{"id":955603,"date":"2025-08-18T08:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955603"},"modified":"2025-08-18T08:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:09:58","slug":"early-stage-software-investing-being-reshaped-nexus-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/18\/early-stage-software-investing-being-reshaped-nexus-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"Early-stage software investing being reshaped: Nexus Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As AI adoption accelerates, the benchmarks for early-stage software investing are being reshaped. Just a few years ago, $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) was enough for a SaaS startup to go for a Series A round. Today, the new threshold, at least for top-quartile AI SaaS companies, is closer to $3-5 million, says Arjun Gandhi, vice president at Nexus Venture Partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As AI adoption accelerates, the benchmarks for early-stage software investing are being reshaped. Just a few years ago, $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) was enough for a SaaS startup to go for a Series A round. Today, the new threshold, at least for top-quartile AI SaaS companies, is closer to $3-5 million, says Arjun Gandhi, vice president at Nexus Venture Partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}