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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. By the time they raised their $1.5

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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

SaaStr

Everyone knew mobile commerce was exploding (from 15% in 2014 to 75% in 2024), but reaching customers on mobile was broken. Their patented TwAP technology that lets customers opt-in with a single click, automatically opening their messages app with a pre-composed text. The result?

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7 Predictions for SaaS in 2018

Tom Tunguz

Below are 7 predictions about the startup software ecosystem. It permit companies to bring US dollars held abroad (from software sales in other countries) back to the US at a lower tax rate than before. There are now 5 publicly traded software companies worth more than $10B, and 19 companies worth between $2.5B

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

SaaStr

It was born in the age of mobile, and from the moment it launched, everyone I knew started to use it to track their own expenses. Ultimately, this leads to higher margins in payments, but also entails taking on financial risk, fraud risk, and a significant regulatory and legal overhead. #5. Oftentimes, even. But not yet for Expensify.

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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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Why India Leads in Digital Payments

Andreessen Horowitz

Over the past decade, India’s central bank—the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)—has become one of the most proactive regulators in the world, advancing the digitization of payments and financial services at a rapid pace. By 2019, the government had issued a unique ID to nearly every adult resident in India; today, the system is used by 1.3

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ISV vs PayFac: The Similarities and Differences Between Independent Software Vendors and Payment Facilitators

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According to the Pew Research Institute , in 2022, a whopping 41% of Americans said they don’t use cash at all for any of their weekly purchases—a significant jump from 29% in 2018. In this article, we’ll break down two popular terms used in the payment processing industry—ISV and PayFac —and see what they exactly mean.