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Navan Files for IPO: The Opening of B2B IPO Floodgates?

SaaStr

The company has also been building strategic moats through innovative products like Navan Connect, which allows enterprises to keep existing banking relationships while accessing Navan’s expense management capabilities. Considering options Klarna 2005 Sebastian Siemiatkowski Fintech $2B $6.7B volume $91.5B volume $91.5B

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Join Daniel Dines, Co-CEO of UiPath, at 2023 SaaStr Europa in London on 6-7 June!!

SaaStr

UIPath History 2005: Started as a tech outsourcing company 2014: $500k rev. Dines started UiPath in 2005 with the goal of building a solution that could help humans reduce the time and stress that come from menial, administrative business tasks. seed round 2015: $1m rev. 2016: $3.5m rev 2017: $30m rev. 2018: $155m rev. 2016: $3.5m

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The Innovations Free Compute and Storage Unleash

Tom Tunguz

When I worked at Google in 2005, we would test individual machine learning models one or two at a time. Access to near-unlimited computational power and storage will define many of the key technology innovations in the next decade. The first manifestation of large scale, near-free compute I’ve seen is in machine learning.

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It’s Our Cake Day! FastSpring Turns 20

FastSpring

FastSpring was officially founded on June 28, 2005. Founded in 2005, FastSpring is a privately owned company headquartered in California with offices in the UK, the Netherlands, and Canada. Here at FastSpring, we’ve been celebrating our 20th anniversary all month long, but it’s finally our actual cake day!

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

It is a logistics and multi-selling platform which innovates how e-commerce can grow in the region. Launched in 2005 in New York and Guangzhou, Gizwits has become the largest IoT development platform in China, as well as its first PaaS and SaaS platform. Founded : 2005. from 500 Startups, World Innovation Lab, and others.

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Scaling a SaaS Startup to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath’s CEO and Founder (Podcast +Video)

SaaStr

UiPath was founded back in 2005, and its origin story is similar to many technical engineers-turned-founders. Robotics: The use of robotic technology evokes images of futuristic innovations that can revolutionize how work gets done. Dines’ story is humble, embodying his company values early on. I hired nice crazy people. Dines shares.

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The AI messaging pivot happening across SaaS

Sales Hacker

Describing your product as AI-powered is like saying its internet-connected in 2005. Leading with AI-powered used to signal innovation. As this flood of AI messaging hit, a lot of people quickly became numb to it. Now in 2025, AI promises have simply become baseline expectations. Its expected, not a value add.