SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2024

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? Our most recent disclosed investment is in Pika.art, a company redesigning the entire video-making and editing experience utilizing AI. 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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Marketplace as a Service Venture Capital Entertainment Construction 234

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2020

Both are equally viable strategies. Ideally, the management team should raise more capital to move to the upper right quadrant of the matrix. Venture capital, debt, or negotiating better cash collections (multi-year prepay) are all viable strategies to position the business to press its advantage. Full speed ahead.

Strategy 302

Strategy Startup Venture Capital Acquisition 302

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 explain Jason’s take on the recent market fluctuations, highlighting major deals that shaped investment patterns and their effects on valuation trends.

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Venture Capital Scale Technical Review Software Review 219

SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? Canvas Ventures manages $835 million in AUM, currently investing out of our third, $350 million fund.

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Scale Venture Capital AI Generative AI 233

SaaStr

AUGUST 31, 2023

Navigating Corporate Venture Capital: Strategic Benefits for Early-Stage Founders with Erin Yang, VP and Chief Technologist Workday Savannah Greene, Principle @ Workday #2: How Expensify Grew to 10M Users Through Word of Mouth Joanie Wang, Director of Marketing and Brand #3. The Most Popular 2023 Annual Braindates So Far: #1.

Venture Capital 221

Venture Capital Acquisition AI Innovation 221

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2020

Both are equally viable strategies. Ideally, the management team should raise more capital to move to the upper right quadrant of the matrix. Venture capital, debt, or negotiating better cash collections (multi-year prepay) are all viable strategies to position the business to press its advantage. Full speed ahead.

Strategy 185

Strategy Startup Venture Capital Acquisition 185

Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

On the flip side, athletes, entertainers, and C-level executives also ask what they should expect when investing in technology startups and working with founders looking to build the next big thing. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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Technical Review Innovation Technical Cofounder Development Team Review 99

Tom Tunguz

MAY 23, 2021

Investment processes last a few days. Pricing rounds on multiples like public market investing. Index investing and the entrance of hedge funds. The conversation of how long capital will last, which was ubiquitous is mostly debating during seed rounds, if at all. The market feels different. Vibrant secondary markets.

Software Review 364

Software Review Venture Capital Cloud Pricing 364

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

There may be times, maybe even many times, in the earlier days when you look at VCs and Venture Capital and think — that’s the easy way. You will likely always have to do what they say, and execute their strategy. And you usually need a proven track record to do so, which takes years of promising investments.

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Venture Capital Investment Acquisition Strategy 327

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2020

Your investors want to see an “exit” of at least 10x what they invest. A bit more here: The 10x Rule: What Raising $1 of Venture Capital Really Means | SaaStr. Raising venture capital may push you to go bigger. Sometimes, having an “exit strategy” and maintaining optionality is good. Embrace it.

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Venture Capital Startup Banking B2B 248

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Startups often begin with a bootstrapping phase with little to no outside investment. Paddle’s Senior Product Manager, Allissa Chan, and Chief Strategy Officer, Patrick Campbell, share their experience of scaling a bootstrapped startup. Venture capital-backed companies update their pricing once every 2.8

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Venture Capital 130

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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Venture Capital Merchant Services Innovation Finance 196

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Also, as Peter Drucker has said : “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Many start-ups think they need to net venture capital to jumpstart their growth. UserZoom invested in a model where they didn’t just provide software, but services, in a model known as SaaS++. Define and focus on one target persona.

Scale 211

Scale Venture Capital Sales Hiring SMB 211

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.

Venture Capital 155

Venture Capital SaaS Healthcare Finance 155

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 16, 2021

By analyzing how web3 companies invest tokens, we can calculate the cost of customer acquisition (CAC) for a crypto company. Let’s contrast the sales and marketing investments of web2 companies to web3 companies. Nevertheless, the concept of CAC will permeate crypto go-to-market strategies at some point. But not today.

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Venture Capital Blockchain Acquisition Benchmarks 250

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

VCs are expecting a positive return on their investment. Venture fundraising should not be done because it can be done. You should only raise Venture Capital if you (x) have to, or (y) it’s “cheap”. And even 1x, if the company fails or deeply struggles. If you need VC $$$ to survive, don’t worry about it.

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Venture Capital Pricing Investment Revenue 254

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. Jessica Liu. Diane Mensah. Maxine Ryan.

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VP of Engineering CTO Coach Venture Capital SaaS 264

SaaStr

APRIL 10, 2023

In this SaaStr Annual session, Zendesk’s VP of Startups, Kristen Durham, shares insights into selling to startups and lessons to build your strategy. So they laid out a strategy that can be broken down into four pieces: Target : Find channels to reach high-growth startups. Why Seek Out Startups?

Startup 209

Startup Scale SMB Venture Capital 209

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2023

Pepper shares that ICONIQ, a venture capital firm with $10B under management, made fewer investments last year than ever before. Is Your GTM Strategy Poking Holes In The Ship GTM strategy has been one of the biggest areas of inefficiency over the last two years. PST, to unveil the data behind effective scaling.

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Outsourcing Services Scaling Venture Capital Forecasting 173

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2021

But it also means if they invest at say an $8m valuation … they have to at least think you might be worth $800m, maybe. Series B and Series C, and later-stage Series A … anything much higher than a $60m valuation or so … is looking to 10x their investment in you. Add in dilution, and that’s $1B. 10x will do it.

Venture Capital 186

Venture Capital Investment Scaling Strategy 186

SaaStr

APRIL 11, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank specialized in venture capital-backed startups, primarily in tech. Understandably, the collapse of a venture bank where companies could lose billions of dollars was staggering. Over the years, he shifted into consulting with early-stage founders on go-to-market strategies and sales.

Banking 212

Banking Sales Hiring Venture Capital Communication 212

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. The episode is available on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube.

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Metrics Venture Capital Benchmarks Finance 103

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. Those companies will have a headstart on the competition when the market arrives.

Scale 195

Scale Mobile Venture Capital Scaling 195

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Everybody wants an allocation, an opportunity to invest in the very best companies. Vertical integration emerges as a VC strategy. If access is the scarcest resource, logic guides a venture investor to invest at the earliest stages, and then continue to buy shares through fundraising rounds as an exceptional company grows.

Venture Capital 213

Venture Capital Startup Investment Trends 213

SaaStr

MAY 22, 2020

iGrowth Strategies. Riverwood Capital. Revo Capital. 8-Bit Capital. Transition Level Investments. Panzer Ventures. Bankers Capital International. Alliance Venture. Investment Manager. JM Capital. Venture Debt. Investment Manager. SC Ventures. Venture Fellow.

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Technical Cofounder Venture Capital Consulting Innovation 262

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leaders in G2000 enterprises and leading SaaS and cloud vendors will share strategies, learnings, and issues; and venture capital and private equity investors will discuss the trends they are investing in and why you should care.

Enterprise 165

Enterprise B2B Venture Capital Cloud 165

SaaStr

MAY 13, 2020

The top VCs in cloud and SaaS will share what’s really going on in venture capital right now if now is a good time to raise a round, and what’s coming next. ” with Portag3 Ventures Partner Chris O’Neill. This will be a 1 day, 2 track event with over 10,000 attendees. and it’s FREE to attendees).

Venture Capital 197

Venture Capital Cloud Startup Investment 197

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

You can do that with an investment in Customer Success and customer education. . Since the dawn of business, this was the name of the game and why the venture capital space continues to soar. . Between 2017 and 2022, the venture capital & principal trading market in the US grew at an annualized rate of more than 11%.

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Education Customer Success Venture Capital Churn 98

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In the essay I stated that my firm Andreessen Horowitz, one of the largest venture capital firms in the world, was unabashedly and proudly declaring its unanimous support for America. And that this wasn’t a marketing gimmick or some ESG-adjacent nonsense, but a strategy. That we were betting on America.

Venture Capital 74

Venture Capital Technology Investment Strategy 74

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

We chose to invest in Loyalty Prime as it provides an effective solution to deliver on the widely preached but seldomly fulfilled promise in data-driven marketing and personalization: being able to provide “the right offer to the right person at the right time, in the right channel and with the right message for impactful business results.”

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Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 11, 2022

So what should you do if you’re strapped for cash and have your sights set on venture capital? Do you have a clear growth strategy? . In this case, you may not be prepared to take on a round of venture capital. Reconsider your GTM strategy. In most cases, the best GTM strategy includes a mix of the two.

Scale 97

Scale Scaling Technical Review Venture Capital 97

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.

Technical Review 90

Technical Review VP of Engineering Development Team Review Software Review 90

SaaStr

MAY 13, 2020

and it’s FREE to attendees) The top VCs in cloud and SaaS will share what’s really going on in venture capital right now, if now is a good time to raise a round, and what’s coming next. ” with Portag3 Ventures Partner Chris O’Neill. This will be a 1 day, 2 track event with over 10,000 attendees.

Venture Capital 145

Venture Capital Cloud Startup Investment 145

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 12, 2017

I hesitate to compare and contrast bootstrapped and venture backed businesses, because I’m a venture capitalist and it’s very easy to dismiss any analysis as biased in favor of venture investment. First, they invest 30% of their total cash in customer acquisition no matter the state of the business.

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Sales Hiring Venture Capital Startup Finance 196

SaaSHolic

JUNE 30, 2023

In venture capital, there is a very real phenomenon often referred to as the “magic of zero” The premise is that companies with zero revenue can many times be valued (much) more highly than companies with some revenue. The logic is based on the potential for growth and scalability.

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Venture Capital Business Model Revenue Investment 52

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2015

throughout those cycles, venture capital has flourished from a cottage industry into $100B per year asset class. VCs are on track to invest as much capital this year as during the height of the dot com era. From 2000 through 2009, the federal funds rate and venture investment paralleled each other.

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Venture Capital Startup Investment Trends 100

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2016

For all the talk about late stage rounds, megarounds and unicorns, early stage startups are benefitting disproportionately from near-record years of venture capital investment. Of the $42B invested in startups in 2015, 34% or about $14B was raised in series A and seed rounds. That figure is up from 18% in 2005.

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Venture Capital Startup Marketing B2C 100