TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions have become a fixture of the modern enterprise; organizations with more than 1,000 employees use over 150 SaaS apps on average, according to BetterCloud. According to a recent survey from Workato, 57% of IT teams have received directives from the C-Suite to reduce their overall SaaS spend.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2024

Participating in the EO Accelerator program provided the methodology, peer support, accountability, and structure to push myself to attain organizational and personal growth. Azalea Garcia, EO Puerto Rico “Joining the MyEO Forum for SaaS Founders has provided a unique blend of learning, accountability, and community.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

How to grow a SaaS company efficiently in a recession. In fact, the more a founder can push the questions back to the investor in a way that gives a better understanding of their business and investment strategy, the easier the rest of the conversation will be.”. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new company recently emerged that is targeting a popular startup niche, wanting to exclusively help early-stage SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies with their financial needs. And it’s doing it as part of a partnership with Stripe, one of the world’s largest, and most valuable private fintechs. How it’s different and the same.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A Fork In The Road Recently, I’ve been discussing strategy with a number of companies facing a common decision point. A literal fork in the road At this fork, there are two distinct and mutually exclusive types of strategies to focus on. I call them Inbound Strategies and Outbound Strategies. This is rarely successful.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Through its industry immersion program called M oderne Passport , the firm helps companies refine and execute vertical market strategies, connecting them to its Moderne Network of over 1,500 industry executives and corporate partners. They are a global resource for connections and talent that accelerate startups and early-stage companies. “MV

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

This is an interesting data point as Point Nine has a good track record when it comes to B2B SaaS investments. Graneet is a vertical SaaS, meaning that the startup is building a product that is specifically designed to address the needs of an industry in particular. Image Credits: Graneet Graneet raises $8.7

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

But co-founder and CEO David Cancel did say the SaaS company saw 70% growth in its annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2020 compared to the year prior and is on target for a similar metric this year. Unfortunately, neither party would disclose the amount of the investment, or Drift’s new valuation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Y-Combinator- backed Localyze has nabbed $12 million in Series A funding led by Blossom Capital for a SaaS that supports staff relocations and hiring across borders. The startup says it’s been seeing growth rates hitting, on average, more than 30% month-on-month, as employer demand for its services accelerates.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

After taking a hiatus from covering SaaS multiples, Alex Wilhelm took a closer look at software revenue and noted that “the upward charge has plateaued” in recent months. Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Now, the plan is to take on some funding to accelerate that with more investments into R&D and product development, more global deals, and M&A to bring in more functionality and to enter new markets. “Firstly, companies are caught in a state of flux, faced with commerce anarchy that the pandemic has accelerated,” he said.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

Through our Brand Advocate Process, we plan , build, promote and monitor social media strategies that include "app-vertising". ” In fact, it’s this press release that, according to the Google News archives, appears to be the first time Buddy was described as a SaaS company anywhere. We’re not doing it for you.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Casted leverages audio and video podcasting as the core of an innovative Amplified Marketing Platform enabling B2B enterprises to drive brand awareness, thought-leadership, sales lead generation, and customer engagement strategies.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

On Wednesday, January 24, the inaugural cohort of startups from i2E’s Bridge2 Pre-Accelerator program presented their groundbreaking innovations during the Bridge2 Demo Day at Sailor & The Dock in Oklahoma City. During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort.

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Founder Bounty

MARCH 13, 2023

YC , one of the world best early stage tech investors, had had its latest cohort which had 65% invested in b2b SAAS startups which shows. We have put a couple of other reasons together why you should be building SAAS startups. Learn more on founderbounty what to do to get it right!

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 17, 2015

Leads are the lifeblood of every SaaS company. As a SaaS startup grows, the limiting factor of the business quickly becomes demand generation. Below are the five marketing channels I’ve observed at SaaS companies. Hubspot, which attracts more than 1M visitors to their blog each month, epitomizes this strategy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

In particular, Divibank is targeting e-commerce and SaaS companies although it also counts edtechs, fintechs and marketplaces among its clients. As in many other sectors, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a tailwind to Divibank’s business, considering it accelerated the digitalization of everything globally.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook. “It’s attention.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Pipefy , a “low-code” workflow management SaaS startup, announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series C funding. The company plans to use its new capital to “significantly accelerate” its global expansion. It also plans to continue to hire globally and further develop its product and go-to-market strategy.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Emergent leagues are incorporating influencers and athletes into their go-to-market strategies from day one, and legacy sporting industries are starting to pay more attention to their players off-court brands and new content monetization opportunities. About RootNote?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Various angel investors have also backed Juni, including NA-KD founder and CEO Jarno Vanahatapio and iZettle’s former chief strategy and communications officer Johan Bendz. Initially, Juni will make money on interchange fees (minus the cashback it offers) and by charging a subscription in the best SaaS tradition.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Now, maturing consumer behaviors and expectations are accelerating the current phase. Nacelle gives organizations a future-proof way to accelerate their innovation, leverage existing investments and do so with material ROI.”. He said Nacelle is already “the de facto standard” for Shopify Plus merchants going headless. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The initiatives were painful for both the engineering and finance departments, they say — which is when the pair realized that they wanted more flexibility over how software-as-a-service (SaaS) products were billed and monetized. “The trend towards usage-based pricing has accelerated in recent years, and so has the hype around it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Once the parties are on the same page, Fast Forward provides the operator or founder with $100,000 — and value-add such as co-founder recruitment, engineering support, initial product strategy, execution on the growth side, administrative operations such as accounting and legal — in exchange of up to 20% of the company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

.” Just as virtualization and then container technology transformed CPU-based workloads over the last decades, Run:AI is bringing orchestration and virtualization technology to AI chipsets such as GPUs, dramatically accelerating both AI training and inference.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Bootstrapp developed this extensive analysis on revenue-based investing for the purpose of accelerating the shift toward greater transparency and standardization within the industry. “Taking in some smart equity or convertible debt and balancing that money with other financing can be a good strategy for a startup,” she said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Between the changing tides of the economy and digital buying preferences, SaaS companies are under tremendous pressure. The question is: How do they appease customers who want self-service while accelerating profitable growth? Many of these companies understand that 80% of their interactions with buyers occur on digital channels.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 22, 2014

It also manifests itself in SaaS sales processes. Zendesk’s example illustrates exactly why pricing can be so challenging for SaaS companies. The nuances and particularities of each market and each startups go-to-market strategies determine the shape of the demand curve within a segment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

This forced retailers to accelerate their online strategies, finding new ways to capture shoppers’ attention without in-store samples. In terms of privacy, chief strategy officer Louis Chen told TechCrunch that no user data, including photos or biometrics, is saved, and all computing is done within the user’s phone.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Twitter Spaces: SaaS marketing with MKT1 founders Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich. London for a Twitter Spaces conversation with Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich , founders of MKT1, a partnership that advises SaaS startups. ServiceMax promises accelerating growth as key to $1.4B Image Credits: MKT1. Join us today at 2 p.m.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Typically we focus on what we call “innovative companies” — whether that’s because they have a SaaS offering or they’re an innovator within a traditional industry doesn’t really matter. Our growth program typically unfolds in three stages as well, which we call the Foundation, Acceleration and Transformation stages.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2019

One well known SaaS unicorn focused itself on monthly product launches. The benefits of such a strategy were many. Third, the strategy instilled anxiety within the competition. But, the product launch can be a powerful management technique to align and accelerate teams. The company sustained this cadence for two years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

“This will accelerate our roadmap enabling more swim lanes of product work to be on the go concurrently,” he says. Countingup’s business model combines both SaaS and fintech. On the SaaS side, the company earns monthly subscription fees. That roadmap includes tax filing, new financial services (e.g.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Michael Seibel was chief executive of Y Combinator’s accelerator up until 2020, when the accelerator evolved from a more traditional partnership to no longer having multiple CEOs. YC says that no one else’s role at the accelerator has changed with today’s executive shakeup.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act. We have also staffed our URBAN-X accelerator program with dedicated experts to provide software and hardware support.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. If you have access to post-revenue SAAS or ecommerce companies, you can easily make $1k to $10k per company within a few days.” . Open to anything “but especially B2B SaaS, future of work, consumer social, and developer tools.”. “If

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In response to the limitations of existing CRM software, especially the complexity of platforms like Salesforce, Relate’s founders identified the necessity for tailored features catering to B2B startups pursuing a product-led growth strategy.

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