2005 SaaS Payments Scaling 
SaaStr
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Jason starts with the meta-question we’ve been asking a lot of SaaS leaders lately ( Klaviyo , ZoomInfo ) — ‘are we in a downturn?’ Going Long We’ve written before on the power of going long in SaaS. Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. in revenue.
SaaStr
JUNE 22, 2025
Instead, the company pivoted aggressively into expense management and payments, expanding beyond its travel roots. The company brought back Rich Liu, a scaling expert, as CEO of Navan Travel, and appointed Amy Butte—former NYSE CFO who oversaw the exchange’s own 2006 IPO—as board audit committee chair and Chief Financial Officer.
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Tom Tunguz
MARCH 28, 2021
UIPath, leaders in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, filed their S-1 last week , revealing an impressive business. Founded in 2005 in Bucharest, Romania, by Daniel Dines and Marius Tirca, the company now operates more than 60 offices housing nearly 3000 employees. The services gross margin is -19%.
SaaStr
APRIL 19, 2023
One leader in SMB commerce is Lightspeed Commerce, founded way back in 2005. And their mix of software, payments and hardware revenue drives up the total deal size — but puts a lot of pressure on margins. Software subscriptions are only growing 9%, vs. 41% for payments / transaction revenue. #2. Not EBIDTA positive yet.
SaaStock
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. Tienpay enables merchant payments, person-to-person transfers, and vouchers, among other functionalities. . Founders : William Tien. Founded : 2011.
SaaStr
APRIL 6, 2021
Growth fueled by the addition of transactional revenue, not SaaS revenues. Olo’s explosive growth in the past 24 months prior to IPO wasn’t fueled so much by its SaaS revenue, but by transaction revenue as part of orders. As last as 2018, 93% of Olo’s revenue was pure SaaS. Billion valuation today.
FastSpring
DECEMBER 15, 2023
FastSpring provided key evidence about alternative payment options in EPIC’s antitrust lawsuit against Google Santa Barbara, CA – December 12, 2023 – Overnight in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California a jury found that Google Play and Google Play Billing represent an illegal monopoly run by Google.
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