Sat.Mar 08, 2025

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A Look Back: How $13 Billion Ramp Began To Scale with Co-Founder and CTO Karim Atiyah

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Ramp just closed a stunning round at a $15 Billion valuation! Back in 2021 though, Ramp was just 2 years in — but already experiencing hypergrowth. Co-founder and CTO Karim Atiyah came to SaaStr Annual to share how they got this rocketship … off the ground. From Parabus to Ramp: The Power of Asymmetric Bets When Karim Atiyah, CTO and co-founder of Ramp, first arrived in the United States from Lebanon in 2007, he couldn’t have predicted he’d build not one but two successfu

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Why Some of the Worst Fundraising Advice Comes From Your Existing Investors

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Its a weird thing, but some of the worst fundraising advice comes from your existing investors. Why? Its usually not wrong, its just often, so, so biased: Accelerators view VCs as fungible. They often tell you to raise at the highest price irrespective of investor quality or ability to support the company later. Is this the right advice? Seed investors worry about dilution.

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