SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Something that’s both not surprising but also pretty impactful: 57% of venture-backed startups will have to go “back to market” in 2024 to raise more capital. And realistically, most won’t have the metrics to pull off another round. VCs don’t give startups 10 years of capital.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

So there are a lot of rough and arm chair metrics for fundraising in SaaS in terms of valuations. So the minor point is maybe we’re just back to 2016-2017 in SaaS venture capital for Series A and later rounds. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. For the best ones. It Was 114x in 2021.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Worth hiring a sales team, raising some venture capital (even a modest amount). And I can say now, looking at 30+ venture investments, the ones where TAM held them back, in the end, were ones where they couldn’t really do the above analysis. And so it is, although we didn’t capture 100% of it.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Ed Lenta, the SVP and GM of Databricks, had the rare opportunity of scaling three hypergrowth companies — VMware, AWS, and Databricks. Silicon Valley-based venture capital companies might tell you to build productivity models around hiring salespeople and scaling your organization that way, but it’s not the way.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

You can see the growth on the platform side with Azure, Google, and AWS and how much it’s accelerating in AI. VCs Want To Invest, But There’s Stress In The System As a community, we over-talk about venture capital, but it’s important if you’re fundraising and to understand the pulse of the system. To some extent, it’s not clear.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

What I’m going to do is talk a little bit about what we’ve seen over the course of the last year and then also talk about some metrics we track or we encourage our founders to track as they’re building their businesses, and then, lastly, try to go through a few predictions for the next couple of years.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. The first is: It’s the best proxy for AWS growth in the private markets.

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