Osborn: TinySeed Bets on Proliferating B2B SaaS Micro-Applications
Tracy Osborn · Episode 487 | Startup Roundtable Discussing Hey.com, Leadpages’ Acquisition, and More Hot Topics · Mar 10, 2020 · at 28:07
Tracy Osborn (TinySeed Program Director) explains how the growing proliferation of specialized software tools aligns with accelerator TinySeed's core investment strategy.
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“This is kind of Tiny Seeds thesis, right? We're betting on these business-to-business SaaS apps. We love to see people building things for other businesses to use, and it's definitely, that's, we're part of this trend that's happening right now, wherever, there's lots of little apps that are doing lots of little things for you that you can pay for individually.”
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