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Private Markets, Angel and Secondary Investing

Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction. Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

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<ul><li>Business intelligence (BI) tools like Looker (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Tableau (NYSE: CRM) are where financial analysts create dashboards, formalize their reasoning, and establish a source of truth—but for deeper analysis, analysts revert to Excel.</li><li>Both finance analysts and financial analysis are becoming horizontal across the org, integrating data—not just from QuickBooks and Stripe—but through Salesforce, HubSpot, Amplitude, your production database, and more.</li><li>Modern FP&A tools Equals (Andreessen Horowitz, $22.6M raised), Sigma Computing (Sutter Hill, $652M raised), Runway (Initialized Capital, $33.5M raised) and Causal (Coatue, $26M raised) vertically integrate integrations & the data layer (where you connect live data), spreadsheets (where you analyze the data) and dashboards (where you display the data) into a collaborative finance platform.</li></ul>

Business intelligence (BI) tools like Looker (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Tableau (NYSE: CRM) are where financial analysts create dashboards, formalize their reasoning, and establish a source of truth—but for deeper analysis, analysts revert to Excel.Both finance analysts and financial analysis are becoming horizontal across the org, integrating data—not just from QuickBooks and Stripe—but through Salesforce, HubSpot, Amplitude, your production database, and more.Modern FP&A tools Equals (Andreessen Horowitz, $22.6M raised), Sigma Computing (Sutter Hill, $652M raised), Runway (Initialized Capital, $33.5M raised) and Causal (Coatue, $26M raised) vertically integrate integrations & the data layer (where you connect live data), spreadsheets (where you analyze the data) and dashboards (where you display the data) into a collaborative finance platform.

Bobby Pinero, CEO Of Equals, On Bringing Joy To Finance Teams

<ul><li>In terms of milestones, we just crossed 350 customers, and that's something we're happy about.</li><li>We saw an opportunity where things were challenging in the mid-market, it didn't look like it was going to get any easier with all the competition, but we were seeing surprisingly strong pull downmarket from these SMBs who wanted to use the product.</li><li>Basically every company needs to report on their numbers—the crucial thing is that at any point in the year, any company will need to be reporting on their numbers—whether it's the ARR reporting, whether it's their burn and runway or that kind of stuff.</li></ul>

In terms of milestones, we just crossed 350 customers, and that's something we're happy about.We saw an opportunity where things were challenging in the mid-market, it didn't look like it was going to get any easier with all the competition, but we were seeing surprisingly strong pull downmarket from these SMBs who wanted to use the product.Basically every company needs to report on their numbers—the crucial thing is that at any point in the year, any company will need to be reporting on their numbers—whether it's the ARR reporting, whether it's their burn and runway or that kind of stuff.

Taimur Abdaal, CEO And co-founder Of Causal, On The Future Of The "Better Spreadsheet"

<ul><li>In January, HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) announced that it was acquiring data enrichment platform Clearbit and its data on 20 million companies and 500 million people.</li><li>Our plan was always to be on the trajectory that we wanted. And so our trajectory to $100 million in a six to seven-year time horizon was the goal.</li><li>It is a really privileged position to be in where you don&#39;t need additional capital and can grow at rates that could set you up for an IPO.</li></ul>

In January, HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) announced that it was acquiring data enrichment platform Clearbit and its data on 20 million companies and 500 million people.Our plan was always to be on the trajectory that we wanted. And so our trajectory to $100 million in a six to seven-year time horizon was the goal.It is a really privileged position to be in where you don&#39;t need additional capital and can grow at rates that could set you up for an IPO.

<ul><li>David Peterson joined Airtable as employee #16 in 2017, building their first growth team and leading partnerships as they scaled from $5M ARR to $156M ARR.</li><li>To learn more about the early employee experience at rapidly-growing startups, we teamed up with Sandhill Markets for a panel conversation featuring former Airtable head of growth David Peterson, senior engineering manager at Coinbase Mitali Gala, and former head of content at Intercom and Ramp John Collins.</li><li>And then last, but definitely not least, David Peterson, who was an early employee at Airtable and is now on the VC side.</li></ul>

David Peterson joined Airtable as employee #16 in 2017, building their first growth team and leading partnerships as they scaled from $5M ARR to $156M ARR.To learn more about the early employee experience at rapidly-growing startups, we teamed up with Sandhill Markets for a panel conversation featuring former Airtable head of growth David Peterson, senior engineering manager at Coinbase Mitali Gala, and former head of content at Intercom and Ramp John Collins.And then last, but definitely not least, David Peterson, who was an early employee at Airtable and is now on the VC side.

<ul><li>Today, Sacra estimates that Airtable is at $375M ARR, up 50% YoY, with a valuation range of $2.3B to $5.3B given the multiples of comps like Asana (NYSE: ASAN), Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR) and Monday.com (NASDAQ: MNDY).</li><li>In September 2023, Twitter erupted in hand-wringing over Airtable’s valuation based on incorrect reports that they were at $148M ARR growing 14% year-over-year—Sacra estimates that Airtable hit $375M annual recurring revenue (ARR) at the end of 2023, up 50% YoY with roughly 166,000 paying companies as customers.</li><li>From December 2022 to September 2023, Airtable laid off 40% of their team (487 people) to reduce burn and narrow their focus on selling efficiently into the enterprise segment where they’ve had 100% year-over-year revenue growth and 170% net dollar retention.</li></ul>

Today, Sacra estimates that Airtable is at $375M ARR, up 50% YoY, with a valuation range of $2.3B to $5.3B given the multiples of comps like Asana (NYSE: ASAN), Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR) and Monday.com (NASDAQ: MNDY).In September 2023, Twitter erupted in hand-wringing over Airtable’s valuation based on incorrect reports that they were at $148M ARR growing 14% year-over-year—Sacra estimates that Airtable hit $375M annual recurring revenue (ARR) at the end of 2023, up 50% YoY with roughly 166,000 paying companies as customers.From December 2022 to September 2023, Airtable laid off 40% of their team (487 people) to reduce burn and narrow their focus on selling efficiently into the enterprise segment where they’ve had 100% year-over-year revenue growth and 170% net dollar retention.

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Bobby Pinero, CEO Of Equals, On Bringing Joy To Finance Teams

So before you founded Equals, you spent 8 years as a finance leader at Intercom. Tell us about that experience and then what you learned that...

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Taimur Abdaal, CEO And co-founder Of Causal, On The Future Of The "Better Spreadsheet"

Where does Causal have the strongest product-market fit today and what milestones have you hit that you want to share...

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How Clearbit Sold To HubSpot

In January, HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) announced that it was acquiring data enrichment platform Clearbit and its data on 20 million companies and 500...

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The Hyperscaler Employee Experience

Being an early employee at a rapidly-growing startup affords opportunities for huge career and financial growth...

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Airtable At $375M ARR

TL;DR: Last fall, incorrect reports that Airtable’s revenue was merely $148M ARR after 7 years and $1.4B raised triggered a wave of hand-wringing...

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