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AI + B2B in 2026: Find the Tailwinds or Get Left Behind | Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 15:48 Jason Lemkin I, I, uh, I took this from Excel's recent analysis. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:25 Jason Lemkin This is, um, again, I saw this one from the Excel and Analysis Excelscape that's on SASTER.
From 0-50,000 Customers: How to Build a GenAI Company for the Enterprise with Synthesia's CEO
- ▶ 0:05 unnamed speaker Please welcome to the stage, Philippe Butteri, partner at Acel, and Victor Ripperbelli, co-founder and CEO at Synthesia. 2 times in the scene
Navigating Fundraising and the VC Landscape Today with 20VC and Visionaries Club
- ▶ 1:30 Harry Stebbings A lot of founders are like, ah, Excel and Index, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:04 Robert Lacher Luciana in the board from Sequoia or it can be anyone from Excel or index or any of the other great funds.
Forget the SaaS Gloom and Doom. Just Build. with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 20:57 Jason Lemkin I have been a billion dollars Excel, putting an extra already the lead investor, putting an extra billion dollars.
What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024
- ▶ 41:44 Jason Lemkin If you talk to Excel partners, one of the top VCs at all times, they'll say our favorite investments were Atlassian, right, which I think they bought 20% of, bootstrapped. 2 times in the scene
Building a Global SaaS Empire | Freshworks Founder & CEO Girish Mathrubootham on His Biggest Bets
- ▶ 5:57 Girish Mathrubootham So, at the end of that 45,000 dollar spend, we ended up having 70 customers in two months, which was great for a startup, and, and also helped us get funding from Accel.
- ▶ 28:34 Girish Mathrubootham We had, we were just going to announce, or we just announced a one million dollar funding from Accel, and the next day we were attacked on Twitter to be a ripoff of Zendesk, and I can see our friends at Zendesk are in the booth here, so…
Scaling a B2B Leader from $0 to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath's CEO and Founder Daniel Dines
- ▶ 1:12 Philippe Botteri I'm a partner with, uh, with Excel, and we had the privilege to lay the Series A in, uh, in the company back in, uh, 2017.
VC AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Black Mangroves MD Arnaud Bonzom at SaaStr APAC 2023
- ▶ 15:21 Jason Lemkin There is almost no, um, you know, Excel Growth did one investment last year, 30 something the year before.
SaaStr APAC AMA with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO
- ▶ 9:48 Jason Lemkin I see Excel. 3 times in the scene
Investing and Venture Capital in 2023 | SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin + Atrium Founder/CRO Pete Kazanjy
- ▶ 11:52 Jason Lemkin So it certainly does help to be, you know, look, having Sequoia or Excel on your cap table helps, and, and, uh, whether it should or shouldn't, having Saster certainly helps with recruiting executives.
Accel, Iconiq & Salesforce Ventures: "Where Venture Is Right Now: Gritty & Much Harder" at G2 Reach
- ▶ 1:05 Jason Lemkin Um, we've got Arun Matthew from Excel, and not only is Excel one of the all-time great venture capital firms, but very early on SaaS, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:39 Jason Lemkin You guys just pass, uh, uh, Excel did one growth round.
- ▶ 26:02 Arun Matthew I mean, we love those companies, uh, you know, of course, you know, Iconic and Excel invested in one password, which had been bootstrapped for 15 years before they ended up.
Live from SaaStr Annual 2022: AMA with SaaStr's CEO
- ▶ 46:29 Jason Lemkin And all, every investor wants to do what, what, what, what Excel did in Atlassian. 2 times in the scene
VC State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder & MP Aileen Lee
- ▶ 34:38 Jason Lemkin Like if you're Excel or Sequoia or Bessemer, you can't sell in the series.
Finding Opps in Every Challenge: From Humble Beginnings to 30 Million Users with Miro CEO
- ▶ 20:16 Andrey Husid Uh, I was also looking through AngelList, through LinkedIn, but then, uh, I learned that the best way to build a leadership team is to bring on board an executive search firm, and, uh, when Excel joined us, uh, with the Round A, they…
7 Secrets to a Successful SMB GTM Strategy with PayFit and Accel | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 1:39 Philippe Botteri I'm a partner with Accel, so we're a global venture firm. 3 times in the scene
Scaling a Successful SaaS Sales Team w/ 20VC Founder Harry Stebbings and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 35:57 Jason Lemkin Oh my God, Excel, Sequoia, whoever did the seed, but they didn't do the A. 2 times in the scene
Going from $0 to $60M ARR in 4 Years with Podium CEO Eric Rea | SaaStr Software Community
"Early Gains, Early Pains: 5 Lessons for Surviving Hypergrowth" Harry Stebbings and Robert Vis
- ▶ 11:30 Harry Stebbings And, you know, you have Excel, Atomaco behind you.
"The Secret to SMB Sales" Accel Partner Andrei Brasoveanu and Doctolib CDO Agnes Bazin
- ▶ 0:05 Andrei Brasoveanu I'm a partner at Excel, and I have the pleasure of being on stage with Agnes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:08 Agnes Bazin And, ah, you know, the way we did it in France was pretty wild, because we started with Paris, we became super strong in Paris, and then Axel came.
- ▶ 27:37 Andrei Brasoveanu So at Excel, we're big believers in automation, uh, and many software companies we see, um, incorporate automation to deliver a better service.
The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics
- ▶ 5:03 Ryan Smith Yeah, we raised at four hundred million dollars, three hundred fifty million dollars with Sequoia and Excel.
- ▶ 20:25 Ryan Smith And I think, I think Excel and Sequoia totally shorted our TAM.
- ▶ 32:28 unnamed speaker Our VCs returned more than, I mean, I think it was a top three in Excel's portfolio, maybe number one in insights. 2 times in the scene
Going Upmarket, How To Keep Growing When Your Buyer Is No Longer Your User
- ▶ 0:37 Vas Natarajan You know, obviously from the investor perspective, I've been a partner at Excel for about eight and a half years now. 2 times in the scene
Jay Simons, President @ Atlassian - The Inside Story Through IPO
- ▶ 6:59 Jay Simons You know, one with Excel in, ah, 2010, and one with, with T. 3 times in the scene