $11B of disclosed M&A occurred. Why was the exit activity in 2015 starkly different than 2014?

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 27, 2022

Public software median inflation rate rests at 5% annually, including shares for new employees, retention grants for current employees and primary stock sales in the public market to raise cash. Apple (AAPL) deflates their share count aggressively: they’ve spent $85.5b to repurchase shares during the past decade. Founded Year.

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SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Customer success software provides businesses with a 360-degree look at the entire customer relationship. Good customer success software will help you identify red flags and maintain successful customer retention. CSM solutions are commonly used by software as a service (SaaS) providers. They hold the cards.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 24, 2021

TED talks benefit from the same concept: short talks with leaders in a domain who astonish us with insight about our world and ourselves: how we carry ourselves changes our confidence , how education impinges creativity , or how an outbreak would impact the world according to Bill Gates in 2014. We see this in software, too.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2019

Tableau sells data visualization software and the team has built an incredible business. We analyzed the S-1 in 2014. This wave of consolidation in the BI world suggests this is a key area of competition amongst the biggest software companies in the world over the next decade. in revenue, growing at 29%.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It was April 2014, and the company was raising its Series B. and in 2014, it had the lowest digital penetration of any category. Prior to founding Instacart, Apoorva was a fulfillment optimization software engineer from Amazon. Investing in Instacart was perhaps the hardest decision I had to make as a venture capitalist.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 24, 2019

I’m a Senior Software Test Engineer at FastSpring. Something like the Term Plans where you pay a certain amount each month for say two years was introduced in 2014, and I was the person involved in delivering that project for AT&T. Get to know the fantastic team behind the ecommerce platform! What is your role at FastSpring?

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2019

Every six months or so, I take a look at how the public markets are valuing next-generation software companies. As of mid-June, the public markets value software companies at all-time highs. The chart above shows the total enterprise value (TEV)/forward revenue multiple for the basket of public software companies.

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SaaSHolic

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Customer success software provides businesses with a 360-degree look at the entire customer relationship. Good customer success software will help you identify red flags and maintain successful customer retention. CSM solutions are commonly used by software as a service (SaaS) providers. Where to Find the Best Software.

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IT World

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Android 12 represents one of the most significant evolutions to the operating system in ages — arguably since all the way back with 2014's Android 5.0 And much of that comes down to how the software operates on Google's own Pixel devices. Lollipop release. To read this article in full, please click here

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Some people are still working hard in the office — but probably not people that buy and deploy software. Note this is an update / refresh of our classic 2014 post). . >> No one is around. Your purchaser’s boss is off for the holidays. I mean, c’mon? >> >> No new leads are coming in.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Podium started in 2014 in Lehi, Utah, which 10 years ago was nothing but farmland. And we raised a little bit of seed money in 2014. Luckily in 2014, we got email from a very prestigious Bay area firm, and if I told you their name, you’d all recognize it. We’d never even worked in software. We had no context.

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Scale Sales Hiring Software Review Scaling 112

IT World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Google's latest and greatest Android effort is without a doubt the most outwardly significant Android update since 2014's Android 5.0 Lollipop release — at least, if you're using a Pixel phone , where the software's most noticeable interface enhancements and feature additions are fully present.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Even in software. Good software built by good teams just gets more good over time. Basically the same software, just with a few years of continuous upgrades and improvements. Hubspot IPO'd in 2014, at an $880m valuation. But most top CEOs I know don’t really care where anyone on their team went to school. Keep going.

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The SaaS Garage

JUNE 3, 2022

Denn was die Software macht, brauchen alle: Eine Möglichkeit, einfach, schnell und ohne groß zu programmieren, die Inhalte sämtlicher Digitalauftritte ständig neu bearbeiten und aktualisieren zu können. The post Das stille Einhorn: Zu Besuch beim Berliner Software-Startup Contentful appeared first on SaaSgarage.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

We shared a post about where your money went when buying a $10 Buffer plan back in 2014 — but it was well time for an update. Since 2014 our team has grown from 34 to 78 team members. Our Average Sale Price (ASP) in 2014 was $13, while our total Operating Costs were $3,575,897.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2017

A year later, those trends have continued to converge, and SaaS valuations have resurged, reaching their highs of the 2014-2015 boom. If the first six months of 2017 are any indication, then 2017 should be roughly similar to 2016 and 2014 in terms of total dollars raised by SaaS startups in seed rounds through Series C.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2019

(Note this is an update / refresh of our classic 2014 post). Some people are still working hard in the office — but probably not people that buy and deploy software. There are some real mysteries in SaaS. Even now that I understand them, I still see them as a bit of a mystery. >> No one is around. I mean, c’mon? >>

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IT World

JUNE 23, 2023

It also works with the encrypted and compressed Electronic Software Download (.esd) DISM hasn’t changed much since it emerged in 2014, and (mostly) works the same for both Windows 10 and 11. wim) file format. esd) file format introduced in Windows 8.1.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is one of the transformative services in the modern digital landscape. 8 Best SaaS Development Companies in 2024 Clockwise Software Rate: $50 – $99 / hr Employees: 50 – 249 Founded: 2014 This Ukrainian company from Dnipro is one of the leaders in JavaScript development.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2018

A recent addition to the list of public software companies, Mulesoft is a tremendous business. For acquirers of software companies, one thing seems to matter: growth at scale. In the first three months of 2018, we’ve witnessed two multibillion dollar software acquisitions. Growth Rate. Gross Margin. Year of Acquisition.

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SaaStr

MAY 29, 2019

Stripe’s software allows its customers to make and receive payments by providing the technical, fraud prevention and banking infrastructure to operate online payment systems. Qualtrics is an online survey software maker. Claire Hughes Johnson is Stripe’s COO.

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SaaStock

MARCH 26, 2019

Founded : 2014. Founded : 2014. Elevator pitch : Rabbot offers intelligent software automation for mobile businesses that need to manage and control in a scalable way their fleet journey. Founded : 2014. Founders : Drew Beaurline and Patrick Albert. Based in: Belo Horizonte. Funding to Date : $636K. Founders : Joao Leal.

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SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2023

Braze didn’t find a true product-market fit until around 2014-2015. How To Figure Out What Changes Will Endure Let’s look at how Braze approached this idea of figuring out which changes they thought would endure. It took three or four years of quiet building and a strong conviction to see success.

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Scale Mobile Venture Capital Scaling 183

Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Request Quote Upgrade Your Legacy Equipment for Mobile Payments The world’s foremost mobile phone manufacturers, Apple and Samsung started to foster the use of mobile payments as early as 2014 and 2015, respectively. What Can You Do to Adopt These Mobile Payments Solutions? Contactless payments are relatively new, only arriving in the U.S.

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IT World

JANUARY 18, 2022

On the one hand, if you own a Pixel phone, Google's latest and greatest software is easily the most significant Android release since 2014's Android 5.0 Android 12 is truly a tale of two different Android updates — at least, from a practical perspective. Lollipop era.

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