Nathan Latka

CEO, at Founderpath. Investing in Software Founders out of our 3rd fund ($145m). 216 portfolio companies.

We'll invest $1b in SaaS founders without taking equity. Check out Founderpath.com to see how much capital you can get. 

Podcast has 11m downloads
Book hit WSJ Bestseller list
Frequent cable to discuss SaaS/valuations/public markets
10,000 read Latka Magazine (shipped each month)

Now lending money to founders: Founderpath.com

CEO, Chief Investment Officer

Founderpath provides Debt Financing to Software Companies (B2B SaaS) out of our 3rd ($145m) fund.

Funding criteria:
$1-$20m in recurring revenue
Been in business for at least 2 years
B2B SaaS with predictable revenue
Founder owned and led

Sample terms:
$1-$5m Term Loan
Interest rate as low as 16%
No warrants or personal guarantees
Payback over 48 months
12-24 interest only period
These terms may change and are for discussion purposes only. Non binding. Not intended to be an offer.

Next Steps:
Signup at Founderpath.com
Connect your billing tools
Get an offer quickly

Anyone investing in food trucks? 

This one does $1m dollars/yr and $240k dollars profit:

Some background:
I'm considering investing
Only comment if you're also interested in investing in smb's

Some of the data:
→ They only make 6" donuts
→ $1,000 in profit per day
→ A single 200 square foot trailer
→ Land cost is a parking space
→ $5,000 revenue per square foot

If you're considering investing small checks (<$5k) in Main Street SMB's like this one:

 📌 Comment "The Deal" or "Food truck investing" below 

I'll DM you a link to the full data set before 6pm tonight:
 ✔ startup costs
 ✔ daily revenue
 ✔ food cost breakdown
 ✔ labor structure
 ✔ profit model
 ✔ expansion plan

CEO @ Founderpath (I invest in companies)

Cursor just raised at a 29x multiple.

Not as crazy as the SaaS 40x multiples of 2021...

We might not be in an AI bubble....

Anyone else feel more productive on snowy ranches?

Something about the quiet snow, warm fire, old cabins... 

I don't know what it is, but it works!

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Co-founder & co-CEO @Chili Piper 🔥 Here I talk about lessons I learned to jumpstart my career from intern to SVP. And to grow a company from 0 to almost $1Bn

why i like Nathan Latka (even though some of you don't) 

Some of you might not like that he’s too loud 
He asks for comments on his post 
He sends a million texts 
He asks a gazillion dollars to meet him at events 

People think that’s too loud 
I say.... that’s not enough 

Here’s why 

All his content is 🔥

He is very mindful of the value he provides with his data and product 
He’s very mindful of his network 
He helps amplify all founders that do great things 
I always find value in what he shares 
I find that he helps the ecosystem grow together 

For example:
He funded Joel Ohman at Exercise.com at $50k of MRR in 2021 via his fund Founderpath
He funded Joel 19 more times totalling $3.5m
Joel bootstrapped using Nathan's money and got "massive" personal liquidity event last week when he exited

He brings value to everyone he meets 

I wish he just had capacity to do more. To help even more entrepreneurs 

So no , not loud. Just not enough

Co-Founder at Sprinto | 2x Founder | GRC | Infosec | Breeze through security compliances

“Girish, just to call a spade a spade. You’re rich, right?”

When Nathan asked me that question on our recent webinar on whether you should go the VC route or bootstrap, it highlighted a very important theme about the ability to take risks in this start up journey.

Yes, financial stability changes how you think about risks, but not in the way people often assume.

It doesn’t mean you suddenly become fearless. It means you can afford to be deliberate.

At 25, your risk appetite might be healthy - coming from youth, energy, and fewer obligations. At 40, it might come from experience, financial security, and knowing which bets are worth making.

But at the end of the day, the risk doesn’t disappear. It just looks different.

You still worry, about people, outcomes, trade-offs. You still wake up thinking about all the things that might break. You still have to earn the right to build something meaningful.

That part doesn’t change. And I don't think it ever will.

He also took all my money at the poker table

Founder @ Freemius | Payments, Subscriptions, and Tax for Software Makers

I landed one of the top podcasts, and it happened because I helped luck.
Last month I attended SaaSiest for the first time.
Earlier that day, I spotted Nathan Latka at the conference.

He was giving a talk at the conference and was naturally surrounded by people the entire time.

I didn’t target him.
I didn’t chase him.
I just stayed present.

Later that evening, I ended up sitting with the event organizers… and he happened to be right there with us.

The connection happened naturally. We had a quick, easy chat.
I invited him to visit Israel.
Told him about our crazy-strong startup scene. Even pointed him to a relevant connection. I created value for him before asking for anything.

Toward the end of the event there was a poker tournament.
In that relaxed environment, I finally said:
“I’d love to join your podcast.”
He said: “Sure, let’s connect.”

My friend and mentor Gil Ben-Artzy of UpWest has a line I always repeat:
 “You need to stay in the way of luck.”

There’s a reason Silicon Valley founders seem so much “luckier.”
They’re constantly in the right rooms, bumping into the right people, at the right time.

You can recreate that wherever you live, you just need to stay in the way of luck.

Max Armbruster

Talkpush

Talkpush is the new way employers and candidates connect all over the world.  We believe hiring is about starting conversations; and are on a mission to level up the recruitment experience. The way people communicate is ever-changing and talent acquisition needs to change with it. We empower candidates by getting their voices heard; and we delight recruiters with software that lets them talk directly with the right talent.

We are hiring. We welcome people who want to build a smarter world and change the lives of millions of job seekers. We need engineers, marketers and account managers to make that revolution happen. Send me a note to if you want to join the Talkpush team and build a more candidate-centric candidate experience.

CEO / Founder

First role at SAP was heading the SAP Private Equity team in South East Asia, and then in the whole Asia Pacific. The SAP PE team leverages SAP’s capabilities in software, industry best practices and governance to help improve the valuation of portfolio companies that have received funding from private equity investors (including PEs, VCs, family offices and other private funding institutions).  

Second role at SAP was leading the South China channel sales activity through regional and global consulting partners, managing a channel sales team and sales pipeline in one of the company's fastest growing regions.

Private Equity Practice Asia Pacific

Aqayo (acquired by HRBoss)

Co-founder of Aqayo, a cloud-based Applicant Tracking System. Our software helped talent acquisition professionals source, screen, and select the best people for their organization. We grew the business over a 3-year period before exiting to a VC-backed  competitor. 

https://www2.staffingindustry.com/row/Editorial/Daily-News/Singapore-HRBoss-acquires-eRecruiting-platform-Aqayo-27393?

Co-founder

A.T. Kearney

As a consultant dedicated to the Asian Private Equity practice, I helped A.T. Kearney expand its coverage of the leading global and regional PE funds. As one of the top management consulting firms worldwide, A.T. Kearney works with clients on a broad range of strategic issues. A.T. Kearney has one of the leading practices in Private Equity in Asia, supporting buyout and growth funds with due diligence, deal and negotiation support and post-deal value creation projects.

Consultant 

Edgilis (acquired by Alan Allman Associates)

Co-founder and head of business development for Edgilis, an engineering consultancy business focused on the infrastructure, railway and electronics industries. I did most of the selling and a lot of the hiring. We bootstrapped from 0 to over 80 employees in 5 years, expanding beyond the borders of Singapore into many emerging markets such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia. Our client base was composed of oil & gas contractors, airport operators, rail operators, technology vendors and construction companies. I managed the business development team, and supporting the sales effort with marketing and content development.  We sold the business in 2013 to a European technology consulting group interested in expanding in Asia.

Co-Founder / Managing Director

NRG Engineering

Co-founder and head of business development for oil and gas engineering services firm NRG Engineering for over 4 years. We worked with some of the leading oil and gas producers and contractors in South East Asia. Exited the business in 2010, divesting shares to current management team.

Co-Founder / Head of Sales

Altran

Part of the business development team of Altran, the leading European technology consulting group. I started in London and eventually moved to the Singapore office. I helped to grow my subsidiaries' revenue by 20% and 30% year-on-year, in the UK and in Singapore respectively. As a business manager, I was responsible for my P/L and for managing the entire sales and delivery cycle, from cold calling prospective customers, to signing new clients, hiring implementation team, and finally monitoring the quality of our service delivery.

Business Manager

CNET Networks

As the Research Manager for the print division, I managed market research (a combination of primary and syndicated research) to support the strategic account planning and relationship building with our key advertisers. I headed revenue-generating research projects (focus groups, surveys) for large IT companies, managed a marketing projects such as our media kit, and supported the sales team with compelling commercial proposals using market research to illustrate our strength and the market opportunities.

Research Manager

Association for Talent Development (ATD)

Conducted primary quantitative research on low-wage workers in America. We were evaluating the relative performance of public and corporate policies in improving their professional qualifications.

Associate

Talkpush is the leader in recruitment automation. Our software is used to manage millions of conversations with job seekers every year by some of the largest employers int he world. Our solution consists of an omnichannel CRM, collecting leads and transforming those into meaningful connections, conversational agents (aka chatbots) delivering a delightful candidate experience and an automation engine called AutoFlow, which lets the recruiters set up every workflow they can imagine. 

With Talkpush, employers can expand their talent pools, increase their conversion rates, shorten their response time and MASSIVELY lower the cost-per-hire. 

I'm also the host of the Recruitment Hackers podcast, where I speak to TA leaders who are changing the industry and constantly looking for that extra edge in the war for talent. If you would like to come on the podcast and share new best practices with a global community of Talent Acquisition professionals, please message me here. 

Talkpush is the new way employers and candidates connect all over the world.  We believe hiring is about starting conversations; and are on a mission to level up the recruitment experience. The way people communicate is ever-changing and talent acquisition needs to change with it. We empower candidates by getting their voices heard; and we delight recruiters with software that lets them talk directly with the right talent.

Founded in 2014, Talkpush is a venture-backed company with clients and representation all over the world. We love localizing our solutions to deliver the best candidate experience in each market. 

We are hiring. We welcome people who want to build a smarter world and change the lives of millions of job seekers. We need engineers, marketers and account managers to make that revolution happen. Send me a note to if you want to join the Talkpush team or write directly to Stanley our recruitment chatbot on: https://www.messenger.com/t/letthetalenttalk

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