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The B2B Marketplace Funding Napkin 2021

Point Nine Land

So if you’re a US-based startup, you might be able to shoot slightly higher ;) Unlike SaaS companies which have been around for years, B2B marketplaces are a relatively new category and not many investors have invested in them yet. Net revenue retention * of over 100% (for one or both sides of the platform) is a VC’s dream!

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. We were part of the office of the CTO. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?