VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech. The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality.

B2C 141

B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. That not only bodes well for strong companies seeking to go public, regardless of whether they’re B2B or B2C. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional.

IPO 180

IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 180

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Aaron Levie put it nicely in 2019: 10 years ago, the combined public market caps of bottom-up, user-led enterprise software companies was $0. — Aaron Levie (@levie) June 20, 2019. Today, it’s $100B+. Amazing how much this industry has changed in under a decade.

B2B 167

B2B Sales Cycle Software Mobile 167

Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. That not only bodes well for strong companies seeking to go public, regardless of whether they’re B2B or B2C. This post also appears on NextView’s blog.

IPO 100

IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 100

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

5000 list , which lists private American companies based on three-year revenue growth between 2016 and 2019. Richard: Taxfyle is successfully addressing deep pain points experienced every year by both American taxpayers and accounting firms nationally, and overseas, around tax season. Last year, Taxfyle ranked No. Magazine’ Inc.

CPA 172

CPA Founder Vertical Cofounder 172

VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

The first time I wrote about startup benchmarks was in 2019 and it became one of the most popular posts on VC Cafe. Burn Rate Definition: Burn rate is the rate at which a startup is spending its capital to finance operations before generating positive cash flow. The post 2023-2024 B2B SaaS Benchmarks appeared first on VC Cafe.

B2B 97

B2B Burn Rate Generative AI Retention 97

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

The startups in Southeast Asia were traditionally focused on offering services to individuals and followed a B2C scheme. According to a report by Google , startups in this region are more likely to explore AI, decentralized finance (DeFi), fintech , e-commerce, health technology, and sustainability.

Asia 171

Asia Indonesia Silicon Valley Malaysia 171