Building companies and scaling them require different skill sets. We invest in and operate high potential B2B SaaS companies, taking a common sense approach to scaling.
Venture Equity is a hands on operational model where we take substantial positions in our investments, focus on markets we can lead in, and bring together teams of experienced B2B SaaS operators to help us get there. It puts businesses in a strong position to succeed, using low to no debt and reinvesting every dollar of profit back into growth.
What you do with your proceeds is up to you. Team up with us to achieve your company's next phase of growth, or start the next venture that you have been dreaming of.
It’s important to us that both your business and team are treated right. We invest equally in your product and your team to build upon the success you have already achieved.
Portfolio collaboration makes Scaleworks greater than the sum of its parts. Fund wide competitions, dinners, workshops, and the resulting learnings are our unfair advantage.
Our companies operate independently but share one common goal: scaling in B2B SaaS. We drive cross company collaboration so we can learn and scale together.
By centralizing common operations we help each company focus on what makes the business unique and valuable.
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.
The trusted AI-powered loyalty and rewards platform to increase repeat purchase, drive retention, and turn your best customers into brand advocates.
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.
The trusted AI-powered loyalty and rewards platform to increase repeat purchase, drive retention, and turn your best customers into brand advocates.
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.
We are a team of hands on operators who are passionate about scaling B2B SaaS companies – and we have a great time doing it.
Like most SaaS investors, we value companies on a number of metrics, the important being scale, growth, and retention. Others considerations include customer base profile, gross margin, profitability, funnel metrics, and position in the market.
No, you don’t. We see Scaleworks as the next phase of growth in a company’s evolution, and believe that scaling a company from 0–5m in ARR requires a different skillset than taking one from 5–20m, so a fresh perspective with more experience in the latter can be beneficial. That being said, we are thrilled if founders would like to stay on in a functional role (for example, CTO, CMO, etc.), but historically those we have worked with typically have a new role or project in mind.
Not at all. We have acquired companies in the U.S. and internationally, and will continue to do business wherever we can find great companies.
We can move fast given that we look at B2B SaaS businesses with similar dynamics every day, and we have a straight-forward and standard set of legals and diligence requests. Generally any slow-down is on the company side as they prepare diligence information they may not have on hand. From first call to term sheet can be as quick as 2 weeks, and from term sheet to close, between 30 and 60 days on average.
Finding great people is one of the biggest challenges growing companies face, so it's actually important to us that your's are a part of our future. We don't force anyone to relocate to San Antonio (though we would love to have them!) and operate multiple businesses with offices in other locations.
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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.
