Investment Marketplace as a Service Software Engineering 
SaaStr
MARCH 18, 2025
Joselyn Goldfein , Managing Director at Zeta Venture Partners, which invests in AI and data infrastructure-focused startups from inception through seed stage And see everyone at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! This is exactly backward. The winning approach: Start with employee-facing tools that deliver measurable productivity gains.
Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Investing in Instacart was perhaps the hardest decision I had to make as a venture capitalist. We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. Prior to founding Instacart, Apoorva was a fulfillment optimization software engineer from Amazon.
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Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers. Facebook and Google provide an easy to use, high precision advertising engine that lets you target any cohort of people in the world. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace. You had town car services before. Rather than paying tuition, students agree to pay a percentage of their income once they are employed and making over $50,000 a year.
SaaStr
APRIL 30, 2022
It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. I didn’t want to pay for this service.” That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more.
User Pilot
APRIL 24, 2025
You’ll help define the most relevant local payment methods to build (breadth) and aspects of payment methods to invest in (depth) to deliver the best outcomes for Stripe users. With a strong background in software engineering and an MBA in Lean Operations, she bridges technical depth with business acumen to deliver impactful solutions.
Outseta
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
Board Seat: No Investment Docs: [link] Application Deadline: March 1, 2019 Apply Here: [link] Indie VC is the OG on this block and describes itself as “growth revenue for post-revenue companies.” Included in the investment docs is a predetermined percentage of ownership allocated to the fund should you choose to sell your company.
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