The People's VC
We're not unicorn hunters and don't believe in high burn, uneconomic models that reach for market share. We look for solid businesses built by founders who are cash efficient, scrappy, and pragmatic. We focus on companies with $2mm to $25mm of run-rate revenue and year over year growth of 50%+. We'll invest anywhere in the US or Canada, and can look at international opportunities. We prefer leading, but also follow. We like plain-vanilla preferred stock in traditional growth rounds, inside rounds, recaps, small rounds, secondaries, and restructurings. Unlike other VC, we like hearing from founders directly. Email our Managing Partner at sammy@blossomstreetventures.com.
Who We AreThe Numbers
23
Companies Funded
26
Invested
3
Check Size
2-4
Decision Process
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Portfolio
Our portfolio is diverse and includes software and other recurring revenue models.
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The most successful VC in SaaS
Who are the most successful VC in SaaS? To answer that question, we looked at the past 41 SaaS IPOs and who their major investors were. The list is below. The best. Not surprisingly, Sequoia and Accel top the list with 6 each. August, NEA, and TPG have 3 each. Lots of 2’s. Ten…
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SaaS founders owned 14% at IPO
Sammy is the Managing Director and Cofounder of Blossom Street Ventures. Connect on LinkedIn or email him directly at sammy@blossomstreetventures.com, especially founders at all stages. The founders of Jfrog owned 24% of the business at IPO. Viant’s founders owned 93% and Datto’s founder owned 15%. The range of founder ownership at exit/IPO can be quite wide…
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Startup Learnings from legendary founders
Sammy is the Managing Director and Cofounder of Blossom Street Ventures. Email him directly at sammy@blossomstreetventures.com, especially founders. The book ‘Founders at Work’ interviews well known tech founders about their earliest days. It’s well worth the full read, but below I summarized portions that really stood out to me. Introduction “Perseverance is…
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Strategic investors don’t matter
Sammy is the Managing Director and Cofounder of Blossom Street Ventures. Email him directly at sammy@blossomstreetventures.com, especially founders. Entrepreneurs are always looking for “Strategic Investors” — corporate VC such as Intel, Verizon, SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce, Cisco, InQTel, etc. The view is that these investors provide not only capital, but also guidance on the product roadmap, engineering/dev resources,…
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