Haatching the Future Podcast
Hello! We’re excited to launch our new regular Podcast series, ingeniously named “Haatching the Future”.
Haatching the Future is a podcast by us – the team behind Haatch.
Each week we’ll cover stories from inside our portfolio businesses, getting to know founders and teams who work for them and demystifying the complexities of raising and getting funded and what all the jargon really means.
Tune in for a no-holds-barred insight into the world of startup investment 1 investment at a time.
Haatching the Future is published everywhere you listen!
Listen Here: Anchor, Spotify, Apple Podcasts & Google Podcasts.
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‘Capital Growth’ Has Many Meanings. So does ‘Performance’!
Why do we invest? The glib answer is ‘to make money’. For most investors however, I suspect the reasons are much more nuanced.
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.
