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. It offers tiered pricing for the SaaS, based on usage.). nationality, family status or education).

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JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. Traditional software vs. SaaS. If I were looking at which VCs to choose I would reference strongly for which ones are supportive in good times and bad.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Userpilot , a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, has raised $4.6 Userpilot CEO Yazan Sehwail told TechCrunch that they will use the latest funding to build new features that will help companies further reduce customer support and engineering costs. Userpilot, a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, raises $4.6M

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Startups and SMBs are usually the first to adopt many SaaS products. Below are four tips on how to advance your company’s infrastructure to support and grow with your largest customers. If you’re building SaaS, odds are you’re holding very important customer data. Address your customers’ security and reliability needs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

In a TC+ guest post, Heddleston identifies four factors to weigh before you decide to start up alone , along with some ideas for solo founders who need to build support systems. How to evolve your DTC startup’s data strategy and identify critical metrics. Here come the single-digit SaaS multiples. Walter Thompson.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. This was a dilemma because while it seemed like easy money and a reasonable request I knew it was going to drive up our support and maintenance costs and become hard to manage. It is the opposite of what SaaS is supposed to be.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 28, 2025

Example: For a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product, provide data on the growth of cloud computing, SaaS adoption rates, and projections for future market trends. Highlight key financial metrics such as pricing strategy, customer acquisition cost (CAC), and lifetime value (LTV).

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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. Any new local business could try this.

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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

JUNE 28, 2022

where it’s been operating for around five years, it’s now working with some 700 care businesses whose staff are delivering “millions” of visits per month to the circa 35,000 care recipients (and 8,000 family members) being supported by its customers — with growth of 3x since the startup last raised.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Notable institutional investors supporting Monderne Ventures include GCM Grosvenor, the Illinois Growth and Innovation Fund, and some of the world’s largest strategic partners like AvalonBay, Essent, and leading real estate companies. Moderne’s Core Funds invest in technology companies with between $2-20 million in revenue.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Vinehealth , a 2018-founded, London-based digital health startup that’s built an app which offers personalized support for cancer patients while also making it easier to gather patient-reported outcome (PRO) data, including for drug development and clinical trials, has closed a $5.5

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 9, 2024

After their success with AI customer support automation which manages 2/3 of their customer inquiries , Klarna is now doubling down on this strategy. Perhaps bespoke software will have the same impact in sales as in customer support. Klarna is betting AI-enabled software is the future of internal tools.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

Actually, that should be the number one strategy of a growing business. . So, here are some essential strategies that will help you to improve customer loyalty and move your business to the next level. It applies more to businesses with regularly paying customers, such as SaaS or subscription-based models. Reward your customers.

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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. Our product has stabilized and we have a very good understanding of our sales process and our go-to-market strategy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

How has your investment strategy changed? After more than a 12-year bull run for tech in the global markets supported by low interest rates, since the beginning of 2022, we have witnessed a significant slowdown in capital flows. How has your investment strategy changed?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2023

In 2011, Irish SaaS firm Intercom had a churn problem and found the solution by understanding the customer’s job. Give me rich feedback from the right people Help me support. Fix my customer’s problems Operationally, Intercom then built four distinct services to support those “customer jobs”. It gives your offerings pull.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A lot of SaaS products are sold on flat-rate subscriptions. That gaming strategy has been, maybe at its most charitable, a very long-term play for AWS (although it seems there were plans to put out a GameSparks-based product that has yet to happen, five years later). ” How to be one of the ‘haves’ of SaaS.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Bill Macaitis, the former CMO of Zendesk, articulates how a SaaS marketing team should operate better than anybody else I’ve met. At a recent Point9 conference, Bill outlined the 9 marketing disciplines of great SaaS companies and how they fit together to create a marketing powerhouse. Ops & Analytics Team. International.

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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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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With a background in entrepreneurship, product strategy, and AI-driven innovation , Kashyap has built multiple ventures across AI, EdTech, and analytics. For TPH Venture Studio , the challenge is building a differentiated model where startups dont just get funding, but also access to our AI-driven talent discovery and operational support.

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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

MAY 12, 2022

We want to be at the heart of its SMB strategy.” Our goal is to support European businesses benefit from the rapid digitization of payments, via solutions like Orderbird’s hospitality-focused SaaS platform, which enhances the customer experience while enabling merchants to run their business more efficiently.

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OnStartups

MARCH 21, 2016

Late last year, I combed through the Montclare SaaS 250 — a directory of the biggest SaaS companies in the world — to find common trends in what I thought would be a significant dataset. As it turned out, 80% of the 250 biggest SaaS companies didn’t have a pricing page at all. The study’s highlights. 63% offer a free trial.

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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 claims it can also support more complex operations in which IT teams use its tool to integrate legacy systems, like ERPs or CRMs, to orchestrate operations across multiple systems of record. .

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 28, 2017

Over the last year in particular, Revenue Ops is a term that’s gaining some mindshare in the SaaS world. As one SaaS executive described to me, marketing operations teams are the engines of the marketing team. Sales operations teams perform analogous work to support salespeople. But why stop there?

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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. Technology startups are the pinnacle of that strategy. According to Crunchbase, money raised by New Zealand startups increased 30%, from around $1 billion to $1.3 billion, from Q1 2020 to Q4 2021.

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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. Most of the time, customers suggest these integrations as part of their feedback to account management and customer support. Here are my notes. Where to Start.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

They are an open-source & SaaS provider of eCommerce solutions. Tweet support - What I did in the early days was to enlist Tweet support. Guest authoring – Once you have a bit of credibility as a writer a great strategy to drive traffic is to write guest posts for relevant bloggers in your sphere of influence.

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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

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. making the need for singular platforms to support such e-commerce businesses all the more necessary,” says Cherry Ventures’ Bendz.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

But during the funding process we certainly asked whether Nick was open to hiring a US-based CEO so that Nick could focus on engineering prowess and leadership and not having to build out a sales, marketing & support organization in the US.

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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

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

APRIL 8, 2021

Others investing in the burgeoning startup are Des Traynor, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Intercom (amongst other angels). Butter also supports various third-party integrations, such as for white boarding, note taking, etc. Next, you invite workshop participants via an automatically generated link that can easily be shared.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

Participants in the program engaged in weekly workshops and coaching calls, refining their revenue models, competitive strategies, and customer acquisition. Bridge2 Cohort 1 Companies MOTHERboard ®: MOTHERboard® is a SaaS company providing a comprehensive burnout and wellness solution specifically crafted for working mothers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

After building and exiting multiple startups, some founders turn into angel investing to support startups and their ecosystems. And what we’re trying to do with the fund is publish as much information as possible and keep performing at the 100 percentile and say this is still the best strategy and is very scalable.”

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