"I started at Scaleworks with Assembla and had such a great experience that when we exited, I jumped at the chance to join another one of the companies in a more senior role."
Laith Dahiyat
General Manager of Keen.io
General Manager of Keen.io
We are always looking for passionate builders who we can both teach and learn from. Join us in our mission to scale great SaaS businesses.
Scaling a company from the low millions in annual revenues to 20m+ is hard. Doing it by yourself is even more difficult. It’s why we built a B2B SaaS community under one roof where cross company collaboration isn't just encouraged, it's part of who we are. The ability to walk down the hall and share notes with other people facing the same challenges as you helps both our companies and employees grow. It's our unfair advantage.
Centage is the leading provider of modern FP&A software solutions, making sophisticated budgeting, planning, and forecasting easy and accessible for SMBs.
Element Finance provides non dilutive, growth capital to SaaS and Recurring Revenues.
Full Circle Insights delivers marketing and sales performance measurement solutions for Salesforce to optimize a company's marketing mix and drive more revenue.
Hussle is the industry leading prospecting app for direct selling organizations, helping them increase sales and enrollments.
Import.io simplifies and streamlines the data collection process with technology and expertise to deliver web data at scale.
See what openings we have at the fund level, where you will be able to help grow our companies and Scaleworks as a whole.
TINT is the trusted enterprise User-Generated Content platform to tell your story through the voice of fans, customers, and employees.
eSkill is the market leader in pre-employment testing and offers standard and customized hiring assessments.
Each of our companies has their own unique culture, which is largely driven by the individuals who make up those teams. That said, we as a fund like to build and operate with a common set of principles which we believe apply to all B2B SaaS companies, and have distilled them into 6 Strategic Pillars which we prioritize for any of our businesses.
Without debate, companies become echo chambers that ignore alternative perspectives. We encourage healthy debate and an openness to be convinced – everyone benefits from the discussion.
Teams that work beside each other have a natural speed advantage over those with the tax of a highly distributed or large organization. Real progress often happens informally and on the fly.
We ditch the “billion dollar TAM” and narrow our market to a specific, much more obtainable group of customers who we can be the best in the world at serving; and grow from there.
We are big proponents of Value Added Marketing, where our companies create and curate a database of potential customers and invest in bringing value to them on an ongoing basis.
As our businesses and products evolve, customer profile will inevitably change too. Good businesses are not afraid to charge for the value they deliver, and realize that their value is constantly changing.
Customers fuel companies, and all employees interact with them at some point or another in their role. Sales skills matter – even if you rarely talk to customers, you must be able to persuade when you do interact.
San Antonio is great for builders who want to get in at the ground floor – it's an environment where entrepreneurs can really make a substantial impact and play a part in shaping our evolving ecosystem.
Beautiful weather, great schools, quick and easy commutes, a low cost of living and a strong job market are just a few of the reasons we think you'll love calling San Antonio home.
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We like to back first-time CEOs and often find them in our companies' existing leadership teams. Our environment of collaboration and access helps aspiring CEOs prepare for that next stage.
We bring in top GTM leaders to share their approaches with our portfolio. Internal wins, losses, and experiments are also shared amongst the companies to facilitate a faster pace of learning.
Book clubs grouped by department function, company, and relevant themes are held regularly. They are one way we like to promote conversations around how we can continue to grow as a group.
Centage is the leading provider of modern FP&A software solutions, making sophisticated budgeting, planning, and forecasting easy and accessible for SMBs.
Element Finance provides non dilutive, growth capital to SaaS and Recurring Revenues.
Full Circle Insights delivers marketing and sales performance measurement solutions for Salesforce to optimize a company's marketing mix and drive more revenue.
Hussle is the industry leading prospecting app for direct selling organizations, helping them increase sales and enrollments.
Import.io simplifies and streamlines the data collection process with technology and expertise to deliver web data at scale.
TINT is the trusted enterprise User-Generated Content platform to tell your story through the voice of fans, customers, and employees.
eSkill is the market leader in pre-employment testing and offers standard and customized hiring assessments.
Powerful transactional email APIs that enable you to send, receive, and track emails, built with developers in mind.
Keen is a fully managed event streaming platform for developers built on Apache Kafka.
Qualaroo simplifies the process of collecting user feedback with surveys, in order to help companies understand the why behind their customers’ and prospects’ decisions.
FollowUp is a lightweight productivity suite that keeps your email conversations and tasks from slipping through the cracks.
Assembla offers enterprise source code and version control management software to the enterprise.
Searchspring is advanced site search software that is powered by a sophisticated learning system which gets smarter and more relevant as customers use your site.
Profitero is the eCommerce performance analytics platform of choice for leading brands to understand and grow online sales faster than their competitors.
Earth Class Mail is the leading virtual mailbox and virtual address provider in the U.S., allowing remote individuals and businesses to access their postal mail online.
Filestack is an API that enables software developers to better upload, story, transform, and manipulate images and other file types with blazing speed.
Chargify offers easy to use subscription billing and data management tools for B2B SaaS companies.
Element Finance provides non dilutive, growth capital to SaaS and Recurring Revenues.
TINT is the trusted enterprise User-Generated Content platform to tell your story through the voice of fans, customers, and employees.
Import.io simplifies and streamlines the data collection process with technology and expertise to deliver web data at scale.
Centage is the leading provider of modern FP&A software solutions, making sophisticated budgeting, planning, and forecasting easy and accessible for SMBs.
Full Circle Insights delivers marketing and sales performance measurement solutions for Salesforce to optimize a company's marketing mix and drive more revenue.
Hussle is the industry leading prospecting app for direct selling organizations, helping them increase sales and enrollments.
eSkill is the market leader in pre-employment testing and offers standard and customized hiring assessments.
Chargify offers easy to use subscription billing and data management tools for B2B SaaS companies.
Filestack is an API that enables software developers to better upload, story, transform, and manipulate images and other file types with blazing speed.
Earth Class Mail is the leading virtual mailbox and virtual address provider in the U.S., allowing remote individuals and businesses to access their postal mail online.
Profitero is the eCommerce performance analytics platform of choice for leading brands to understand and grow online sales faster than their competitors.
Searchspring is advanced site search software that is powered by a sophisticated learning system which gets smarter and more relevant as customers use your site.
Assembla offers enterprise source code and version control management software to the enterprise.
FollowUp is a lightweight productivity suite that keeps your email conversations and tasks from slipping through the cracks.
Qualaroo simplifies the process of collecting user feedback with surveys, in order to help companies understand the why behind their customers’ and prospects’ decisions.
Keen is a fully managed event streaming platform for developers built on Apache Kafka.
Powerful transactional email APIs that enable you to send, receive, and track emails, built with developers in mind.
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🔧 For a while, many venture investors avoided vertical software because they felt its comparatively small markets would not produce target VC outcomes. That has of course changed in recent years, and CRV does a nice job of outlining why. They use the example of auto repair software – with 167k auto repair shops in the US and the lower priced players charging $2.7k a year, you conservatively have a ~$440M TAM (not the $1B+ venture gets excited about). But over time these software are able to further specialize and innovate within their verticals, both creating more solutions (more things to charge for) and improving their current offerings (giving them the ability to charge more), thus growing their TAM. What CRV is most excited about in vertical software is embedded commerce. Using the same example, embedded commerce would be selling auto parts directly through auto repair software, putting your website, booking system, POS, etc. all in one place.
