The Seraf Compass

MAY 18, 2022

Nicolas Biet is a partner in The Faktory Fund, a private early-stage investment fund, which invests in startups developing disruptive technology that enables new products to take worldwide leadership in B2B markets primarily in the Internet of Things and Software as a Service (SaaS) startups located in BeNeLux and France.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Casted leverages audio and video podcasting as the core of an innovative Amplified Marketing Platform enabling B2B enterprises to drive brand awareness, thought-leadership, sales lead generation, and customer engagement strategies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

“Connected business networks, scalable computing power, graph data base technology, and advances in AI algorithms enable Everstream to combine massive volumes of public and proprietary data to build a model of the global supply chain.” and raw material around the world,” she told TechCrunch via email.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Nearly two years ago, we set up our first credit fund to provide products like asset and project finance and built out financial tools focused [on] asset-enabled businesses. Something in both the masonry and bricklayer arena as well as framing would be interesting.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 17, 2016

But to incite disruption requires a different set of marketing skills. He says, “A new-market disruption is an innovation that enables a larger population of people, who previously lacked the money or skill, now to begin buying and using a product and doing the job for themselves.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand. Indian logistics SaaS startup FarEye raises $100 million. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

We are excited to partner with Coro’s innovative team and participate in their journey to make non-disruptive security a mainstay of growing businesses across industries.”. Coro is poised to dominate this immense and hugely underserved segment of the market, and we believe that their growth will continue at an exponential rate.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

It basically allows developers to write tools that, for example, can then provision and configure their own infrastructure for each customer of a SaaS application, for example. We are now centering our entire platform around this core idea which is now accelerating as the modern cloud continues to disrupt entire business models.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

In Run:AI, we’ve found disruptive technology, an experienced team and a SaaS-based market strategy that will help enterprises deploy the AI they’ll need to stay competitive.” Second, a round this size enables us to quickly expand sales and marketing to additional industries and markets.” ” Run.AI

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Revolution

JANUARY 9, 2019

Senior Software Engineer at Zylo Location: Indianapolis, IN Zylo is the leading enterprise SaaS optimization platform that transforms how companies manage and optimize their SaaS applications. Its SaaS platform, SONAR, provides data and analytics to participants in the freight market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

And now, without further ado, behold the TC Include program startups sponsored by Black Female Founders : Five to Nine : Five to Nine is a Black and women-owned software company that enables organizers to track, manage and evaluate their events and programs for impact. Founded by Denise Umubyeyi. Go Together, Inc. : Founded by Zuley Clarke.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

. “We can improve both outcomes and costs by moving care from the hospital back to the place it started — at home,” they write in a post that explores five innovations enabling at-home care and identifies investment opportunities like acute care and infrastructure development. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin. Ritu Narayan founded Z?m

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Not only is it costly to facilitate online payments for pharmacies, but they also have their own pharmacy management systems and workflows that can be easily disrupted by moving to a new payments system. “We’re not a pharmacy, and we want to enable all these pharmacies to be online,” said Prox.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 21, 2015

years, Adobe has transformed its business from a software license business into a SaaS business. It’s been a remarkable transition, and one not talked about very much in the SaaS world. Transitions from licensed software to SaaS are rare. And in 2012, the company decided to disrupt its own businesses. respectively.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

The platform is meant to replace the process of cold-calling potential customers, which is time-consuming and difficult to scale, and enable salespeople to focus on the best prospects, helping them decide which channel to use and when to contact them. Outreach nabs $50M at a $1.33B valuation for software that helps with sales engagement.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 29, 2023

Eazy Digital’s platform is focused on providing a SaaS solution to small and medium-sized insurance companies that lack the resources to digitize their processes and distribution. We want to revolutionize the industry by enabling increased competition and providing access for smaller players in the market,” Doowa said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

It’s worth noting that Box offers a similar secure document sharing capability enabling users to share a link instead of using an attachment. Both Dropbox and SendDoc participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield with Houston debuting Dropbox in 2008 at the TechCrunch 50, the original name of the event.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Change management is how an organization makes improvements to its internal processes without disrupting the day-to-day workflow and at a minimal cost. . Let us say a SaaS company is introducing a new tool that gathers customer support data and feedback in real-time to enhance customer experience. Minimizing disruptions.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 25, 2024

Boostpoint is a recruitment marketing B2B SaaS platform that helps companies source and engage with qualified candidates through targeted social media advertising and automated SMS campaigns. This innovative approach is set to make significant contributions to cancer research and treatment. Learn more here. Boostpoint, Inc. Learn more here.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2021

Should you price your SaaS per seat or per use? The platform fee establishes a stable relationship and the usage pricing enables the customer to scale up or down as a function of their traffic which might vary throughout the year. Sometimes, entering the market with a different pricing model disrupts incumbents. Competition.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

The capital will enable us to bring in the best talent, make strategic acquisitions and expand into Europe, which is important to us.”. We’re pleased to support Ryan and the ambitious Bolt team and see tremendous opportunity in the space that Bolt is disrupting.”. We don’t just want to be on par with competitors, but be better.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

“We are about to enter a new era of innovation, so it’s our priority to ensure companies are equipped to manage the proliferation of shopping channels and experiences to become the disruptors — not the disrupted.”. We’re the only provider who can enable companies to realise their global potential,” he told me in an email.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The company is exhibiting as one of the Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2022. The startup offers a freemium SaaS service to enterprises, which the founder believes can reduce “friction” for users, and charges for the training programs it offers. The model also enables more flexible learning.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Shabodi raised $3.375 million in seed funding to enable enterprises, system integrators and telecommunications companies to accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation applications on 5G. This is the pair’s second time working together. . ” Phone manufacturers eye their next move as 5G goes mainstream.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Sure launched its first (enterprise SaaS) product in early 2016, and today counts traditional financial services and fintech companies alike among its customers. Like any legacy industry being disrupted there are many players trying to ride the wave of ‘embedded’ by rebranding their 1.0 Berkley and Menlo Ventures.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Federal Reserve leading a global trend of interest rate hikes; an evolving European energy crisis; the first land war in Europe in 70 years; various supply chain disruptions; an ongoing global pandemic; growing global trade tensions, and, to top-off the sundae, a slowly collapsing Chinese credit bubble.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Deliverr ’s technology was developed to enable next-day, affordable e-commerce fulfillment for its merchants despite these disruptions. The new capital will enable the company to continue improving on its technology and product development, invest in adding more employees and expand its next-day capabilities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Chikazawa and co-founder Sam Yamashita started Autify in 2016 in San Francisco to develop software testing automation, enabling software developers to expedite the delivery of quality software to their customers in a rapidly changing marketplace. Existing backers Archetype Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Tably joined the round as well.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

They invest in companies that are disrupting traditional retail and consumer experiences. The broad portfolio includes companies disrupting traditional markets. GingerBread Capital : founded by Linnea Conrad Roberts with an investment focus of women founders and entrepreneurs leading high-growth businesses.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Comparing data from F Prime’s fintech index with valuation marks for SaaS and cloud companies in terms of historical revenue multiples, it appears that fintech companies are being clobbered a little too much. He wrote: “Indeed, fintechs haven’t fared well at all even when you account for the broader dip in valuations at tech companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

A timely shot of working capital enables these merchants, who otherwise run some of the world’s most economically sound businesses, to significantly boost their revenues, several industry figures have shown. set to disrupt B2B? The workflow of Rupifi’s BNPL service. Image Credits: Rupifi. Is India’s BNPL 2.0

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Register CLASSUM , a South Korea-based B2B SaaS company that provides and interactive learning platform, has announced raising $11 million in its pre-Series B funding round. Provided as a SaaS model, CLASSUM enables active communication and engagement from participants.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Mambu raises $135M at a $2B+ valuation for a SaaS platform that powers banking services. This is “low code,” but it typically means that the company needs to work with third parties to enable all of this.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

We are now seeing the second-order effects of the fintech boom, as the same set of conditions arise in other soon-to-be disrupted sectors. In the insurance space, similar changes are giving way to innovative models like 180 o in Brazil and Betterfly in Chile.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 25, 2024

Boostpoint is a recruitment marketing B2B SaaS platform that helps companies source and engage with qualified candidates through targeted social media advertising and automated SMS campaigns. This innovative approach is set to make significant contributions to cancer research and treatment. Learn more here. Boostpoint, Inc. Learn more here.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2016

Because of these three attributes, chat seems to be reemerging as a potentially disruptive user interface for both consumers and business users. In fact, most SaaS software today has two principal components: an input form and some analytics that aggregate those data across time. Chat differs from other forms of communication.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

How to root out shadow IT and maximize SaaS investments. In a modern, mostly remote workplace, unapproved SaaS applications used by individual employees may lead to duplicate subscriptions, wasted IT spend and greater risk of a data breach. “Implementing self-service SaaS at your organization is easier than you may think.”

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