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SaaS Ventures

Founders Brian Gaister Collin Gutman Seth Shuldiner Seth Shuldiner

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Total investments 111
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 74
Rounds per year 15.86
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 4
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
  • Cyber Security
Summary

SaaS Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2017. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Washington.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Analytics, SaaS. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SCYTHE, Ataata, Blue Matador. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the SaaS Ventures, startups are often financed by Stage Venture Partners, Scott Garber, IrishAngels. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Stout Street Capital, Stage Venture Partners, Bowery Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scott Garber, Plug and Play, Hack VC.

Opposing the other organizations, this SaaS Ventures works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from SaaS Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

This organization was formed by Brian Gaister, Collin Gutman. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

KredosAI

FinTech
Software
$1M04 Apr 2024 Bellevue, Washington, United States

FirmPilot

Legal
Legal Tech
Marketing Automation
SEO
$2M02 Jan 2024 Miami, Florida, United States

Vera

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$2M05 Oct 2023 New York, New York, United States

Optera

CleanTech
Environmental Consulting
Sustainability
$12M11 Sep 2023 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Finofo

FinTech
Payments
Risk Management
$1M15 Aug 2023 Calgary, Canada

Alysio

Software
$1M20 Jul 2023 Lehi, Utah, United States

Amify

Advertising
E-Commerce
Internet
Retail
$4M23 May 2023 Arlington, Virginia, United States

Cloverly

Air Transportation
CleanTech
E-Commerce
Ride Sharing
Shipping
$19M11 May 2023 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Gappify

Accounting
Enterprise Software
Robotics
SaaS
Software
$10M01 May 2023 Oakland, California, United States
News
Hammoq Raises $3M in Seed Funding

– Hammoq, a Phoenix AZ-based eCommerce platform, raised $3M in seed funding.
– The round was led by Origin Ventures with participants from Sierra Ventures, SaaS Ventures, and Silicon Road Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand its team and continue iterating on its product offerings.

Cloverly snags $2.1M seed to continue developing API to measure and offset carbon usage

– Cloverly, an Atlanta-based, early-stage startup, has developed an API that helps companies measure and then offset their carbon emissions.
– The company announced a $2.1m seed round led by TechSquare Ventures with participation from SoftBank Opportunity Fund and Panoramic Ventures along with Circadian Ventures, Knoll Ventures and SaaS Ventures
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– The company has hired former eBay exec Jason Rubottom as CEO in his place.

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Total investments 111
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 15.86
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

KredosAI

FinTech
Software
$1M04 Apr 2024 Bellevue, Washington, United States

FirmPilot

Legal
Legal Tech
Marketing Automation
SEO
$2M02 Jan 2024 Miami, Florida, United States

Vera

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$2M05 Oct 2023 New York, New York, United States

Optera

CleanTech
Environmental Consulting
Sustainability
$12M11 Sep 2023 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Finofo

FinTech
Payments
Risk Management
$1M15 Aug 2023 Calgary, Canada

Alysio

Software
$1M20 Jul 2023 Lehi, Utah, United States

Amify

Advertising
E-Commerce
Internet
Retail
$4M23 May 2023 Arlington, Virginia, United States

Cloverly

Air Transportation
CleanTech
E-Commerce
Ride Sharing
Shipping
$19M11 May 2023 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Gappify

Accounting
Enterprise Software
Robotics
SaaS
Software
$10M01 May 2023 Oakland, California, United States
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