SaaSOptics

JUNE 24, 2021

Debt vs. Equity: The SaaS Financing Landscape . Deciding between raising debt vs. equity financing? In a recent webinar, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick and Bigfoot Capital CEO Brian Parks discussed the changes that have taken place across the SaaS financing landscape, particularly those in debt financing of SaaS companies. .

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SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of SaaS, Venture Capital, Bootstrapping, and Valuations – understanding market trends and investment patterns is critical. We’ll also examine how public markets currently influence the SaaS industry and unpack the elevated CIOs’ role in budgeting for SaaS products.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 23, 2023

So now is simply a terrible time to be raising growth stage venture capital. A great deep dive on later-stage SaaS investing here: And look venture is a mess today. We just did our latest Workshop Wednesday with Omers Growth, and they only did one growth investment last year. Crypto investments are going bankrupt.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. We had a great one last week with Jay Levy, Managing Partner at Zelkova Ventures. This week we’re focusing on Mary D’Onofrio, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners! #1.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2023

Capchase Co-Founder & CEO Miquel Fernandez and 01 Advisors VP Kristen Clifford use data to show us what differentiates the best SaaS companies from the rest. The top SaaS companies are growing really fast, roughly at twice the rate of their peers. As a refresher, the rule of 40 is a measure of sustainable growth for SaaS companies.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

As we first looked at bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia and considered what help we could offer, we thought about localization and know-how about legal and cultural differences as some of the critical success factors. Financing was an obvious must but not the necessity of it being from local sources. Horizons Ventures.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

These 18 women are powerful, relentless and are all making SaaS and tech in general a better place. They have impressive professional achievements, all the way from founding companies through to running international operations across continents all the way to funding the SaaS companies of the future. They are stars in tech in Asia.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

As we showed you in the list of SaaS companies coming out of Latin America, the region has no shortage of SaaS superstars. A healthy availability of capital is one. It was SaaS that they were looking at. Here is our selection of top funds according to the predominant stage they are financing. A.B.Seed Ventures.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin and Partner at QED Investors Amias Gerety chat on the Fintech Beat podstream about all things SaaS, money, and what makes a great founder. What Makes SaaS So Great If you’re here on SaaStr reading this, you don’t need to be told why SaaS is so great. People used to respect capital more.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

There are more funding and financing options for startups today than there ever have been before. There’s also been an explosion in debate and transparency about navigating startup funding and financing. Let’s explore the funding and financing options for your startup. Funding Your Startup. How To Evaluate Funding Options.

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2022

But, over the years as both a founder and a start-up exec, I have raised over $40m in Venture Capital across 4 successful start-ups. And 100 of those 110 were for just one tough Series C financing. This “Gap financing” — it’s especially important in SaaS, because SaaS doesn’t explode, it compounds.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Last week, I participated in two discussions about the changes in the SaaS world. The level of competition in many core SaaS segments is intense. The SaaS era is about 20 years old. Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition.

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SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2021

The vast majority of startups struggle to raise even a tiny bit of angel funding, let alone a single round of venture funding. But once you do take off, venture capital will likely at least be an option. The next dilution you hopefully won’t lament, but may, is Equity Financing (i.e., Angel and VC Dilution).

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Rise of 1000 Unicorns and 100 Decacorns, combined with the overnight changes to fundraising processes from Covid, have radically changed venture capital: Tiger alone is deploying $100 billion , mostly into Cloud startups, and very quickly. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) November 11, 2021. With many more coming.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry. If you have ideas for how to improve venture capital for founders, please tweet me or send me an email with the link above. First, venture capital has become much bigger.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. We had a great one last time with Andrew Steele, Partner at Activant Capital. What’s the #1 bit of advice you’d give to SaaS founders today? Check that out here.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2020

We’re going to do something a little different here, and both catch up on the state of Equality in Venture Capital and Cloud, and also revisit Aileen’s classic pieces in TechCrunch that kicked off the age of the Unicorn. Venture capital is great at all, but if you can avoid the dilution, why wouldn’t you?

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

I’ve also embedded it here: Dave Kellogg on SaaShimi Discussing Differences between Private Equity and Venture Capital. If you missed it and/or you’re other interested, on my prior appearance we did a pretty darn comprehensive overview of SaaS metrics, available here on Apple podcasts and here on Spotify.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. This is a guest post by Brian Parks, Managing Partner at Bigfoot Capital. New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. This is how it works. What is RBF?

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Unveiling the 2023 SaaS Funding Napkin At the annual SaaStr conference in San Mateo three weeks ago, I delved into fundraising trends in 2023, discussing the implications of investors’ new-found love for efficiency vs. growth at all costs for founders, and why you should expect AI to come up in (almost) every pitch meeting.

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SaaSOptics

JULY 7, 2022

So, you’ve decided on European venture capital to scale your SaaS. . Even after all that hard work, without capital to scale your idea, your progress could screech to a halt. For some European SaaS founders, self-financing and bootstrapping give them the capital they need to scale their operations.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 The venture capital portfolio currently consists of 31 technology companies.

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SaaSOptics

JUNE 9, 2022

Unless you’re determined to bootstrap your way to an IPO, securing funding is one of the first hurdles you’ll have to face to successfully scale a SaaS business. . As the pressure to build faster and scale continues to influence the tech space, both SaaS veterans and IPO hopefuls have funding on their minds.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 16, 2021

As a Founder, successfully raising capital for your SaaS company is one of the most important, and hardest, jobs you have. Whether it’s your first time dialing for dollars or you’re back in the market for more cash, finding the right capital for your company at any given stage is always a challenge. Top Types of SaaS Capital.

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Kellblog

MAY 24, 2022

Here are some of the things we discussed on the podcast : If you think of startups are organisms that convert venture capital (VC) into ARR, then we need some metric for how efficiently they do that. Good luck (if not for a bad reason), but I’ll take it. The episode is available on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 27, 2021

Early-stage SaaS founders should spend far more time executing instead of strategizing. The urgency to execute is particularly true for making financing decisions. At Bigfoot Capital , we fund early-stage SaaS companies. At the end of the day, speed and certainty matter most when securing capital for your SaaS company.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 8, 2019

Finance, like many other industries, and many software segments, sells a commodity. In many SaaS categories as well as in venture capital, this idea is absolutely true. Instead, it’s about focus and hustle. Opportunities to gain lasting advantage through blockbuster strategic moves are rare in any business.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. This is a guest post by Brian Parks, Managing Partner at Bigfoot Capital. New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. This is how it works. What is RBF?

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Kellblog

JUNE 10, 2019

Today famed venture capital podcaster and now venture capitalist at StrideVC , Harry Stebbings , released a new episode of the Twenty Minute VC podcast with me as his guest. ( iTunes version here.).

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User Pilot

JUNE 13, 2022

Are you looking for the best SaaS blogs and influencers to follow in 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.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. It is based on blockchain and allows businesses to take care of their finances on a number of platforms and in multiple currencies. Founders : William Tien.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Between your competitors’ 100 tweets a day about how Everyone In the World Loves Them, their $50m in venture financing last week, their We Rule the World press releases (that no one reads but you) … competition is all around you. Maybe because so many SaaS categories are really natural oligopolies, not monopolies.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 The venture capital portfolio currently consists of 31 technology companies. Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2021

Most SaaS CEOs don’t truly get fired. As you can see here , the vast majority of public SaaS companies are in fact run by founder-CEOs. But as companies scale, and raise multiple rounds of venture capital, sometimes VCs will suggest, or even in some ways push hard, to bring in a more experienced CEO.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 24, 2017

There are two SaaS companies operating at greater than $100M in ARR in the space and they illustrate one of the mantras on this blog: there are many different ways to build a SaaS company. An unusual SaaS company, Fleetmatics generated profits: 6.5 Fleetmatics financed its growth early on by generating cash.

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The SaaS Garage

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The Loyalty Prime Group, a leading provider of SaaS-based loyalty platforms, has completed another seven-figure funding round. It is a billion-euro market, in which the SaaS company Loyalty Prime, based in Munich , London , Atlanta and New Delhi , is continuously expanding. Loyalty Prime Intensifies Its International Growth.

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Sage Intacct

APRIL 22, 2020

So, we created a virtual Sage Intacct Modern SaaS Finance Summit to help you navigate managing cash, churn, expenses, and forecasting. Our software community requires new strategies to stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly changing business environment caused by Covid-19.

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