SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We strive for the most representative attendee experiences possible, as well as expanding access to mentorship and venture capital firms and investors. Be actively employed at a post-revenue B2B / AI / SaaS operating company. We provide priority to less-represented women. No agencies or service providers, sorry.

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SaaStr

APRIL 15, 2025

Prior to founding Chemistry, Ethan spent 16 years at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he led investments in successful companies like PagerDuty, Intercom, and SendGrid.

Technical Review 162

Technical Review Venture Capital Outsourced Development ChatGPT 162

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2024

Venture capital is the same as before but different. It’s always been hard to raise venture capital, but if you’re in the group of folks VCs do want to fund, it’s like 2021 in some ways. It’s capital you can’t access unless it’s a second or third check, which creates confusion in the media and markets.

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Venture Capital AI Cloud Scale 309

SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new SaaStr series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. One highlight is Chain, a company I invested in at Visa that ended up working with us to create an entirely new product line now known as Visa B2B Connect. Check that out here.

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SaaS Payments Management Scale Venture Capital 298

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2020

Many of the top-venture backed start-ups in B2B and SaaS literally spend less than half of what they raise. 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. They don’t know. At least, you know the most. More here. .

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Venture Capital Startup Banking B2B 288

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

If the government lends at a low rate, then the cost of capital is less, so companies should be able to invest more at the same cost, and grow faster. We should expect four outcomes: More money should enter venture capital funds. These are new dollars looking for yield. We should expect an increase in the valuations of rounds.

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Venture Capital Government Pricing Investment 353

SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2022

SaaStr 595: 5 Critical and Company-Altering Learnings from B2B Startups with Y Combinator MD of YC Continuity Anu Hariharan. ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Why The Business Model of Venture Capital is Really, Really Hard. SaaStr 596: Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different? Top Videos This Week: 1.

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Venture Capital Business Model B2B Startup 312

SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2024

At best, it takes quarters to see the decay of product-market fit in B2B. If you’re raising venture capital or plan to, and you have choices, know that bad investors can hurt you. If venture capital seems alluring when you haven’t raised before, you’ll realize it’s extremely expensive, dilutive, and addictive.

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Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE Venture Capital Fractional VPE 311

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.

Enterprise 191

Enterprise B2B Venture Capital Cloud 191

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Most Surprising Thing About VC This Year Shen has been in venture capital for 12 years now, and it’s been a crazy ride to watch the whole bull market back in ‘10 and ‘11 when 10x revenue was insanely expensive for a SaaS company. For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More? On the B2B side, we have different objectives.

AI 316

AI Generative AI Venture Capital SaaS 316

SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. We had a great one last week with Jay Levy, Managing Partner at Zelkova Ventures. This week we’re focusing on Mary D’Onofrio, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners! #1.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Benchmarks Cloud compliance 288

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. We had a great one last time with Mark Roberge, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital. Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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Marketplace as a Service Venture Capital Entertainment Construction 278

SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2022

From a venture capital perspective, there’s now a premium on driving efficient growth rather than growth at any cost. . “Sales and marketing alignment is a terrific place to figure out and improve efficient growth.” . The result was a cohesive narrative that integrated the experiences of the CEO and customer-facing account executives.

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Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital Marketing 328

SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. We had a great one last time with Lucy Deland, Co-founder & General Partner at Inspired Capital. Check that out here. These founders are solving problems for the 99%.

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Venture Capital Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Scale 279

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

For the past 10 years, I’ve been a sales advisor for the portfolio companies of early stage venture capital firm True Ventures. If you’re a founder of a B2B SaaS startup and you’re starting to build out your team, consider hiring these revenue-driving contributors first in the order outlined below. By Lars Nilsson.

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Sales Hiring Scale Venture Capital Sales 252

SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. We had a great one last week with Rebecca Lynn, Co-Founder & General Partner at Canvas Ventures. This week we’re focusing on Nina Achadijian, Partner at Index Ventures! #1.

Technical Review 285

Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions Venture Capital 285

Buffer Resources

APRIL 17, 2024

It’s also one of the first social platforms people looking for a B2B partner go. And because B2B partnerships often take more than just providing card details and hitting Buy, it’s a goldmine of opportunity for building brand awareness – for those who know how to harness it.

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B2B Social Media Venture Capital Company Culture 125

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Stage: Venture Capital, Angel. For its near 30 years of existence, JAFCO Asia has turned into one of the leading venture capital firms in APAC. Stage: Corporate Venture Capital. Stage: Venture Capital. Tencent Holdings Venture Fund. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed.

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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Payment Services Telecommunications 190

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, Late Stage Venture, Seed. A.B.Seed Ventures. A.B.Seed Ventures is a VC fully focused on B2B SaaS investments.

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Venture Capital SaaS Healthcare Finance 155

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 22, 2017

The surge of venture capital in the last five years worsens this predicament. Advertising on consumer platforms to drive B2B sales. Whether it’s Facebook ads, LinkedIn ads, Google search engine marketing and retargeting, email marketing, or outbound calling, all of these channels bear some hallmarks of saturation.

Scale 189

Scale SaaS Venture Capital Artificial Intelligence 189

SaaStr

APRIL 10, 2023

B2B SaaS companies often aim to land large enterprise clients that can bring with them long relationships and large deals. And that is venture capital funds, accelerators, incubators, and other ecosystem partners.” Others may seek to corner the SMB market. However, what many businesses may overlook is the startup segment.

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Startup Scale SMB Venture Capital 275

Kellblog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Working in my capacity at as an EIR at Balderton Capital , I have recently written a new publication, The Balderton Founder’s Guide to B2B Sales , with the able support of Balderton Principal Michael Lavner and the entire Balderton Capital team. I hope you enjoy the guide.

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B2B Sales Benchmarks Startup 134

SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

GTM Mistake #5: Not Properly Jumping on the AI Bandwagon AI can be confusing in B2B because adding a lot of hallucinations into your app next week doesn’t make it better, or you don’t need to make text into cartoons. Today, you won’t fail if you’re not T2D2, and for venture capital, you can’t burn $700M while doing it.

CTO Hire 211

CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO Venture Capital 211

SaaStr

MAY 23, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. We had a great one last time with Andrew Steele, Partner at Activant Capital. Check that out here. This week we’re focusing on Karl Alomar, Managing Partner at M13! #1.

Technical Review 299

Technical Review Management Investment AI 299

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

How does Mark view the amount B2B startups are raising today? About the episode: Chetan Puttagunta is a General Partner @ NEA, one of the world’s largest venture capital firms in the world, with over $3Bn in their latest fund and a portfolio including the likes of Mulesoft, Jet.com, Uber, Houzz, and many more incredible companies.

Technical Review 208

Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review Scale 208

Kellblog

JULY 29, 2021

In this fast-paced episode we move through topical discussions of the major SaaS metrics followed by investors and operators alike, and look at the size-segmented benchmarks presented in Ray’s 2020 B2B SaaS Metrics report.

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Benchmarks B2B Metrics SaaS 134

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil. Eduardo Müller, Founder & CEO, B2B Stack. and Brazil with process optimization.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Sales Hacker

MAY 28, 2024

Prior to joining Demandbase, Kelly honed her start-up skills as the first CMO at HYCU, a series B, venture capital-backed data protection SaaS company. 45:13 – Differences and similarities between B2C and B2B marketing. She now continues at HYCU as an Advisor.

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Revenue Venture Capital Strategy Marketing 124

SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

Consumer happens faster than B2B because you can cancel a subscription in 60 seconds vs. signing 3-year contracts with Salesforce. An early thing Jason wrote on SaaStr is that B2B lags B2C by about two years. If B2C rebounded back in 2023, that means 2025 might be a little easier for a lot of folks in classic B2B.

CTO Hire 147

CTO Hire AI Venture Capital Sales Hiring 147

The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

The first date When I stumbled on Zendesk in 2008 I knew absolutely nothing about enterprise software, B2B or SaaS. Having been an entrepreneur since the age of 17 I did know a few things about starting and building companies though, and since both DealPilot.com and Pageflakes were VC-funded I also had some experience with venture capital.

Scale 155

Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital Software Review 155

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. MoneyTree data shows B2B companies still command 75% of venture investment dollars across all stages. That figure is up from 18% in 2005.

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Venture Capital Startup Marketing B2C 100

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

[link] Contact Loyalty Prime: Anja Zschoernig | Head of Marketing | anja.zschoernig@loyaltyprime.com About Hi inov Founded in 2012 by Pierre-Henri Dentressangle (Chairman) and Valérie Gombart (CEO), Hi inov SAS is managing €170 million of capital from corporates and entrepreneurs. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

For example, a business that sells their products or services to consumers (B2C) or to businesses (B2B) and use different channels and techniques to acquire customers, and will have varying technology needs as a result. This works as well for a B2B company like Intercom as it does for any B2C company. Alternatives: AdRoll, Quantcast.

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Technical Review Technology Scale Marketing 223

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2024

Max Altschuler is the Founder and General Partner of GTMfund , an early-stage fund focused on B2B SaaS startup backed by the world’s best tech GTM leaders. 20:34) The flight to quality in Venture Capital. He then took over as VP of Marketing for rapidly growing Outreach. 02:18) Reflecting on GTMfund’s 2023 year. (04:30)

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Venture Capital Technical Review Acquisition AI 111

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2020

“What should pre-seed stage B2B founders be spending their first 250k on?” But that’s only the beginning for them, collecting data is the thing that they can do right now. Unfortunately, the reality is most of them are just waiting and sitting on their hands. ” Building product.

Scale 317

Scale Investment Venture Capital Technical Review 317

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

from Saison Ventures, and others. Dropee provides a B2B e-procurement marketplace for companies that want to buy and sell in bulk. The platform boasts a patent for creating 3D, AR, and VR floor plans, which is its B2B solution helping real estate, home designers and retailers. from CKD Venture Capital Corporation, and others.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We have been completely inspired by the way the B2B technology industry responded to COVID-19. To be accepted for the Tech Cares Award, each nominated organization had to be a B2B technology company that demonstrated above-and-beyond caring during the COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic isn’t just a test of fortitude.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review Healthcare 98