Artem Gassan

Key Metrics for Hockey Stick Growth in SaaS

Artem Gassan is the General Partner of SaaS Growth Ventures, a VC fund with an operational approach to scale revenue and sales for SaaS companies in the US market. Artem is an expert to fuel growth and revenue for SaaS companies and has been involved with 500 Startups for over 6 years.

Episode Description

Artem Gassan is the General Partner of SaaS Growth Ventures, a VC fund with an operational approach to scale revenue and sales for SaaS companies in the US market. Artem is an expert to fuel growth and revenue for SaaS companies and has been involved with 500 Startups for over 6 years.

What’s in this episode?

1) Investment thesis behind backing capital-efficient SaaS businesses that lack momentum

2) Importance of sales velocity for SaaS businesses

3) Golden formula to optimize SaaS product pricing

4) Ideal SaaS metrics for seed and Series A

5) Different growth types and benchmarks

6) Ins and outs of the freemium business model

7) SaaS multiples and public comparables