SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

SaaS products and services like Pilot track the finances of 1,000s of SaaS and other startup so they’re an interesting source of hard data. Something that’s both not surprising but also pretty impactful: 57% of venture-backed startups will have to go “back to market” in 2024 to raise more capital.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 21, 2021

At Bigfoot Capital , we wanted to know how early-stage companies think about capital as a component of their business. To do so, we decided to ask 30 SaaS Founders their thoughts on raising money and venture capital. Question: What has your experience been in raising capital? Venture Capital.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In the 2000s, when capital was scarcer, founders & VCs would derive round size by debating the quantum of money required to achieve Series B milestones. When capital is scarce, it’s rationed. In the 2010s, US venture capital grew 40x in 10 years. Founders declared a maximum acceptable dilution instead.

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Kellblog

MAY 8, 2019

Every so often I post highlights from the quarterly Fenwick & West Venture Capital Survey , as much to share knowledge about the existence of the survey [1] as to share its current-quarter data. 81% of companies had financings that were “up rounds” (i.e., Now we move onto financing terms. to 1.75x to 2.0x

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SaaStr

JANUARY 13, 2023

They usually come in and handle compliance and oversight for an existing finance team that perhaps lacks the seasoned experience to handle models, venture capital and debt, prepare for an audit, etc. We’ve worked together for years and he’s a gift.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2023

The post-Covid surge in venture capital pushed valuations & activity to record breaking heights. The red is a linear model based on data from 2010 to 2018 that predicts activity rates for each financing series of US & Canadian software companies. [1] Since then, investing activity dropped precipitously.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2024

Before heading to Silicon Valley for Google, he worked for DoubleClick, in venture capital and as a strategy consultant. Satya’s education is memorialized by a BS in Finance and a BS in Psychology from The University of Pennsylvania. Satya joined Google in 2003 and was responsible for AdSense product management and partnerships.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 23, 2023

So now is simply a terrible time to be raising growth stage venture capital. And there are too many founders looking for bridge financing, and not enough bridge financing to go around, And yet, these are still very good times to raise a seed round. If … you are capital efficient.

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SaaSOptics

JUNE 24, 2021

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. With market downturns and reduced venture capital funding, some businesses struggle to stay afloat. However, others seem to remain unimpacted by these changes.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Mary was previously named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in Venture Capital and is a protagonist in a Harvard Business School case on Bessemer’s Century Fund. Prior to Bessemer, Mary worked in Equity Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley and held roles at Apple and at the U.S. Mary graduated with honors with an A.B.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Is this true in venture capital? We’ve established that interest rates are uncorrelated to startup financing over the last twenty years. Over the last ten years, venture debt correlates well with interest rates. “After the U.S. Apparently, old fallacies never die.”. But what about debt?

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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. People used to respect capital more. Founders remain extremely optimistic about raising future capital at higher valuations.

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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

JULY 7, 2021

First, If you need to raise more venture capital, and aren’t doing incredibly well, a VC not being supportive can be a gating item to getting further funding. And forget about most bank-style debt financing if your VCs aren’t 100% supportive. But classic venture debt from banks like SVB, etc. This can be a big deal.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The real problem is how venture capital works in practice — the nichey, quirky way private financings and investing works: VC investment is high-ish risk and you need to know when to just walk away. Public stock prices go up and down, after all. It wouldn’t be the end of the world if private ones did, too.

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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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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2023

Sometimes you can offer flexible payment terms to customers, but then finance part of the future payments to recover the CAC upfront and be able to redeploy the cash in the future. If you need to raise venture capital, preparation is important, both in terms of process and in terms of expectation alignment.

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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. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed.

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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. A high-level look at Revenue-based financing (RBF).

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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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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2020

Equality and Unicorns in 2020: Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and Jason Lemkin of SaaStr. 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.

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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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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. A high-level look at Revenue-based financing (RBF).

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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. You can check out the entire podcast on the web , or this episode on Spotify or Apple podcasts.

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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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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. Salesforce was founded in 1999. The chart above shows them by buyer.

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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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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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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2021

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. A little more on that here: 5 Things To Be Wary of In VC Financings | SaaStr. Most SaaS CEOs don’t truly get fired.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 24, 2017

Fleetmatics financed its growth early on by generating cash. And, upfront cash collections finance more inside sales hiring. They haven’t raised venture capital. The company raised a total of $93M, which is far less than the typical SaaS public company. ” How did they do it? Multiyear deals.

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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. In this session, a panel of experienced investors from private equity and venture capital shared tips for preserving cash, fundraising, and updating your board of directors in a tough business environment.

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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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The SaaS Garage

DECEMBER 15, 2022

million Euro from a high profile group of Venture Capital funds and Business Angels. “The capital will be used to further develop the platform. Thomas Remke (Chief Climate Officer) have collected 1.2

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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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