Outseta

AUGUST 31, 2018

By Geoff Roberts 5 min read With some vacation time now in our rearview we’re heading towards the home stretch of 2018, making it the perfect time to fill you in on what we’ve been up to at Outseta since our July company update. is a venture capital firm that invests in companies that focus on selling their product at a profit from day one.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 8, 2018

On what it takes for SaaS startups to get venture capital funding today. “If you want to raise capital from a VC fund then it only makes sense if you really have the ambition and a very strong desire to do something really really big.” So what are Christoph and his team at Point Nine Capital really looking for?

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The SaaS Garage

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

By Loyalty Prime , December 29th, 2018. . After another successful financial year in 2018, which for example witnessed an increase in revenues of 80 percent, the market entry in the USA and a doubling of customers, Loyalty Prime has now secured a solid financial basis for its rapid international expansion and product innovations in 2019.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The pricing model, which leads to increases or decreases in revenue based on how much customers engage with a service, has been gaining on the more traditional subscription model as the main way SaaS companies make money. Pricing model growth. It has tended to be used most in infrastructure platforms, like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The growing divide between SaaS and venture capital. I believe competition is a major driving force, especially since venture capital is conspicuously copious.” Fast forward to 2017 and Instapage has over $10M in revenue and 130 employees across multiple countries. “I So what’s the deal?

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Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

Today, HubSpot is not only a rapidly-growing enterprise that generates nine-figure annual revenue (more than $500 million in 2018), but they are also trusted thought leaders in the marketing industry with a cult-like following. In 2018 they had their biggest conference to date with more than 24,000 attendees. 2007: 48 customers.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. We’ve seen a clear trend toward technology companies capturing a growing share of venture funding recently.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. We’ve seen a clear trend toward technology companies capturing a growing share of venture funding recently.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

” Towards that end, revenue multiple is a better bubble indicator than share price, so let’s take a look at the latest from Jamin Ball at Clouded Judgement. Flood of venture capital (VC). Venture capital continues to flow. Are multiples down? Yes, from a median high of nearly 20x to 12x, nearly 40%.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

One way to sanity check your budget is to simulate what would happen if your costs grew as planned while revenue increased only linearly, i.e. you assume that you’d keep adding the same amount of net new ARR in the next quarters that you’ve added in the last quarters. for each $1 of net new ARR, which is quite healthy).

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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. A symptom of market saturation.

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Point Nine Land

JULY 29, 2022

Either way, if this is the first time you’ve heard about the SaaS napkin, here’s some background to get you up to speed: In 2016, I thought about what it takes to raise capital in SaaS and tried to fit the answer on the proverbial back of a napkin. In 2018, the napkin got 478 upvotes on Product Hunt.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

To date Bob has raised over $15m with Crossbeam from friends of the show including Andy @ Uncork, Matt @ Firstmark, Bill @ First Round and Matt @ Salesforce Ventures, to name a few. Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Loving our podcast content?

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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. 2018 saw about $44 billion of value added to the public markets, companies like Dropbox, companies like DocuSign, and that has continued now into 2019. How long can this last?

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

One way to sanity check your budget is to simulate what would happen if your costs grew as planned while revenue increased only linearly, i.e. you assume that you’d keep adding the same amount of net new ARR in the next quarters that you’ve added in the last quarters. for each $1 of net new ARR, which is quite healthy).

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The key is regularly showing IT’s impact on the metrics that matter to the business, including business generated, improved time to market, and realized revenue. As a CIO at a venture capital firm, Uy is always thinking about how to help his firm’s startups find more cloud-first IT talent.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

Julia Morrongiello Associate The Tokenization of Everything The narrative in 2019 will shift away from ICOs and utility tokens to security tokens, which, unlike their counterparts, give holders recourse to profits or revenues, and are subject to securities regulation. inVision and Intercom launching their app store).

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2021

based revenue. Founder-CEO Dave Barrett is famous for his views on the pros and cons of venture capital (see his talk from 2017 SaaStr Annual below) and he bought out most of Redpoint’s shares for $43m in 2018. We can’t all do this. But it shows it can be done. #2. From 10% growth to 60%. In one year.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Google sheet version To answer the question, I took a look at the historic revenue development of 70 of the largest SaaS companies. All revenue figures are based on GAAP revenue as reported by public SaaS companies, i.e. the numbers do not show a company’s ARR. For these companies, the numbers are by their nature less certain.

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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. raised) in July 2018 Just a few short months after Wistia’s announcement another household name in tech circles, Buffer, announced that they were also buying out their investors. They were doing $4.6M

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Have revenue, but early, so like 50K ARR after two months of charging for a product. People were so excited about SaaS when public companies were trading at 30 to 50 X revenue that they would want to take that meeting. Now, revenue’s coming in looking good. Last year offered checks of between five and 10, early.

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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. Aaron Ross, Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue. His focus there was deal-sourcing.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

By early 2018, Brinker had updated it with almost 2,000 more vendors — that’s nearly 7,000 marketing software companies fighting for the same buyers’ attention. Both landscapes are increasingly competitive and it’s little wonder that 63% of marketing executives have rated lead generation as their biggest challenges in 2018.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year. In revenue, the US government takes in 3.5 So the amount that we’ve handed out just in money going out of the US government is equal to 86% of the total revenue we take in in a year.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Guide to SaaS Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue in SaaS by Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO SaaS revenue recognition is an ongoing priority for SaaS accounting teams. However, most SaaS companies I have spoken with are incorrectly recording their most important revenue stream. Because this drives investment decisions.

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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. billion dollars in 2018. I’ll just do a quick introduction. My name’s Doug Pepper.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

And with the field having undergone a couple of “ knockout expansion years ,” with more revenue pouring into SaaS than ever, it has never been a better time for a young SaaS company. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. Heightened customer retention.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

Roelant Prins: So we were seeing two, three percent more approval rates and that’s a big deal, especially for companies that do 100 million, seeing two or three million extra revenue, that drove a lot of interest in what we were doing. Aydin Senkut: Or companies that have 50 billion of global revenues. Roelant Prins: Totally.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. The company was acquired by Microsoft after we had grown revenue to over a hundred million in recurring profitable. We invest in technology companies typically at the earliest stages. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for about 900 million.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 29, 2018

The venture capital markets are flush with capital. In that epoch, despite the record volumes of venture dollars, startups went public quickly, in 4-5 years. 2017 and 2018 IPO startups are 11 years old when they do go public, more than double the early aughts. In 2018, the median IPO generated more than $340M.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

At our inaugural Saastr Europa in Paris in 2018, Sequoia (then Accel) Partner Luciana Lixandru and UiPath CMO Bobby Patrick discussed what breaks when your business goes into hypergrowth mode (hint: pretty much everything). 2018: $155m rev. Transcript: Luciana Lixandru: My name is Luciana Lixandru. UIPath History. 2014: $500k rev.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

We’ve been honored to speak at every one of the SaaStr to date and it’s really become a high for us to release this data collab report here and so, you’re seeing for the first time, something that we’ve been working on for months and really a look back on 2018 and a little bit of predictions, in terms of what’s ahead.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2018

Eric Siu has helped some of the biggest brands in tech accomplish one all-important task: grow their revenue. Nowadays Single Grain is mainly focused on using paid advertising and SEO to help clients like Uber, Amazon and Lyft grow their revenues online. This is a SaaS company that raised zero venture capital.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 5, 2020

I’d argue it’s not – the markets have changed structurally such that companies are staying private far longer and thus living off venture capital (and/or growth-stage private equity) in ways not previously seen. The interesting question here is whether mean reversion is relevant. That pretty much says it all.

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