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.

Startup 301

Startup Venture Capital Azure AWS 301

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.

Scale 198

Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital AWS 198

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.

Venture Capital 56

Venture Capital AWS SaaS Startup 56

OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There is an appetite for usage-based pricing, and we expect this to continue to accelerate in the coming months,” says Kyle Poyar, operating partner at OpenView, a venture capital firm. It has tended to be used most in infrastructure platforms, like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Closely watched SaaS metrics.

Subscription 52

Subscription Payment Features Pricing SaaS 52

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.

Cloud 100

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 100

Kellblog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Executives from companies including Algolia, AWS, Celigo, Contentful, Freshworks, Intercom, Yellowfin, Zephr, and Zoominfo. VCs from partnerships including Accel, Index, Point Nine, Seedcamp, Sequoia, and of course, Balderton.

Marketing 78

Marketing AWS Venture Capital SaaS 78

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.

Scale 189

Scale Scaling AWS Sales Hiring 189