The SaaS Garage

APRIL 26, 2017

The round was led by Digital+ Partners, with previous Series A investors, EQT Ventures, Senovo and Bayern Capital co-funding the round and bringing riskmethods’ total investment to date to more than 20 million euros. Senovo is an independent venture capital company based in Munich. About riskmethods. www.riskmethods.net.

Venture Capital 69

Venture Capital Finance Innovation Machine Learning 69

SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

For startups, the speaker suggests focusing on how AI can drive customer acquisition and go-to-market strategy, while for large companies, creating a vision for AI is important, as well as focusing on infrastructure and skillsets and reshaping governance to deal with security and compliance issues.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Blockchain Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to execute on this mission, founders can bootstrap their company, raise outside money ( venture capital is the most popular), or use a combination of both to help build their business. Security/Compliance: Early-stage startups are likely not going to be SOC certified.

Outsourcing Services 78

Outsourcing Services Scale Startup Outsourced Development 78

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. We’re a cloud content management platform. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products.

Payments 118

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 118

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

The tokenization of traditional financial instruments such as stock, bonds, loans, private equity and venture capital investments will become increasingly common. 2018 already paved the way for a number of tokenized fund launches such as Blockchain Capital and SPiCE VC.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Marketplace as a Service Software Review Venture Capital 40

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

I think one thing about RJ Metrics that maybe goes on that list of mistakes is that even though we founded the company in 2008, the next thing that happened the day after we founded the company was the Lehman Brothers collapsed and the venture capital market was non-existent. The business ran for four years completely bootstrapped.

Sales Hiring 133

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 133

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Horizontal SaaS companies were the first to debut because the market for basic administrative functions was broad, the R&D work was light, and the demand for cloud-based services was limited to basic functions. These factors resonated well with the investment theses of venture capital firms.

Business Model 52

Business Model Business SaaS Scale 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It’s amazing what the efficiencies and the low costs of the cloud can allow you to do as far as industry specialization. Some compliance factors had added fuel to our fire in terms of more people wanting to adopt. We saw this opportunity to grow faster, but we needed capital. Nancy, maybe I’ll turn this over to you.

Scale 168

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 168

Kellblog

JANUARY 5, 2020

I’d argue it’s not – the markets have changed structurally such that companies are staying private far longer and thus living off venture capital (and/or growth-stage private equity) in ways not previously seen. The interesting question here is whether mean reversion is relevant. digital transformation, security, disruption).

DevOps as a Service 64

DevOps as a Service Blockchain Technical Review AI Search 64