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How TeamSupport Reached $10M–$25M ARR With 1,000 Customers | Grant Stanis
- ▶ 15:26 Nathan Latka He's worked at companies backed by Excel, KKR, other massive private equity firms.
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?
- ▶ 19:19 Nathan Latka I guess going back really quick to your guys' capital structure story, obviously a nice big moment last year with the sale, but, um, your guys, I think your first round was like 20, wasn't it back in 2012 with Excel for fifty million… 2 times in the scene
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage
- ▶ 15:00 Nathan Latka They also do have world-class VCs there, like Bessemer, Chris Yance, obviously, is a go-to with his napkin, but Excel will be there as well, but also a lot of really great founders.
Sourcepoint Hits 500 Customers for Data Privacy Product, Will "definitely hit $50m in 2024"
- ▶ 11:05 Ben Brokus You can see, you know, on our cap table, North Zone, Spark, Greycroft, Excel, Foundry.
From 1 man design team to $400k/year consulting for Accel
- ▶ 1:44 Nathan Latka He's working with firms like Excel, putting on their events and doing their content marketing and other firms as they think about event organizations.
- ▶ 2:11 Nathan Latka His clients include Excel, Gravity Sketch, who we've had on the show, among others.
- ▶ 11:05 Mihai Tomlin Um, Excel, other venture funds. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:25 Nathan Latka He's working with firms like Excel, putting on their events and doing their content marketing and other firms as they think about event organizations.
How he Grew AI Tool $25k to $250k MRR Last 12 Months, On track for $800k MRR This Year
- ▶ 1:48 Nathan Latka His last round raised last year was a seven million dollar seed round led by Excel at a twenty five million valuation team of a hundred people
- ▶ 9:32 Sanjay Kumar So we raised it from axle partners. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:13 Nathan Latka His last round raised last year was a seven million dollar seed round led by Excel at a twenty five million valuation.
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation
- ▶ 7:09 Nathan Latka I mean, are you seeing Sequoia in India, Excel in India?
She hit $250k MRR in November for Partnership SaaS, 4000 Customers, approx $90m Valuation
- ▶ 6:25 Shruti Ghatge Um, I, I mean, some context is I used to be, I used to work at Accel before this, investing in a lot of SaaS companies, and we saw this problem and wanted to solve for it, but spend the next six, nine months just figuring out our wedge… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:06 Shruti Ghatge Like, and those are numbers I hadn't seen myself when I was working at Accel.
- ▶ 14:22 Shruti Ghatge I think like, um, I mean, I work very closely with Freshworks as part of Excel, but I think like five years back, the story was very different, but they've learned, they've trained themselves and the really good ones have, have figured it…
First B2B SaaS for VR Headsets Breaks 1.5m Downloads, $1m in ARR, $33m Round Closed
- ▶ 16:08 Nathan Latka What did you put in your deck that made Excel go?
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
- ▶ 8:26 Nicolas Vandenberghe That's not what Kleiner Perkins thought, because they gave them ten million, and shortly after Axel gave them forty million, that company is called Relate IQ, that most of you have heard of.
$70m Raised with just $10k in MRR? Can this Devops for SalesOps tool Grow Into Lofty Valuation?
- ▶ 8:34 Nathan Latka This is Excel, Salesforce Ventures, which makes sense.
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works
- ▶ 59:45 Einar Volset So, um, you know, Marlin equity, uh, inside partners certainly are, um, Axel KKR will pay for growth.
1758 Funnel Analysis: Online Events Platform $0 to $1.8m in Revenue In 2 Months
- ▶ 3:21 Johnny Boufarhat Yeah, we raised capital about three months ago or two months ago from Accel Ventures.
1401 UserTesting CEO "We're at $65m in ARR Now, Hoping to Break $80m by EOY" across 3000 paying customers
- ▶ 9:04 Nathan Latka 45 or something from Excel.
1385 Atlassian Passes $1B ARR Run Rate, Thinking About Acquisitions of "System of Record" companies
- ▶ 15:39 Jay Simons We did a secondary round in 2010 with Excel, and then we did a secondary round with T.
1327 Prague Based Translation Tool Passes $5m in ARR, Bootstrapped
- ▶ 19:27 Nathan Latka If you, if you release a statement after the show goes live, like a month later, it says we've just raised five million from Excel on forty five million pre money.
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment
- ▶ 16:09 Nathan Latka And you're talking about, you're talking about the, the, the original seed round they did the three, the three, five from Excel, the Excel led.
940 5000 Enterprises Pay Him $100m+ in ARR To Battle CyberSecurity Threats
809: How This $12m Accounting Biz Moves from On-Prem to SaaS Model
- ▶ 6:50 Barry Clapp You know, forum where we presented to all the top players and, uh, Excel and everybody else.
789: Google Bought Their Beacons to Distribute Free Wifi in India
- ▶ 12:29 Sharad Potharaju Uh, Axel Partners is our primary, um, investor.
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m
- ▶ 19:35 Patrick Bosworth So, I mean, for a long time, I was just being told by the, so the, the types of investors we have, um, which there's good and bad of the investors that we have, where we've got people like Excel partners, uh, bad investors,
736: How Mobile Analytics Company Went $0 to $4 Million in 12 Months
- ▶ 4:22 Sunil Thomas We are actually one of the few companies that are both Excel and Sequoia, uh, partners funded. 2 times in the scene
674: Sumo Logic Passes 1300 Customers, $140M+ Raised, Flirting W/ $100M ARR with CEO Ramin Sayar
- ▶ 8:37 Ramin Sayar Um, and it runs the gamut of Greylock, Sutter Hills, Sequoia, Excel, DFJ, and IDP, and a few others.
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla
- ▶ 23:50 Nathan Latka He's helping growing Kubernetes adoption with over 8.5 million dollars raised from Excel partners pre-revenue, but there's a good reason he got 8.5 million bucks.
EP 589: HeptIo Growing Kubernetes Adoption With $8.5M Raised From Accel with Founder Craig McLuckie
- ▶ 5:20 Craig McLuckie Uh, no, this was Axel, uh, and, uh, our partner there is Ping Li, and, uh, you know, he is someone that we got to know well, and, and we sort of really respected, uh, and my friend Joe had spent, um, a year as an EIR at Axel before, um,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:40 Nathan Latka Your partner was an EIR at Excel.
EP 588: Zirra Raises $3M, Hits $50k MRR Helping You Get Company Data with CEO Aner Ravon
- ▶ 2:05 Nathan Latka This is episode five 88, and coming up tomorrow morning, you'll hear from the CEO of Heptio, which breaks down why growing Kubernetes adoption with 8.5 million dollars raised from Excel Venture Capital
EP 529: $10m Raised, Pre-Revenue, Notion.ai Adds AI to Email Messaging with Co-Founder Guy Suter
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor
- ▶ 16:13 Kevin Davis Um, very, you know, uh, I think he's from Excel as well, um, VC.
Where This VC Helps Put $3.7B Worth of Capital And Five $100M+ Companies He Loves, EP 299: Adam Valkin
- ▶ 1:56 Nathan Latka Previously, Adam was a venture partner in the London office of Excel Partners.
- ▶ 5:39 Adam Valkin Um, but my involvement with that project ended in about 2008, um, where I spent a couple years, uh, in, in corporate life working, uh, with a big media company called Endemol, uh, and then came back to venture at the end, at the beginning…
- ▶ 7:38 Nathan Latka For businesses looking quick question on love film, before we go back to the kind of the story you're just talking about Excel for, you know, a lot of times people look at successful businesses right now.
- ▶ 10:19 Nathan Latka Adam, before we jump back into Excel, and even before we get into kind of the success that general cap, uh, catalyst has seen just for the audience, what you have to look forward to general catalyst is on over four and five investments and… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:32 Nathan Latka So before we go in deeper into Super Evil Megacorp and your experience again at GC now, I want to go back to an interesting bet that you took at, uh, at Excel.
- ▶ 17:02 Adam Valkin Um, and then I got lucky enough to meet the general catalyst team, um, that had worked very closely with, um, with Accel London, which is how I knew them, and landed up joining their team at the end of 2012, and have been here ever since.
EP 323: He took his company public for $1b
- ▶ 16:38 Kenny Hawk You know, I've, I've, uh, you know, built, you know, after I go, I built a GPS chip business in Lugano, Switzerland, one of the most beautiful places in the world, uh, eventually got acquired by Qualcomm, did a, uh, wireless active antenna…