SaaStr
MAY 23, 2025
When SaaStr Fund made the first investment in RevenueCat back in 2018, nobody could have predicted that this “simple API for managing in-app subscriptions” would become the infrastructure powering 33% of all mobile subscription apps and reach a $500M valuation in 2025. The SaaStr Fund Thesis: Mobile Subscriptions Will Explode.
SaaStr
MAY 25, 2025
So I’m mostly made good investing decisions. My first VC investments were Pipedrive ($1.5B So if interested — here are the changed I’ve made to investing at SaaStr Fund : #1. Don’t Invest Without an S-Tier CTO If you follow me on social media, this won’t be a surprise, as I say it all the time.
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SaaStr
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
Andy had to completely reboot the team to reignite growth, pushing past $30m+ ARR by 2023 and selling to a top private equity firm. 3 Came from the Investment Bank They Hired. In my experience, hiring an investment bank to help you in any acquisition > $100m or so is critical. A great outcome — and a great comeback.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
It was the only SaaS IPO on 2023. But it’s clear that it’s still in the investing phase, and increasing spend in sales & marketing. So the latest SaaS leader to cross $1B ARR is Klaviyo. Klaviyo dominates marketing in the Shopify ecosystem and in ecommerce, and just keeps on scaling. The only one!
Speaker: Donna Weber - Customer Onboarding Expert
Invest an hour with Donna Weber to learn why your customer onboarding is critical to your success. The truth is, onboarding is the most important part of the customer journey. When you set positive first impressions, establish trusting relationships, and quickly deliver meaningful outcomes, you create customers for life.
SaaStr
MARCH 14, 2023
Q: What are some common mistakes that investors make when evaluating potential startup investments (such as Seed or Series A)? A few I’ve made and watched others around me make: Invest in good traction with a pretty good but not great CEO. Investing when you aren’t sure but someone else really successful is investing.
SaaStr
JANUARY 25, 2024
And 2023 was the year of the Work Out in venture. It got real in 2023, and that realness got normalized. And public SaaS stocks in many cases did really, really well in 2023. But the reality is I’m a bit more worried the venture drama in 2024 will be bigger than 2023. The drama mostly was behind us. So I thought.
Speaker: Jamie Bernard - Senior Product Director at Launch by NTT Data
Storymapping emerges as an invaluable pre-investment tool, enabling smarter decision-making, more accurate resource allocation, and enhanced scope control. In today’s dynamic business landscape, successful product management hinges on a keen understanding of customer needs and market dynamics.
Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.
June 14th, 2023 at 9:30am PDT, 12:30pm EDT, 5:30pm BST This talk will also explore how retail tech can not only enhance the entire customer experience, but can ultimately lead to reduced associate burnout, powerful and effective leadership, and stronger, more outcome-driven teams.
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