SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? We recently led a [ $50M series B ] investment in Todyl, which is a modular cybersecurity platform for small and medium businesses. What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? What’s your pulse check on the venture markets right now, today?

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Venture Capital Cybersecurity Scale Artificial Intelligence 264

The SaaS Garage

APRIL 26, 2017

MUNICH & BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–riskmethods, the leading provider of solutions to identify, assess, and mitigate global supply chain risk, has successfully completed its Series-B financing round with an investment of 13.5 Senovo is an independent venture capital company based in Munich. million euros.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

SaaS companies in particular have high gross margins (no IT admin) and recurring revenues (subscriptions), a combination which means they can re-invest a substantial piece of their revenue into (hopefully) predictable growth. It’s not very surprising then that we’ve built, invested in, and bought a ton of software over the last few decades.

Outsourcing Services 59

Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development AI 59

Tom Tunguz

JULY 14, 2013

With more than 80% of venture capital investments occurring in enterprise and with the public markets disproportionately rewarding SaaS companies with huge enterprise value-to-revenue multiples ( median is 7.6 ), it’s no surprise that interest Software-as-a-Service is booming.

Sales Hiring 100

Sales Hiring Venture Capital SaaS Machine Learning 100

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. Venture capitalists invest in startups because they believe in the founder(s) and their vision.

Outsourcing Services 77

Outsourcing Services Scale Startup Outsourced Development 77

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.

Sales Hiring 183

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Government 183

BetterCloud

OCTOBER 30, 2018

An ex-employee undercutting a venture capital firm. Like a blood-sucking vampire leaching the life out of its victim, a partner at a venture capital firm in San Francisco poached deals from his former company for two years after he left. No other details have been changed. This story proves that this belief is warranted.

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital compliance Data Investment 40

Kellblog

JANUARY 3, 2022

But you’re not fully committed, the board is split on the decision, you’re worried about the CAC impact of initially unproductive sales investments, and you’re not sure what to do. You have a nice US-based $30M SaaS business and you want to expand into Europe. The Idea/Execution Quadrant.

Sales Hiring 125

Sales Hiring Scale Consulting Leadership 125

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

Bold Prediction : Every European Series A VC firm will have at least one investment in manufacturing by the end of 2019. The tokenization of traditional financial instruments such as stock, bonds, loans, private equity and venture capital investments will become increasingly common.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Marketplace as a Service Software Review Venture Capital 40

FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Offloaded Sales Tax And Compliance Management At FastSpring, we act as the merchant of record for all transactions on your site, making us responsible for collecting and remitting taxes on your behalf. But I think you also need to take into account like the total addressable market, and your time and investment.

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

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. Ceci Stallsmith : So, we want to … Oh, here’s who we are. That’s how we got started in building our ecosystem.

Payments 124

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 124

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

You said about the Buzzfeed mistakes that you made being the very conventional ones as a boardroom this day, I would say that that is my duty, given the hindsight that I have from investing in 30 plus companies before, other investors with much more experience, to actually guide you away from those very conventional mistakes.

Sales Hiring 133

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 133

Baremetrics

APRIL 16, 2021

Sweat equity and credit cards, personal lines of credit, direct cash investment into the business in the form of an equity stake or a related-party loan to the company, deferring cash-pay compensation. Future capital providers love to see that you’ve invested more than your time into your endeavor. Types of Capital.

Venture Capital 66

Venture Capital Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 66

Neil Patel

MARCH 1, 2021

Equity crowdfunding enables members of the public to invest in a privately-owned company. An entrepreneur or a business, generally a startup, will use an equity crowdfunding platform to offer securities in return for an investment from members of the public. An Overview of Equity Crowdfunding. Why is this important for businesses?

Business 127

Business Technical Review Venture Capital Systems Review 127

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? They want to establish certain compliance things in place. We’re trying to solve for that return on investment.

Scale 109

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 109

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

When the future is predictable, people like to invest. That happens in venture capital, and that’s happening right now. Every venture capitalist is stress testing his or her own portfolio. It’s much easier to look at bright eyed and bushy tailed new investments. This is the US Venture Capital Market.

Technical Review 205

Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 205

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It is a sign of development, showing that the business has effectively transitioned from an R&D organization dependent on venture capital to an autonomous, long-lasting enterprise. . Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC): The sum invested in acquiring a new client, typically through marketing and sales efforts.

Enterprise 10

Enterprise Outsourcing Services Scale Payment Services 10

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? They want to establish certain compliance things in place. We’re trying to solve for that return on investment.

Scale 50

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 50

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

These factors resonated well with the investment theses of venture capital firms. Avalara provides tax compliance solutions for direct and indirect taxes. The targeted functions to be replicated in the software – examples include customer relationship database management and bookkeeping – were well defined.

Business Model 52

Business Model SaaS Business Scale 52

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

They understood technology, and they had a unique respect for regulatory and compliance. You’re looking first at the broad categories of what’s working and what directionally should we be investing more in, then drilling deep into the individual initiatives that are driving the most impact. Michael: I was really aligned.

Strategy 36

Strategy Payment Methods Payment Services Startup 36

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I run marketing and communications for Battery Ventures. It’s a global technology focused investment firm. Just as an example, at Battery we invested in a company called Bright Tree, which is outside of Atlanta, which makes software for the home health care market. My name is Becky Buckman. She had a medical issue today.

Scale 172

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 172

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. Here’s the problem in a nutshell. 2M to $4M).

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