Charting the Future of B2B SaaS Investments

Jason Lemkin is the founder of SaaStr, the world’s largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs. A 3x founder, 1x VC, and constant SaaS enthusiast, he was named by Business Insider to “The 32 Most Powerful People in Business Technology.” Before SaaStr and investing, he was CEO and co-founder of EchoSign, then the web’s most popular electronic signature service, from inception through its acquisition by Adobe Systems Inc.

Alexa von Tobel, CFP®, is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inspired Capital, a $500M+ early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on supporting the next wave of exceptional entrepreneurs. She’s also the New York Times-Bestselling Author of Financially Fearless and Financially Forward, and she hosts Inc.'s weekly entrepreneurship podcast, The Founders Project.

Paul is Managing Partner at Salesforce Ventures. Paul focuses on application and infrastructure software investments across all stages. He is currently a board observer at Airbyte, Astronomer, and Vivun, and is actively involved with investments in Class Technologies, Databricks, Lyra, Monte Carlo, Starburst, Vercel, and VNDLY (acquired by Workday). Paul was previously at Tenaya Capital and Battery Ventures, and holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in economics from Duke University.

Arun Mathew joined Accel in 2009 and leads growth investments in the enterprise, security, and infrastructure markets. Arun works closely with 1Password, BetterCloud, Dealer.com (acquired by DealerTrack), Dovetail, ForgeRock (FORG), G2, PagerDuty, Qualtrics (acquired by SAP), ServiceChannel (acq by FTV), Squarespace, Tenable (TENB), Webflow, and XebiaLabs (acq by TPG). He also leads the firm's Tech Council initiatives and spends time in India, where he is active with Accel's investments in Flipkart, BookMyShow, Ola, and Freshworks (FRSH).