TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“Customers have a natural tendency to prefer voice call support over other self-service channels and this has led to the increase in pressure on the traditional interactive voice responses (IVR) systems and support agents to respond to all incoming queries,” he said. Its product VIVA covers more than 16 languages and 160 dialects.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The Y Combinator-backed startup — which was only founded back in 2018 — has quickly gained traction for a b2b SaaS platform aimed at employers seeking immigration and relocation logistics support. ” Localyze raises $12M for a SaaS that supports cross-border hiring and relocation.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

New funding to support growing customer demand for the Nobl9 Enterprise Platform WALTHAM, Mass. Observability is a highly strategic area for ServiceNow and our customers as they think about accelerating their digital business,” said Pablo Stern, SVP & GM of technology workflows at ServiceNow.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Telehealth services specifically, and digital health more broadly , have racked up plenty of growth during the pandemic as demand for remote consultations (and other types of support) has accelerated sectoral uplift. Expanding supported languages is part of that plan. “The potential is enormous and telemedi.co telemedi.co

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Marco’s factoring product enables new companies to get started without having to put up the significant amount of collateral that banks are asking.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

To date, the Group has raised over $700 million and secured over $1 billion in capital to support its credit book. Its ecosystem of AI-powered, credit-enabled products and services includes buy now pay later platform Atome, digital lending platform Kredit Pintar, SaaS provider ADVANCE.AI, and ecommerce merchant services platform Ginee.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

This in turn enables them to collect, send or exchange money in real time without the need for reconciliation and with almost no cost,” Rozic told TechCrunch. Since our model is a transactional SaaS, the revenues have also been increasing,” he told TechCrunch. In its home country of Colombia, the startup has already had an impact. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Today that includes a business bank account with its own sort code and account number, a Mastercard for making payments and support for faster payments and direct debits. On the accounting software side, Countingup currently supports automated bookkeeping, invoicing, receipts, payment of bills, tax estimates and profit and loss reporting.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Kate Ahlering is the chief revenue officer at Calendly, where she leads sales, sales enablement, revenue operations and partnerships functions. Between the changing tides of the economy and digital buying preferences, SaaS companies are under tremendous pressure. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The investment will enable Quqo to grow its team and customer base and expand its distribution network across the country. The firm’s B2B platform and SaaS tool enable store owners to browse the best product offers through a “simplified and accelerated procurement process.”. million stores.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

But as a “company town” where most engineers come for a well-paying job, not as founders seeking like-minded peers, our region’s entrepreneurial support systems are surprisingly weak. We’re currently investing out of our fifth core fund, and since inception have backed 125 founding teams as GPs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Cue statement from current CEO Raj Sabhlok: “Reaching ‘unicorn’ status and partnering with Vista will enable us to accelerate our mission to support SMBs as they continue to digitize their businesses in order to grow. “Pipedrive is now Europe and Estonia’s newest SaaS unicorn,” says Zennström.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Founded in 2018 by Singularity University alumnus Alberto Rizzoli and former R&D lead at RSI, Simon Edwardsson (the same team behind “seeing” app Aipoly), the V7 Labs platform promises to accelerate the creation of high-quality training data by 10-100x.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

That’s what makes him excited to support a company like Shabodi. Shabodi raised $3.375 million in seed funding to enable enterprises, system integrators and telecommunications companies to accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation applications on 5G. This is the pair’s second time working together.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In a recent survey by Zapier — not the most unbiased source, granted, given that the company sells automation software — about 44% of employees say that automation saves them time while almost a third (33%) say it enables them to accomplish more with fewer resources. “The pandemic dramatically accelerated Ushur’s business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Redbird enables pharmacies in Ghana to add rapid diagnostic testing for 10 different health conditions to their pharmacy services. Rather than employing a SaaS model that Beattie says is not well appreciated by its customers, Redbird’s revenue model is based on the supply of disposable test strips.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

” “The funding will strengthen our balance sheet and accelerate further development of our integrated life insurance software platform and wealth products to better serve our global customer base,” Romero told TechCrunch via email. We then evolved to focus on a core set of solutions where we knew we could be the best.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Now with the average tech company using over 130 SaaS apps, it allows for a lot of entrepreneurs and adoption of best-in-breed apps so that a viable company can start with a handful of people and leverage those apps to gain big customers. There is massive pressure to improve the customer experience and move quickly.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and re-imagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth. With this new stage, Disrupt 2023 is reaffirming its mission — supporting founders, builders and investors across the entire startup spectrum.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The new cash will be used to support product development and R&D efforts, CEO Matthew Carroll said, as well as expand Immuta’s sales, marketing, customer success, and support teams and enable “key” acquisitions in the data monitoring space. “We don’t see that slowing down.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. Zendesk is a 700 person company that builds customer support software. Zendesk went public earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

The Maine-based payment technology company has created a mobile-first platform to enable renters to pay on time, in full, each month. When they started listening to the customer support calls that came through, many customers would be asking for a different date, when funds would be available.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

. “One of the primary reasons startups are successful is because they were empowered from the beginning of their journey with access to the tools, sources of funding, and network needed to support the growth of their company,” shares Pluschkell in a statement to TechCrunch. Through StartupOS, we aim to change that.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This is where Databook comes in by providing tools, at the click of a button, that enable reps to become experts for their clients. 1 cloud SaaS investor with an excellent track record” and “they have an extensive investment and portfolio operations team that can significantly help us on our journey,” he added.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Its customers primarily come from the ride-hailing, mobility, food delivery, SaaS and e-commerce industries, and also include subscription businesses. . As a B2B SaaS operator, the company has “very healthy margins” and has seen 7x revenue growth since December 2020, according to Tremac. . “In Image Credits: Fonoa.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Led by MK Capital, New Funding Will Accelerate Further Research and Development of Optilogic’s Cloud-Native SaaS Solution [ANN ARBOR, January 31, 2023] Supply chain design software innovator Optilogic has secured $13 million in financing, led by MK Capital, a venture capital firm focused on supporting innovative B2B software companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

But with an edge computing setup, the data can be processed on-site, eliminating cloud computing costs and enabling processing at greater speeds and volumes (in theory). Ouissal has a product to sell — Zededa works with customers to help manage edge devices — but he points to Zededa’s growth to support his claim.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With the latest funding, ManageXR will support its expanding team and go-to-market strategy as the company has experienced rapid growth since becoming available to beta users in November 2019 and officially launching in April 2021. Qualcomm launches new AR dev kit, acquires Clay AIR.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

“While machine learning makes this possible, it remains far from reality as the enabling infrastructure is prohibitively difficult to build for all but the most advanced companies. Tecton makes this infrastructure accessible to any team, enabling them to build machine learning apps faster.” Image Credits: Tecton.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Comparing data from F Prime’s fintech index with valuation marks for SaaS and cloud companies in terms of historical revenue multiples, it appears that fintech companies are being clobbered a little too much. As always, we’re so grateful for your readership and support! It almost feels unfair. Learn more.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Ma was previously a senior engineer at Morgan Stanley before co-founding Supportive, a help desk software-as-a-service startup, and joining Confluent as an engineering lead. “Superblocks is an accelerant for building internal apps.” Image Credits: Superblocks. ” Image Credits: Superblocks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

As e-commerce sales continue to soar, last-mile delivery capacity has not kept pace, nor have logistics companies made the technological investment necessary to support a level of customer service that is expected by a new generation of consumers,” said Lydia Jett, managing partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, in a written statement. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups. This has seven different funds under management, including a VC fund-of-funds, “Series A/B matching” funds and acceleration funds. More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

The capital will enable us to bring in the best talent, make strategic acquisitions and expand into Europe, which is important to us.”. We’re pleased to support Ryan and the ambitious Bolt team and see tremendous opportunity in the space that Bolt is disrupting.”. We don’t just want to be on par with competitors, but be better.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

On the plus side, SPACs are lauded by supporters for being a faster, more efficient route for strong startups to enter the public markets and thus raise money from more investors (and giving sight of an exit to private investors): this is very much the position Near and KludeIn are taking.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

According to Brian Parks, “Bigfoot provides RBI, term loans, and lines of credit to SaaS businesses with $500k+ ARR. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Bigfoot Capital. ARR of $500K+.

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