View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis.

Leadership 214

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 214

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. 2016/2017 Spectacles — capture video on the glasses. But I can certainly see that Facebook usage has indeed grown among my mother’s and grandmother’s peers.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis.

Leadership 100

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 100

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

As a two-sided marketplace, Migo also helps partners and cities better understand multi-modal transit usage and demand patterns by delivering aggregate data down to a neighborhood level. Migo aggregates multiple ride types and partners so when you enter your destination, you can see the location and the price for each type of ride.

Startup 49

Startup Seattle Aggregator Denver 49

Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

Uniquely positioned as a unifier of people and brand, MJ brought her vision and diverse skillset to PEMCO in 2017. Do you use any diversity hiring tools or software? There has been an uptick in tools that enable companies to post job descriptions beyond the major job board aggregators to reach underrepresented demographics.

Hiring 40

Hiring Portland Non-Compete Seattle 40

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. It’s a legitimate stage of financing in the venture eco-system as of this writing (October 2017). In fact, when I announced K9 Ventures III in August 2017, the term Pre-Seed was part of the headline for that announcement: Announcing K9 Ventures III, L.P. –

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

In 2017, Kaggle was acquired by Google. Notebooks have all the latest software libraries preinstalled, as well as versions of R and Python, the main programming languages for data science and analytics. In a Kaggle competition, you can compete for jobs or money (or glory). But the platform has evolved from that initial use case.

Analytics 94

Analytics Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review 94

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

These 6 KRIs are The CHICAGO MetricsR and are the result of an aggregation algorithm based on any number of tactical metrics. I initially began my business in 2017 as a requirement for a college course I was taking. Those 6 KRIs are Confidentiality, Human Resources, Integrity, Character, Availability, and GOld. 4- Requirement.

Naming 152

Naming India Chicago Entrepreneur 152

Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

But, I have done 0 health deals in 2018 (I did 3 in 2017). Women are delaying having children, which means that we as a society need to embrace new forms of contraception (not sure this is something software can solve) to improve reliability, usage, and side effects. And, I have done 2 blockchain deals.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco California Cost Software 48

Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

But, I have done 0 health deals in 2018 (I did 3 in 2017). Women are delaying having children, which means that we as a society need to embrace new forms of contraception (not sure this is something software can solve) to improve reliability, usage, and side effects. And, I have done 2 blockchain deals.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco California Cost Software 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Monitoring and reporting solutions include BaseVenture , Burgiss , Davigold , DocDep , eFront FrontInvest , Framework , Investors Economic Assurance’s CapAssure , Netage Dynamo PE , Q-Biz Solutions , Qualtrics , SS&C GlobeOp , an d Vantage Software. As of the beginning of 2017, ffVC spun out Totem into a separate business.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Findings were presented at Cloud Europe, an Accel and Salesforce event gathering the top 100 SaaS companies in Europe, in conjunction with SaaStock 2017. Since then, momentum has only accelerated, and we’ve published a fresh edition of the top 100 European SaaS companies in conjunction with SaaStock 2017. in the US, $2.6B

Europe 83

Europe Cloud API 83

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

I’ve known Landon for about a dozen years and I’ve really watched the evolution of Landon and his buddy starting a company going out there trying to figure out how to sell it to now a hundred people in the campus in Santa Barbara with a piece of software that is really second to none in the marketing automation space.

Software Review 36

Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software 36

thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

In 2017, as a VC, I’m still fascinated by the topic of melding human interactions and feedback mechanisms with the latest advances in technology. However, historically, artificial intelligence software has required a lot of training. In 1991, as an undergrad, I wrote a paper on social cybernetics and its role in robotics.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 84

thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

In 2017, as a VC, I’m still fascinated by the topic of melding human interactions and feedback mechanisms with the latest advances in technology. However, historically, artificial intelligence software has required a lot of training. In 1991, as an undergrad, I wrote a paper on social cybernetics and its role in robotics.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 40

ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

That simplifies content creation and link building compared to, say, trying to promote niche B2B software. According to a 2017 study , research is the most efficient type of content for earning backlinks. Word count Backlinks Referring domains Date of publication 483 3,100 815 (39% of all RDs) 2017. Example 1. “ No problem.

Marketing 125

Marketing Acquisition Software Review Aggregator 125