SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Today Carman is Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures, the globally renowned Hong Kong venture capital firm. After 11 years in finances, in 2016 she became the CFO of Brinc.io, boldly entering into the tech world. The VC finances startups headed by women, investing in their success from an early stage.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Financing was an obvious must but not the necessity of it being from local sources. What is far more valuable is a focused market strategy beyond initial scattered foray. SAIF Partners is one of the top private equity firms that provides growth capital financing for Asia businesses. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

Here is our selection of top funds according to the predominant stage they are financing. It is a venture capital firm based in Brazil and Silicon Valley. Its partners boast diverse venture experience and have previously invested in more than 70 companies. A.B.Seed Ventures is a VC fully focused on B2B SaaS investments.

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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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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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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition. Salesforce for Sales, Workday for HR & Finance, ServiceNow for Operations, Atlassian for Engineering and so on. Most businesses are competing with the same strategies as their competition.

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SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2023

When I look at the purpose of venture capital, it’s not to burn a dollar five in order to grow a dollar of revenue,” says Magnuson. If you’re chasing around shiny things that pop up every six months, you’ll run out of energy and financing. Those companies will have a headstart on the competition when the market arrives.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

[link] Contact Hi inov: Wolfgang Krause | Managing Partner | w.krause@hiinov.com About BayBG Venture Capital With its venture capital team, BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Munich, invests in Series A financing rounds and subsequent tech start-ups. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 12, 2017

Reverting to the original question, when should a profitable company raise capital, if ever? The answer is the same for all businesses regardless of financing history: Raise capital when you are confident that you can use it to attain a higher growth rate and the higher growth rate is worth a trade-off in dilution.

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Sage Intacct

APRIL 22, 2020

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

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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. But otherwise, just act as if your competitor raised another $20-$40m in venture capital.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

We collected data on 86 funding rounds occurring at the end of 2022 and in 2023, including 10 follow-on rounds in P9 companies, 8 new investments by ourselves, and 68 financings in companies outside of our portfolio. The data for companies outside of our portfolio mostly comes from investors in these companies.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 11, 2022

Rising inflation and a weak stock market are causing investors to be more careful with their financing, and without a plan to manage your cash runway effectively, you’re putting both yourself and your company at risk. So what should you do if you’re strapped for cash and have your sights set on venture capital?

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Kellblog

AUGUST 21, 2022

Bootstraps should largely ignore the rule (unless they plan on changing their financing strategy) because they are definitionally not trying to impress venture capitalists [7]. Pivots , where a company pursues strategy A for a few years, abandons it, and takes some salvage value over to a new strategy B.

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SaaSOptics

JUNE 9, 2022

Still, they’ll typically need to prepare a long-term strategy for growth, as well as the right product/market fit, before approaching investors. Venture capital. Venture capital/VC firms pool money for investment funds by asking their partners to contribute capital. Revenue-based financing.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 16, 2021

If you’re unable or unwilling to self-fund your startup, you may want to consider getting a job for the time being and part-timing your startup until you’re able to and comfortable with personally financing your company. These programs generally push companies onto the venture capital path. Venture Capital.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

A discussion about venture capital and the effects Covid-19 has had on in the industry. Join Nicole Quinn, General Partner at Lightspeed Ventures, Ann Miura-Ko, Founding Partner at Floodgate, and Alex Konrad, Senior Editor at Forbes as they talk about what they have seen in the industry lately and how they are moving forward.

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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 Brad Feld blog is one of the best venture capital blogs dedicated to entrepreneurs and investors. Stay up to date on the latest technologies, growth hacks, and marketing strategies. Ready to dive in?

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The Angel VC

JUNE 3, 2015

When we raised PNC II , our goal was to build a leading independent European early-stage venture capital firm. We wanted to combine a founder-friendly, no-nonsense, value-add approach with the ability to make bigger investments and do more follow-on financing. To our existing LPs: Thank you for your continued trust!

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

[link] Contact Hi inov: Wolfgang Krause | Managing Partner | w.krause@hiinov.com About BayBG Venture Capital With its venture capital team, BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Munich, invests in Series A financing rounds and subsequent tech start-ups. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 25, 2022

Against this backdrop, every SaaS company would be well-served to consider three things as they plot their path to public capitalization: speed to market, the cost of its finance team’s capitalization efforts, and investment scrutiny. Speed to Market. The Cost Associated with that Time.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is the third of four installments in our new series, How Fintech Companies Can Simplify Their Funding Strategy. Key Considerations Although most important points of consideration differ across corporate debt and asset-backed debt financings, there are a few common themes. Read part 2 on Trade-offs Across Terms here.

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The SaaS Garage

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The funding round is financed by BayBG, which newly joins the consortium of renowned Loyalty Prime investors, as well as Senovo, UVC Partners and angel investor Alexander Bruehl , who have been backing the successful development of Loyalty Prime’s enterprise loyalty products since 2017. link] BayBG Contact: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

Now, we use bootstrapping to describe the not quite impossible task of building your business without financing. If you choose not to finance your business by selling part of it to venture capitalists, and you also do not want or cannot secure a loan, then you are left with bootstrapping. What are the bootstrapping stages?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 29, 2019

Alex suggests different approaches on handling overgrowth and how smaller-valued exits might be the best strategy long-term for both founders and VCs. The companies to outgrow their over capitalization in order to justify their valuation. A pretty steady Eddie company with venture financing. Grab your tickets! ??.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Flood of venture capital (VC). The combination of Covid accelerating digital transformation and unprecedented VC financing has accelerated software company growth (aka, the Covid boost ). Venture capital continues to flow. Upstarts can stand yet again on the shoulders of giants. High-growth.

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Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

Moreso, it also speaks to your specific business goals as a startup, which could include scaling your business, finding a foothold into new markets, or securing venture capital funding, and the role that compliance plays in it all.

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Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

Moreso, it also speaks to your specific business goals as a startup, which could include scaling your business, finding a foothold into new markets, or securing venture capital funding, and the role that compliance plays in it all.

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Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

By Geoff Roberts 12 min read When we first started building Outseta we stated outright that we weren’t interested in raising venture capital—instead, we planned on bootstrapping the business and remaining independent. Investment Model Lighter Capital makes investments of $50,000 to $3 million—up to ?

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 8, 2018

On what it takes for SaaS startups to get venture capital funding today. “If you want to raise capital from a VC fund then it only makes sense if you really have the ambition and a very strong desire to do something really really big.” On increasing transparency in venture capital. Let’s dive in!

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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.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Why is financing hard right now? It’s very difficult to get financed. The problem in private markets is private markets don’t adjust their pricing because it takes time until financing’s actually happen. So that kind of price discovery makes financing very difficult. Intransigent is not a strategy.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

All of these changes have forced revenue leaders to reshape their variable pay strategies, and it begins with the compensation structure itself. When organizations design compensation models that motivate reps and include achievable targets that align with business strategies, the desired sales performance follows. About QuotaPath.

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In many ways, 2022 (Q2-ish) marked the end of the glory days and we entered the “SaaS slump” We saw new business plummet and an 82% year-over-year drop in venture capital investment in 2022. Amid a market downturn, many organizations shifted their go-to-market strategies. Now, efficiency is more important than ever.

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Let's take a look at the shift happening in fundraising, and some of the businesses succeeding from bootstrapped-origins, as well as some different strategies up to and beyond that critical first $1M ARR. The growing divide between SaaS and venture capital. The model for early-stage success in SaaS is shifting.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Do you gun straight for the glamour (and pressure) of venture capital investment? What about a venture capitalist who might be sympathetic to your mission? Venture capital. Venture capital is provided by firms or funds founded specifically to give investment to fledgling companies.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Instead, venture capital growth funds are financing these companies at these stages. Perhaps these investors are encouraging companies to continue to finance growth with negative profits, a trend that continues through the public offering but ultimately, isn’t the best decision for shareholders.

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