SaaStr

JULY 7, 2021

First, If you need to raise more venture capital, and aren’t doing incredibly well, a VC not being supportive can be a gating item to getting further funding. And forget about most bank-style debt financing if your VCs aren’t 100% supportive. But classic venture debt from banks like SVB, etc. This is more common.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Eventually, the SEC investigated the four investment banks, who sold ARSs & compelled them to repurchase these securities at face value. The point of raising venture capital is to have money when the company needs it. The Global Financial Crisis followed. Lehman declared bankruptcy.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 22, 2014

Which startup sectors should expect to benefit from this surfeit of capital? Each quarter, the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters gather data on the VC industry. I’ve used this data to draw the long term investment trends across the US venture capital industry.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Over the past several years, the field of fintech infrastructure has exploded with venture capital investment and entrepreneurial attention.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2023

They raise money when they have cash in the bank, which means that they have much more leverage negotiating terms and getting additional funds for the company. If you need to raise venture capital, preparation is important, both in terms of process and in terms of expectation alignment. So how do they get there?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Many start-ups think they need to net venture capital to jumpstart their growth. But UserZoom’s roots in Europe drove them to be more creative – everything from FFFs (friends, family, and fools), to bank loans, to government grants. But it will all be worth it if you research and understand your client’s pain points.

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

This article looks at the history of SaaS as it relates to financial capital and production capital. I argue that standard saas metrics make it possible for founders to scale using debt capital (production capital thats cheaper) instead of solely relying on venture capital (financial capital thats more expensive). .

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Today Carman is Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures, the globally renowned Hong Kong venture capital firm. She has been featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Asia in Finance and Venture Capital for 2018. Morgan, and Deutsche Bank. in 2015, she made a move to the other side and left banking.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2022

you make on bank interest. And I put in a very large capital commitment into investing. Venture capital is incredibly important, and for many of us, a huge enabler of success. It was especially rough working in venture capital. But as part of the deal with the VCs, I took stock instead. I still did OK.

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The SaaS CFO

MAY 11, 2022

She just took on her first round of venture capital. No more gut decisions and managing your business with your bank account. I was chatting recently with an early-stage SaaS founder. And just like that, the new investors want better data to drive decisions. My new investors want better data to make decisions. […].

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 8, 2019

What differentiates the best banks from the middle of the pack aren’t differentiated financial products or novel go-to-market strategies or new insights into the market. In many SaaS categories as well as in venture capital, this idea is absolutely true. What mostly counts are vigor and nimbleness.

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The Angel VC

OCTOBER 13, 2015

More often than not, raising venture capital is a huge distraction for the founding team. If you are a founder or CEO and have raised venture capital it would be awesome if you could participate in the survey. In practice, things rarely go so smooth.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

MGV (Maschmeyer Group Ventures). Monta Vista Capital. MWest Ventures. Nanban Ventures. New Capital Partners. NewView Capital. Norwest Venture Partners. Okapi Venture Capital. Omega Venture Partners. Panoramic Ventures. Pender Ventures. PJC Ventures.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Dulma Altan Content pillars: Creator economy, tech, startups, and venture capital Dulma Altan 's venture into podcasting was a natural extension of her TikTok presence, where she explored topics revolving around the creator economy, tech, startups, and venture capital.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

While the world of public tech stocks is defined by consumer-facing juggernauts like Facebook, Amazon, and Google, the world of venture capital is defined by the North Star of SaaS. Let’s say you’re burning $1M/month with $20M in the bank. Let’s dive right in. That’s 20 months of runway, and the board doesn’t like it.

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2023

Joe will share how they went from 2 weeks of runway left in the bank (and a few maxed out credit cards), to it’s now $1.5B We all know and love Loom know, especially with the rise of async work, but it almost failed – more than once.

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SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2023

When I look at the purpose of venture capital, it’s not to burn a dollar five in order to grow a dollar of revenue,” says Magnuson. and banking on a change in how customers behave. Those companies will have a headstart on the competition when the market arrives. But the founders believed a mobile-first world was the future.

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SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2019

With $840m in the bank, Slack has essentially infinite runway. million funded by Slack and the balance funded by the venture capital funds who partner with Slack Fund.” Not burning that much cash. Yes, Slack has not been as efficient as Zoom. But at $600m+ in ARR it’s only burning $97m a year.

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SaaSOptics

JUNE 24, 2021

In a recent webinar, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick and Bigfoot Capital CEO Brian Parks discussed the changes that have taken place across the SaaS financing landscape, particularly those in debt financing of SaaS companies. . So what’s the difference between debt and equity-based financing, and how do you know which is right for you?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Given the shifting landscape, it’s helpful for you as a CEO and/or founder—or for your finance and capital markets teams, if you have those hires to help you through this process—to know who the key players are at each stage so you can spend your time and energy speaking to the right firms. For corporate debt, normal venture counsel (e.g.,

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I mean, most of you weren’t founders in 2008, 2009, that… It was so bad in 2008 or nine, I can’t remember what, I’m sitting at an early SaaS corporate banking event at Pebble Beach on a beautiful day having wine with investment bankers or VCs. Citibank’s the largest bank in the world?”

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2020

Bayes Ventures. Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Next Coast Ventures. Samsung Ventures. Bain Capital Ventures. SK Telecom Ventures. Signals Venture Capital. Conductive Ventures. Motorola Solutions Venture Capital. Darling Ventures. Noveus Capital. sricapital.com.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2019

These are the Best of Times in SaaS, and by all means, if you are able to raise venture capital, and need it, raise it. But I see two big regrets in venture capital, and they are somewhat confusingly at different ends of the fundraising spectrum. Maybe even put that 25% at a different bank, and don’t touch it.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2019

in venture capital $$$ to compete in spaces where you generally lose. But if you have $50m in the bank and your competitor has $4m in capital, you can actually compete everywhere — and they can’t. This will confuse you at first, if you haven’t been through it before.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

Vitor Torres shared his journey in founding Contabilizei and how they integrated accounting with banking solutions to provide a full-stack experience for their customers. Mastering online presence: Essentials skills for SaaS brand growth Andrew Warden, CMO (Semrush),and Julia De Luca, Tech Investment Banking (Itau BBA).

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 17, 2019

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner (and former chairman of the board of the National Venture Capital Association) Scott Kupor to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs as part of their hearings …

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SaaStr

JANUARY 29, 2019

It had just raised three million dollars at a 12 million dollar valuation from a venture capital firm and it had just secured a two million dollar secured credit facility from a commercial bank that the venture capital firm had introduced Power Drive to. We just agreed to stay in touch.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

That was great and created freedom from venture capital and many other benefits. At $8m in ARR, if you have $2m of cash in the bank, you get real nervous investing much more than $500k-$750k, $1m max. It’s subtle, but in SaaS I’ve learned you under-invest if you have < 50% of your ARR in the bank.

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Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

Moreso, it also speaks to your specific business goals as a startup, which could include scaling your business, finding a foothold into new markets, or securing venture capital funding, and the role that compliance plays in it all.

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Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

Moreso, it also speaks to your specific business goals as a startup, which could include scaling your business, finding a foothold into new markets, or securing venture capital funding, and the role that compliance plays in it all.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

In addition, founders have raised capital to transform many of the fundamental industries: transportation, hospitality, lending, health insurance, and banking. Space travel startups look to conquer the final frontier. But, photosharing, inevitably, continues to grow quickly, too. Email and dating’s decline are less obvious.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But for that happen, we need a bank of recent and authoritative data to help build the case for sales enablement. This may sound trivial, but the data we use, the stories we tell and the future state we describe matter (they matter a lot). Getting this right is how we as an industry will grow, evolve and thrive.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

For example: Company A was funded by some of the founders’ savings, a small line of credit from the local bank, and profits from customers. million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding. Venture Capital. Buffer spent $3.3

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

For some people, this might mean raising capital from venture capitalists, while for others it is using their financial statements to secure loans from banks to finance massive growth. Credit Stage: Part of bootstrapping a company is knowing when you can no longer do it alone. What are the pros and cons of bootstrapping?

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 20, 2014

In 2008, when I started working at Redpoint I knew very little about how the venture business worked, and before I started at the firm, I wanted to prepare by learning as much as I could about the industry. Unfortunately, not much was written about venture capital at the time. for 12% of Intuit… our $4.7M

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 24, 2022

You can even get involved — we’re giving 12 individuals the opportunity to deliver a 5-minute pitch to a VIP panel made up of 20+ of SaaS’ top sales, marketing, and venture capital executives. Find a cause of your choosing and set up a small, recurring monthly donation — say, $5 a month to your local food bank or animal shelter.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Opportunities in Venture Capital Nigel Morris, Managing Partner (QED Investors); Marcos Toledo, Founding Partner (Canary) Nigel Morris, Managing Partner of QED Investors is bullish on the opportunities for fintech in the financial services industry, particularly in Latin America and other developing regions.

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