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August 2023
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Render ushers in a modern age of application development in the cloud
Bessemer Venture Partners leads Render’s $50 million Series B to empower developers to build anything, anywhere, with no DevOps tedium.
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Janelle Teng
Growth-stage startup valuations: Guiding principles for comps selection
Even 'sophisticated' investors have made the costly mistake of picking wrong relative valuation comps. To avoid missteps, here is a proposed first…
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Janelle Teng
AI’s Linux Moment: Open LLM 'Davids' vs. Closed-Source 'Goliaths'
While foundational closed-model companies have captured the bulk of VC investment into the GenAI category, more open source voices are entering the…
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Janelle Teng
May 2023
April 2023
The B2C2B osmosis fueling AI's Cambrian moment
Distinct from prior AI waves where enterprises had front-row access, consumers are at the frontlines playing an outsized role in defining today's AI…
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Contextualizing the growth vs. profitability trade-off for cloud companies
Balancing growth with profitability is top of mind for many growth-stage SaaS companies. Is there an "ideal" Rule of 40 profile? What is a heuristic for…
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State of the Cloud 2023
The cloud economy has entered the multiverse—we share insights for SaaS founders as they navigate today’s difficult financing climate and welcome the…
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Janelle Teng
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