TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

SaaS startup Stimulus announced today the closing of an oversubscribed $2.5 Darco Capital founder David Adelman, an early investor in Stimulus, echoed these sentiments as to why he was first drawn to the startup. million seed round led by Black Ops Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Which terms come to mind when you think about SaaS? “Solutions,” “cutting-edge,” “scalable” and “innovative” are just a sample of the overused jargon lurking around every corner of the techverse, with SaaS marketers the world over seemingly singing from the same hymn book.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Since I work with startups and investments, I thought, maybe I should let this ChatGPT write me a program about a SaaS valuation calculator? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

venture capital market’s third quarter was far from catastrophic , it’s becoming clear that while startup investment has slowed, it’s still a great time to build a software company. But that’s not stopping valuations and deal sizes from ticking higher at most well-trod startup stages. SaaS deals this year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. That startup was DoorDash, by the way. Full disclosure: In 2016, I was 500 Startups’ Journalist-in-residence. Yesterday, Jon Shieber and Alex Wilhelm covered 500 Startups’ 27th virtual demo day and selected eight companies as their favorites: Stack.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

3 questions startups must answer before taking on their largest competitors. A blueprint for building a great startup founding team. With the economy slowing and businesses tightening their belts, the coming months will be make or break for many startups. Before ThoughtSpot, Sudheesh was president at Nutanix.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

That’s resulted in a strong run of funding rounds for startups building products to address that gap. So even amid the pressures that we have seen on funding overall, and the competition from other security startups searching for funding, there are signs that AppOmni is among the stronger tier of them.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

In this challenging fundraising environment, more startups than ever are turning to alternative financial solutions such as debt. Despite the negative connotation associated with debt, a startup should not view it as an act of desperation during downturns, as TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers and Alex Wilhelm have recently noted.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

SaaS tool usage is on the rise, with corporate teams now using 40 to 60 tools on average ; a 2019 report from Blissfully found companies were spending around $343,000 per year on SaaS. But while SaaS apps have become the lifeblood of organizations, they can often be unwieldy.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Startups and SMBs are usually the first to adopt many SaaS products. If you’re building SaaS, odds are you’re holding very important customer data. Prashant Pandey is the head of engineering at Asana , a leading work management platform for teams. Address your customers’ security and reliability needs. uptime or higher.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suzanne Xie is the business lead for B2B payments at Stripe and a former SaaS founder. It’s an unprecedented time to be in SaaS. The SaaS market could grow almost 10% every year to 2027 — and I think that’s a conservative estimate. The real rate limiter for SaaS businesses’ growth isn’t shipping software — it’s selling it.

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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. This can be particularly attractive to investors and can help startups raise funds for growth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Paragon , a startup building a platform that integrates and aggregates various software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps for enterprise clients, has raised $13 million in a series A round led by Inspired Capital, alongside previous investors FundersClub and Garuda Ventures. Image Credits: Paragon.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Frontegg , a Tel Aviv-based startup that helps SaaS companies build their products faster by giving them access to a set of enterprise-ready building blocks for often-used features like authentication and notifications, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed round. 3 VCs discuss the state of SaaS investing in 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Should SaaS founders be raising capital now? The don’ts of debt for fast-growing startups. The global software as a service (SaaS) industry is sustaining its steep growth trajectory, but developing and pricing professional services is oftentimes a difficult proposition for SaaS companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This has traditionally fallen under the purview of data loss prevention software (DLP), but Metomic , an early-stage startup, wants to update DLP in a modern SaaS context without getting in the way of people doing their jobs. So with Metomic we help companies protect sensitive data in SaaS applications.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

With so much startup activity in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) space it can be a challenge for businesses to figure out which of these SaaS (SaaSes?) Not bad for a startup that was only founded last summer. On the competitive front the startup points to U.S.-based That follows a $1.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Many startups are feeling the pressure in today’s uncertain economic climate, but for SaaS companies, the next 12 months could present major opportunities for growth: 70% of small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) globally are reporting higher investments in technology this year, according to Gartner Digital Markets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

As the global startup market digests a changing valuation environment and climate for venture investment, not every sector is taking the same amount of damage. Instead, it’s the tried-and-true software-as-a-service (SaaS) category that appears to be in the best shape to fend off a slowdown in private-market investment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

In the latest development, Lentra , an Indian embedded AI-based finance startup, has raised $60 million — a Series B that values the startup at “over $400 million,” D Venkatesh, the founder and CEO of the startup, told TechCrunch in an interview.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Josys , spun off from its parent company Raksul last year, launched its automated management IT devices and SaaS application in September 2021 that reduces IT operation costs and enhances security systems. Josys , the Japanese B2B SaaS platform that streamlines and automates corporate IT operations, said today it has raised 4.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

London and Berlin usually top the lists of European startup hubs, but Central and Eastern European countries like the Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia and Poland have claimed a growing portion of the startup pie in the past few years. Which are the most interesting startups in your city? This city of 1.2 What’s their focus?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

French startup Graneet is building an all-in-one software-as-a-service product focused on small construction companies. That’s why the startup raised a €8 million Series A round ($8.7 This is an interesting data point as Point Nine has a good track record when it comes to B2B SaaS investments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For cash-strapped SaaS startups trying to reach scale, the math doesn’t look great. In his TC+ guest post, Owens shares several tactics “SaaS leaders can use to supercharge their expansion revenue,” such as adding upsell tiers and charging customers for priority support. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Adaptive Shield, a Tel Aviv-based startup that automates the security of software-as-a-service ( SaaS ) applications, has secured $30 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners. 3 keys to pricing early-stage SaaS products.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

If the deluge of negative headlines feels like a pile-on, recall that in 2020 and 2021, TechCrunch obsessively covered the technology, startup, and venture capital markets’ various excesses; to not cover the party’s comedown would be a gross oversight. From here on out, we’re only talking SaaS.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Unless you find an alternative business model to monetize a totally free SaaS product, you’ll have to attach a price tag to it. The (literal) Billion dollar question then is: how much should our SaaS product costs? So the actual Billion dollar question is: how much should our SaaS product cost to begin with ?

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Register SatSure , an Indian business that is at the convergence of spacetech, artificial intelligence (AI), and software as a service (SaaS), has raised $5 million in a round led by Baring Private Equity India Pvt. Ltd, joining ADB Ventures as investor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Userpilot , a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, has raised $4.6 The startup’s new funding follows $1.2 As investors focus more on profitability, product-led startups may be sitting pretty. Userpilot, a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, raises $4.6M The product-led growth playbook.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A two-time entrepreneur, Shohet previously co-launched SCADAfence, an industrial Internet of Things security startup. “Organizations struggle to secure this [app] mesh — a growing, complex and interconnected environment of SaaS apps, third-party integrations, identities, privileges and data.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Garin Hess, a tech entrepreneur based in Utah, experienced what he calls the “ demo bottleneck ” at a previous software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup while pitching to potential customers. There’s Arcade, a startup developing a Chrome extension for product demos, which raised $7.5 million last September.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Capchase Pay enables SaaS companies to collect the full contract value for their software while also providing their customers with flexible payment terms. Valuation pressure on software startups is easing Capchase gets into buy now, pay later with Capchase Pay for SaaS financing by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

TechCrunch has covered Acceleprise several times over the years, including a look at its mid-2020 accelerator startup batch from its three accelerators. The firm has long focused on business-to-business SaaS startups, helping them get their start in a competitive global software market. Why is it so much bigger?

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Outvio , an Estonian startup that provides a white-label SaaS fulfillment solution for medium-sized and large online retailers in Spain and Estonia, has closed a $3 million early-stage financing round led by Change Ventures. This is the startup’s first institutional round of funding after bootstrapping since 2018.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Zenskar , a startup that is aiming to help SaaS companies automate their billing workflows, has raised $3.5 The market is flooded with similar SaaS billing platforms, but Bansal said Zenskar allows companies to configure its solution in a no-code, low-code manner, without requiring them to rely on engineers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

London-based PassFort , a SaaS provider that helps business meet compliance requirements such as KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) reporting, has closed a $16.2 The 2015-founded startup ‘s existing investors OpenOcean, Episode 1 and Entrepreneur First also participated in the round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. Why more SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based pricing. The consequences of SaaS sprawl: A real-world study. This year, that figure rose to 45%.

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