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| 19.11.2025 | BVP Forge Raises $1 Billion For Second Fund To Accelerate Growth Investment Strategy | BVP Forge has secured $1 billion in capital commitments for its second fund, marking a significant expansion of the firm’s private equity platform and signaling continued investor confidence in its model of supporting growth-oriented, self-... |
| 30.05.2024 | Saas Startup Funding Falls | 15 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Software as a service — long a favored sector among startup investors — has seen cooling interest in recent quarters even as overall U.S. venture funding has rebounded a bit.
So far this year, SaaS ... |
| 23.03.2024 | Liquid Death is just one of many VC-backed beverage startups ready to disrupt Coke and Pepsi | On March 11, a fizzy startup announced that it had raised $67 million at a $1.4 billion valuation and reached $263 million in sales in 2023. Did you guess that this startup is Liquid Death, a canned water company?
Liquid Death has now raise... |
| 07.03.2024 | Databricks keeps marching forward with $1.6B in revenue | At a time when many enterprise companies have struggled to find growth and valuations have plunged, Databricks continues to prove the exception. In September the company raised $500 million on a massive $43 billion valuation. This week the ... |
| 30.10.2023 | Welcome back to the SaaS bear market | How are software companies performing today? It’s going to be a busy earnings week, so we’ll have a lot of Q3 data to pore over to answer this question very soon, but it appears public-market investors have already made their minds up.
The ... |
| 25.07.2023 | Inside Adobe, some staff worry their AI tech will kill graphic designer jobs and undermine the company's business model: 'Is this what we want?' | Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. Adobe This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 12.07.2023 | Cooling inflation in the US brings slight relief to tech valuations | New U.S. inflation data is augmenting tech stocks listed on American exchanges, helping shares of cloud companies reach prices they haven’t been close to for nearly a year.
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| 14.06.2023 | Rejoice, for startup valuations are slowly recovering | We have good news for tech companies big and small this fine Wednesday morning: valuations are heading higher, though at a modest pace.
New public market data indicates that software stocks are rising to their highest points so far this yea... |
| 09.06.2023 | Какие изменения в венчурных инвестициях? Июнь 2023г. Мои выводы из эфира с Игорем Шойфотом | Недавно я присутствовал на открытом эфире в Zoom с Игорем Шойфотом, который был организован сообществом Prosto VC. В ходе мероприятия Игорь отвечал на важные вопросы фаундеров и инвесторов, и я хотел бы поделиться основными выводами, которы... |
| 14.05.2023 | Fintech startup Brex was among the bidders for SVB’s early-stage and growth portfolios | Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, we’ll... |
| 10.05.2023 | Introducing Electrifying Everything: 2023 Edition | Last summer, Energize released our comprehensive “Electrifying Everything” investment thesis, including our proprietary deep dive research report, the culmination of our 10-part blog series and our list of the top 30 software innovators app... |
| 09.05.2023 | We’re close to peak pessimism around fintech | PayPal’s shares are off around 11% this morning despite the company reporting better-than-expected revenue and profit in the first quarter. The company also raised its forecast for the year, though that was apparently not enough to sate inv... |
| 05.05.2023 | What Is the SaaS-acre and What Does It Mean for the Future of SaaS Funding? | Smart technology investors understand that SaaS businesses must incur high upfront costs to attract and keep customers long before they profit from those new clients. So, when attempting to find funding, it is fundamental for SaaS startups ... |
| 23.11.2022 | Clean Tech Year In Review – Key Takeaways From A Challenging Year In The Market | As the year draws to a close, let’s look at what 2022 has brought for clean tech. By looking at the recent struggles at the major tech platforms, one can easily see how 2022 was a difficult year for all things tech names. Despite the challe... |
| 09.11.2022 | The bottom keeps dropping for software valuations | Another day, another 52-week low.
It seems that instead of finding fresh support, the value of software companies keeps discovering new basement levels to descend into. This afternoon, software stocks were off 3% or so, while the broader Na... |
| 07.09.2022 | VCs Step Back: Global Funding In August Hits Lowest Point In 2 Years | 22 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Global venture funding reached $25.2 billion in August 2022, the lowest monthly funding amount recorded in the two years since August 2020, according to a Crunchbase News analysis.
This past month i... |
| 10.04.2022 | Dataiku Hires CFO, Hits $150 Million Revenue As Execs Talk IPO Roadmap
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“Dataiku, a provider of data science software, is revealing its revenue for the first time and says... | “Dataiku, a provider of data science software, is revealing its revenue for the first time and says it has no plans to reorient its growth strategy towards profitability even as Wall Street batters software stocks.
The company announced We... |
| 04.04.2022 | Raising the right amount of capital after a correction | Andy Stinnes Contributor
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| 14.03.2022 | Your startup raised at 40x revenue. What’s it worth at, say, 6x? | Another day, another 52-week low for the value of modern software stocks.
Once a key indicator of the market’s effervescent enthusiasm for the value of cloud companies, the Bessemer Cloud Index has become a barometer of the opposite in rece... |
| 01.03.2022 | As API-first startups multiply, GGV builds an index | When GGV Capital reached out and said that it had built an index of API-first companies, I was curious. Venture-built indexes of startups and other firms have proved useful tools in recent years, led by Bessemer’s cloud index, which is now ... |
| 14.02.2022 | Bessemer’s Mary D’Onofrio demystifies early ARR growth at TechCrunch Early Stage | If you’re a founder building a startup in the cloud and pinning your revenue on subscription-based services, annual recurring revenue (ARR) is an essential metric you need to understand. ARR is probably the most critical metric for a startu... |
| 05.01.2022 | Software stocks get punched in the face (again) | Some of the most high-flying stocks of the pandemic are struggling in the new year and it’s bad news for tech companies of all sizes.
TechCrunch noted yesterday that software stocks were having a pretty poor start to the year. That was, it ... |
| 04.01.2022 | VCs and founders are max bullish as public markets flash warning signs | Kicking off 2022 may feel like we’re stuck the third round of 2020, but things have actually changed quite a lot in Technology Land, even if the pandemic is still with us.
Crypto has become far more established in the intervening period, fo... |
| 02.12.2021 | Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff | If you bring up bad news about the price of technology stocks on Twitter, very helpful people will send you multi-year charts that put recent declines into historical context. Yes, thank you; I was not aware you could zoom out.
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| 04.10.2021 | Tech stocks drop as Q4 begins; software shares, Facebook plunge 5% | What’s the opposite of stonks?
Shares of technology companies are sharply lower in the United States today, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite falling 2.4% in early-afternoon trading.
Inside of the larger tech industry, things are even wo... |
| 23.09.2021 | It turns out fintech is worth as much as SaaS | Fintech startups are having one hell of a week.
On the heels of Boston-based software-and-payments company Toast’s strong IPO pricing, Remitly priced shares in its own debut above its proposed range yesterday evening. The Seattle-based fint... |
| 17.09.2021 | The value of software revenue may have finally stopped rising | Startups are raising record sums around the world, thanks to several contributing factors. As The Exchange explored yesterday, historically low interest rates have helped venture capitalists raise more capital than ever, to pick an example.... |
| 18.08.2021 | Would the math work if Databricks were valued at $38B? | Databricks, the open-source data lake and data management powerhouse has been on quite a financial run lately. Today Bloomberg reported the company could be raising a new round worth at least $1.5 billion at an otherworldly $38 billion valu... |
| 09.08.2021 | Live events startup Hopin is only 2 years old and worth $7.75 billion — a staggering 75x revenue multiple | Johnny Boufarhat Hopin founder and CEO Hopin This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 03.04.2021 | You might have just missed the best time to sell your startup | Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign ... |
| 11.03.2021 | Bessemer’s 2021 cloud report provides context for soaring software startup valuations | Some well-known VC firms have spent the last few months crunching data while working to chart, graph and map the world of venture investing. Happily for you and I, they’ve been pretty free with their time and data, helping us better underst... |
| - | Cloud stocks mount big rally led by UiPath, as investors bet tech valuations have bottomed | UiPath shares surged on Thursday, spearheading a rally in cloud companies, which have been beaten down in 2022.
The WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund had one of its best days of the year, as investors snapped up discounted stocks.
The rally w... |
| - | $20 billion Figma deal is a historic coup for startup investors in an otherwise miserable year | Just over a year after raising money at a $10 billion valuation, Figma is getting bought by twice that price by Adobe.
Shares of Adobe plunged on the deal, which valued Figma at roughly 50 times annualized recurring revenue.
Figma’s top ven... |
| - | Adobe shares plunge on deal to acquire design platform Figma for $20 billion | Adobe said Thursday it will acquire design software firm Figma in a deal worth about $20 billion in cash and stock.
The company also reported earnings for its fiscal third quarter.
Adobe shares had their worst day since 2010. |
| - | Cloud stocks soar to fresh records as Datadog’s results help boost Cloudflare and Asana | Datadog jumped 15% on Thursday to close at a record $132.47.
The cloud software company reported better-than-expected results, leading analysts to conclude that it’s picking up market share.
Other cloud stocks with the highest multiples to ... |
| - | Thoma Bravo’s $12.3 billion purchase of Proofpoint is the largest private equity cloud deal | Prior to the Proofpoint deal on Monday, the largest cloud acquisition by a private equity firm was the $11 billion purchase of Ultimate Software in 2019.
Just last week Thoma Bravo completed its biggest prior purchase in software, with the ... |
| - | Cloud stocks are off to a brutal start to 2022 as investors sour on pandemic’s top performers | Some of the fastest-growing technology companies have plummeted in value in recent weeks with the Federal Reserve signaling rate hikes are on the way.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is outperforming the Nasdaq Composite index so far in 20... |
| - | Box’s buzz has long since passed but the stock is trading near a record while cloud peers suffer | Box has been on a roller coaster since its 2015 IPO, including a protracted battle with activist investor Starboard Value.
Revenue growth finally picked up in fiscal 2022 after slowing for eight straight years.
While cloud stocks have gotte... |
