The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Founded 2014 in Munich, Germany, Loyalty Prime has quickly developed itself into a leading loyalty program tech provider, serving blue-chip companies around the globe from a wide range of industries. The venture capital portfolio currently consists of 31 technology companies. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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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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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Over that 20 year period, annual SaaS investment has increased 20x, peaking in 2014 at $7B. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition. I believe competition is a major driving force, especially since venture capital is conspicuously copious.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 7, 2014

I started working in venture capital three months before Lehman imploded. Above, I’ve plotted the mean and median investment amounts for Series As, Bs, and Cs from 2006 to through September of 2014 in the US, as reported by Crunchbase data. In fact, the median Series A in 2006 equals the median in 2014: $5M.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

In 2014, that figure fell to 1186 and in 2015, we count 481. This is counterintuitive considering the broader venture capital backdrop of near record venture investment in software. But if we assume the 2014 cohort is accurate, then the data suggests an 18% drop in software company formation.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Founded 2014 in Munich, Germany, Loyalty Prime has quickly developed itself into a leading loyalty program tech provider, serving blue-chip companies around the globe from a wide range of industries. The venture capital portfolio currently consists of 31 technology companies. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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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. In Q1 2014, the market abruptly changed course from a steady decline of round sizes in the early stage market into a massive upswing.

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The SaaS Garage

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Since it was founded by the two customer loyalty and IT experts Christoph Straub and Kunal Mohiuddin in 2014, Loyalty Prime has won numerous blue chip companies from a wide variety of industries (including retail & e-commerce, travel & hotel, automotive, TV & entertainment as well as consumer goods) as satisfied customers.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 31, 2016

Q1 venture capital investment remains steady relative to Q4 2015 at about $15 billion, but down from the near records attained in 2015. So, on a historical basis, venture capitalists are still investing at rates substantially above average. In Q1 2015, venture capitalists invested $17.5 billion compared to $14.6

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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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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The 75% percentile seed round in 2014 totals $1.3M. The expansion in seed investments spans the top 3 states for venture capital (CA, MA, and NY), which collectively account for 70% of seed investment dollars raised. The top quartile seed rounds have expanded by 44% in 8 years, and by 75% since 2008.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 5, 2015

In about two thirds of SaaS IPOs from 2011-2014, the founding CEO is the current CEO. The original equity allocation among founders, ongoing employment at the company and the dilutive impact of venture capital are far bigger determinants of equity at IPO than current role. percentage points. Founder/CEOs retain 15.5%

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 20, 2014

In 2008, when I started working at Redpoint I knew very little about how the venture business worked, and before I started at the firm, I wanted to prepare by learning as much as I could about the industry. Unfortunately, not much was written about venture capital at the time. Mitch Kapor, Accel.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 15, 2015

Amazingly, each of the last four quarters of venture investment from Q3 2014 to Q2 2015, are in the top 10 all-time for venture capital investment. And while the market is similar to the dotcom era in some regards, it is substantially different in others.

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User Pilot

JUNE 13, 2022

We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. The Brad Feld blog is one of the best venture capital blogs dedicated to entrepreneurs and investors. Venture capital. Christoph Janz, a partner at Point Nine Capital, is an investor in his own right.

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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. If the trend continues, in 2014 the average material startup acquisition will reach $178M and the average startup IPO will raise $146M. All in all, the startup exit market is quite healthy.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 14, 2014

And as DeCambre points out, so far through 2014, the ten largest startup financings have yielded about twice as much capital as the ten largest IPOs. To paraphrase Mark’s question, can startups raise just as much capital in the private markets as in the public market, without the hassle of public market regulation?

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 24, 2014

The dollars in and out of the venture market are relatively constant. LPs are investing into venture capital at a steady, and likely increasing rate. Over the last five years, dollars into the venture industry has remained at or below the 12 year median. 2014 looks to be a bit of a stronger year.

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ReSci

MAY 7, 2015

Subscription businesses were on the receiving end of more than $350 million in venture capital funding in 2014, a nearly 100 percent year-over-year increase in funding growth, according to CB Insights. Subscription commerce seems to be having a moment. The Honest Company, one of the subscription economy's….

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The SaaS Garage

APRIL 27, 2017

Senovo, Unternehmertum Venture Capital (UVC) und Business Angel Alexander Brühl investierten kürzlich 1,5 Millionen Euro in Loyalty Prime, einen Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-Anbieter von Kundenbindungsplattformen. “Wir Loyalty Prime ging 2014 an den Start. Gegründet wurde enmacc von Volker Puck und Marc Trieschmann.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. 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.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 22, 2017

It’s wonderful to see the expansion of venture capital across these geographies and especially at very healthy growth rates. A 50% growth rate sustained over 6 years implies 11x growth in venture capital investment during the period. Brazil, United Arab Emirates, and Ireland follow at four, fix and six.

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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. Most data pairs are from 2014–2020. Most of the data pairs correspond to hundreds of millions in ARR. The analysis is based on year-end ARR data, so it doesn’t include any 2020 numbers.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

He recalls an experience from 2017 where venture capital firm Accel approached G2 to share their praise of the product. Abel says he first met Zoom CEO and Founder Eric Yuan in 2014 when they were both in Emergence portfolio. “In So ultimately, it’s a leading indicator even of company valuation,” says Abel.

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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

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. Stage: Corporate Venture Capital. Stage: Venture Capital. Tencent Holdings Venture Fund. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed.

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Kellblog

APRIL 1, 2019

This exercise shows that looking only at price appreciation presents a more dangerous-looking picture than looking at prices as related to revenues: looking across the whole chart, prices are up a lot since April 2014 but so are forward-looking revenues, and the multiple is roughly the same at the start as at the end: 8x. [4]

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. We also have a lot of developers who build with our API just for their own Slack workspaces as customers, and 90% of our paying customers actively use apps in a given week. Ceci Stallsmith : So, we want to … Oh, here’s who we are.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I started my career actually in venture capital, specifically in SAS venture capital. It started in a backyard in 2006; I invested when they had one location in 2014. So, my right-hand man who has been with me since 2014, is a rocket scientist from Princeton, EMBA from Kellogg.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

This is 2014 classified right in there you, you in did you pick up consulting clients? What what do you think the danger is of being too focused on those types of venture capital type ideas. It’s interesting. So you had you publish all your content on the internet? Or was it was it straight to software?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Felix Van de Maele | Co-Founder and CEO @ Collibra.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. series A round in December 2014 (60% was from Collaborative Fund) Bought out main series A investors (representing $2.3M in 2014 - 60% of which came from Collaborative Fund.

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Hitenism

JANUARY 16, 2017

In 2014, Mixpanel’s Series B pitch deck spelled out the company’s expansion plans over the next two years: 3x sales headcount and rapidly race towards distribution. Use venture capital to scale an inside sales team and dial for dollars to gain market share. Reduce sales ramp time by 30-50% via sales enablement.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

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. Some of the biases that venture capital had five years ago have gone away. It’s frustrating, but it’s true.

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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. Then he was on to a new adventure: founding Pipefy in 2014. Lauren Vaccarello, VP Marketing, Box.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

Bootstrapped because nobody in their right mind would have actually invested in us back then and took it up until 2014 as a bootstrapped company. In 2014, I sold a majority to Silver Lake Sumeru and Iconiq. Venture capitals are playing a numbers game. I want to put a caveat on that. He was almost a caricature of himself.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2020

Godard was named to the Tech 50 list by Crain’s Business Chicago in September 2014 and to the Chicago Entrepreneur Hall of Fame in 2011. 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.

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