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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>In the last year, I wouldn’t say the strategy has changed dramatically.</li><li>Cards are only getting more important.</li><li>The benefit with vertical SaaS companies is, because they&#39;re vertical, they can know an incredible amount about this very specific kind of business.</li></ul>

In the last year, I wouldn’t say the strategy has changed dramatically.Cards are only getting more important.The benefit with vertical SaaS companies is, because they&#39;re vertical, they can know an incredible amount about this very specific kind of business.

Matt Brown, Partner At Matrix Partners, On Emerging Trends In Fintech And AI

<ul><li>Pre-COVID, 61% of B2B companies sold in-person and over email/phone—post-COVID, that fell to 29% while the number selling through video calls rose from 38% to 53%.</li><li>Gong launched in 2015 as pair programming for sales teams, giving reps instant video replays of their sales calls for peer coaching—today, it’s the place where every customer call at a company gets stored for rewatching.</li><li>Sacra estimates that Gong hit $285M annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2023, up 43% from $200M ARR in 2022 for a 25x forward revenue multiple on the $7.5B valuation they raised at in 2019.</li></ul>

Pre-COVID, 61% of B2B companies sold in-person and over email/phone—post-COVID, that fell to 29% while the number selling through video calls rose from 38% to 53%.Gong launched in 2015 as pair programming for sales teams, giving reps instant video replays of their sales calls for peer coaching—today, it’s the place where every customer call at a company gets stored for rewatching.Sacra estimates that Gong hit $285M annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2023, up 43% from $200M ARR in 2022 for a 25x forward revenue multiple on the $7.5B valuation they raised at in 2019.

<ul><li>We started the business in early July of 2020, and I remember the same week that we had ideated about it, I saw and learned for the first time about Deel through their Series A round with Andreessen and Remote through their ~$11 million seed round.</li><li>In March 2021, we signed a $20M Series A term sheet.</li><li>We were left with just two to three months of runway.</li></ul>

We started the business in early July of 2020, and I remember the same week that we had ideated about it, I saw and learned for the first time about Deel through their Series A round with Andreessen and Remote through their ~$11 million seed round.In March 2021, we signed a $20M Series A term sheet.We were left with just two to three months of runway.

Matt Redler, ex-CEO Of Panther, On The Competitive Positioning Of Deel Vs. Remote Vs. Rippling

<ul><li>Ramp (founded in 2019) launched a free corporate card with 1.5% cash back on the front end powered by real-time, programmatic expense management on the back end.</li><li>By December 2020, ten months after launching, Ramp hit $200M in annualized gross payment volume (TPV) and $8M in annualized revenue—today, Sacra estimates that Ramp does about $16B in annualized TPV and $327M in annualized revenue, up 98% year-over-year, on track to hit $381M at the end of the year.</li><li>With card issuing as its initial wedge, Ramp set out to colonize the entire finance back office, starting by layering on optical character recognition (OCR) to go after Expensify (NASDAQ: EXFY) and the $2B expense management market.</li></ul>

Ramp (founded in 2019) launched a free corporate card with 1.5% cash back on the front end powered by real-time, programmatic expense management on the back end.By December 2020, ten months after launching, Ramp hit $200M in annualized gross payment volume (TPV) and $8M in annualized revenue—today, Sacra estimates that Ramp does about $16B in annualized TPV and $327M in annualized revenue, up 98% year-over-year, on track to hit $381M at the end of the year.With card issuing as its initial wedge, Ramp set out to colonize the entire finance back office, starting by layering on optical character recognition (OCR) to go after Expensify (NASDAQ: EXFY) and the $2B expense management market.

<ul><li>Ramp recently announced a suite of GPT-4 powered services across expense management, vendor management and bookkeeping.</li><li>GPT unlocks the ability for any company to tap into advanced data science techniques focused on the understanding of language.</li><li>Now, we can offer them these services at a fraction of the cost because it costs us significantly less to offer it.</li></ul>

Ramp recently announced a suite of GPT-4 powered services across expense management, vendor management and bookkeeping.GPT unlocks the ability for any company to tap into advanced data science techniques focused on the understanding of language.Now, we can offer them these services at a fraction of the cost because it costs us significantly less to offer it.

Geoff Charles, VP Of Product At Ramp, On Ramp's AI Flywheel

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Workforce management software unifying HR, IT, and contractor payroll for global teams

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Matt Brown, Partner At Matrix Partners, On Emerging Trends In Fintech And AI

Sacra interview with Matt Brown, partner at Matrix Partners and co-founder of Bonsai.

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Gongification Of SaaS

TL;DR: Gong built a $285M annual recurring revenue (ARR) business by recording and storing every sales call for rewatching. Now, every sales SaaS...

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Matt Redler, ex-CEO Of Panther, On The Competitive Positioning Of Deel Vs. Remote Vs. Rippling

Can you tell us about the origins of Panther? How did you get started? What was the initial product market fit (PMF) like...

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Ramp's LLM Workflow

TL;DR: In August, Ramp raised $300M at a $5.8B valuation—down 28% from their last round, but with annualized payment volume rising to $16B. Using...

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Geoff Charles, VP Of Product At Ramp, On Ramp's AI Flywheel

Sacra interview with Geoff Charles, VP of Product at Ramp.

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