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Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/03\/27\/openview-570m-venture-capital-business-software\/<\/a><\/br>
\nOpenView goes bigger with seventh fund, closing on $570M to invest in business software startups<\/br>
\n2023-03-27 22:05:42<\/br><\/p>\n

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Three years after announcing its sixth fund, OpenView Venture Partners<\/a> is back with $570 million in capital commitments for its new, seventh fund. It represents a 25% increase over the firm\u2019s $450 million sixth fund, its largest to date.<\/p>\n

The Boston-based venture capital firm gave its intent to raise the fund back in January 2022, according to an SEC filing<\/a> that noted OpenView intended on a hard cap of $800 million. In another filing made last September<\/a>, the firm reported it had raised just over $517 million toward that goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way that we\u2019ve always built the firm and the funds is to stay relatively small and concentrated,\u201d Mackey Craven, OpenView partner, told TechCrunch. \u201cWhen we went out to raise the fund, the way we size them is bottoms up: looking at how many partners we have, the average investment size they make, how many investments we make in a year and how many years we want to be out. That gives you a range, and that range is from right about where we closed the fund.\u201d<\/p>\n

The firm will continue to focus its investments on \u201chigh-growth software startups,\u201d investing globally across business software categories including infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity and vertical software.<\/p>\n

While there is some turmoil in the financial markets and the banking system, Craven says the product markets for software, looking broadly, \u201care stronger than they\u2019ve ever been.\u201d He notes that global software spend is about twice what it was five years ago and is still growing at double-digit rates.<\/p>\n

He attributes that growth to what he called a \u201cgo-to-market model\u201d for software companies for product-led growth, a term that Craven said was coined years ago by partners Kyle Poyar and Blake Bartlett to describe what was making businesses more efficient.<\/p>\n

We profiled OpenView in 2020 when it closed its sixth fund<\/a>, and in terms of when it invests in companies, Craven told my colleague Alex Wilhelm that the firm looks for companies that have between $1 million and $10 million in annual recurring revenue.<\/p>\n

Three years later, Craven said that criteria hasn\u2019t changed much, explaining that OpenView tends to be the first investor in a company after it is generating revenue, no matter if it was bootstrapped or venture-backed before that. For example, he said his first investment was in cloud monitoring platform DataDog after it had $1.7 million in ARR.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s more than 1,000 times larger than that right today, but that\u2019s very similar in the scale of businesses that we\u2019re investing in right now,\u201d Craven said.<\/p>\n

Kyle Poyar further explained, \u201cIt\u2019s more about the underlying qualitative characteristics of the business. It says specifically, we\u2019d love to see the company find product-market fit with their customers, and they\u2019re showing signs that they\u2019re ready to scale with building out their teams and their go-to-market motions. That tends to correspond with that revenue range rather than the revenue range being the focus.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked how different it was to go after funding in today\u2019s economic climate versus when OpenView was raising for its sixth fund, Craven responded, \u201cit absolutely is a more challenging fundraising environment,\u201d but noted that the firm\u2019s core partners have worked together for over a decade, so there was still a \u201cstrong set of supportive limited partners\u201d who were receptive to getting in on another fund, one that was also larger.<\/p>\n

OpenView invested in 16 companies with its sixth fund and expects with its seventh fund \u2014 being 25% bigger \u2014 it could invest in up to 20 companies over the next few years.<\/p>\n

As of today, the firm made its first investment from Fund VII in a company called Rewst, which is doing robotic process automation for the managed service provider sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cRewst is in a combination of themes we\u2019re excited about, like vertical software and the increasing automation of software workflow,\u201d Craven said. \u201cIt turns out that in the managed services ecosystem, the vast majority of the work that they do, and outsource, is workflow-oriented. The entrepreneur has built a business in this space before and is off to a great start.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, business software spending is expected to rise<\/a> despite analyst predictions that consumers will scale spending. When it comes to trends within this area that the firm is following, Craven said that companies are continuing to spend in areas that deal with risk, for example, cybersecurity.<\/p>\n

Another is automation: Companies rely increasingly on software instead of on people to do some of those activities. As a result, the firm is looking at domain-specific applications of machine intelligence and software around integrations, automation and workflow, he said.<\/p>\n

Poyar also said vertical software and product-led growth are two additional themes that will continue to be among investments.<\/p>\n

\u201cRegarding vertical software, there\u2019s a lot of folks who really need software, but don\u2019t have great solutions because that is a market that has historically been underserved by software players,\u201d Poyar added. \u201cWe coined the term \u2018product-led growth\u2019 in 2016 because of trends we were seeing in the software market. That\u2019s now a part of the market that is continuing to grow as product-led businesses. By just building products that customers love, they are growing in a way that\u2019s more efficient and more effective than their peers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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