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Why Now is a Great Time to Raise Seed Funding. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds.

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So now is simply a terrible time to be raising growth stage venture capital. A great deep dive on later-stage SaaS investing here: And look venture is a mess today. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. Crypto investments are going bankrupt. Board meetings are endless drama sessions.

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BVP: The Top Unicorns Are Still Raising at 23x ARR

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So there’s a curious thing anyone close in venture capital fundraising and rounds today: Valuations for Hot VC Deals remain far higher than pre-March 2020 … even though growth for the overall public SaaS and Cloud companies has slowed to … all time lows. Most likely no matter how well you are doing — that’s likely not quite you.

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Pilot: 57% of Venture Startups Will Need to Raise More In 2024

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SaaS products and services like Pilot track the finances of 1,000s of SaaS and other startup so they’re an interesting source of hard data. 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.

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The Top 10 SaaStr Posts of 2020

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Ok the Best But Craziest Year Ever for SaaS isn’t quite over, but as it drives to a conclusion, we thought it would be worth looking back at top posts you may have missed in 2020. “The Era of the SaaS Decacorn is Here” That’s for sure. The Era of the SaaS Decacorn is Here. What a crazy year for Cloud.

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Founders Today Just Need to Assume the Next Round Never Comes

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So we’ve talked about it often here at SaaStr, but things are just so … odd right now in SaaS. And while AWS’s growth is down a bit, it’s still at epic levels, Azure isn’t even really down, and Google Cloud is growing faster than ever. The latter is the most important for raising venture capital.

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Alteryx, ZoomInfo Have Blow Out Quarters. Datadog grows 74% at $2B in ARR. Ping Identify Acquired for $2.8 Billion. Don’t Call it a Downturn.

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So are we in a downturn in SaaS? And inflation is awful. But where is SaaS are we really today? Alteryx, a leading public SaaS ETL company, announced it was growing 33% at $730m in ARR! I’m not saying there isn’t a radical slow down in venture capital, with a ton of valuation compression.

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TAM is Great. But What Really Matters is That You Believe You Can Hit $100m ARR in 7 Years.

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I have a strong, semi-proven thesis that in SaaS, market size doesn’t matter that much … at least in the traditional top-down sense. Yes, many of the big winners in SaaS entered already large markets, from CRM (Salesforce) to ERP (Workday) to Collaboration (Workday, Asana). And it’s better than that, these days.

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