“If you only make it to one European tech conference – choose SaaStock – practical, relevant and immediately applicable takeaways for you and your startup.”
Nathan Latka was 19 when he hit $1m in ARR at his first SaaS company (Heyo.com). Shortly after, VC’s made an offer to buy 20% of his company for $2m ($10m valuation). Latka accepted …. and then reality hit.
His company got an acquisition offer for $6.5m which his new VC’s blocked. He quickly learned: Selling equity to VC’s reduces your options. Why does everyone celebrate raising VC?
Eventually, he exited the company in 2015 and launched a podcast (google Latka Podcast) which features a new SaaS CEO every day. He has interviewed 3,584 of the world’s top SaaS founders over the last 5 years.
Today, he helps founders raise non-dilutive capital out of his $150m fund at Founderpath. To date, 200 founders have taken $100m in capital.
April Dunford is the world’s leading expert on product positioning. She has worked with hundreds of fast-growing technology companies to accelerate their growth through clear, compelling positioning. Previously April has run marketing and product teams at a series of seven successful technology startups. She is also a board member, investor, and advisor to dozens of high-growth businesses and is the author of the bestselling book Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get it, Buy it, Love it.
Victor Riparbelli is the Co-founder and CEO of Synthesia, the world’s leading AI video creation platform for enterprises, making video production simple and intuitive without the need for cameras or studios. After 10 years helping build tech companies, Victor started Synthesia in 2017 alongside Prof. Matthias Niessner, Prof. Lourdes Agapito, and Steffen Tjerril.
Tony Jamous is the CEO and Co-founder of Oyster, a global employment platform that aims to remove the barriers to remote work and distributed hiring. Shaped by his upbringing in Beirut, Lebanon during a violent civil war, Tony is passionate about empowering talented individuals from emerging economies through access to global career opportunities.
Lucie Buisson is Contentsquare’s Chief Product Officer. She joined the company in 2014 and today leads the product vision, strategy and co-leads go-to-market. Her team’s mission is to develop innovative products that empower businesses to make the digital world more human. Product addiction, autonomy, and uniqueness are key areas of focus for the product team, as they work on making Contentsquare the world’s leading customer experience optimization platform. Lucie moved to New York in September 2018 to help crack the American market and empower brands to stay ahead of tomorrow’s digital challenges.
Meghan Keaney Anderson is a marketing executive with twenty years of experience at the intersection of digital marketing, brand development, creative leadership, and product marketing. Her career spans nonprofits, startups and global publicly traded companies.
Amir is the chairman of analytics leader Sisense, and has been the CEO for eight years prior. Under his CEO leadership, Sisense revenue grew 17X to approximately $150M, transitioned to a native cloud SaaS offering, and achieved profitability. Sisense is serving thousands of customers such as GE, UiPath, ZoomInfo, Seismic, Nasdaq and others, and has been recognized as a Visionary/Leader by Gartner, G2 Crowd and Forrester.
Before Sisense, Orad was the CEO of NICE Actimize the financial crime analytics leader, monitoring billions of transactions for fraud and organized crime at the world’s top financial institutions. Orad led the company’s business 10x growth to a $200M revenue run rate, over 25% operating income, and the company transition to a SaaS / Subscription business.
Nathan Latka was 19 when he hit $1m in ARR at his first SaaS company (Heyo.com). Shortly after, VC’s made an offer to buy 20% of his company for $2m ($10m valuation). Latka accepted …. and then reality hit.
His company got an acquisition offer for $6.5m which his new VC’s blocked. He quickly learned: Selling equity to VC’s reduces your options. Why does everyone celebrate raising VC?
Eventually, he exited the company in 2015 and launched a podcast (google Latka Podcast) which features a new SaaS CEO every day. He has interviewed 3,584 of the world’s top SaaS founders over the last 5 years.
Today, he helps founders raise non-dilutive capital out of his $150m fund at Founderpath. To date, 200 founders have taken $100m in capital.
April Dunford is the world’s leading expert on product positioning. She has worked with hundreds of fast-growing technology companies to accelerate their growth through clear, compelling positioning. Previously April has run marketing and product teams at a series of seven successful technology startups. She is also a board member, investor, and advisor to dozens of high-growth businesses and is the author of the bestselling book Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get it, Buy it, Love it.
Victor Riparbelli is the Co-founder and CEO of Synthesia, the world’s leading AI video creation platform for enterprises, making video production simple and intuitive without the need for cameras or studios. After 10 years helping build tech companies, Victor started Synthesia in 2017 alongside Prof. Matthias Niessner, Prof. Lourdes Agapito, and Steffen Tjerril.
Tony Jamous is the CEO and Co-founder of Oyster, a global employment platform that aims to remove the barriers to remote work and distributed hiring. Shaped by his upbringing in Beirut, Lebanon during a violent civil war, Tony is passionate about empowering talented individuals from emerging economies through access to global career opportunities.
Lucie Buisson is Contentsquare’s Chief Product Officer. She joined the company in 2014 and today leads the product vision, strategy and co-leads go-to-market. Her team’s mission is to develop innovative products that empower businesses to make the digital world more human. Product addiction, autonomy, and uniqueness are key areas of focus for the product team, as they work on making Contentsquare the world’s leading customer experience optimization platform. Lucie moved to New York in September 2018 to help crack the American market and empower brands to stay ahead of tomorrow’s digital challenges.
Meghan Keaney Anderson is a marketing executive with twenty years of experience at the intersection of digital marketing, brand development, creative leadership, and product marketing. Her career spans nonprofits, startups and global publicly traded companies.
Amir is the chairman of analytics leader Sisense, and has been the CEO for eight years prior. Under his CEO leadership, Sisense revenue grew 17X to approximately $150M, transitioned to a native cloud SaaS offering, and achieved profitability. Sisense is serving thousands of customers such as GE, UiPath, ZoomInfo, Seismic, Nasdaq and others, and has been recognized as a Visionary/Leader by Gartner, G2 Crowd and Forrester.
Before Sisense, Orad was the CEO of NICE Actimize the financial crime analytics leader, monitoring billions of transactions for fraud and organized crime at the world’s top financial institutions. Orad led the company’s business 10x growth to a $200M revenue run rate, over 25% operating income, and the company transition to a SaaS / Subscription business.
“Meaningful conversations happen face-to-face, relationships are forged, and opportunities are accelerated”
SaaS.City is a closed-group, one day accelerator for SaaS enthusiasts, comprising a series of focused workshops structured to facilitate learning and networking. Join a deep-dive bootcamp (made up of 3x 60-minute interactive workshops led by SaaS leaders and experts) on the most pressing SaaS themes in today’s climate.
These Bootcamps are sure to sell out so make sure you book early.
“SaaStock brings so many opportunities to connect with people who have been there and done it. I absolutely loved it!”
What does it take to become the best CEO your company could wish for? No two CEOs will walk identical paths, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a wealth of strategies, guides and tactics to help you level up.
Dedicated to SaaS CEOs, this bootcamp teaches how to efficiently scale your company, accelerate great decision making and uncover the type of CEO your company needs you to be.
Book my BootcampWelcome to the Age of AI. We’re at the beginning of the biggest transformational shift in software since the internet. Since ChatGPT reached 1 million users in 5 days, the impact and implementation of AI in the SaaS world has skyrocketed. From content creation, shortening sales cycles and improving customer support, it seems like the efficiency gains on offer are endless.
This bootcamp showcases some of the most powerful ways AI could transform your company’s future.
Book my BootcampMost SaaS companies operate within a saturated market. So if it isn’t your product that drastically sets you apart, it’s almost certainly the story you’re telling and how you’re reaching and communicating with new and existing customers. Growth will always be the end goal and despite the endless quick wins on offer to get you there, it’s all about building for the long term.
Curated and delivered by marketers, this bootcamp deep dives into the most important plays to make for your customer persona.
Book my BootcampOne of the most highly requested bootcamps of the year, a series of workshops dedicated to supercharging the soft skills of founders and leaders – this isn’t one to be missed.
Outside of building a great product, every leadership team needs to be able to communicate, teach, prioritise and lead by example, it’s how startups succeed and how great companies become even greater. From leadership, public speaking to time prioritisation and building a personal brand, there’s plenty of lifelong value on offer here.
Book my BootcampEvery sales professional wants to make it to the top. Even amidst tighter spending throughout the market, longer sales cycles and changes in decision making processes, it’s those who are resilient and keep innovating will be the ones closing deals, generating revenue and climbing the ladder.
A bootcamp focussed only on scaling sales, these workshops are curated to provide practical strategies to upgrade performance at each stage of the funnel.
Book My BootcampIf there was a single roadmap for successfully scaling any SaaS company, it would be followed step-by-step by one and all. Instead, achieving sustainable growth is more about resolving business bottlenecks, great decision making and ultimately decorrelating the increase in revenue from the increase in costs.
This bootcamp delivers on what it truly means to scale your company, unlocking growth by finding your go-to-market fit and practical strategies to help you scale on your own journey.
Book my BootcampPLG, the well-known concept of building a powerful product to drive growth as opposed to solely relying on marketing and sales tactics. The concept still stands but today’s new frontier is all about combining product, sales and marketing to collectively achieve efficient growth. So what plays do you need to make when marrying the three?
This bootcamp covers how PLG is evolving and how integrating marketing and sales can help create the synergy you need for your next wave of growth.
Book my BootcampWhat does it take to become the best CEO your company could wish for? No two CEOs will walk identical paths, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a wealth of strategies, guides and tactics to help you level up.
Dedicated to SaaS CEOs, this bootcamp teaches how to efficiently scale your company, accelerate great decision making and uncover the type of CEO your company needs you to be.
Welcome to the Age of AI. We’re at the beginning of the biggest transformational shift in software since the internet. Since ChatGPT reached 1 million users in 5 days, the impact and implementation of AI in the SaaS world has skyrocketed. From content creation, shortening sales cycles and improving customer support, it seems like the efficiency gains on offer are endless.
This bootcamp showcases some of the most powerful ways AI could transform your company’s future.
Most SaaS companies operate within a saturated market. So if it isn’t your product that drastically sets you apart, it’s almost certainly the story you’re telling and how you’re reaching and communicating with new and existing customers. Growth will always be the end goal and despite the endless quick wins on offer to get you there, it’s all about building for the long term.
Curated and delivered by marketers, this bootcamp deep dives into the most important plays to make for your customer persona.
One of the most highly requested bootcamps of the year, a series of workshops dedicated to supercharging the soft skills of founders and leaders – this isn’t one to be missed.
Outside of building a great product, every leadership team needs to be able to communicate, teach, prioritise and lead by example, it’s how startups succeed and how great companies become even greater. From leadership, public speaking to time prioritisation and building a personal brand, there’s plenty of lifelong value on offer here.
Every sales professional wants to make it to the top. Even amidst tighter spending throughout the market, longer sales cycles and changes in decision making processes, it’s those who are resilient and keep innovating will be the ones closing deals, generating revenue and climbing the ladder.
A bootcamp focussed only on scaling sales, these workshops are curated to provide practical strategies to upgrade performance at each stage of the funnel.
If there was a single roadmap for successfully scaling any SaaS company, it would be followed step-by-step by one and all. Instead, achieving sustainable growth is more about resolving business bottlenecks, great decision making and ultimately decorrelating the increase in revenue from the increase in costs.
This bootcamp delivers on what it truly means to scale your company, unlocking growth by finding your go-to-market fit and practical strategies to help you scale on your own journey.
PLG, the well-known concept of building a powerful product to drive growth as opposed to solely relying on marketing and sales tactics. The concept still stands but today’s new frontier is all about combining product, sales and marketing to collectively achieve efficient growth. So what plays do you need to make when marrying the three?
This bootcamp covers how PLG is evolving and how integrating marketing and sales can help create the synergy you need for your next wave of growth.
