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How SaaStr Fund-Backed RevenueCat Went from a $1.5M Round at $7M Valuation in 2018 to $500M+ Today

SaaStr

When SaaStr Fund made the first investment in RevenueCat back in 2018, nobody could have predicted that this “simple API for managing in-app subscriptions” would become the infrastructure powering 33% of all mobile subscription apps and reach a $500M valuation in 2025. ” required weeks of developer time to answer.

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Approaching Half a Million Customers: How to Win in SMB with BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte

SaaStr

This gets more challenging when you have stakeholders who aren’t the ones buying the software. I already have a solution.” Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. There was no software yet.

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6 Payment Acceptance Obstacles SaaS Companies Face and How to Avoid Them

SaaStr

By: Rob Nathan, EVP, Integrated Solutions at CardConnect. Despite the hyper competition, many SaaS providers take their organization’s payment processing experience for granted. Whether we want to admit it or not, payments can play a big and often unseen role in contributing to or reducing customer churn. A 2017 U.S.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. When you add in payments, i.e. merchant services, NRR for 2018+ is about 110%, based on the below new chart.

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Redpoint Office Hours with Medha Agarwal & Shopify’s Kaz Nejatian

Tom Tunguz

On Wednesday, October 7th at 9:30 AM PT, Redpoint Office Hours will welcome Kaz Nejatian , the VP & GM of Shopify Financial Solutions (including Shopify Capital). payments, financing, banking, and insurance)? During the conversation, we’ll discuss: What does the future of financial services look like? Watch outs?

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

Trailblazing through their home continent, venturing successfully onto the world stage or changing from on-premise software to SaaS, these companies could have a postal code in any SaaS hotspot in the world. ContaAzul was acquired by the collaborative software platform Wabbi Software S.A. We can’t wait to meet them. Superlógica.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Expensify at $140,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

It was just amazing that when iPhone launched, you could now take a picture of receipts and have them somewhat automatically “expensed” A jaw dropping, amazing use of the first generation on mobile apps. But after adding more credit cards and payments, and coming out of Covid … boom!! Oftentimes, even.

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