Companyon Ventures

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9 Tips For Closing SaaS Enterprise Deals (2022): Navigating Legal and Procurement

Guest Blogger

3 days ago
7 min

9 Tips For Closing SaaS Enterprise Deals (2022): Navigating Legal and Procurement

Jeremy Aber of Aber Law, discusses how sales reps can navigate legal and procurement and ultimately close SaaS and software deals faster.

Pricing Series, Part 2: Evaluating Your Pricing Model

Guest Blogger

Mar 31
6 min

Pricing Series, Part 2: Evaluating Your Pricing Model

Part 2 of 3 of Companyon Ventures' Pricing Series Written by Brandon Hickie In part one of Companyon's pricing series, we talked about...

Pricing Series, Part 1: Pricing to Attract the Ideal Customer

Firas Raouf

Feb 4
4 min

Pricing Series, Part 1: Pricing to Attract the Ideal Customer

When searching for product-market-fit, B2B SaaS startups rarely place much emphasis on their pricing models.

Why We Invested in Knowify After Passing on Their Seed Round

Tom Lazay

Nov 23, 2021
5 min

Why We Invested in Knowify After Passing on Their Seed Round

How Knowify's low-impact playbook for nurturing VC relationships for a post-seed or Series A round landed us a lead Series A investor.

Firas Raouf

Oct 12, 2021
5 min

Why We Invested In Bento

Dental insurance might be a lot cheaper than health insurance and give people a lot less grief, but underneath the surface is an...

From a Cold Email to Investment: Why We Invested in Fullcast

Tom Lazay

Oct 8, 2021
5 min

From a Cold Email to Investment: Why We Invested in Fullcast

How we met Fullcast from a cold inbound email and why we invested.

Guest Blogger

Jul 29, 2021
4 min

Renaissance Sales Rep Playbook

Perspective from Companyon Investor and Serial Startup CEO, Nate Bowler If you have read Companyon’s post about the Sales Learning Curve,...

Firas Raouf

Jul 29, 2021
4 min

Sales Learning Curve

Picture this: You’re a startup founder that has built a disruptive SaaS email marketing tool that completely changes the way businesses...

Why I Joined Companyon Ventures as Operating Partner

David McFarlane

Jul 20, 2021
3 min

Why I Joined Companyon Ventures as Operating Partner

By: David McFarlane This is the story of how I have found my ikigai, my raison d'être, as the Operating Partner at Companyon Ventures....

Firas Raouf

Mar 2, 2021
3 min

Why We Invested in Beamable

The story of how I lost the opportunity to win Unity's Series A venture capital round and why I wasn't going to let that happen again with B

From Cambridge Associates to Openview to Companyon Ventures

ronny560

Feb 22, 2021
5 min

From Cambridge Associates to Openview to Companyon Ventures

The journey of how I transitioned from evaluating VC managers at CA to helping close a $450M fund at OpenView to joining Companyon Ventures.

Companyon SaaS Benchmarks Tool: 2020 Edition

Parthib Srivathsan

Dec 18, 2020
4 min

Companyon SaaS Benchmarks Tool: 2020 Edition

By: Parthib Srivathsan, Co-Founder & Head of Platform Our most popular tool from last year is back with the new data from OpenView’s 2020...

Firas Raouf

Dec 7, 2020
4 min

Why We Invested in Apty

The companies we invest in are typically “boring” B2B software companies that fly under the radar during their early-stage startup...

Companyon’s 2020 SaaS Funnel Grader Tool

Parthib Srivathsan

Nov 14, 2020
3 min

Companyon’s 2020 SaaS Funnel Grader Tool

By: Parthib Srivathsan, Co-Founder & Head of Platform Wondering how your key SaaS funnel metrics like activation, freemium conversion,...

5 Steps to Build a Startup Culture That Fuels Growth

Amy Robinson

Oct 30, 2020
5 min

5 Steps to Build a Startup Culture That Fuels Growth

Your company culture is the heart and soul of your business and impacts everything from how well you function and perform as a team

Firas Raouf

Jul 29, 2020
6 min

Why We Invested In Ziflow

It is not often enough that an investment decision can be classified in the “no-brainer” bucket. For Companyon Ventures...

Raising a Pre-Expansion / Post-Seed Round in 2020

Tom Lazay

May 22, 2020
7 min

Raising a Pre-Expansion / Post-Seed Round in 2020

As the alphabet soup of early-stage venture capital rounds continues to evolve, here’s our view on the post-seed stage in 2020.

A Look Into Seed-Stage Venture Sidecar SPVs

Tom Lazay

May 6, 2020
9 min

A Look Into Seed-Stage Venture Sidecar SPVs

VCs often create sidecar SPVs for their follow-on investments, but at Companyon Ventures, we create SPVs alongside our initial investments..

Firas Raouf

Apr 28, 2020
4 min

Lessons Learned From the ‘08 Downturn

At one point during the worst days of COVID-19, I couldn’t help but think to myself “here we go again!” From an economic standpoint that is

Firas Raouf

Apr 3, 2020
3 min

Why Companyon Invested in RoadSync

Companyon Ventures is excited about the recent investment in RoadSync’s $5.7M Series A expansion round announced on April 1st, 2020.