TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

With rising interest rates, there’s a new sheriff in town for all companies. And in this new environment in which interest rates are climbing, access to capital is diminished and investors are “fleeing from the riskiest companies,” meaning nascent companies are in an even more precarious position. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Peer-to-peer car-sharing startup Turo has released its filing to become a publicly traded company in the United States, a process the company began confidentially in August. The company boasts 85,000 active hosts and 160,000 active vehicle listings in over 7,500 cities as of September 30, 2021. Net losses were $97.1

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2023

W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Here’s about 1,000 words on something that I’ve been chewing on for a few weeks! — Alex Under pressure Modern software companies grow in two key ways. This is called net retention, net revenue retention (NRR) or net dollar retention (NDR).

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

Software companies tend to have relatively high customer retention and expansion compared to other business models. For software, two metrics are commonly used to measure retention and expansion: Gross Dollar Retention (GDR) Net Dollar Retention (NDR), sometimes referred to as Net Revenue Retention, or Dollar Based Net Revenue Retention.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Years ago, Will Allred and William Ballance were developing a tech platform, Sorter, to apply personality and communication psychology to marketing campaigns. Just as Sorter was heading to market, the pandemic hit — and marketing budgets froze. “In today’s climate, teams have to do more with less. .”

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Beyond Wong’s pitch technique, this post also examines some of the key “customer love” metrics that helped Zipline win the day, such as CAC, churn rates and net promoter score. “In Investors don’t expect the US startup funding market to slow down. The most important API metric is time to first call.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

When we were taken private in 2015, we were a traditional software vendor, but the market was starting to embrace the cloud. The investment thesis was we could dramatically change the value of the company by becoming a true cloud and subscription-driven company. What has IT’s role been in the transformation to a SaaS model?

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

The best way to do so is to collect and use candidate experience metrics and insights. Let’s start with the basics and discuss how hiring metrics and insights can help create an awesome candidate experience. Candidate experience metrics: Which are the most relevant? #1

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

It brings the company’s total raised to $90 million, which CEO Ryan Glasgow says is being put toward expanding Sprig’s service line, support sales and marketing efforts, and dedicating resources to integrations and partnerships. Glasgow founded Sprig in 2019. Image Credits: Sprig.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Why are software companies valuable? Put another way, why have we spent so many years valuing software companies using revenue multiples, instead of the profit multiples that are more common in other industries? First, software companies have very strong gross margins; software is cheap to sell once you’ve written the code.

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CIO

MAY 22, 2024

The AI market is still developing, and some companies are adopting the technology without a specific use case in mind, he adds. Kane has seen companies roll out Microsoft Copilot, for example, without any employee training about its uses. “I I have found very few companies who have found ROI with AI at all thus far,” he adds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This morning LeadIQ , a startup working in the sales software market, announced that it has closed a $30 million Series B led by Cathay Innovation. LeadIQ frames its product from the perspective of missed revenue targets at companies, which it claims impact nearly two-thirds of today’s deals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

There have been warnings that these landmark fundraises are driven by too much capital available and a highly competitive venture market. However, despite the twofold growth in dollars invested, the number of companies receiving funding has grown by less than 30% compared with Q3 2020. Key takeaways.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. For SaaS companies, net dollar retention is on investor radar more than ever. But it shouldn’t eclipse gross dollar retention: If you are not tracking both metrics, you could be fighting to add new customers into a leaky bucket.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We can expect that every company is going to react this way in times of uncertainty. Where winning companies deviate from the norm is that they look for opportunities to attract and retain customers by making experience and service a signature competitive advantage. There’s much to be done. Only 26% of U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

According to research by Gainsight, a customer success software platform, “companies that invest 10% or more of their revenue into the CS function have the highest net recurring revenue (NRR).”. Simply put, these jobs serve a critical role in tech companies today. Companies mostly deploy two or more customer success archetypes.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Popular ways of ensuring IT efforts align with business goals range from co-developing strategic plans with executives on the business side of the company to actively collaborating with business users on projects aimed to derive more value from their efforts. Business awareness is a vital aspect of IT leadership today.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The landscape for software companies. In tandem with inflation, the demand curve is being whipsawed — we first saw a period of strong product growth driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, and now we’re seeing budgets and spending being tightened as startups and mature companies alike prepare to weather the storm.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Today the company announced a $50 million investment, a large sum in today’s tightening VC landscape. The new money brings the total raised to nearly $150 million, per the company. I think our stand-up metric here is that our net revenue retention is over 160%.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

The company, launched by a former co-founder of the IAC-owned Tinder , plans to list its share on the Nasdaq stock exchange, using the ticker symbol “BMBL.” But before we do, the company’s board makeup, namely that it is over 70% women is already drawing plaudits. Net income of $68.6 Net income of -$116.7

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Battery Ventures

MAY 27, 2020

Too many of them had raised huge amounts of money from investors to fuel “growth at all costs” business strategies—which were increasingly out of favor in the public markets. Finally, a true shakeout in the market began: Companies that were not operating efficiently and moving on a path to profitability continued to perform poorly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Through the pandemic, a trove of attention has been paid to new market structures and activity that are deemed short term, risky or speculative. Whether they are and what net outcomes they yield for various stakeholders are useful questions. This August, Eric Ries’ LTSE listed its first two companies, Asana and Twilio.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

The company is pursuing a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE. ” The company’s financial results paint the picture of a rapidly growing company that has a history of profitability. For now let’s focus on Squarespace’s own metrics. million and net income of $58.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

That’s not a surprise, as COVID-19 caused many ride-hailing markets to freeze, limiting demand for folks moving around. But the decline in demand harmed both companies. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Along the way we’ll talk BS metrics and how firing a lot of people can cut your cost base.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The company’s public debut has been hotly anticipated thanks to recent activity amongst bitcoin and other blockchain-based assets, the company’s controversial political positions , and its spiking valuation on private exchanges. Coinbase’s financials show a company that grew rapidly from 2019 to 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Yes, it is complex and confusing, but as a metric, it is helpful. In the early stages of building a company, churn gives you quick feedback, which other metrics seldom do. Negative net MRR churn is akin to SaaS nirvana, because with each passing month, your existing subscribers become more and more valuable.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Today, seven years after that announcement, the company finally has a C round, a $200 million investment on a $1.05 The company has gone on record with TechCrunch that there are lots of reasons for the gap, and when it promoted COO Amir Movafaghi to CEO in 2018, it was the first in a series of steps that it took to right the ship.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This morning Creatio , a Boston-based software company, announced that it has raised $68 million. Per Kostereva, her company’s low-code platform helps other companies automate business processes. To see another low-code company raise a big check was therefore not too surprising. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Frequent readers know I enjoy using similes, so I won’t disappoint: SaaS companies are like leaky rowboats. Sid Jain, a senior analyst with ChartMogul, researched 2,100 companies and found that “ more than half of SaaS businesses had lower retention in 2022 when compared to 2021.” ” Thanks for reading TC+! .”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

In more than two decades as an angel investor and early-stage company scout, I’ve met with hundreds of entrepreneurs seeking funds and sat through an equal number of slide deck pitches. Include key market metrics such as TAM, SAM and SOM. Lastly, SOM would be the share of the market that a company could capture over time.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The sales management technology company closed on $20 million in Series A funding to continue developing its tools that automatically monitor a company’s most important key performance indicators, get insights into performance to evaluate what is working and what isn’t and how to proactively coach the team to improve productivity and revenue.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

“They are examples of real, early-stage board slides from seed and Series A stage companies that did a great job informing their boards and driving constructive discussions.” “It’s going to take a while, but I think this is going to be a real breakthrough in the future.”

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RapidValue

JULY 27, 2020

A report by the Harvard Business Review states that companies that adopt Agile processes, experience 60% in revenue and profit growth. That said, businesses need to be acquainted with an aspect of Agile called the agile metrics to effectively reap the benefits. What exactly is Agile Metrics? . Agile Quality Metrics.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Airbnb filed to go public today , bringing the well-known unicorn one step closer to being a public company. The financial results show a company on the rebound, but smaller than it was. ai themselves filed to go public in what could be a rush to the public markets by richly valued startups. Airbnb’s financial performance.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Cloud companies generally rely on efficiency metrics like CAC payback and LTV-to-CAC, but “they feel more like financial metrics than operational ones, and it is difficult for employees to execute against these concepts,” according to Neeraj Agrawal, Brandon Gleklen and Jack Mattei of Battery Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The hybrid open source (OSS) and commercial combination is an increasingly popular startup method of attacking markets. As with all OSS projects that may succeed, its goal is to offer something useful to the market as open code and build a commercial business atop what’s generally available. This morning, Jina.ai

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

After all, how big could the OKR software market really be? In a world where every company already pays for Google or Microsoft’s productivity suite, and some big software companies offer similar planning support, how substantial could demand prove for pure-play OKR startups? We got what we could. 300% ARR growth, 2020.

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