American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Observo AI, a leading innovator in AI-powered data pipelines, is experiencing accelerated growth while successfully securing $15 million in seed funding. His extensive background in scaling SaaS businesses and driving significant revenue growth will give him a pivotal role in shaping Observo AIs global marketing strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Before Twitter he held similar roles at SuccessFactors (SaaS), Akamai (telecoms infrastructure), McAfee (Security Software) and was an investment banker. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 6, 2024

Identify and access management company Okta will award up to $500K as an investment to the winner of its inaugural SaaS startup competition. The post Okta Announces $500K Investment Award for SaaS Startup Competition appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Based in New York City Cake accelerates AI initiatives with a platform enabling the seamless deployment, integration, and management of dozens of popular open-source AI technologies. Staying at the forefront of AI advancements is essential for us, even as a young company, to remain competitive and agile.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

In the latest development, AppOmni — which has built a platform not just to connect with and secure SaaS apps, but to seek out, highlight and help fix vulnerabilities that arise when different apps are used together or in tandem — has raised $70 million. “SaaS has become one of the most essential parts of the IT stack.

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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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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. Foo founded Paragon in 2019 with Ishmael Samuel, a former Uber engineer. .

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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 It’s also selling its SaaS to customers in foreign exchange, banking and (ofc) crypto. million Series A led by US growth equity fund, Level Equity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. The valuations of these companies aren’t rising at the same rate as SaaS or fintech startups, but “where edtech lacks in impressive valuations, investors see it gaining in exit opportunities,” writes Natasha Mascarenhas.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Microsoft has amassed the most extensive channel for SaaS companies, and each of these vendors pushes teams to current customers, many of whom are moving to the cloud and relying on Microsoft for guidance. Sales acceleration, marketing, finance tools all built on Salesforce data with Slack delivering the user interface.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

Organizations are leveraging Islands Enterprise Browser to securely access SaaS and web apps, implement zero-trust network access policies, onboard third-party contractors in minutes, support merger and acquisition integrations, and reduce or even replace their reliance on expensive virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

Asking people for money is a key aspect of every founder’s journey, but Techstars Managing Director Collin Wallace says it can also “accelerate your demise.” A SaaS mindset just isn’t relevant for deep tech investment, which means traditional VCs must recalibrate their behavior (and expectations) before diving in.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Whether you’re going through an accelerator or you’re at some kind of speed dating event, short “office hours” meetings present both an opportunity and a problem for investors. We’re an enterprise SaaS company solving X problem using Y solution. It’s a great way to get out from behind the e-mail and actually meet people face to face.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

How to grow a SaaS company efficiently in a recession. ” In classic TC+ “how to” style, Raissi, a former software engineer, explains the process his team used to accelerate their Series B, the tactics they used to manage investors and how the strategy led to a $40 million round. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

5 VCs discuss the future of SaaS and software after Pfizer’s vaccine breakthrough (EC). What happens to high-flying startups if the pandemic trade flips? (EC). As public investors reprice edtech bets, what’s ahead for the hot startup sector? (EC). Image Credits: John Artman. Tencent’s fintech business is the size of an Ant.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

. “In recent years, malicious actors have placed their focus on the interconnectivity between software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, leveraging its potential for their attack campaigns, as we saw in the SolarWinds breach,” Matichin told TechCrunch in an email interview. This opens firms to attack.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. If your investor worked inside of a SaaS company for years and disagrees with me then listen to them. And importantly we’ve had revenue.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Around the time of its Series B earlier this year, the company had just started onboarding some early adopters to its SaaS platform. “We looked at all of our opportunities in hardware enablement, in accelerating the SaaS business and cloud enablement. OctoML raises $15M to make optimizing ML models easier.

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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. Another top rival is Demostack , which landed $34 million in April for its “demo experience” platform for SaaS sales teams.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Software companies wound up enjoying record demand, from both customers and investors, eventually fueling the 2021 SaaS bubble. Looking at the data on a per-month basis makes it clear that the pace of startup layoffs is accelerating. Now the bad times are back, if in a different form. From hot to not.

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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

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. “We Image Credits: Graneet Graneet raises $8.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Pattern , a Lehi, Utah-based e-commerce accelerator that helps brands optimize sales on marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, Target, eBay and Google, brought in $225 million in growth funding to continue developing its technology and expand its global presence. Aggregators will have to become accelerators or I don’t think they will survive.”.

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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. We thought it was a perfect time to bring a product to market and accelerate conversion,” he said.

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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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Dream It

MAY 14, 2020

The acquisition of Tissue Analytics expands Net Health's leadership position within the wound care market, and for all customers, will accelerate the delivery of next-generation wound care technology solutions, including predictive analytics. The Baltimore-based startup graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2014.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 30, 2023

First, it accelerates the momentum within the technology buyout space. Earlier today, New Relic announced its sale to Francisco Partners & TPG for $6.5b. The acquisition is notable for two reasons.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

I know that some of the best businesses have seen this rapid acceleration quickly: Google, Facebook, Instagram, AirBnB and the like. We sold the company when we hit $36 million in bookings and $16 million in SaaS GAAP revenue. The speed needed to “break free” from a gravitational field without further propulsion.

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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

For enterprise applications, SaaS companies like Salesforce may launch plugins to improve ease of use and enable users to become more creative on their platform. As the landscape accelerates and becomes more complex, so will the importance of societal debates around AI ethics. Apple has made mistakes along the way, and OpenAI will too.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Such mistakes will only accelerate their move off the cliff and to their deaths. And in this new environment in which interest rates are climbing, access to capital is diminished and investors are “fleeing from the riskiest companies,” meaning nascent companies are in an even more precarious position.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Prateek Sharma, VP at Sequoia Capital India, said that InVideo is part of a growing number of startups in India that are building a SaaS platform for the world. Unlike most SaaS startups that are emerging from India, InVideo is currently not fully monetizing its platform. The startup, which also has teams in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tackle says it plans to use its new funding to accelerate the execution of its product roadmap, scale its go-to-market (GTM) teams, expand its global reach, and continue to innovate. That’s quite a list; with $100 million it may be possible.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence SaaS voice automation company Skit, formerly known as Vernacular.ai, developed its AI-based voice automation platform VIVA, short for Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant, which enables corporations to automate 90% of their call center operations powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

CEO and founder Thejo Kote told TechCrunch that generating SaaS revenue for the company remains its priority. It’s interesting that while that company has historically generated most of its revenue from software, it is now enhancing its card offering.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The company says this is one of the largest seed rounds ever for a SaaS company based in Asia. was designed for SaaS revenue teams who have to manage information across many channels, including email, calendars, web conferences, Slack, CRM tools, LinkedIn and WhatsApp. Combined with its previous round, $2.15 million seed round.

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