DRAFT / UNLISTED — How Leveraging Customer VCs & PEs Can Maximize Growth 📈 (+ A 🆕 Index of Over 1k Companies, Searchable by Investor)
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WHY? (Motivation & Rationale Behind Exploring the VC 🌍)
So, you’re a sales leader & you need more pipeline; you just landed a huge deal [SaaS COMPANY] & that company was funded by [VC/PE FIRM].
Before starting to cold call, you should look further into the untapped goldmine of portfolio companies from the same VC firm as your customer.
You can seamlessly build relationships, gain industry insights, and discover new business opportunities, just by connecting with other companies within the same VC firm’s portfolio. And since you just closed that deal, you can leverage your existing relationships to open doors into partnerships, collaborations, or sales opps.
HOW? (The Index of Multiple Investors 💰 + Investments 💻
Want to make it even easier? Check out this list of 1,000+ software companies, complete with columns and filters for fellow VC/PE portfolio companies, state HQ, employee headcount, and more
SALES STREAMLINER — SOFTWARE COMPANIES, BY INVESTORS (PE/VC)
For example, let’s say you just landed a deal with ConnectureDRX Limited. You can use this list to see that their investor is Francisco Partners — now want more from Fra?ncisco Partners? Check out iboss and Kyruus as potential targets.
WHO? (The VCs, PEs, & Companies They Invest In 📊)
Start tapping into the power of VC portfolio companies today, and to familiarize yourself with some of the players, here are the 13 Venture Capital/Private Equity firms included in the list:
A. Insight Partners
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B. Thoma Bravo
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C. TA Associates
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D. Sapphire Ventures
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G. Francisco Partners
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H. Silver Lake
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I. Vista Equity Partners
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J. Bain Capital
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K. Redpoint Ventures
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Ultimately, the most important factor when it comes to finding true opportunities is “can you provide value?”
Investment firms, like these, determine a value before investing, & potential clients will be doing the same.
Perhaps before reaching out to anyone in the VC/PE world, make sure you have a succinct, clear list of your product’s value drivers, leading to positive business outcomes, with quantified metrics to show just how much time, money or convenience the client gets in return.
Once that’s a certainty, make a copy of this spreadsheet & filter/change/update these companies & start maximizing your friendly family of VC portfolios (once again, full database below)!
SALES STREAMLINER — SOFTWARE COMPANIES, BY INVESTORS (PE/VC)
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#sales #businessdevlopment #technology #venturecapital #vcfunding #privateequity #privateequityfirms #venturefunding #investorsgroup #seedfunding #seriesa #seriesb #seriesc #networking #relationships #database
Mentioned:
Crunchbase, IVP, Redpoint Ventures, Bain Capital, Vista Equity Partners, Silver Lake, Francisco Partners, Meritech, Sapphire Ventures, TA Associates, Thoma Bravo, Insight Partners, HashiCorp, 2U, Tidemark, Attivo Networks®, a SentinelOne Company, SquareTrade, Roofstock, Avalara, PowerSchool, Numerator, Tealium, Iterable, IonQ, SmartBear, Zocdoc, Acousticm Motive, Robinhood, Brex, Bromium, Snowflake, Lucid Software, Nutanix, Moveworks, Box, Bomgar Corporation, Fairstone, Fractal Analytics, OneTrust, Pluralsight, Tenable, Grayshift, Aisera, Attachmate, Google Workspace,
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