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M&A Is Back! Melio’s $2.5B Exit to Xero — In Just 7 Years!

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to dominate US SMB payments. Founder Matan Bar’s payments pedigree (sold first company to PayPal, ran PayPal’s Global P2P) meant he understood the pain intimately. Melio didn’t just move payments online; they made bill pay delightful. TL;DR : After years of M&A drought, big deals are returning.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $4 Billion in ARR

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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. NRR of 110%+ since 2018 — sort of. But likely it’s below 100% excluding payments.

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5 Interesting Learnings From Shopify. At $3+ Billion in ARR.

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But, there are still many interesting things we can learn from Shopify, especially since it sells to so many SMBs, has been late to go upmarket, and combines a payments/fintech element with pure SaaS. So are you sure your trial needs to be so short? Subscriptions can fuel payments and merchant revenue. to promote your app?

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

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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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How to Drive NRR Over 100% With SMBs

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Let’s take a look at a few Cloud leaders that show this quantitatively: #1 Shopify’s NRR has grown from 100% to 110% as its merchant services (payments) has exploded. Pretty good for SMB SaaS. In fact, now it’s more than 2x the size of its SaaS software alone. But then a lot changed in the last few years.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

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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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Embedded Finance and what it means for vertical software | Episode 39

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Ian Hillis, Head of Growth at Worldpay for Platforms discusses this new term and what the opportunity may await software providers on our latest episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments podcast. Ian defines it as financial products that are integrated into a familiar software workflow and tailored to the specific needs of the end user.

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