SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With each passing year, more and more of our online existence becomes tethered to the cloud. But how does the cloud take shape, and what can companies do to position themselves at the heart of its growing infrastructure? Infrastructure: Reloaded for the Cloud. Pro Tips for Modern Cloud Infrastructure.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2023

The company is trusted by more than 30,000 companies, over 5,000 investment funds, and half a million employees for cap table management, compensation management, liquidity venture capital solutions, and more. Our vision is a world where everyone has the power to innovate without limits. SAP for Startups? It’s an unexpected story!

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Scale Payments Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence 187

SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2021

. “The 5 Metrics You Should Track to Maximize Your Company’s Valuation with Thomas Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures” This fun, informal session with Thomas (and pinch-hitting from Jason Lemkin during an IT glitch) was a great deep dive into where SaaS is, right now. #2. Do a deep dive into the data, trends and more in Cloud in 2021.

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Cloud CTO Scale Venture Capital 142

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Let’s all be clear, 2021 was insane: * SPACs worth billions with no revenue * Multiples magically tripled * Fintechs with 10% GMs worth same as 80% GMs * #5 in market got same premium as #1 * Growth stage seen as free money * Seed VCs bought in $3B-10B rounds vs sell. All your revenue in low-margin fees? Or is this The New Normal?

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Venture Capital Innovation Acquisition Cloud 254

SaaStr

JULY 21, 2022

VC State of the Market with SaaStr’s CEO and Cowboy Ventures. Jason Lemkin, Founder & CEO @ SaaStr and Aileen Lee, Founder & Managing Partner @ Cowboy Ventures sit down to discuss the current state of venture capital. Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different?

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Venture Capital Enterprise Cloud Pricing 247

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. Recurring software revenue is now recognized as a great way to generate tons of cash for investors,” says Gerety. Let’s dive right in.

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Sales Hiring Headcount Finance Technical Review 222

SaaStr

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The number of global venture capital (VC) investments dipped in 2022, thanks to ongoing geopolitical tensions, turbulence in global capital markets, supply chain issues, and increasing interest rates. Venture capital firms pumped a lot of money into the economy during the pandemic, buying countless software companies.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 4, 2022

Exceeding expectations again, and importantly, also raising guidance in revenues for the full year. #3. And even SaaS and Cloud leaders that come up a tiny bit short of Wall Street’s lofty expectations are in many cases still doing incredibly well. Take a look at our deep dive with CEO Henry Shuck from 2022 SaaStr Europa here: #2.

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Venture Capital AWS Cloud Scale 281

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2020

State of the Cloud 2020 with Bessemer Venture Partner. A core piece of SaaStrAnnual.com content for 4 years straight, the Cloud team at BVP is back to share the latest trends in Cloud for 2020 and 2021! Equality and Unicorns in 2020: Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and Jason Lemkin of SaaStr. going from A to B).

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Trends Venture Capital Scale PayPal 216

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. They can negotiate themselves on where to spend incremental revenue and dollars. But you can’t cut your way to growth.

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Sales Hiring Management Airlines Venture Capital 275

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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Venture Capital Technical Review SaaS Scale 223

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Advaita Capital . Alliance Venture. Altos Ventures. Arali Ventures. Austin Innovation Capital. B Capital Group. Blue 9 Capital. Blue Cloud Ventures. Blume Ventures. Bow Capital. Brighton Park Capital. Corsair Capital. Costanoa Ventures. Craft Ventures.

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Scale Venture Capital Innovation Banking 230

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.

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AI Generative AI Venture Capital SaaS 251

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

SaaStr Enterprise will take everything we’ve learned from our first two digital events into a one-day event that is structured to provide high-impact and measurable value by connecting top CEOs of B2B companies from $20M – $2B in ARR with the top CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, and CXOs driving innovation in the Cloud. Apply to Attend.

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Enterprise B2B Venture Capital Cloud 162

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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Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 100

SaaStr

JULY 5, 2019

How Would a Person Start a Venture Capital Fund? Cloud is on fire! #4. A Step-by-Step Guide to Revenue Growth with Mark Roberge, ex-CRO at Hubspot. This eBook was our top performing post and page overall. If you haven’t downloaded it, it’s pretty awesome. #2. People do seem to want to know. Just Last Year.

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Sales Hiring Scale Venture Capital Acquisition 174

User Pilot

JUNE 13, 2022

We curated a list of the best SaaS blogs and influencers to help you learn more about SaaS and increase your revenue. We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. The Brad Feld blog is one of the best venture capital blogs dedicated to entrepreneurs and investors.

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Venture Capital SaaS Data Scale 52

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Bessemer Emerging Cloud Index (EMCLOUD) consistently tracks the outperformance of public SaaS public companies over NASDAQ, S&P 500, and Dow Jones indices. Average revenue to market cap multiples for Bessemer Cloud Index as of last quarter was 24x (for companies with revenues between $100M-$300M).

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Venture Capital Cybersecurity Forecasting Finance 52

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. We’re a cloud content management platform. Vicki Lin : Great.

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Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 124

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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Technology Venture Capital Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments 40

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.

Technology 40

Technology Venture Capital Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments 40

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. Change to cloud-native. First-generation cloud solved a deployment problem; second-generation solves a development problem as well. Are multiples down?

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Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 142

The SaaS Garage

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The capital is mainly being invested in Loyalty Prime’s rapid international expansion, especially in the USA , as well as within product innovation and development. Prime Cloud Loyalty Platform Enables State-Of-The-Art Loyalty Programs. link] BayBG Contact: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de.

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Venture Capital Automotive SaaS Finance 66

SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

There is a shift towards less capital-intensive startups with recurring revenues, and due diligence is crucial before taking on investors or advisors. Paulo) TL;DR Headline Ventures is a global venture capital firm with a portfolio of notable companies, focusing on building companies with the Silicon Valley idea around the world.

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Technical Review VP of Engineering Development Team Review Software Review 90

OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The pricing model, which leads to increases or decreases in revenue based on how much customers engage with a service, has been gaining on the more traditional subscription model as the main way SaaS companies make money. It has tended to be used most in infrastructure platforms, like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

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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? March was rough.

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Venture Capital Travel PayPal Scale 181

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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Venture Capital Finance Innovation Machine Learning 69

ProfitWell

APRIL 21, 2020

Our neighbors over at Toast , the leaders in cloud-based restaurant management software, launched a Rally for Restaurants initiative—a way to unite top brands across the tech and foodservice sectors in support of the dining community during the COVID-19 crisis. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Top B2B SaaS news. A Toast to better days.

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Sales Hiring Social Media Venture Capital Cybersecurity 61

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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Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development AI 59

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Below is a chart copied from the paper that shows the unprofitable percentage of small IPOs (those with less than $50M in trailing 12 months' revenue) and large IPOs. For example, Documentum filed for IPO in 1996 with $15M in ttm revenue and $0.5M MMC Networks filed in 1998 with $14M in ttm revenue and $0.5M Small IPOs. .

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Marketing Scale Venture Capital Finance 100

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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Venture Capital Scale Cloud Branding 70

ProfitWell

APRIL 2, 2020

Our neighbors over at Toast , the leaders in cloud-based restaurant management software, launched a Rally for Restaurants initiative this week—a way to unite top brands across the tech and foodservice sectors in support of the dining community during the COVID-19 crisis. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Top B2B SaaS news.

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Sales Hiring Social Media Venture Capital Cybersecurity 52

ProfitWell

MARCH 19, 2019

Hello friends, Abby here with your sixty second roundup of all things recurring revenue. I'd like to reach people who are interested in venture capitalism and entrepreneurship -- people who might be familiar with the basic concepts but want to watch something fresh, with a new perspective. Product of the Day.

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Entrepreneurship Venture Capital Advertising Interviewing 45

SaaStr

MAY 1, 2020

Are you a revenue driver or a cost center? Marketing leaders must focus their teams on the areas that will drive revenue while they cut costs – the biggest impact for the business. Navin Chaddha: Bottom line in my mind is just the revenue growth is not enough as you need to keep an eye on profitability. What works?

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B2C Investment B2B Leadership 185

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. The startup built a cloud-based office procurement system that helps customers streamline supplier management. Micro Aquire is for startups with an annual recurring revenue (ARR) of less than $500,000.

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Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The key is regularly showing IT’s impact on the metrics that matter to the business, including business generated, improved time to market, and realized revenue. Uy Ut, CIO at Accel, explained why cloud-first IT professionals are in high demand and how they’re shaping best practices for every future cloud adopter.

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Venture Capital Cloud Cloud Engineering Finance 40

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

But as time went on, we shared lessons, what best practices were in customer success and revenue retention and all these things are, right. They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. Where am I going to wire out half of my 8 million a venture capital? I don’t know. Never came back.

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Outsourcing Services Banking CTO Hire New CTO 178