While SaaS has become the default way to deliver software in 2021, it still takes a keen eye to find the companies that will grow into successful businesses, maybe even more so with so much competition. That\u2019s why we\u2019re bringing together three investors to discuss what they look for when they invest in SaaS startups.<\/p>\n
For starters, we\u2019ll have Sarah Guo<\/a>, who has been a partner at Greylock since 2013 where she concentrates on AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure and the future of work \u2014 all in a SaaS context of course. Among her investments are Obsidian, Clubhouse and Awake. Her exits include Demisto, which Palo Alto acquired for $560 million<\/a> in 2019 and Skyhigh Networks, which McAfee bought for $400 million<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n Prior to joining Greylock, she worked for Goldman Sachs investing in growth-stage companies and advising SaaS companies like Dropbox and Workday.<\/p>\n Next we\u2019ll have Kobie Fuller<\/a>, a partner at Upfront Ventures, who looks at SaaS as well as AR and VR. Fuller has been at Upfront since 2016 when he joined after a three-year stint at Accel. He oversaw a pair of billion dollar exits while at Accel including ExactTarget to Salesforce<\/a> for $2.5 billion and Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion<\/a>. Upfront investments include Bevy, community building software, which recently got a $40 million investment<\/a> with 20% of that coming from 25 Black investors.<\/p>\n Finally, we\u2019ll have Casey Aylward<\/a>, a principal at Costanoa Ventures where she concentrates on early-stage enterprise startups. Among her investments have been Aserto<\/a>, Bigeye and Cyral. She tends to concentrate on developer tools. \u201cMy entire career so far has been focused on developers: whether it was building tools for developers, building software myself or now investing in enabling technologies for the next generation of technical users,\u201d she wrote on her bio page.<\/p>\n This prestigious group will share their thoughts at TC Sessions: SaaS<\/a>, a one-day virtual event that will examine the state of SaaS to help startup founders, developers and investors understand the state of play and what\u2019s next. We hope you\u2019ll join us.<\/p>\n The single-day event will take place 100% virtually on October 27 and will feature actionable advice, QA with some of SaaS\u2019s biggest names and plenty of networking opportunities. Importantly, $75 Early Bird passes<\/a> are now on sale. Book your passes today to save $100 before prices go up.<\/p><\/p>\n Article source: http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/techcrunchIt\/~3\/B7nLtBVckHA\/<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While SaaS has become the default way to deliver software in 2021, it still takes a keen eye to find the companies that will grow into successful businesses, maybe even <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-25165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enterprise-software","tag-enterprise"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t