The association of Business Angels has put together an overview of documents with first information about German government financial support for startups.
Some software and Venture Capital veterans’ collection of memories from the bad old days of 2001 and 2007/8. Leasrning from the past: Crisis management for 2020.
Munich, March 26th, 2019
Seed rounds have become a prevalent step in funding early stage companies. A new pedigree of European VC funds has emerged. They use phrases like”Seed VC”, “Startup VC” in their tag line and invest between €0.5M – €1.5M in a startups’ first institutional funding event. At the same time the established league of Series A, B and C funds have raised the KPI bar for SaaS companies. […]
I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical when the founder of that company mentioned to me that he is about to sign an overdraft (debt capital) contract with a bank, only a few weeks after he had initiated the dialog. And indeed, a few days later the agreement was signed and the […]
Congratulations to Loyalty Prime (Christoph & Kunal) and Riskmethods (Heiko & Rolf), two portfolio companies in my B2B SaaS portfolio. I am glad to see those two companies being among John Kennedy’s list of 20 magnificent start-ups with momentum in Munich. Gaining momentum in the mid to large size enterprise market segment (e.g. Fortune 1000) […]
Ed Molyneux story about his company FreeAgent (FREE), now public on London Stock Exchange, might be of interest for a number of founders and CEOs of SaaS companies, B2B SaaS in particular. In his yesterday’s interview, Lessons from a young Scottish company that listed on the stock exchange, Ed shares his experience of listing […]
To the founders and CEOs of my portfolio companies Lots of the post below we have already discussed in many conversations over the past months, but I find Brock’s post particularly valuable because it provides a very complete picture about the things you can do to avoid a Series A crunch and succeed in your […]
Laura Tyson, August 22, 2016 08:51 AM The fastest growing SaaS startups have one thing in common: they’re tracking the SaaS metrics that matter most. We asked several different venture capitalists and angel investors focused on SaaS the million dollar question: what are the most important SaaS metrics for startups that are scaling? Their responses […]