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Catch another episode of This Week in Startups where Upfront Managing Partner Mark Suster interviews Max Altman and Ben Braverman, two of the three co-founders of Saga Ventures. With Saga’s new $125 million fund, the trio talk about: ➡ Fundraising challenges the co-founders faced as a first-time fund and the playbook of how referrals can be the best leads for increasing the chances of success ➡ Nuances of determining a fund size to maintain competitive advantages in deal strategies ➡ Ben’s learnings from working with Ryan Peterson at Flexport as well as Max’s experience and unique advantages working with his brothers Jack and Sam Here's a short clip below about the attributes of successful founders that they look for, including those willing to take unconventional risks 👇

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🎙️ On the latest episode of Embracing Erosion, Devon was joined by Alex Pattis, General Partner at Riverside Ventures and founding team member of Hampton. Alex is also the co-founder of Last Money In Media, a leading VC newsletter that explores Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) within the Venture Capital ecosystem. As a prominent advocate for the SPV investment format over the traditional VC fund model, Alex brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table. This episode dives deep into: 🌟 How to scale a company from concept to a 9-figure exit 🔄 Breaking away from the traditional consulting model and applying product approaches ⏩ The importance of iterating quickly and often with messaging 💸📈 Key signals to watch when investing in startups Don't miss this insightful conversation. Listen now 👉 https://lnkd.in/gEKv5ghE #VentureCapital #SPVs #StartupInvesting #ProductMarketing

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Today, GTMfund’s is excited to announce to launch of Operator, its first incubated company. Max Altschuler (founder of GTMfund) teamed up with co-founder Adam M. (design engineer and 0-1 builder) and co-founder Mark Kosoglow (Outreach employee #1 and former SVP of Global Sales) to create Operator.ai alongside an insanely talented team Pleasant Middelhof, Jeremy Jonas, Carl Gunderson. We've entered a period called “The Great Ignore”. Spam and irrelevant, poorly-automated outbound campaigns are running rampant.   Operator gives you an easy-to-use Growth Engineer that allows you to build and enrich lists with accurate data, and run experiments and queries using AI to generate highly targeted outreach.    Check out their website to get updates, early access, and see how they are taking the world back to 2 touches meant to attract buyers into conversations that convert, instead of 20 touches meant to make sure you hit your activity number: https://www.operator.ai/

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PE - Portfolio / Cost of Revenue is up 68% Key to success in PE: - Optimizing Revenue Growth in a capital-efficient and profitable way - Unique strategies that are profitable and drive disproportionate ROI are critical today in PE - Successful growth is both: ARR and EBITDA Great panel with Seth Brody at Apax Partners, Craig Greenseid at The Carlyle Group Rajveer (Raj) Kushwaha at Warburg Pincus Prerak Vohra at Goldman Sachs and Michael Hoffman at SBI at the Private Equity International NYC conference. --------- #pe #privateequity

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It’s not always about landing the largest customers at the start – it’s about finding the *right* customers for your startup’s growth stage. Amanda Li, Co-Founder & COO of Banyan Infrastructure, talks about the importance of "customer fit” in order to shorten sales cycles in your early-stage years. This sometimes means saying “no” to big name corporates – and that might just be the best thing you can do for the success of your business. Follow SE Ventures for more insights from SE Ventures Innovation Day! #climatetech #industrialtech #startups #scaleup #venturecapital Will Greene

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LawFi, Inc. is pleased to be highlighted as a start-up customer in Plaid's announcement of their new Plaid Check Consumer Report services. Today, Plaid announced its new Plaid Check FCRA-compliant Consumer Report. We've been working with Plaid to integrate their solution into our legal fee lending platform. LawFi is building the first-of-its-kind Legal Fee Loan decision engine capable of underwriting and making customized legal fee loans at the point of need to close the pervasive Access-to-Justice and Credit Gaps. LawFi will help more than 160 million Americans living paycheck to paycheck, and 30 million small business owners to access the legal services they need by offering meaningful financing options that do not exist today. To bring more financial inclusion to the legal system, we want to develop a credit decision engine that casts a wider and deeper net. We want to make credit decisions based on the true financial health of potential customers, not just a credit score! We want to analyze real-time alternative data sources, not only historic reported credit data. When conducting a personalized assessment, we want to look at employment, income, and alternative non-reported credit and cash flow data, such as how someone pays their rent, cell phone bill, and utilities. The best way to accomplish these goals is to perform a cash flow analysis of the borrower's bank data to help us make decisions. Plaid Check and Prism Data were building the perfect solution to enable the type of reliable and compliant cash flow underwriting we wanted to build into our decision trees and workflows. The solution provides powerful permission-based access to a consumer's bank transaction data without the need for the customer to gather or upload any documents. Data can be accessed, analyzed, and scored in seconds, not days. The service returns more than raw data. It categorizes the transactions and returns valuable insights into employment, sources of income, non-reported payments, and a CashScore to consider in our internal decision models. It will help us make better credit decisions and give potential borrowers the credit they deserve. We are excited to be partnered with Plaid CRA and Prism as we prepare to launch LawFi in the coming months. Please see the Plaid announcement at the links below. https://lnkd.in/eqx_sDFn https://lnkd.in/eQCTm-8r

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