James Crennan

General Partner, Xenon Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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James Crennan is a General Partner at Xenon Partners, an early micro-private equity firm specializing in B2B SaaS acquisitions. He also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the no-code platform Adalo.

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Prediction Held up

Crennan predicted in April 2022 that tech valuations would contract

“And so I think over the next 12 months or 20, 22, I think we're going to see some really bubbly valuations that we've had start to contract down again.”

James Crennan Apr 4, 2022 ▶ 23:05 Startup Acquisition Stories with James Crennan - General Partner at Xenon Partners

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What they said6 Episodes1

Everything James Crennan said on Startup Acquisition Stories that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Crennan: Many Solid Software Businesses Fail Under VC Growth Expectations

“We talk to these founders who have built this business that is in all senses, a great business. But when you overlay the venture capital trajectory that needs to happen for businesses to be doing actually great by the label of great in the modern world, then t…”

James Crennan Apr 4, 2022 ▶ 3:00 Startup Acquisition Stories with James Crennan - General Partner at Xenon Partners

Disclosure

Xenon's first transaction acquired a side project from Intercom's founder

“So the first transaction that we actually did was working with the founder of intercom to remove his main distraction.”

James Crennan Apr 4, 2022 ▶ 5:11 Startup Acquisition Stories with James Crennan - General Partner at Xenon Partners

Disclosure

Crennan: Xenon buys blemished software companies that other acquirers avoid

“Will, we often deal with these companies that, that have this, these marks on their name that I think a lot of others would look at and just say, you know, this, these are smells that we don't want to be involved with. We're very much not like that, and I gues…”

James Crennan Apr 4, 2022 ▶ 8:57 Startup Acquisition Stories with James Crennan - General Partner at Xenon Partners

Prediction Held up

Crennan predicted in April 2022 that tech valuations would contract

“And so I think over the next 12 months or 20, 22, I think we're going to see some really bubbly valuations that we've had start to contract down again.”

James Crennan Apr 4, 2022 ▶ 23:05 Startup Acquisition Stories with James Crennan - General Partner at Xenon Partners

Disclosure

Crennan: Xenon Partners has completed 49 founder transactions since 2010

“So we've done 49. Transactions with founders since 2010.”

James Crennan Apr 4, 2022 ▶ 4:13 Startup Acquisition Stories with James Crennan - General Partner at Xenon Partners

Disclosure

Crennan: Xenon acquired Scripted without recurring revenue to convert it to SaaS

“There are instances where we've actually done transactions a little bit outside these criteria. So one example would be scripted where it didn't actually have a recurring revenue subscription business, but we immediately saw that the one could be implemented. …”

James Crennan Apr 4, 2022 ▶ 14:08 Startup Acquisition Stories with James Crennan - General Partner at Xenon Partners

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Startup Acquisition Stories with James Crennan - General Partner at Xenon Partners	Apr 4, 2022	15m

James Crennan

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