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Today we’re thrilled to announce Craft’s investment in Xona Space Systems’ Series B, which brings their total funding to $150M.
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Cartwheel raises $10M to make pro 3D character animation fast, accessible, and generative for all creators.
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Supabase grows with product-led and open-source strategy, now powering 3.5M+ databases and backed by $200M Series D.
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Norm Ai raises $48M to revolutionize compliance with AI, backed by top firms and industry leaders.
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Craft Ventures leads Vooma’s $13M Series A, fueling AI-powered automation to revolutionize freight logistics workflows.
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Craft Ventures leads $100M Series A in Upwind Security, revolutionizing cloud security with an eBPF-driven platform.
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Endeavor.ai secures funding from Craft Ventures to transform manufacturing with AI, enhancing efficiency and growth.
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Craft Ventures co-led Supabase's $80M Series C. The Postgres-based platform helps developers build and scale apps quickly.
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GreenLite raised $28.5M to streamline construction permitting, speeding up projects for brands like Chipotle and others.
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We invested in Ragie, a RAG-as-a-Service provider making it easier for developers to incorporate AI into their apps.
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LLMs offer a chance to transform labor-intensive services. AI-forward operators can lead in legacy industries.
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We’re excited to announce that Craft led the $35M Series B round in Onehouse, the universal data lakehouse platform.
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With our fourth early-stage fund & second growth fund, we continue to focus on B2B software in the era of generative AI.
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A framework for how companies are starting to build their AI stacks to supercharge their employees and their products.
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Craft leads the $12 million Series A in Knock, the notification infrastructure platform for engineering and product team
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Craft invests $20M in Replit and lends PLG expertise to help unlock growth and empower the next billion software creators.
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Craft is thrilled to co-lead Pickle’s $8M seed round—a peer-to-peer rental marketplace for affordable, high-quality clothing and accessories.
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We’re pleased to announce EchoMark’s $10M seed round, led by Craft Ventures. EchoMark is an information protection company.
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We’re excited to announce that Craft Ventures led the $14M Series A for Secoda, the first AI-powered data discovery and search platform.
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Craft is thrilled to participate in Upwind Security’s $50M funding round. Upwind has now raised $80M in less than a year.
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Why we built the first dashboarding product specifically for SaaS companies to get perfect, real-time charts to track every SaaS metrics.
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Craft Ventures led the $40M Series C in cybersecurity company Horizon3.ai, maker of NodeZero.
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Craft co-led a $13M investment in GenHealth.ai to drive better health outcomes for everyone.
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A $3.5M investment in the collaborative revenue enablement platform changing the game for customer-facing teams.
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David Sacks on how startups in today's economy should think about operating efficiently & raising their next round.
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Sean Whitney & Kyle Parrish, Figma’s first sales leader, on building and scaling a sales team.
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Bottom-up SaaS (Software as a Service) is a go-to-market strategy in which a SaaS company targets individual users
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A fundamental principle in SaaS sales is that the size of a deal must be large enough to justify the effort required to close it.
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Eight initiatives for SaaS companiesto increase efficiency in an economic downturn.
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A conversation with Growth Marketer Toni Gemayel on how he scaled growth marketing at Figma.
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Craft has lead meez's $11.5 million Series A, just months after investing in their seed round.
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Craft led a $12 million Series A2 round in Candex, the “tail spend” payments platform for enterprise companies.
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Conversation Series with Figma’s early leaders, hosted by Sean Whitney.
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Discussion with David Sacks & Jeff Fluhr on public markets, venture capital and historic outcomes of economic downturns.
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Craft Ventures is leading a $110 million Series B for Vanta, the leading automated security and compliance platform.
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Insights into how difficult SaaS selling conditions will prompt adaptation & evolution.
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Craft Ventures is co-leading the $150 million Series B for Vendr, the world’s first SaaS buying platform.
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How to apply the Burn Multiple formula to marketplaces to measure capital efficiency.
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We’re pleased to announce that Craft Ventures is leading the $25 million Series A round for Grata.
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Craft hosted a GTM Roundtable discussion last week with sales leaders & founders from eight SaaS companies.
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If you’ve read Moneyball, you’re already familiar with Billy Beane’s story. He is the long time manager.
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First off, the stats were fire. Top-line, cmgr, ndr, burn multiple. All A+. Then we get to know Melanie and Zari.
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A virtual trucking carrier that empowers independent truck drivers raises its $115 million growth round.
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Craft Ventures is excited to announce that we are leading the $24M Series A in Fellow, a meeting productivity tool.
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One of the best features of SaaS businesses is how easy they are to measure. Only a handful of metrics really matter.
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It is rare to find investors and operators who have unique insight into SaaS and/or marketplace businesses.
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Today we’re pleased to announce that Craft Ventures is leading the $20 million Series A round of Roboflow.
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We’re pleased to share that Craft Ventures is leading the $12 million Series A for Moesif.
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Today Craft Ventures is thrilled to announce we are leading the $70M Series B in SentiLink through our new Growth Fund.
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Announcing the close of Craft Ventures III ($612M) and Growth I ($510M), totaling $1.12B.
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Today, Craft Ventures is excited to announce that we are leading the $25 million Series A in Orum.
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You’re the founder of a nicely growing SaaS startup which has just raised a Series A, Series B, or Series C funding...
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We are delighted to lead the $60 million Series C round for Instawork, the leading marketplace that connects...
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We are delighted to lead the $70 million Series B for Snackpass, the order-ahead app that’s going viral on college...
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Agents have long spent the lion’s share of their time out in the world — showing homes, meeting with clients, and...
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Today, Craft Ventures is excited to announce that we are leading the $15 million Series A in SnackMagic.
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We started StubHub less than five years after eBay invented the low-touch marketplace but we diverged from eBay in...
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Ops teams are the boiler room mechanics of tech. They’re the backstop for all your GTM systems that make you look good.
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TryNow brings the “fitting room” to the living room — transforming the checkout experience for Shopify brands.
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Soon after a startup raises its Series A round, it begins to have board meetings for the first time, and I’m often...
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I am excited to announce that Craft led the $35 million Series A round for Route earlier this year.
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Once again, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, and Google found themselves in the hot seat on Capitol Hill last week...
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The internet freedom we have long enjoyed owes a tremendous debt to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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Over the last several months, we've seen dramatic swings in the demand for healthcare across the country.
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Today Craft Ventures is excited to announce that we are leading the $15 million Series A in Klue.
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Craft recently led the $7.5mm Series A for Northspyre, a cloud-based intelligence platform for real estate owners.
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The SaaS focused board deck template for you to use to help prepare for upcoming meetings.
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You think you need a COO. What you really need is an operating philosophy.
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Today Craft Ventures is excited to announce that we are leading the $35 million Series A in ClickUp.
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Harry Stebbings was kind enough to have me on his podcast The Twenty Minute VC.
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ESPN's new series The Last Dance is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at Michael Jordan's sixth and final...
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A once-in-a-generation stock market crash ushers in a period of economic turbulence and angst for founders.
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As the economic crisis deepens, capital efficiency becomes a more pressing issue for startups.
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On Friday President Trump declared a national emergency. The market shot up 10% in a relief rally.
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Today Craft Ventures is excited to announce that we are leading the $23 million Series B in Sourcegraph.
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A look into the recurring patterns behind the dramatic downfalls of once-promising tech startups.
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Craft’s support of Lightning Labs is an expression of three things: our belief in bitcoin, the Lightning Network, and the Lightning Labs team.
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One of the first decisions that a B2B startup has to make is who its initial customer is going to be.
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Between the time a seed-stage SaaS startup ships its MVP and closes its first few paying customers is the Wilderness...
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No objective is more important for SaaS founders than early category leadership.
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“Free” strategies have become an essential part of the winning formula for SaaS startups. But which model is better ?
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Twenty years ago this month, PayPal found product-market fit. I remember the moment vividly.
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The topic du jour in tech right now is the sudden reappraisal of some high-flying startups based on unit economics...
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We’re excited to announce the closing of Craft Ventures’ $500 million second fund.
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Almost two years ago, Bird launched the first e-scooter service in Santa Monica, California, and Craft Ventures led...
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Many people have written about the slew of unicorns created over the past decade by savvy entrepreneurs who picked...
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Viral loops have long been one of the most explosive ways for online products to grow. Now a new generation of...