TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

That’s an extreme example, but it shows why optimizing your growth funnel is crucial in the early days of your company. While leading fleet growth at Postmates, I quickly learned to become numb to remarkable upper-funnel metrics. But if 999,999 of them don’t make it through the funnel, or churn, now that’s not so amazing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Once you get investors, the story doesn’t matter; it’s all about the metrics, the numbers and the performance,” Bamberger said. Track and capture: Getting started with attention metrics. ” Track and capture: Getting started with attention metrics. Image Credits: Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

UBP is a company-wide effort and requires ditching the old SaaS metrics playbook. Consider Snowflake, a data warehousing company that went public in 2020 and now has a $100 billion market cap. The company’s net retention actually rose from 158% in Q2 of fiscal 2021.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

These metrics might include operational cost savings, improved system reliability, or enhanced scalability. Too often, companies adopt innovative technologies based on market hype without fully understanding how they contribute to their business. This can lead to investments that do not deliver tangible outcomes.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Whether you’re a construction company, software startup or Fortune 500 company, retention is a key metric across customers, employees and partners. Within a company the growth and product teams should fit like a glove. Measuring conversion volume accurately is paramount for all companies. Let’s dive in.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Generative AI will soon be everywhere — including in Salesforce’s Net Zero Cloud environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting tool. Net Zero Cloud uses data held within the Salesforce platform to help enterprises report on their carbon footprint and manage other social and governance metrics.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Beyond Wong’s pitch technique, this post also examines some of the key “customer love” metrics that helped Zipline win the day, such as CAC, churn rates and net promoter score. “In The most important API metric is time to first call. ” The most important API metric is time to first call.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

. “Coho AI has developed a unique data consolidation platform that models the business value of a software-as-a-service company and maps it to the behavior of the customers in real time using machine learning and advanced analytics,” Falcon told TechCrunch in an email interview. He declined to provide revenue figures, however.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Airbnb filed to go public today , bringing the well-known unicorn one step closer to being a public company. The financial results show a company on the rebound, but smaller than it was. What follows is a dive into the company’s high-level numbers. Or, the company would have grown sans COVID-19.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

The company, launched by a former co-founder of the IAC-owned Tinder , plans to list its share on the Nasdaq stock exchange, using the ticker symbol “BMBL.” But before we do, the company’s board makeup, namely that it is over 70% women is already drawing plaudits. Net income of $68.6 Net income of -$116.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

Software companies tend to have relatively high customer retention and expansion compared to other business models. For software, two metrics are commonly used to measure retention and expansion: Gross Dollar Retention (GDR) Net Dollar Retention (NDR), sometimes referred to as Net Revenue Retention, or Dollar Based Net Revenue Retention.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

But the decline in demand harmed both companies. This morning, let’s unpack their latest numbers to see if what the two companies are dangling in front of investors is worth desiring. Along the way we’ll talk BS metrics and how firing a lot of people can cut your cost base. We can see that in their full-year numbers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Startups and VC It’s a tough time to be a richly priced company that didn’t go public when the getting was good. Not only are there fewer later-stage players with the resources and appetite to support such companies (e.g., Not only are there fewer later-stage players with the resources and appetite to support such companies (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

The company is pursuing a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE. ” The company’s financial results paint the picture of a rapidly growing company that has a history of profitability. For now let’s focus on Squarespace’s own metrics. million and net income of $58.2

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

However, despite the twofold growth in dollars invested, the number of companies receiving funding has grown by less than 30% compared with Q3 2020. Furthermore, recent benchmarks data shows that the businesses garnering these high valuations in 2021 exhibit metrics that significantly outperform their peers from 2018-2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2023

Here’s about 1,000 words on something that I’ve been chewing on for a few weeks! — Alex Under pressure Modern software companies grow in two key ways. It’s simple enough to understand: As SaaS companies sell their code on a subscription basis, they collect revenues over time. Sounds tough, right?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Why are software companies valuable? Put another way, why have we spent so many years valuing software companies using revenue multiples, instead of the profit multiples that are more common in other industries? First, software companies have very strong gross margins; software is cheap to sell once you’ve written the code.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This morning Creatio , a Boston-based software company, announced that it has raised $68 million. Per Kostereva, her company’s low-code platform helps other companies automate business processes. To see another low-code company raise a big check was therefore not too surprising. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The company’s public debut has been hotly anticipated thanks to recent activity amongst bitcoin and other blockchain-based assets, the company’s controversial political positions , and its spiking valuation on private exchanges. Coinbase’s financials show a company that grew rapidly from 2019 to 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

It brings the company’s total raised to $90 million, which CEO Ryan Glasgow says is being put toward expanding Sprig’s service line, support sales and marketing efforts, and dedicating resources to integrations and partnerships. Glasgow founded Sprig in 2019. Image Credits: Sprig.

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Research from Accenture shows that 48% of companies say technology-enabled sustainability initiatives lead to more competitive products and enhanced customer service, and contribute to attracting top talent—all of which help drive increased revenues.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

For SaaS companies, net dollar retention is on investor radar more than ever. But it shouldn’t eclipse gross dollar retention: If you are not tracking both metrics, you could be fighting to add new customers into a leaky bucket. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

According to research by Gainsight, a customer success software platform, “companies that invest 10% or more of their revenue into the CS function have the highest net recurring revenue (NRR).”. Simply put, these jobs serve a critical role in tech companies today. Companies mostly deploy two or more customer success archetypes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The company operates what it calls an “ocean intelligence platform,” essentially a real-time map of various important oceanic metrics like currents, temperature, weather and so on. That’s just what Sofar Ocean has, and it just raised $39 million to scale up its vision of real-time understanding of the seven seas.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

That’s a stricter profit metric than the one that Lyft used recently to claim its ascendance into the realm of profitable companies ; Lyft posted positive adjusted EBITDA in its most recent quarter, but burned cash to fund its operations and posted a wide net loss in the period. We were impressed.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Conti (who founded the company with Lionel Vital and Joseph Gilley) is a former Uber software engineer and researcher himself. Conti said the platform has been used to send millions of dollars’ worth of promotions since July, with one clothing company seeing a 20% increase in net revenue. It also raised a $1.32

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

And hot damn, did the company have a good fourth quarter. TechCrunch has a first look at the company’s headline numbers. But in case you’ve been busy, the key things to understand are that Coinbase was an impressive company in 2019 with more than a half-billion in revenue and a modest net loss. Sound good?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Late Friday, Oscar Health filed to go public , adding another company to today’s burgeoning IPO market. Both Oscar and the high-profile SPAC for Clover Medical will prove to be a test for the venture capital industry’s faith in their ability to disrupt traditional healthcare companies. billion (+61% from $1.04

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Yes, it is complex and confusing, but as a metric, it is helpful. In the early stages of building a company, churn gives you quick feedback, which other metrics seldom do. Negative net MRR churn is akin to SaaS nirvana, because with each passing month, your existing subscribers become more and more valuable.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The landscape for software companies. In tandem with inflation, the demand curve is being whipsawed — we first saw a period of strong product growth driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, and now we’re seeing budgets and spending being tightened as startups and mature companies alike prepare to weather the storm.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Finally, keeping up the theme of general annoyance, Senator Hawley is back in the news this week with an attention-focused announcement of an idea to block big tech companies from buying smaller companies. And if those metrics dip, there could be fewer upstarts in the market actually working to take on the giants. Market Notes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Before we get into our time off, we need to pause, digest the company’s S-1 filing, and come to some early conclusions. Considering GitLab’s more recent results, a narrowing operating loss in the last two quarters is good news for the company. The company’s IPO has therefore been long expected. Sound good?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Today the company announced a $50 million investment, a large sum in today’s tightening VC landscape. The new money brings the total raised to nearly $150 million, per the company. I think our stand-up metric here is that our net revenue retention is over 160%.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Given its product focus, it’s not hard to see why the startup had a good COVID cycle; the world’s companies moved to remote work en masse, leaving offices empty and physical whiteboards un-scribbled. Per Suarez-Battan, Mural has continued the torrid pace of growth that made it a breakout company in 2020.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 11, 2024

In today’s competitive business environment, mastering revenue metrics is pivotal for sustainable growth. Two key metrics are GRR, or gross revenue retention, and NRR, or net revenue retention. Instead I will focus on when they should be used and under what conditions one may be more important than the other.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

It crashed some companies as assuredly as it gave others a boost. Roblox , the gaming company that targets kids, has been a beneficiary during the COVID-19 pandemic , as folks stayed home and, it appears, gave their kids money to buy in-game currency so that their parents could have some peace. Let’s talk about it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Pangea , a marketplace startup that wants to connect college freelancers and companies in need of digital help, is seeing its growth rate accelerate as it races toward the impending Y Combinator demo day. Provided that they are willing to chat growth metrics, we’re willing to listen. Via the company.

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