MRR. CAC. CLTV. There are a lot of acronyms and buzzwords about how to measure startup success these days, especially for SaaS companies....

We’re excited to welcome SurveyLocal to the Lighter Capital portfolio and family. SurveyLocal provides an intelligent software platform...

Lighter Capital is excited to welcome BombBomb as one of its most recent clients. BombBomb offers a complete email marketing automation...

Lighter Capital is excited to announce that locally-based Imprev has partnered with Lighter Capital on multiple tranches of growth...

You’re a tech entrepreneur at an emerging startup. To date, you’ve bootstrapped your company , but now you’re at the stage where you’re...

Average Revenue per Customer (ARPC), or per account (ARPA), reveals your most valuable products and services. Here's how to calculate it.

While most SaaS startups are focused on raising funds and optimizing growth, there’s an equally important area that many entrepreneurs...

Learn how to calculate Committed MRR (CMRR), an important forward-looking SaaS business metric.

Happy Holidays! Many of us are working to complete projects, close sales, and wrap up our books for 2015, and thinking about 2016.  Lucky...

You’re about to go knocking on doors to raise capital for your growing tech company, but do you know how to maximize your chances to...

We are excited to announce that California-based Back at You Media will be the first client in our new $100M  facility. Headquartered in...

We love to see our portfolio companies make bold moves to spur their growth. So we are really excited to be able to help  Good Done Great...

Last Friday we announced a new $100 million fund with Community Investment Management (CIM), an impact investment firm focused on funding...

Sometimes companies we fund need additional funding. Our tech-enabled underwriting platform makes it easy and fast to extend additional...

It’s a ubiquitous trend in the world of software: service-based consulting companies transitioning to subscription-based SaaS product...

We’re always excited to hear when companies we funded go on to thrive and raise additional VC funding rounds .  Steelbrick Last month,...

Potential investors want more than your P&L and financial projections - they want your growth story. Here's how to give it to them.

The most promising companies and technologies are often formed during economic downturns. Proxio is one such company, and Lighter Capital...

At Lighter Capital, we’re proud to be the first source of outside investment for many of the tech startups we fund. We recently invested...

One of the most important SaaS metrics to track is monthly recurring revenue (MRR). Here's how to calculate it.

Over the past weeks, we’ve discussed the steps involved in recruiting and hiring key employees for a startup. In the first three posts, I...

For many small and midsize businesses, obtaining traditional bank financing is more difficult than you might think. Old-school banking’s...

Our team just got back from Dreamforce 15 in San Francisco. At the conference, our CEO BJ Lackland participated in a session with Jason...

A few months ago, we published a post on five reasons why startups fail . People don’t like to talk about it, but startups, or early...