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. These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. The Race for Artificial Intelligence With Micro Startups.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

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. Machine learning in SaaS is nascent. In 2011-2013, about 1450 software companies were founded each year on average.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital SaaS Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 100

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

There was a famous paper in, I think, 2015 that Hsieh and Enrico Moretti out of Berkeley published, where they argued quite convincingly that if we built enough housing in the Bay, in New York, and a couple of other places, American GDP would be higher by 14 percent or more. But it is interesting.

Artificial Intelligence 100

Artificial Intelligence Innovation Transportation Venture Capital 100

Hitenism

JANUARY 16, 2017

Optimizely CEO Dan Siroker wrote in this Quora post : “This was a journey we committed to back in August 2015 to put us on a path to sustained growth and profitability without additional venture capital. Use venture capital to scale an inside sales team and dial for dollars to gain market share.

Scale 147

Scale Venture Capital SaaS Headcount 147

SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

I am a partner at Accel, the Global Venture Capital Fund, and I’m very happy to be here with one of these mythical creatures that people were talking about earlier. 2015: $1m rev. You apply your machine learning and voila, you’ve turned a process from rules-based to experience-based, right? seed round.

Sales Hiring 250

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 250

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

Years later, he’s got a thriving business that is not venture capital backed. Years later, he’s got a thriving business but one that is not venture capital backed. It’s not 2015. Matt launched his business from his proverbial garage while his wife was pregnant with their first child.

Scale 106

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 106

Chart Mogul

JUNE 29, 2018

Category owners or “kings” are often lauded in the SaaS industry where they take a disproportionately large chunk of market revenue. This means that owning a category is in most cases a requirement for the level of growth and investment multiples that venture capital demands. Oh how far we’ve come. So what’s left?

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital Scale Cloud Branding 70