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5 Interesting Learnings From Bill at $1.2 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Both Bill and Shopifty have morphed over the years from almost pure SaaS companies to payments platforms built on top of a SaaS core. The rest of the growth is from its Divvy platform, which is bought in 2021 for $2.5 But payments and transaction are far bigger at $800m run rate — and growing faster at 38%. #2.

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State of the Cloud 2023 with Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. The Macro Impact On Public Cloud Software Over The Past Year Cloud stocks dropped in 2022 in a severe market pullback event that Bessemer Venture Partners call The SaaSacre. Let’s find out.

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Thanks to Carta, Make, Outreach, SAP, and Worldline for Sponsoring SaaStr Europa 2023!

SaaStr

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. We’ll see 2,500+ of the best SaaS founders, execs, and VCs NEXT WEEK June 6-7 at 2022 SaaStr Europa ! Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Grab tickets here. SAP for Startups?

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Webinar Recap: Winning at Payments Episode 1 – November 2022

Infinicept

Three Ways Financial Institutions are Capitalizing on Embedded Payments (Episode 1 of the Winning at Payments Webinar Series) Your competitors are investing in embedded payments, opening new opportunities for commercial bank services, and accelerating payments processing revenue growth.

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CFO Tools You Should be Using in 2022

SaaSOptics

SaaSOptics is the bridge between a company’s CRM and general ledger that prevents revenue from falling through the cracks. SaaSOptics automates your expense and revenue recognition , helping you keep your data clean and making audits a breeze. Utilizing ePay tools makes sending invoices and receiving customer their payments easy.

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Doubling Down: Nina Achadijian, Partner at Index Ventures

SaaStr

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? The company is an AI platform that empowers teachers to give instant, personalized feedback to students, based in San Francisco. What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? What’s different about your fund / how you invest and support founders?

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 2 (Pod 608 + Video)

SaaStr

At the end of Day 3 of SaaStr Annual 2022, Jason opened up the mic for an AMA. You’ll never scale revenue if you can’t get two people to hit quota. And then I just kept investing in companies that did some of this because I was passionate about it. I invested a small amount in Front, which is 1.7B.