An interesting article on Entrepreneur magazine about the rise of revenue-based VCs, who are making a larger number of smaller bets based on the current revenue of the companies. They’re mostly targeting SaaS or similar industries with well-understood business models, where gaining a decent amount of revenue derisks most of the business and the rest is about having lots of capital to fund marketing as the company enters the growth phase. We’re starting to see a little bit of this thinking appear in New Zealand, which will mean more companies getting funding once they have shown that their business model is viable at a small scale.

Read more here: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/340384