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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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The US venture capital ecosystem has grown 40x in dollars from $8b to $320b invested in 10 years. Fueled by this capital, startup company formation rates touched fifteen-year highs in 2021. Web3 is just beginning to blossom, creating new distribution channels that will power another wave of innovation.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We take on the heavy lifting without requiring you to invest in additional resources. That means our cyber avatars have installed, configured, assessed, and remediated your environment and are now maintaining it before you’ve completed most traditional POCs.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As the premier SaaS conference , SaaStr Annual’s ability to attract top-tier investment firms and the best SaaS Founders creates unparalleled Founder <> Investor networking and learning opportunities. . Active Capital. Advaita Capital . Alliance Venture. Altos Ventures. Arali Ventures. Bow Capital.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

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. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed. SaaS Investments: Pipefy, HeyDoctor. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed.

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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2020

It’s easier just to go find a brand new investment with less overhang and fewer issues. He believes things will be much worse next week for fundraising and venture capital. Innovation Is Dead in Enterprise. Investment processes are slowed down by remote diligence (for now). Not really. No one knows.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

When I started in venture capital, one of the questions I learned to ask very early on was competition. A small number of innovators and early adopters might use a minimal feature set product. Founders would often reply that competition validates the opportunity. I’ve since realized I was wrong.

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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. Before getting into the investment world, she started and sold two successful companies in edutainment, and made a prominent name in the tech field around the world. Diane Mensah. Maxine Ryan.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2020

Green Visor Capital. World Innovation Lab. Hyde Park Venture Partners. SingTel Innov8 Ventures. World Innovation Lab – WiL. Riverwood Capital. Aristos Ventures. Structural Capital. Revo Capital. 8-Bit Capital. Transition Level Investments. Panzer Ventures.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

SaaStr Enterprise will take everything we’ve learned from our first two digital events into a one-day event that is structured to provide high-impact and measurable value by connecting top CEOs of B2B companies from $20M – $2B in ARR with the top CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, and CXOs driving innovation in the Cloud. Apply to Attend.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2022

We are delighted to share that we are officially launching our new program for fast-growing, venture-backed startups. We’re working with venture capital, accelerator, incubator, and technology partners to help founders bring the best communication experience to their customers. Apply here.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education. But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars? Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate?

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The funding was led by Hi inov, an international VC fund focused on digital innovation and supported by the existing investors BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Senovo, UVC Partners and The SaaSgarage (Alexander Bruehl). The venture capital portfolio currently consists of 31 technology companies.

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

Carlota Perez argues in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital that in the early days of a “golden age”, financial capital is necessary to fuel new technology innovation. . Once that technology is better understood, production capital moves in to drive mainstream adoption of the technology. .

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The speakers believe that the next 10 years will be better for the region, with opportunities for investment in various industries using technology to solve problems. Latin America has interesting characteristics that make it a viable place for investment, including a high level of internet penetration and social engagement.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 23, 2024

I’ve developed my own method of investing and have learned to trust my insights even when they aren’t obvious. I could not sleep and found their approach to solving the climate crisis as innovative, commercial, and most importantly, inevitable. Jeff Jordan, my coach who shared his hard earned operating and investing insights with me.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The last two decades have seen explosive advancement in biomedical and therapeutic innovations, like the Human Genome Project , the discovery of CRISPR , and the rapid development of Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, to name a few. This rapid innovation has been fueled by an unprecedented amount of investment.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 22, 2023

While the worlds of investing, venture capital, and technology may seem daunting, a running lesson that leaders shared was to dive in head first: meet new people, ask the questions, follow up, get as much information as possible. But making next-level moves requires discomfort and learning something new. Kevin Hart 3.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Yesterday, I showed the increasing share of venture capital investments consumer companies represent. So, I’ve created two charts: the first is a bar chart of consumer investment by segment and the second is a heatmap of of sector and stage. Consumer services and ecommerce represent 70% dollars invested.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The funding was led by Hi inov, an international VC fund focused on digital innovation and supported by the existing investors BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Senovo, UVC Partners and The SaaSgarage (Alexander Bruehl). The venture capital portfolio currently consists of 31 technology companies.

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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. Perhaps it’s solely for educational purposes to upskill your team. Or, it could be all of the above.

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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. Perhaps it’s solely for educational purposes to upskill your team. Or, it could be all of the above.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Over that 20 year period, annual SaaS investment has increased 20x, peaking in 2014 at $7B. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition. I believe competition is a major driving force, especially since venture capital is conspicuously copious.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s an area where a lot of companies are trying to innovate. Sharon: Another thing you talked about is just this tremendous amount of private investment venture capital going into defense. Is this an area where there are lessons to be learned from that and ways to accelerate technologies to the battlefield?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Jan: California Forever is an attempt to make sure that the Bay Area remains the center of innovation and prosperity that it’s been for the last 50 years. And so, we think that Solano County can become the foundry of American defense innovation for the next 50 years. We couldn’t innovate as quickly as we could otherwise.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

Even if you have almost no capital, you can afford to fly to visit your top customers, prospects and partners more often. Less and you under-invest. That was great and created freedom from venture capital and many other benefits. 10/ Investing aggressively in brand as you approach $10m ARR. on the balance sheet.

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The SaaS Garage

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The capital is mainly being invested in Loyalty Prime’s rapid international expansion, especially in the USA , as well as within product innovation and development. We are thus very pleased to welcome Loyalty Prime into our investment portfolio.” link] BayBG Contact: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. We’ve seen a clear trend toward technology companies capturing a growing share of venture funding recently.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. We’ve seen a clear trend toward technology companies capturing a growing share of venture funding recently.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Before diving in, let me remind readers that I do these predictions in the spirit of fun, they are not business or investment advice, and that all of my usual disclaimers and terms apply. This is an ongoing pattern driven by Clayton Christensen’s cycles of disruptive innovation. Flood of venture capital (VC).

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

.” We had been talking, up until that point, we’d been talking somewhat informally about potentially creating a proper ventures fund at Workday. And the very first thing that I did, like any neurotic person is I Googled corporate venture capital. And I found some exciting things happening in a lot of investments.

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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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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding. TinySeed , Earnest Capital , and Indie.vc Build your startup in a way that you don’t need investment. Buffer spent $3.3 ” Rob Walling of TinySeed.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Investing in a coach : Dre believes in learning from those who have already achieved what she aspires to become.   Given his vast experience and focus on productivity, he uses a lot of innovative technology in his systems. Dre's system combines strategic planning and continuous learning.

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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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ChurnZero

JANUARY 3, 2020

Given the rapid pace of innovation and change in technology markets, today’s B2B buyer needs to have a forward-looking perspective when it comes to purchasing new business solutions. The G2 Momentum Score is based on two factors: 1) Market Momentum (Y-axis) and 2) User Satisfaction (x-axis). More than three million users per month rely on G2.com

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Differences and similarities between Latin American/Brazilian startups and Silicon Valley startups are discussed, with a focus on challenges related to data ownership, regulatory and intellectual property rights, and fostering innovation.

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