Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

However, if a company has backing from a venture capital firm, we would recommend that they meet with their venture firms first to review the firm’s existing relationships and/or to get recommendations for lenders based on the company’s stage and preference. For corporate debt, normal venture counsel (e.g.,

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The SaaS Garage

APRIL 26, 2017

We were particularly impressed by the company’s over 90 high-profile international customers from a broad range of industries, its market-leading technology, the steep growth trajectory in new and existing business as well as the significant potential for network effects in the business model. About riskmethods. About Senovo.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

The number of consumer electronics, appliances, and medical devices collecting sensitive data (and the regulatory and compliance scrutiny we apply to how they do it) is exploding, and I expect to see more software companies tackling these issues in the coming years. Hardware meets software…where?

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Industry-Centric” SaaS business models offer an alternative SaaS company categorization to the “Customer-Centric” SaaS model, which is defined based on the “go-to-market” strategy used by a management team. When SaaS business models originated, the most successful venture-backed startups used a horizontal model.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company. It was initially compliance focus. Look, this is not just about compliance, it’s about every vertical.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

And in the course of doing that, I think I really discovered and fell in love with SaaS as a business model and it really doubled down on my interest in data analytics. We didn’t take our first dollar of outside capital until 2012 for that business. The business ran for four years completely bootstrapped.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. Then we can use the security and compliance and control that IT would actually buy into to control those accounts. For some context as well, I actually worked with Niall when I was at Box back in the day as a founding member of the platform team there.

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