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Exciting News! Bain Capital Ventures has unveiled the Top 50 Vertical SaaS Startups for 2024! Celebrating innovative companies excelling in large, growing markets with early signs of product-market fit. From AEC to logistics, and new entrants from legal and financial services—these startups are setting the pace. #LaunchFinance #InceptionToExit #LaunchYourStartup #SaaS #StartupTrends #Innovation2024

🌟 Polish-founded Proofs raised €2.4M to transform POC development in SaaS sales. 🌐 Led by Earlybird Digital East Fund, with support from Expeditions Fund and RTP Global, Proofs aims to streamline sales processes for API-centric companies. 🚀 Proofs was established in 2022 by Bartek Pucek and Zbigniew Sobiecki. Bartek is an angel investor who has invested alongside prominent firms such as Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz, in companies like the Polish-founded unicorn ElevenLabs. Learn more about their mission! #TechNews #StartupFunding

🌟 Polish-founded Proofs raised €2.4M to transform POC development in SaaS sales. 🌐 Led by Earlybird Digital East Fund, with support from Expeditions Fund and RTP Global, Proofs aims to streamline sales processes for API-centric companies. 🚀 Proofs was established in 2022 by Bartek Pucek and Zbigniew Sobiecki. Bartek is an angel investor who has invested alongside prominent firms such as Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz, in companies like the Polish-founded unicorn ElevenLabs. Learn more about their mission! #TechNews #StartupFunding

🌟 Polish-founded Proofs raised €2.4M to transform POC development in SaaS sales. 🌐 Led by Earlybird Digital East Fund, with support from Expeditions Fund and RTP Global, Proofs aims to streamline sales processes for API-centric companies. 🚀 Proofs was established in 2022 by Bartek Pucek and Zbigniew Sobiecki. Bartek is an angel investor who has invested alongside prominent firms such as Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz, in companies like the Polish-founded unicorn ElevenLabs. Learn more about their mission! #TechNews #StartupFunding

🌟 Polish-founded Proofs raised €2.4M to transform POC development in SaaS sales. 🌐 Led by Earlybird Digital East Fund, with support from Expeditions Fund and RTP Global, Proofs aims to streamline sales processes for API-centric companies. 🚀 Proofs was established in 2022 by Bartek Pucek and Zbigniew Sobiecki. Bartek is an angel investor who has invested alongside prominent firms such as Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz, in companies like the Polish-founded unicorn ElevenLabs. Learn more about their mission! #TechNews #StartupFunding

Read this story from Taos Edmondson on Medium: https://lnkd.in/dBsbNtuN Thanks Taos Edmondson for this interesting, helpful and accurate piece on @Medium #metrics #bootstrapping #startups

What is happening to startups at Series A? SaaS sales are showing optimistic signs. Key data points: (Via Redpoint Ventures' recent LP report) - Even though Seed rounds are recovering, Series A rounds haven't. - We're going to see a large volume of companies that'll have to accept down rounds, move to sell the company or shutdown. - Private valuations have trended lower and more in-line with the historical spread between public and private software companies. - AI companies are being valued higher, raising more capital and growing faster. This is not necessarily good news.

In SaaS, we trust 😊. According to the Aventis Advisors report, even public SaaS companies have "good" valuations and perspectives. Excellent time for investors to find promising startups and invest. #saas #startups #venture

💬 “One thing Harmonic does very well is flag companies early on in their creation—frequently even before they have a website. That's huge for us, especially since we can now track founders. If a one-time founder starts another company, or a VP leaves Google and starts her own company, those are terrific signals.” - Jason Mintz, Partner and CTO, MVP Ventures There are roughly one million companies in MVP Ventures’ investable universe, but the team only has time to talk to around 3,000 companies each year. Filtering down to the highest potential 0.3% to make meaningful inroads can be a painstaking process, in which a lot of remarkable startups are overlooked due to time constraints. What’s more, since MVP funds early-stage companies, there isn’t always much available data on background or traction. Harmonic’s data allows the team to focus on the right founders at the right time. This means the ability to filter and score startups based on characteristics like growth, team experience, industry and sector data, and funding history. With this data, MVP can now prioritize outreach to certain companies within their homegrown CRM solution. Read more about the MVP-Harmonic partnership here! https://lnkd.in/g9Gv27mw

🚨 SaaS startup Atlan’s valuation hits $750 mn after $105-mn round 1️⃣ Atlan, a startup offering data collaboration software, has collected $105 million in a round led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC, and US-based venture investor Meritech Capital. The deal was finalised at a valuation of $750 million. 2️⃣ Existing backers Salesforce Ventures and Peak XV Partners (Sequoia India) also participated in the round, and Atlan’s lifetime funding haul exceeds $206 million now. 3️⃣ Roughly two years ago, the company closed a $50-million round at a valuation of $450 million. The latest transaction of $105 million is one of the most significant up-rounds in the Indian SaaS space. An up-round refers to a fundraise at an increased valuation. 4️⃣ Prukalpa ⚡ Sankar and Varun Banka founded Atlan in 2018. Its platform serves as a collaborative workspace for data teams, facilitating data governance across tools such as Snowflake, dbt Labs, Redshift, Looker, Sisense and Tableau. Article link in comments