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Doubling Down: Nina Achadijian, Partner at Index Ventures

SaaStr

The company is an AI platform that empowers teachers to give instant, personalized feedback to students, based in San Francisco. We were really impressed with Class Companion’s founder Avery Pan’s clear vision and mission to help teachers leverage AI to improve education. Why did you do the deal?

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

The Hong Kong-based Horizons Ventures was founded 20 years ago, and today is one of the funds standing behind exits like Skype, Siri, Facebook, Summly and Waze. The VC firm invests in a wide variety of sectors, including tech, telecommunications, internet, media, education, healthcare, culture, and community. Stage: Venture Capital.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

Notey Labs create digital solutions to help companies handle international online space. Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. ViSenze recommends items to customers on websites and social media.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. Are you more excited about eCommerce? Partially, I think, for personal reasons. I guess probably one of the more notable companies that we work with is Guild Education. 346: Aileen Lee is a U.S. seed investor. Jason Lemkin: Yep.

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Flow’s Daniel Scrivner on the brave new world of asynchronous productivity tools

Intercom, Inc.

As a self-taught designer who began his career as a freelancer, he worked his way up first at the advertising firm DDB before joining Apple’s marketing communications team and eventually becoming the Director of Design for Square, the digital payments company that went public at a valuation of $3.6 billion in 2015.

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. What I personally have seen in my little portfolio and the founders I work with is what I call the COVID beneficiaries. Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Are you more excited about eCommerce?

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SaaStr Podcast #343 with Point Nine Capital Managing Partner Christoph Janz

SaaStr

We’re an early stage venture capital firm focused primarily on B2B SaaS and B2B marketplaces. If you are not in this category of COVID-19 beneficiary, like video conferencing, telehealth, tele-education. I’ll talk about the topic of fundraising during a pandemic. and Canada and occasionally in other places.