Last year, the US SaaS industry experienced a massive VC investment ($90 billion) across more than 3,900 deals. Investments boomed following the start of the pandemic, which was due in part to accelerated digitization of the enterprise, investors’ ability to adapt to remote due diligence, and increased demand for cyber security solutions.
Register to participate in an informative conversation featuring a panel of experts discussing the SaaS investment ecosystem. Panelists include Emma Eschweiler, VP in SVB’s Corporate Relationship Management Group; Logan Bartlett, Managing Director at Redpoint; Tiffany Luck, Principle at GGV Capital; and moderator Devika Patil, Managing Director in SVB’s Venture Capital Relationship Management Group.
Attend the webinar and panel discussion to learn about:
● What SaaS investments and exits trends were in 2021 and will be looking ahead,
featuring data from SVB’s State of SaaS report
● How the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted strategic needs and changed business
operations, enabling more SaaS startups to form and grow
● Why investors are sitting on record amounts of dry powder, waiting to be deployed
● VC perspectives on the current industry
Get your free copy of the SVB State of SaaS report now.
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Logan Bartlett is a Managing Director at Redpoint on the firm’s Early-Growth team. Logan has led investments in FloQast, Ramp, and Crossbeam as well as supported the firm’s investment in Workato.
Prior to joining Redpoint, Logan spent nearly six years at Battery Ventures helping lead enterprise software investments in Amplitude, Braze, Clubhouse, Dataiku, LogRocket, Pendo, Redox, as well as investments also in the Redpoint portfolio including Bitwarden, Kustomer, and Workato. Prior to that, he spent four years in investment banking at Spurrier Capital Partners and Deutsche Bank.
Logan is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and is an active Twitter user and enthusiast (@loganbartlett.)
Tiffany Luck joined GGV Capital in 2018 and is focused on enterprise SaaS, the API economy, and SMBTech. She led GGV’s investments in Mindee, Pinwheel, Stream, and Yac and serves on the board of directors or as a board observer. She is also a board observer for or actively involved with GGV’s investments in Belong, Electric, Fairmarkit, Handshake, Vic.ai, and WorkBoard.
Tiffany created the API-First Index in March 2022 to highlight 50 promising companies building with an API-first approach. Tiffany launched GGV’s annual SMBTech Summit in 2019 and regularly brings together the SMBTech community. She also hosts a YouTube series, “The Future of,”, featuring various industry leaders talking about Mindset, Software, Product, Community, and more.Prior to joining GGV, Tiffany was with Morgan Stanley's Technology Investment Banking Group in Menlo Park where she worked on several major transactions, including GitHub's sale to Microsoft for $7.5 billion.
Prior to Morgan Stanley, Tiffany spent time at Amazon and worked with several venture-backed startups. Tiffany received a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Emma Eschweiler is a vice president for Silicon Valley Bank’s Technology Group. She is responsible for the growth and development of institutional venture capital and corporate relationships on behalf of SVB, with a focus on partners making direct investments, acquisitions or partnerships principally within the enterprise software ecosystem, including areas such as cybersecurity, developer tools, applications, data infrastructure and open-source initiatives. Additionally, Emma co-authors SVB’s biannual proprietary report , State of the Markets: SaaS Report.
Before her current role, Emma was a vice president in SVB’s Northern California Enterprise Practice, where she managed a portfolio of growth stage, venture-backed, enterprise software clients in the region. In this role, she provided clients with creative financing and banking solutions, engagement and access to SVB networks and general business advisory services.
Emma earned her bachelor’s degree in government and global studies from Colby College.
She has continued her education at Georgetown University and Sciences Po in France. Emma is fluent in French and lives in San Francisco.
Devika Patil is a managing director in the Venture Capital Relationship Management Group at SVB, where she provides emerging to late-stage VCs and their portfolio companies with the banking tools they need to succeed. Her financial wheelhouse includes tailored strategic capital solutions; proprietary, operational, tactical and industry insights; private banking; and wealth advisory services. As a self-described extrovert, Devika (pronounced Dave-ika) is passionate about building and cultivating relationships with the VC community and bridging impactful connections in the tech community. She thrives on working with the CEOs and founders of investor-backed companies across all sectors — enterprise, consumer, fintech, hardware and the life sciences.
Her extensive background in corporate banking combined with her natural fluency in interpersonal skills makes Devika as accomplished at fostering relationships with C-suite execs as she is at analyzing credit risk profiles of complex businesses. Prior to joining SVB in 2018, Devika was a vice president at the Royal Bank of Scotland, where she was the West Coast corporate banking head of the gaming and homebuilding group. She launched her career at J.P. Morgan as an investment banker. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations from Tufts University in Medford, Mass.
Dedicated to giving back to her community and beyond, Devika serves in a variety of volunteer capacities. She is on the Board of Fellows at The Harker School, one of the nation’s top schools for high-quality, well-rounded education to students in pre-K through 12, located in Silicon Valley. She is also the Digital Ambassador at the Institute for Education, a Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit, whose mission is to recognize and promote leadership, civility and finding common ground, locally, nationally and globally. She is currently a member of the Town of Atherton’s Audit and Finance Committee and the Board Treasurer at The Weekend To Be Named Later, a nonprofit fostering collaboration between progressive leaders in government, the arts and entertainment, finance, nonprofits, technology and education.
These days, Devika calls Atherton, California, home, and enjoys traveling, cooking, reading and Kathak (Indian classical dance) in her free time. Another one of her great passions is wine; in fact, Devika first learned of SVB through its wine division. Ask her about her favorite sips, Melka Métisse and Favia Cabernet, and when you do, feel free to converse in French, Hindi, Gujarati and Punjabi, as she speaks them all. You could also chat with her about the West Wing — not the TV show, but the actual offices; Devika and her family lived in Washington, D.C., and served in the West Wing for two years during the Obama administration.
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