SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

What VCs Are Funding in AI Today The AI funding landscape has evolved rapidly in 2023-2024. If 2023 was the “year of the demo,” 2024 should be the “year of production” – but most companies are still struggling to deploy AI successfully. This creates both challenges and opportunities for founders.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. You can deploy subscriptions as a service, billing as a service, fraud prevention as a service. Platforms-as-a-service.

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Payment Features Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 260

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A few weeks ago, we kicked off the Talent x Opportunity (TxO) Fall 2023 cohort in San Francisco. To date, TxO works with 45 promising companies and 68 founders, all of whom are building products and services inspired by unique cultural insights.

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Wireless Marketplace as a Service Artificial Intelligence Education 119

Natalia Luneva

APRIL 24, 2025

This shows how fast this model is growing. PayFac as a Service lets companies add payment processing to their platforms. Traditional payment models make businesses rely on third-party providers. This is up from $32 billion in 2023. With PayFac-as-a-Service, you get top-notch security like encryption and tokenization.

Merchant Services 40

Merchant Services PayFac as a Service Payment Services Marketplace as a Service 40

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach revolutionized the industry, making powerful CRM tools accessible without on-premise installs. Over the past two decades, Salesforce has evolved from a sales CRM into a comprehensive platform spanning sales, service, marketing, e-commerce, and app development.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 52

SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

For startups, the speaker suggests focusing on how AI can drive customer acquisition and go-to-market strategy, while for large companies, creating a vision for AI is important, as well as focusing on infrastructure and skillsets and reshaping governance to deal with security and compliance issues.

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Payment Methods Blockchain Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 52

Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

In Q3 of 2023, the total volume of payouts on ACH networks reached 7.8 PayFacs typically partner with a payment processor or a bank to provide merchant services. This is pretty much similar to the service that PayPal offers. With ACH payments, they can simply make a one-time payment or set recurring payments for your services.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 88