TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Assembled , which bills itself as a workforce management platform for customer support teams, today announced that it raised $51 million in a Series B funding round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from Emergence Capital and Basis Set Ventures.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 15 Best Strategies for Developing New Business in a Crowded Market In the quest to uncover effective strategies for developing new businesses in a crowded market, we turned to fifteen Founders and CEOs for their tried-and-true tactics. In SaaS, it’s not much different. Figure out where your audience congregates.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As a software engineering student, he set on a mission to transform South Korea’s education environment. The country’s education system predominantly relied on one-way knowledge transfer, and Ahn believed that information technology could alter this landscape. Jaewoo Ahn and Jungho Choi lead the development team.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

How Adam Rosen’s Radar Talent Solutions Addresses Critical Staffing Shortages in Education and Beyond I had the pleasure of interviewing Adam Rosen. We are developing proprietary technologies aimed at enhancing the entire experience of high-volume recruiting for the public sector. What are your future plans for your startup?

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It fuels various aspects of startup development, including prototype creation, rigorous product testing, recruitment of top-tier talent, and boosting overall sales. Keffer Development Services, LLC (dba The Athletic Trainer System, located in Grove City, is a HIPPA compliant Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software for sports medicine.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 20, 2023

Accredify was founded in 2019 and initially provided solutions to the education sector for issuing verifiable qualifications. However, its SaaS solution is now being used across various public and private sectors, enabling government institutes and enterprises to issue verifiable documents digitally.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 18, 2020

The largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin provides investment capital and business support services to emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers located in central and northern Pennsylvania. STATE COLLEGE, PA – Every year, dozens of PA startups get their start with Ben Franklin Technology Partners.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge to build both real-time audio and video features into products. The company provides APIs so developers can add those features into products or websites using just two lines of code. video chat API service.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Kenya-based Chandaria Capital, Nigeria-based LoftyInc Afropreneurs Fund, and an array of other angel investors including founders and top executives of Africa’s leading SaaS, e-commerce and education startups joined, as well. “But the current student experience in accessing higher education is abysmal.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Panorama Education , which has built out a K-12 education software platform, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding led by General Atlantic. Clients include the New York City Department of Education, Clark County School District in Nevada, Dallas ISD in Texas and the Hawaii Department of Education, among others.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

However, a perspective-shift is required for this to happen and that is why Pangea, working in partnership with Swedish International Development Cooperative Agency and Kenya Diaspora Alliance, has since last year organized a series of events geared towards educating those in the diaspora on why startups are good investment options.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

StudentFinance , a European fintech that funds educational programs for individuals through so-called income share agreements , has raised €39 million ($41 million) in a Series A round of funding. “We also use data from analyzing systemic and market changes such as government incentives for companies to become ‘greener.’

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

After a founder takes the quiz, the Funding Finder algorithm points them to what could be their best bets: debt financing, community development financial institutions (CDFIs), banks, bootstrapping, family and friend rounds, or even crowdfunding. We see ourselves here just as an educator and a navigator.” of the approximate $238.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and forced educational institutions to go virtual, many were scrambling to develop online or blended curriculums. CourseKey , a San Diego-based trade school management SaaS startup, was in a unique position. CourseKey has an impressive list of supporters beyond SignalFire and Builders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

It draws founders, venture partners, CEOs, engineers, scientists, policy makers, researchers and entrepreneurs, product managers, CMOs, corporate M&A directors, MBA candidates and business developers who form the entire backbone of the startup ecosystem. Their participation elevates, engages and supports early-stage founders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

. “AI Fund is excited to support WhyLabs, whose open source logging library and AI observability platform makes it easy for developers to maintain real time logs and monitor ML deployments.” “Because we’re a SaaS, we focused on privacy a lot. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Topics range from accessible product design and fighting algorithmic bias to the justice system, workplace organizing and support for underrepresented founders — and that’s just for starters. Don’t miss your chance to meet some founders currently participating in TechCrunch’s Include program. Founded by Denise Umubyeyi.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Rutter , a remote-first company, is developing a unified e-commerce API that enables companies to connect with data across any platform. They stumbled upon the e-commerce API idea while working in education technology last year. It is also supporting merchants that connect with over 5,000 stores.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Now, investors see New Zealand as a country with a track record of building companies with global exits in SaaS, health tech and deep tech. For a country with limited resources that relies on trade, developing thriving tech exports may not just be a good idea — it may be a necessity to survive. billion, from Q1 2020 to Q4 2021.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 4, 2016

The notion of channel sales in SaaS companies is becoming more common than in has been in the last few years, and for some businesses like Intacct, channel partnerships drive more than 50% of sales. Channels used to be about software customization, delivery and support. This increases the SaaS company’s gross margin.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 6, 2016

When is the right time to increase sales headcount for a SaaS startup? Fast sales cycles correspond to execution sales, when account executives don’t need to educate the market, rather they just need to finalize the contracts.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2016

MySQL, the most valuable open-source acquisition; Zendesk*, the $3B leader in customer support software; DataStax, The business commercializing Cassandra; and most recently Duo Security*, an Ann Arbor-based trusted access company that has some of the most sensational SaaS metrics I’ve ever seen. Selling the problem is redundant.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Education, support and sage advice are arguably as essential to startup success as fundraising. We’re talking core startup disciplines like building a pitch deck, marketing, term sheets, fundraising, tech stack, operations, product-market fit, content development, growth and lots more. I loved that unexpected benefit.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Murf.ai, its SaaS platform, was developed to make it easier for clients to create high-quality natural sounding voiceovers for any commercial purpose. But recent developments in AI and deep learning now means it is possible to create synthetic voices that have the prosody and pronunciation of human speech.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 8, 2020

Recently, we welcomed Lisa Lawson to SaaS Office Hours to talk about building a channel go-to-market strategy for SaaS companies. That means understanding your ideal customer profile, developing enablement materials to close those customers, and training new account executives to succeed in that effort consistently.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 20, 2016

What is the smallest price point at which a SaaS startup can justify building an inside sales team? This is a natural question that many SaaS startups raise as they begin to complement bottoms-up, product-led adoption with assisting customers through the sales process. ZEN 1801 2.6. SPSC 3259 1.1. ATLS 5554 6.0. HUBS 6094 1.9.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Noting critical gaps in the region’s agri-food space, Ghanaian agritech Farmerline has stepped in to deliver technologies that are envisaged to increase farmers’ access to high-quality production inputs and education on the best farming practices including on how to better deal with the effects of climate change. million ($6.4m equity and $6.5m

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. But over 90% of Ukrainian startups say they need financial support to survive the war.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

On November 18, SaaS Office Hours at Redpoint will welcome Pete Koomen, Co-Founder and CTO of Optimizely, the incredibly fast growing AB testing and personalization company Pete founded with Dan Siroker. Before Optimizely, Pete was a product manager at Google building Google App Engine which grew to support 150,000 developers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Its customers hail from a variety of industries, including banking, SaaS, manufacturing, healthcare, insurance and higher education. The company plans to use its new funds to build out and enable its go-to-market efforts as well as invest in its product development roadmap. and European business in the near term,” Madeley said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Alex Fedorov is CEO and founder at OBRIO , an IT company with Ukrainian roots that develops products in mobile applications, web products and SaaS. Nobody discounts the value of team spirit, so invest in it more since people will need each other’s support at a much greater degree during times of great strife. Alex Fedorov.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 23, 2015

If you want to understand how to build a great SaaS sales organization, you should read Mark Roberge’s The Sales Acceleration Formula. The first employee at Hubspot and tasked with building the sales team, Mark developed a structured interview to qualify candidates and correlated the attributes of the best sales candidates.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

New funding to support growing customer demand for the Nobl9 Enterprise Platform WALTHAM, Mass. The funding will be used to continue building the best product, servicing customers and educating the community about the power of SLOs. We are thrilled that both ServiceNow and Cisco Investments have chosen to invest in Nobl9.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2022

You’re raising money, but is it to hire, develop, acquire or just be able to exist? In the story, I explore how three venture-backed companies — Wayfinder, Empowerly and Learnfully — are navigating the longstanding challenges of personalized education with fresh takes. Deal of the week. Parthean recently raised $1.1

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Featuring topics like articulated robots, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), commercial hardware, humanoids, IoT/consumer hardware and interstellar technologies The SaaS Stage: Discover software-as-a-service tools that reveal insights, power productivity and allow creativity and efficiency to blossom within your organization.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

While building his previous company, Freckle Education, it got to the point where the master spreadsheet full of data that everyone was using would not load anymore or would crash the computer. Sidharth Kakkar knows all about the pain of relying on a giant spreadsheet.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

This includes: Developing a marketing plan. Based on this new understanding, we’ve added capabilities to better support these marketers, such as integrations to Dropbox and Mailchimp to connect to their tech stack and help them promote their content to customers. Take a test-and-learn approach to avoid making the wrong big investments.

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