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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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A Figma every few years, combined with a Datadog or two every year, will keep innovation (and venture capital) flowing. $10B+ acquisitions followed, and then … $20B for Figma. SaaS got hard again in 2022. It really did. But it’s still bigger than ever. It’s just it won’t likely be like 2021 ever again.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 25, 2023

According to Arun and Paul, the venture investing environment has somewhat improved compared to 12 months ago. It was pretty bleak last year,” reinforcing Paul’s sentiment that the pace of innovation and clarity in the market have created an improved environment. Venture capital is more than just funding.

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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.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

With over 100 firms participating , here are just some of the leading investors participating in the “Meet A VC” program: 3one4 Capital. Active Capital. Advaita Capital . Alliance Venture. Altos Ventures. Arali Ventures. Austin Innovation Capital. B Capital Group. Blue 9 Capital.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 8, 2019

In a world where there are no secrets, where innovations are quickly imitated or become obsolete, the theory of competitive advantage may have had its day. As soon as one innovates, another copies - potentially with a year or two. In many SaaS categories as well as in venture capital, this idea is absolutely true.

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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. She has been featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Asia in Finance and Venture Capital for 2018. In 2016, she moved to Hong Kong to head Innovation at HSBC. The reason? Maxine Ryan.

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

Base10 is a research-driven venture capital firm investing in technology companies automating the largest sectors of the Real Economy and founders who believe purpose is key to profits. Luci holds an MBA and a Certificate in Public management and Social Innovation from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Yale University.

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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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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. She watched the SaaS and Cloud wave ride and thought there’d be a huge pullback in markets this year.

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2023

Here’s your peek at some of the list of SaaS venture capitalists and investment firms already signed up for 2023 … 24vc ABSeed Ventures Advance Venture Partners Alumni Ventures Andreessen Horowitz Archerman Capital Asymmetric Capital Partners Austin Innovation Captial Authentic Ventures Apax Partners Bank of America Merrill Lynch Base10 (..)

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 30, 2024

Simultaneously, venture markets have expanded dramatically, contributing to this overcrowding. In a world without venture capital (or other sources of external financing for startups), each company would have to grow solely based on the merits of their product and sales. It would be harder for inferior companies to compete.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Bank also offers venture banking products including a comprehensive suite of financial services focused on entrepreneurial and venture-backed businesses and their venture capital and private equity investors, with offices located in key innovation hubs across the United States.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2023

The company is trusted by more than 30,000 companies, over 5,000 investment funds, and half a million employees for cap table management, compensation management, liquidity venture capital solutions, and more. Our vision is a world where everyone has the power to innovate without limits.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Ceyuan Ventures is an early stage VC firm investing in emerging growth and IT businesses. Ceyuan Ventures selects entrepreneurs who show promise in crafting leading technologies, backed by powerful teams and innovation. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed. Stage: Venture Capital, Angel.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We expect them to come to market in addition to new seed and Series A companies fueled by the AI innovation wave. #5. Often, we ask ourselves: “If there was no venture capital available, would this person still want to build this business? What’s different about your fund / how you invest and support founders?

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. It is important to sit down with subject matter experts in venture capital to get a better understanding of the tech industry and early-stage investing processes.

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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. Kaszek Ventures. Kaszek Ventures is among the biggest venture capital firms in Latin America.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Silicon Valley-based venture capital companies might tell you to build productivity models around hiring salespeople and scaling your organization that way, but it’s not the way. One type of customer may like the path of innovation, while others may be tech-driven, like IT teams and global CIOs. Otherwise, it won’t work.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

When Marc and I started the firm in 2009, the conventional wisdom in Venture Capital was that in any given year, only 15 companies would ever generate $100M in revenue and those 15 companies would drive almost all of VC returns. Venture Capital firms configured themselves to address a market of 15 important companies.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

I believe competition is a major driving force, especially since venture capital is conspicuously copious. As the number of new startups ebbs, and major forces in the industry reshape it, I suspect we’re going to see a massive amount of innovation in SaaS, a reinvention after the perfection of a 20 year old playbook.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 8, 2025

Within just a few years, as capital markets shifted in their favor, they emerged simultaneously as both innovators & titans in their field. The company went public in 2010, three years after competitor Blackstone did, which is captured in the book King of Capital.

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The Angel VC

JUNE 3, 2015

When we raised PNC II , our goal was to build a leading independent European early-stage venture capital firm. Some of the “pattern matching” that we’ve used to pick great companies 3-7 years ago doesn’t work any more because what used to be innovative a couple of years ago is table stakes today.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 11, 2019

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by managing partner (and former chairman of the board of the National Venture Capital Association) Scott Kupor to the FTC as part of their hearings — with various professors, policymakers, industry representatives, and other …

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

from Sequoia Capital, JP Morgan Partners, and others. It is a logistics and multi-selling platform which innovates how e-commerce can grow in the region. Based in Shenzhen, YoPoint manufactures innovative vending machines and is a provider of equipment for retail terminals. from 500 Startups, World Innovation Lab, and others.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 21, 2024

They continuously push the limits of what’s possible with technology, and innovate quickly through both success and failure. They are excellent at fundraising, knowing well that capital deserts often exist along the path to success in businesses with a hardware or manufacturing component. It’s who we are.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

That was great and created freedom from venture capital and many other benefits. Early adopters take vendor risk, they seek out innovation, they kick a lot more tires. We did it by focusing on second-order revenue to generate low-cost leads, and by taking in 110%+ of our MRR each month in cash. on the balance sheet.

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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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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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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Throughout his many successes, he’s always looking to innovate. Over the last 10 years, venture capitalism has changed quite a bit. Venture capitalists must provide better service to their founders and ecosystem. When we first met, he told me the Chief Revenue Officer title made no sense to him.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars? Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? The rest of the list controverts the notion that startups and investors pursue only incremental innovations. Space travel startups look to conquer the final frontier.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2020

” No, we are led into areas of innovation by founders, so if it’s not an industry we know well, we will work hard to try to get smart in that industry, and we want to learn from the founder, so we’re not opposed to investing in industries that we don’t know.

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IT World

MAY 4, 2022

“Over the past year we’ve aggressively rolled out innovative security and management features that used MDM as a medium to extend protection to other layers of the device," Mosyle founder and CEO Alcyr Araujo said in a statement. To read this article in full, please click here

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Dulma Altan Content pillars: Creator economy, tech, startups, and venture capital Dulma Altan 's venture into podcasting was a natural extension of her TikTok presence, where she explored topics revolving around the creator economy, tech, startups, and venture capital.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Yesterday, I showed the increasing share of venture capital investments consumer companies represent. Consumer services investments have boomed because of the growth of smartphones enabling innovation in transportation and the rise of socially enabled services built on Facebook and Twitter’s distribution mechanisms.

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