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JANUARY 30, 2023

is a weird world, and you should use end-to-end encrypted messages if you’re going to DM your friends about things that are potentially illegal. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 “Power”ing up Marqeta’s portfolio : Marqeta made its first acquisition, securing Power Finance in a $275 million all-cash deal, Mary Ann reports.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Today, London-based Legl — a 2019-founded SaaS startup that sells tools to law firms wanting to digitize processes and automate workflows in areas like client onboarding, payments and compliance to support a more modern customer experience — is announcing the close of an $18 million Series B round, just over a year after it raised a $7M Series A.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Leta , a Kenyan B2B supply chain and logistics SaaS provider launched last year to optimize fleet management, is looking for growth opportunities in West Africa, even as it scales operations in its existing five markets. A SaaS provider for businesses, logistics providers and marketplaces.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff. Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff. One factor driving Singapore’s fintech success is its high consumer adoption rates, but its government also directly supports related initiatives through its Green Finance Action Plan. How to execute an amplified marketing strategy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Before that, he led the firm’s Proactive Portfolio Management function and acted as director of corporate development, supporting the portfolio on inorganic and balance sheet related initiatives. The flow of capital in SaaS is becoming increasingly bifurcated. Sean Fanning is a vice president on OpenView ’s Investment team.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The startup has just closed a $10 million Series A to continue building out its workplace management SaaS for landlords and office managers — which offers features like resource scheduling (booking meeting rooms etc.), employee/co-working space member engagement, and financial management tools through web and mobile applications.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Onramp Funds , an Austin-based company providing financing to e-commerce sellers, secured $42 million in equity and credit to expand its working capital offering. CEO Eric Youngstrom founded the company in 2020 after a career at multicarrier shipping software company ShippingEasy. He also notes e-commerce sales in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

4 SaaS engagement metrics that attract investors Image Credits: Tetra mages (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Past performance doesn’t always predict future results, but it’s the best place to find customer retention stats that have investor appeal. Cast your vote before Thursday, April 20!

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

To continue its mission, the Miami-based trade finance company raised $7 million in seed funding and $75 million in a credit facility, led by Arcadia Funds LLC and Kayyak Ventures, to increase its credit line to $100 million. The company is able to show what kind of financing can be obtained based on the amount of data customers provide.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Wayflyer , a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce merchants, has raised $76 million in a Series A funding round led by Left Lane Capital. The raise comes just after Wayflyer raised $100 million in debt funding to support its cash advance product, and 14 months after the Dublin, Ireland-based startup launched its first product.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2022

The company said it will use the fresh funds to upgrade operational infrastructure, hire more local talents, strengthen its Multi Channel Network operations, improve digital management and research and development of SaaS systems, and improve its professional brand incubation ability.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

The financing included participation from existing backers Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, S Capital, Spark Capital, SVB Capital, Citi, J.P. The New York-based company says it plans to use its new capital toward product development and to boost its customer support and sales staff.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 15, 2023

Register Financial technology (fintech) firm Jenfi , renowned for its pioneering work in revenue-based financing for digital-native companies, has successfully secured US$6.6 Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? million in a Pre-Series B fundraising round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster? ” Offering new users frictionless onboarding, customer support and free credits is a proven method for making them more active — and loyal. So, why do public SaaS firms with usage-based pricing see faster growth ?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Specifically, the new firm aims to provide non-dilutive or less-dilutive financing options to asset-rich fintech, e-commerce and SaaS companies in the U.S. The region, Architect maintains, does not have a plethora of institutional financing available against assets. and Latin America, but with an emphasis on the latter.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Instead, this company is proving that the university tech stack is more lucrative than many assumed, especially if you look beyond content offerings and into back-end marketing support. Today’s financing event similarly brings in a strategic investor, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 20, 2024

Will AI sofware companies operate with better or worse profitability than a classic SaaS company? AI SaaS may be much more profitable than the -10% average net income margins of the current crop of public businesses. General & administrative should see productivity gains across legal & finance. Deflationary.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

million seed funding support from East Ventures and other investors to expand its operations across the region. million Seed Funding Support Fr8Labs, a startup company based in Singapore and Indonesia, is leading the digital transformation of logistics industry in Southeast Asia. The logistics startup company recently received $1.5

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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. of the approximate $238.8 billion in venture capital allocated to U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

“Since our model is a transactional SaaS, the revenues have also been increasing,” he told TechCrunch. It plans to grow the network by building out a full self-service tool for publishing and moving money to organizations that will support one-click purchases, payouts and collections. To date, the company has raised a total of $27.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The three co-founders of alternative financing startup Pipe are stepping down from their roles as executives of the company in one of the most dramatic management shake-ups seen in the fintech startup world in some time. That could include, Hurst had said, D2C subscription companies, ISP, streaming services or telecommunications companies.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

More Money, More Money Revenue-based financing (RBF) grants business owners an amount of capital based on their gross revenues. Udesh and his team weren’t familiar with this financing option, but once Capital Mills explained how it worked, they realized it was the best fit for Mopinion’s future opportunities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Hevo Data, a SaaS startup that is helping firms collate troves of data they generate and accumulate to make better use of them, has raised $30 million in a new financing round following a strong year of growth. For this, I have to combine my marketing, orders data, finance data and customer support data,” he said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Cloud providers’ default retention policies are not enough: You better back your SaaS up. A lot of work today has moved to the cloud as SaaS tools replace traditional on-prem software in the enterprise. Cloud providers’ default retention policies are not enough: You better back your SaaS up.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Eldar Tuvey Contributor Share on Twitter As the founder and CEO of SaaS purchasing platform Vertice , Eldar Tuvey is responsible for driving the company’s strategic direction and growth. The current state of affairs paints a concerning picture for SaaS buyers. Specifically, SaaS expenditure in the U.K. a substantial 3.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Founded out of Spain in 2019, StudentFinance partners with educational institutions such as Ironhack and Le Wagon to help finance those looking to upskill into disciplines like software development, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, serving as an alternative to traditional bank or student loans.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Chile-based Xepelin aims to do the same with business-to-business payments via a SaaS payments infrastructure that includes financial information in real time, embedded financial services and data models, all to be a company’s “digital CFO” of sorts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 billion, up from $2 billion a year ago. The startup today leads the market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based human resource management platform, has raised $15 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup looks to further expand in the country and Southeast Asian markets. “In HR tech and SaaS space, we are now only behind SAP and Oracle in India in terms of revenue,” he said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Nansen has the support from a16z to provide on-chain data analysis for crypto investors. Nansen and web3 development platform Alchemy come in the form of centralized SaaS products. The Graph is “programmable”, but the data structure it supports is quite “limited”, Yu argued.

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HPA

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Cohesion , a leader in smart building and digital twin SaaS technology, announced raising $15M in a Series A round co-led by HPA and Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund. With a career in finance, government and mobility, Steve brings a unique perspective on how to successfully grow companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

CRED is acquiring CreditVidya, a SaaS startup that helps firms underwrite first-time borrowers, in the latest of a series of investments from the Bengaluru-headquartered fintech as it broadens its infrastructure and offerings. The firms did not disclose the terms of the deal but said it involves both cash and stock.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

As the fundraising environment changes, some SaaS companies will look to reach cash flow break even on their existing reserves. Founders may reduce staff, particularly in recruiting or new projects that the company prefers not to finance. All of the cost of customer acquisition for a SaaS company is borne in the first month or so.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. And then of course you need to layer in marketing to understand the true SaaS customer acquisition costs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

The effect of an economic downturn has also affected their finances leading them to cut costs; the top of the list is letting go of employees. “The planned layoffs will impact teams responsible for functions that have been automated following investment in engineering, product and support functions,” SWVL said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Corporate management startup Ramp confirmed that it has secured $550 million in debt and $200 million in equity in a new financing that doubles its valuation to $8.1 Notably, Founders Fund led the latest equity financing, marking the firm’s fourth time leading a round for Ramp. It then raised $300 million at a $3.9

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

A little over one year ago, Pipe raised a $6 million seed round led by Craft Ventures to help it pursue its mission of giving SaaS companies a funding alternative outside of equity or venture debt. When we first went to market, we were very focused on SaaS, our first vertical,” he said. The startup officially launched in the U.S.

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