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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A gaggle of companies, including Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom, have partnered with the Linux Foundation to form the Overture Maps Foundation to do a few things: develop interoperable open map data and knock Google’s map dominance down a few pegs. Coinbase supports hundreds of cryptocurrencies, but there are thousands that it doesn’t.

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Dream It

MAY 14, 2020

Net Health, a premier provider of cloud-based EHR software for specialized care settings, today announced that it has acquired Tissue Analytics , a pioneering developer of automated mobile wound and skin imaging and predictive analytics solutions. Silversmith invested additional equity to support the acquisition of Tissue Analytics.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

The company now boasts over 500 employees, with more than 200 focused on product development and engineering. It improves productivity, simplifies the IT stack, reduces complexity, and embeds security. Since emerging from stealth mode in early 2022, Island has scaled rapidly.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models. Net revenue retention was near 70%, a far cry from the 100%+ that most SaaS companies aim to achieve. They invest in a frictionless customer onboarding experience and high-quality support so that new users get hooked on the platform.

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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

Its most recent development targets two of ChatGPT’s biggest limitations: First, it generates output but can’t deliver outcomes (or act on your behalf). OpenAI’s latest announcement solves for both, introducing support for plugins and giving us a glimpse into the first AI App Store. Learning Spanish? Studying for a calculus exam?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Traditional software vs. SaaS. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. If I were looking at which VCs to choose I would reference strongly for which ones are supportive in good times and bad. Think of web vs. mobile.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The new cash brings the company’s total raised to $33 million, which CEO Marc Boscher says is being put toward product development and expanding Unito’s headcount from 65 people to 70 by the end of the year. But while SaaS apps have become the lifeblood of organizations, they can often be unwieldy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. The family-owned real estate firm develops Colabs spaces. Planned national expansion.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

SaaS startup Stimulus announced today the closing of an oversubscribed $2.5 Her experience in and around procurement uniquely positioned her to develop a solution that could quickly find a fit within her early target segment,” Norman said. “As million seed round led by Black Ops Ventures.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Developer-focused productivity tool Raycast has raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Accel and Coatue. As developers ourselves, we find ourselves spending a lot of time on busywork that doesn’t bring that much value. Raycast is now publicly launching the Extensions API and Store, opening it up to developers around the world.

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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. The Team: Why Youre the Right People for the Job Investors dont just invest in ideas, they place great importance on the founder and the supporting team.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 10, 2023

Zendesk AI automates customer support. The largest SaaS companies in the world have released English-language APIs. Previous APIs require learning programming languages to use & have been reserved for developers. In the last month, Hubspot launched ChatSpot. Salesforce launched AI Cloud. Adobe’s released Firefly.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

But often this doesn’t tell the whole story because often companies are also spending money on PR and other marketing activities in order to support the sales process. And then of course you need to layer in marketing to understand the true SaaS customer acquisition costs.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

That’s why for any company launching a smart home device this year, having Matter support will be helpful. It is also collaborating with silicon vendors on what will become a Matter System-on-a-Chip to support the frustration-free setup. The offering includes the Veea SmartHub mesh router for the home called STAX.

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 12, 2022

Rapidly growing SaaS startups have high multiples. For instance a modern consultancy might have: SaaS (S), Tool Use (T), and Consulting (C). SaaS (S): Recurring subscriptions for access to an application that are high-margin, require minimal labor, and generate predictable future income. Valuation = R*M OR R*E.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

TechCrunch Experts continues to gather and share authoritative advice for founders who need help with growth marketing and software development. If there is time, investing in SEO and a highly defensible content moat to generate inbound supported by ongoing growth experimentation and CRO would be ideal.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

My thought was to let the AI do the number-crunching and let the merchandiser make the creative decisions using the AI as support.”. He is also looking at product development and to add more use cases. 1984 Ventures, which led Syrup Tech’s pre-seed round last year, invested as well.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Michael Cortez, vice president at YL Ventures, focuses on business development initiatives to grow the market leadership of the firm and its portfolio companies, with an emphasis on strategic and tactical support for early-stage go-to-market activities. Michael Cortez. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

WebOps SaaS platform Pantheon , which started out as a Drupal and WordPress hosting service many years ago, today announced that it has raised a $100 million Series E round solely funded by the Softbank Vision Fund. “They just want a partner — like any other SaaS application, whether it’s Stripe, Twilio or Salesforce.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The latest developments in technology make it clear that we are on the precipice of a monumental shift in how artificial intelligence (AI) is employed in our lives and businesses. Think about it: When was the last time you previewed a new SaaS or tech product that wasn’t “fueled by” AI? Shashank Srivastava. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Open source has become a major force in the world of IT, and today a startup that has built a profitable operation by developing business management software on the principle is announcing a sizable secondary investment on the back of that growth.

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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. Says Alionço: “Our tool enables citizen developers. It also plans to continue to hire globally and further develop its product and go-to-market strategy. million since its 2015 inception.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

International Development Finance Corp. Manalwar worked for 13 years at PayPal, where he most recently was a product lead focused on debit card authorization rates and in-store payments. Teichman joins after 11 years with the U.S. government, most recently serving as managing director for the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

They are an open-source & SaaS provider of eCommerce solutions. So you developed a product for the mommy community? Do you have an application that helps mobile developers build HTML5 apps? Tweet support - What I did in the early days was to enlist Tweet support. Mint.com is the second result. Think Magento.

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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 APIs provide a way for developers to connect their applications to other internal and external applications.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Media technology company Amagi announced Friday $100 million to further develop its cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected televisions. The company already supports more than 2,000 channels on its platform across over 40 countries. Nadathur Holdings continues as an existing investor.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 20, 2023

However, its SaaS solution is now being used across various public and private sectors, enabling government institutes and enterprises to issue verifiable documents digitally. The funding was co-led by iGlobe Partners and SIG Venture Capital, with participation from Pavilion Capital and Qualgro.

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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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