Kellblog

MAY 8, 2019

Every so often I post highlights from the quarterly Fenwick & West Venture Capital Survey , as much to share knowledge about the existence of the survey [1] as to share its current-quarter data. Here is direction and magnitude price change data by sector. This survey is important for two reasons. in the prior quarter.

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SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2021

or Really, #1) “State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners” This annual SaaStr tradition with Bessemer Venture Partners is better than ever. Do a deep dive into the data, trends and more in Cloud in 2021. Yes, you can get to $100m in revenues without $100m in venture capital. #6.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

My summary of Venture Markets in Nov 2022: Series B and later even worse than looks in data: 85%+ of investing here has simply ceased. 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.

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2020

5: “The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd” Godard shares from data what scales and what doesn’t in SaaS. #6. 2 top CXOs and 1 top Cloud CEO do a deep dive. #9. . #4: Growing & Scaling SaaS Businesses from $1M to $500M in ARR with Intercom.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Most Surprising Thing About VC This Year Shen has been in venture capital for 12 years now, and it’s been a crazy ride to watch the whole bull market back in ‘10 and ‘11 when 10x revenue was insanely expensive for a SaaS company. She watched the SaaS and Cloud wave ride and thought there’d be a huge pullback in markets this year.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

They started off as two young founders who loved building a database of data, and then plugged a little bit of email into it. He is a three time successful founder, current Managing Director at SaaStr Fund, and CEO and founder of SaaStr, the largest community of SaaS founders, investors and executives in the cloud.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2022

The Cloud is bigger than ever, CIOs are buying more than ever, and SaaS is still on a roll. But public stock prices are way down, and venture capital is much tighter than it was just a few months ago. An L4M speaks with data, and it projects your revenue and burn rate more accurately than a “wish and a hope” model.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Plus the $38b of venture capital invested in crypto year-to-date doesn’t ask many questions. 1] The base data is the basket of publicly traded cloud companies as of the date of writing. 2] I’m using the estimated sum of the public presale and community allocations using data from L1s via Messari.

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

Few folks have more data than Nathan Latka and he offers up some insights on how to properly leverage up in SaaS. Carlota Perez argues in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital that in the early days of a “golden age”, financial capital is necessary to fuel new technology innovation. . — ed.

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User Pilot

JUNE 13, 2022

We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. The Signal by Mixpanel is all about using data to build better products and help you convert, engage, and retain more users. The Brad Feld blog is one of the best venture capital blogs dedicated to entrepreneurs and investors.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will provides an in-depth look at the cloud computing industry across Europe and globally. Alex Ferrara | Partner @ Bessemer Venture Partners.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

We chose to invest in Loyalty Prime as it provides an effective solution to deliver on the widely preached but seldomly fulfilled promise in data-driven marketing and personalization: being able to provide “the right offer to the right person at the right time, in the right channel and with the right message for impactful business results.”

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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. With more than 15 years of solid experience, today she is the Chief Operations Officer at the Ping An Health Cloud, known as the most advanced AI healthcare technology. The reason? Maxine Ryan.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2019

How Would a Person Start a Venture Capital Fund? Cloud is on fire! #4. If you are selling to SMBs, this is a really good post with a lot of data. Some good and surprising data in here. #7. More data here. #14. People do seem to want to know. The greener grass. #3. The $1 Billion+ ARR Club. Just Last Year.

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Kellblog

JUNE 20, 2021

Our guest is veteran technology executive Evan Kaplan , CEO of Influx Data , makers of the open-source, time-series database InfluxDB. What it means to be true cloud native. How to approach the transition to true cloud native. Influx Data is a category leader that has raised about $120M from top-tier investors.

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Kellblog

JUNE 20, 2021

Our guest is veteran technology executive Evan Kaplan , CEO of Influx Data , makers of the open-source, time-series database InfluxDB. What it means to be true cloud native. How to approach the transition to true cloud native. Influx Data is a category leader that has raised about $120M from top-tier investors.

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2019

What did the 100,000+ subscribers to SaaStr’s Cloud Daily find most interesting in the Cloud this week? Here are the top stories: #1: “Russia’s Secret Intelligence Agency Hacked: ‘Largest Data Breach in Its History’ My suggestion: share each data breach and hacking story with your dev team.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

We chose to invest in Loyalty Prime as it provides an effective solution to deliver on the widely preached but seldomly fulfilled promise in data-driven marketing and personalization: being able to provide “the right offer to the right person at the right time, in the right channel and with the right message for impactful business results.”

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

” Towards that end, revenue multiple is a better bubble indicator than share price, so let’s take a look at the latest from Jamin Ball at Clouded Judgement. Data intelligence happens. My friends at Alation continue to crush it driving their vision of data intelligence extending from the data catalog [4].

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Where are venture investors focusing their technology bets? The story is different in the cloud.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Where are venture investors focusing their technology bets? The story is different in the cloud.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

From Silicon Valley to Rio – The Globalization of Venture Capital Mathias Schilling , Co-founder & Managing Partner (Headline); Romero Rodrigues, Managing Partner (Headline); Artur Búrigo, Reporter (Folha de S. The panel featured speakers from companies leveraging AI to improve business operations and customer experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. You can’t grow your business if your customers don’t trust you with their sensitive data. Security affects every function across your company: from onboarding and offboarding to encrypting data and managing endpoints.

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ProfitWell

MAY 18, 2020

Some good news regarding this data—overall, DTC growth is continuing to trend upward. Be sure to check your subscriber newsletter every Monday morning so that you can kickstart the week with some fresh data on DTC growth. Know anyone who might also benefit from this data? PaaS: Pasta as a service. 7 day +1.43% | ??30

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Scytale

JANUARY 22, 2024

Access to Funding Venture capital funding is a critical part of the startup journey, and non-compliance can hinder a startup’s ability to acquire the resources necessary for growth and expansion. This includes things like conducting risk assessments, establishing a security management program, and ensuring data privacy.

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SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. This episode is an excerpt from Keith and Jason’s session at SaaStr Summit: The New New in Venture. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks?

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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. Usage-based pricing has been growing since at least 2018, when about a quarter of companies were using it, according to OpenView’s data.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

Especially in the age of the cloud and AI copilots, you’re only ever a few clicks, prompts, and copy-pastes away from a functional skeleton of a product. We use software that runs in the cloud on top of data from other software that runs in the cloud…easy! More importantly, DALL-E’s cloud picture above is clearly wrong.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 12, 2023

Scenes from the future: A 10- and 20- Year Forecast of Your Industry Amy Webb, Quantitative futurist and CEO (Future Today Institute) Amy Webb, Quantitative futurist and CEO of Future Today Institute highlights the importance of preparing for the future by analyzing data and identifying trends, rather than predicting the future.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The additional capital and the support of Tiger Global will help further Factorial’s mission to build the Zendesk of HR , as Reid Christian of CRV (who led the Series A) put it. In the last few quarters, Tiger Global has emerged as one of the most aggressive venture capital investors. Then, lightning struck.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 29, 2018

For example, cloud storage became feasible when bandwidth and data storage costs approached a sweet spot — Dropbox and Box were able to capitalize on this. As cloud technology adoption grew, Gainsight saw the need (and potential) for a new role within cloud software businesses, in the form of the customer success manager.

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The SaaS Garage

APRIL 26, 2017

riskmethods’ cloud-based technologies enable global organizations to identify and evaluate challenges within the supply chain in near real-time, and to initiate appropriate countermeasures if necessary. Senovo is an independent venture capital company based in Munich. www.eqtventures.com. About Senovo.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

This is where the cloud meets. We’re an early stage venture capital firm focused primarily on B2B SaaS and B2B marketplaces. And then he said, “My criteria for realistic is that they followed up with the right buyer questions a few days after sending data room and then scheduled a follow up call.”

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The roadmap and enhancements covered at Altitude will enable IT to take action on more data types, enforce granular policies and workflows, and build custom roles that meet the needs of every kind of IT team. Ryan Donnon, IT and Data Manager at First Round Capital, shared how he stays top of mind with his executives.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. 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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Kellblog

AUGUST 27, 2022

relational database, business intelligence, cloud EPM, customer success management, data intelligence) and ones that didn’t (e.g., Stephanie ran marketing at Alation, which successfully created (or should I say seized on the market-created opportunity to define and dominate) the data catalog category. (It’s

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