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SaaS Fundraising in 2017

Tom Tunguz

When I analyzed the SaaS fundraising market in 2016 , three trends emerged. A year later, those trends have continued to converge, and SaaS valuations have resurged, reaching their highs of the 2014-2015 boom. Should the current trend continue, 2017 would see the fewest number of rounds since 2012, and a 45% reduction from 2014 high.

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How Much Further Can We Fall?

Tom Tunguz

I went through my archives and found this post from 2017 that showed that the most expensive stock at the time was Veeva at 11.7x If the valuation environment mirrors 2017, CloudFlare’s multiple would halve again. In 2017, the average company traded at 5.4x Today, CloudFlare tops the list at 22.2x.

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Sales Efficiency through Covid : Reading the Tea Leaves for Startups

Tom Tunguz

In 2017, SaaS companies reported their cost of customer acquisition had increased by 65% in the previous five year period. I observe a few trends. Combined with a market whose cost of capital has surged with the Fed Funds rate, these trends will demand teams innovate to create more efficient customer acquisition channels.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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5 Charts on the State of the Seed Market in 2017

Tom Tunguz

This trend started in 2014 and has continued through the first quarter of 2017. The big trend is the increasing prevalence of second seed rounds. The anomaly in 2017 is due to an outlier. Only one company has raised two seed rounds so far in 2017, qualifying it into this dataset. It’s quite nearly always 2.

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Cutting R&D to Grow GTM Spend : Is it Happening Across Software Companies?

Tom Tunguz

The trend is consistent & apparent across all quartiles. Starting in 2017 when the data is richer, the PLG companies increased R&D spend from 27.5% The last three quarters show a trend reversal to increased spending, however. I categorized these companies by their primary motion: sales or product-led.

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