Haatch Finalist at the UKBAA Angel Investment Awards
Haatch is looking to continue its award winning streak at the upcoming UKBAA Angel Investment Awards 2021.
We are thrilled to announce that we've been selected as a finalist for the Seed VC of the Year award! The award recognises the most active and impactful early-stage fund in the UK, bringing investment and support to build and scale their investee businesses.
The awards will be held on 8 June where we will celebrate the success and determination of the angel and early-stage investment community.
Find out more about the event and come and celebrate with us by visiting: https://awards.ukbaa.org.uk
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When I first committed funds to a Haatch portfolio company, the reasons for doing so were multiple. Of course, I was looking forward to value amplification and the tax basis was also highly attractive. However, I also had a strong sense of wanting to ‘plug in’ to a modern, cutting-edge area of technology.
Headcount Is Dead as a Growth Metric. Here's What Our Portfolio Data Says Replaced It.
For two decades, venture capital used a crude proxy for progress: how many people have you hired? Team size signalled ambition, traction, momentum. If a seed-stage company doubled headcount, it was "scaling."Our portfolio data now tells us that era is over.Across roughly 200 early-stage B2B software companies we track, median revenue growth over the past two years ran at around 50% annualized. Median headcount growth over the same period? Zero.
