SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Founding Procore In 2002, Couremanche founded Procore in Carpinteria, California. Vision and Innovation Couremanche’s vision for Procore was to digitize construction management when most of the industry still relied heavily on paper-based processes. He emphasized transparency and maintained an open-door policy.

Construction 242

Construction Education Leadership Company Culture 242

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. Vindi is a PCI-certified online payment platform for recurring billing. Founded : 2002. The tool supports multi-currency billing and electronic invoicing.

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Brazil’s SaaS landscape is bustling, thanks to the number of innovative startups that entered the horizon in recent years. Its main goal is to assist businesses in managing their financial routines and optimizing procedures such as accounting, stock, banking, and electronic invoicing, among other things. Founded in: 2002.

Payment Methods 10

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Services 10

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix : We thought that you can’t innovate on too many dimensions. Felix : And then kind of as we raised our series B round where we said, okay, let’s try to build a really good and successful company, that’s when we shifted to a hundred percent subscription. It can order subscription. Felix : Yeah, exactly.

Sales Hiring 183

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Government 183

ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

From 1992 until 2002, the number of AOL subscribers grew 125X, from 200,000 to 25,000,000. Bundled service providers like AOL have phased out and cloud-based subscription services are enjoying their time in the sun. We’ve got words like subscription, ad supported, license, and ASP, that are well understood. But it worked.

Pricing 41

Pricing Business Model Cloud Venture Capital 41

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world. Harry Stebbings: Well, I think I should invoice you for the advice because that was fantastic.

Scale 208

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 208