Managing partner at Point Nine Capital, known for SaaS funding napkins and benchmarks.
Janz describes later-stage investors pressuring founders to restructure or squeeze out early angels and seed funds, and argues founders must defend the people who took the earliest risk, both morally and reputationally.
A SaaS-focused VC admits the venture model's power-law needs are increasingly mismatched with how most healthy SaaS companies actually grow, and explores what that means for founders choosing capital.
Written inside the COVID shock: a VC candidly reports what his firm and peers were actually doing (versus saying) about new deals, and advises founders on raising into a frozen market.
Point Nine's Christoph Janz presents the five metrics that matter when raising a SaaS Series A and B, with the benchmark ranges his fund actually uses.