OPEXEngine

JULY 27, 2021

About two weeks ago, we invited our customers to a private roundtable, virtual discussion on Scaling Finance. This is something that we do every quarter in what we call the SaaS Finance MeetUP. It is an exclusive meeting limited to Finance executives benchmarking with us and governed by Chatham House Rules.

Finance 52

Finance Outsourcing Services Scaling SaaS 52

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Last week, Databricks announced their Series I financing at $43b. Snowflake’s cloud analytics database thrives on structured data. Databricks’ technology rips through unstructured data in a cloud data lake house. If more Databricks customers move to the cloud, these figures may converge.

Business 288

Business Cloud Finance AI 288

SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Q: What were the effects on Adobe’s finances when they switched from a licence purchase to a subscription model? We all underestimated the force the Cloud would become. Adobe was essentially stagnant for the better part of the Decade before going all-in on Cloud around 2012. Way underestimated.

Finance 131

Finance Deferred Revenue Subscription Payment Features 131

Navint

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Salesforce Revenue Cloud unites multiple existing products in the Salesforce ecosystem, most notably Salesforce CPQ & Billing, to support and enable a more robust sales engine, including those that rely on subscriptions, recurring revenue or consumption-based models.

Cloud 98

Cloud Revenue Finance Subscription 98

SaaStr

JANUARY 23, 2023

With the BVP Cloud Index down 40%+ from a year ago , and many of the top Cloud leaders trading for as low as 5x ARR, it’s just hard to justify a later stage $300m-$400m valuation round these days, let alone a true unicorn round. So now is simply a terrible time to be raising growth stage venture capital.

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AWS Venture Capital Finance Cloud 293

SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

HashiCorp __ Mary is a partner at Bessemer, where she primarily focuses on cloud software investments. She also developed Bessemer’s Cash Conversion Score and authors the annual Cloud 100 Benchmarks Reports. She serves as a board member or observer for Teleport, Netlify, Imply Data, LaunchDarkly, GetInsured, and Contractbook.

Venture Capital 206

Venture Capital Benchmarks Cloud compliance 206

Kellblog

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Founded in 2013 in New York, this is a cloud-based budgeting solution that appears to be bootstrapped and has fewer than 10 employees. Founded in 2018 in New York, founder Christina Ross tells a compelling story about her frustration as a finance user that led her to start the company. They have 93 reviews and 4.1 stars on G2.

Finance 87

Finance Forecasting Software Review Systems Review 87

SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Byron Deeter and Kristina Shen as they take a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. This marks the company’s fifth annual in-depth look at the cloud computing industry. And guess were how many of them were private cloud unicorns? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

Cloud 163

Cloud Scale Finance Retention 163

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Almost all Cloud and SaaS leaders have become profitable. How SaaS Is Fairing in the Macro Economy It’s crazy how much more efficient the leaders in SaaS and Cloud have gotten in one year. Companies are waiting too long to hire a CFO or VP of Finance. On the one hand, startups are much worse at finance and controls.

Sales Hiring 218

Sales Hiring Headcount Finance Technical Review 218

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 5, 2023

It's primarily an instrument of the government, typically managed by the finance ministry or treasury department. Fiscal Policy Fiscal policy involves the use of government revenue collection (taxation) and expenditure (spending) to influence a country's economy. The two main components of fiscal policy are taxes and spending.

Payment Services 169

Payment Services Cloud Government Banking 169

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2023

Rippling sells about 13 products for information technology teams, finance teams, & human resources teams like mobile device management, payroll, & talent management. In the first two decades of cloud, Parker argues startups built superior point solutions to compete against the distribution might of on-prem incumbents.

Startup 279

Startup Strategy Scale Cloud 279

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Our mission is to build powerful and secure cloud software for subscription businesses of all sizes, with a strong emphasis on good design and ease of use. Embedded finance has everything to do with the flow of money. StratusGreen is a leading provider of cloud computing solutions and services for emerging and mid-sized businesses.

Payments 214

Payments Payment Services GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Payment Solutions 214

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Accounting software built for the cloud can help you chart your course of action while planning your customer loyalty campaigns. Embracing a streamlined and modern accounting workflow is one of the best things you can do if your goal is to leverage finance into a true revenue generator.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Finance Churn Payment Services 52

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Accounting software built for the cloud can help you chart your course of action while planning your customer loyalty campaigns. Embracing a streamlined and modern accounting workflow is one of the best things you can do if your goal is to leverage finance into a true revenue generator.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Finance Churn Payment Services 52

Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

As more workloads and data move to the cloud and generative AI takes over the enterprise , cybersecurity is more critical today than ever. And that’s because with every new paradigm shift—from the internet to cloud computing—the sheer magnitude of digital threats has exploded and threat vectors have become increasingly sophisticated.

Investment 107

Investment Cybersecurity Azure Cloud 107

SaaStr

MAY 6, 2022

Many SaaS and Cloud leaders are down more than 50% from their all-time highs. But Covid did create a lot of artificial demand for Cloud products, especially the lockdown phase. Update on cloud software multiples, charted alongside the 10Y and 5 year pre-covid NTM rev multiple average. So the public markets are in tumult.

SaaS 325

SaaS Azure Cloud AWS 325

FastSpring

MAY 30, 2019

And according to Gartner’s 2018 report on cloud subscription and recurring billing management , more than 90% of software providers are expected to migrate to a subscription-based business model by 2022. In the second post of our subscription finance series, we’ll break down what you need to know about Annual Recurring Revenue.

Finance 65

Finance Subscription Payment Features Payments 65

SaaStr

MAY 23, 2024

Karl is a tech investor, serial entrepreneur, and most well-known for building DigitalOcean from the ground up, which is one of the fastest-growing cloud infrastructure companies. DigitalOcean’s value peaked at $15 billion. The ticker symbol is DOCN.

Technical Review 238

Technical Review Management Investment AI 238

SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2023

Services include Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting, Colocation, Content Delivery Network, Cyber Security Services, and Dedicated Servers supported by exceptional customer service and technical support. Navan is the all-in-one solution that makes travel easy so you can focus on being there, not getting there.

Payment Features 191

Payment Features SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 191

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Microsoft has amassed the most extensive channel for SaaS companies, and each of these vendors pushes teams to current customers, many of whom are moving to the cloud and relying on Microsoft for guidance. Sales acceleration, marketing, finance tools all built on Salesforce data with Slack delivering the user interface.

SaaS 279

SaaS Finance Cloud Engineering 279

Stax

MAY 30, 2024

With an easy-to-use interface and automated math functions, GoSimpleBooks makes small business accounting much simpler for accountants managing small business finances, sole proprietors, and small companies. This cloud-based, accounting software automatically backs up your data so you don’t have to worry about missing information.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Methods Technical Advisors 88

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 2, 2014

One of the cloud’s great promise has been cost-reduction and for a while, we’ve chanted a mantra that startups require less capital than before to get started and ultimately succeed. I’ve gathered the financing histories of the 41 publicly traded SaaS companies and adjusted them for inflation. 1998 42 2.5 2002 71 3.0

Finance 100

Finance Trends SaaS Cloud 100

SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2022

BambooHR ‘s cloud-based system is an intuitive, affordable way for growing companies to manage essential employee information in a personalized Human Resources Information System (HRIS). less and closing their books 86% faster by switching to Ramp’s finance automation platform.

Payment Solutions 177

Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments compliance 177

SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2019

subscribers to the SaaStr Cloud Daily on Quora , 9,200,000+ views, and are adding thousands of new followers per week. One benefit from Cloud Daily is our community speaks and upvotes their top stories of the week. The post The Top Cloud Stories of the Week: Sophos for $3.82 We now have over 250,000 (!) views · 22 upvotes.

Cloud 100

Cloud Sales Hiring Cybersecurity Finance 100

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will provides an in-depth look at the cloud computing industry across Europe and globally. Want to see more content like this? A few more.

Cloud 100

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 100

Navint

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Salesforce Revenue Cloud provides enormous value to transform lead-to-revenue systems and processes, unite sales and finance, and drive expanded revenue streams.

Cloud 52

Cloud Revenue Finance Enterprise 52

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

So, it’s no wonder that it has been a massive year in the Cloud Marketplace business. We thought it would be great to take a look back at our State of the Cloud Marketplaces Report and share some of the key findings for those who may be planning to launch their Cloud Marketplace business in 2022. .

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Marketplace as a Service Cloud Trends Software 77

FastSpring

MAY 30, 2019

And according to Gartner’s 2018 report on cloud subscription and recurring billing management , more than 90% of software providers are expected to migrate to a subscription-based business model by 2022. In this second post of our subscription finance series, we’ll break down what you need to know about Annual Recurring Revenue.

Payments 62

Payments Finance Subscription Payment Features 62

SaaS Metrics

JULY 17, 2018

Introduction Many users find SaaS terminology confusing at first, especially people new to the cloud technologies. Some of the terms included here are also common to other fields such as finance, but they make sense when you are dealing with SaaS (that’s why they have also been included).

Finance 49

Finance SaaS Cloud Technology 49

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Rise of 1000 Unicorns and 100 Decacorns, combined with the overnight changes to fundraising processes from Covid, have radically changed venture capital: Tiger alone is deploying $100 billion , mostly into Cloud startups, and very quickly. Debt and revenue-based financing is already almost automated — and that change happened fast.

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Venture Capital Banking Cloud Startup 262

SaaStr

AUGUST 1, 2023

The macro impacts for most in SaaS and Cloud are real. For the rest, the IT or finance departments tried to manage costs down. But still pretty strong growth at $1.5B Monday’s growth slowed to 50% from 65%. But again, still very impressive at $640m in ARR. The list goes on. But customers didn’t stop buying. Not all of them.

Headcount 203

Headcount Finance Cloud Startup 203

SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2022

These are Strange Times Indeed in SaaS and Cloud. They are the ones that often will bring you the leads for the next financing round. Perhaps one lesson we can take away from this story is that if you raise money at $45B valuation, you should try to make it your last round of financing. You want them to be SuperFans.

Finance 248

Finance Startup Cloud Communication 248

SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2021

The Cloud is far bigger than ever. The next dilution you hopefully won’t lament, but may, is Equity Financing (i.e., On VC financing, here are my 3 suggestions (and 1 framework) on how to think about Dilution: First, raise 125% of what you need in VC capital. Extra money to hire those 2-3 great VPs.

Sales Hiring 276

Sales Hiring Scale Venture Capital Finance 276

SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2022

Pleo offers smart company cards that enable employees to buy the things they need for work, all while keeping a company’s finance team in control of spending. Our mission at Vanta is to be a layer of trust on top of cloud services, to secure the internet, increase trust in software companies, and keep consumer data safe.

compliance 207

compliance Forecasting Finance AI 207

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Mobile, cloud, social - startups led each of those waves. Tech giants have amassed the largest data sets, leveraged massive balance sheets to finance the human and financial capital-intensive work of training models - which can cost millions of dollars for each run - and amassed years of experience working with large data sets.

AI 176

AI Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Innovation 176

SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

Re:ceeve , a finance SaaS company based in Germany, is looking for a candidate who is excited to help revolutionize receivable processes for finance, public utilities, and other enterprise industries. More on this opportunity here. More on this opportunity here. More on this opportunity here . More on this opportunity here.

Sales Hiring 313

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Payments 313

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2021

From the CEO of Chime, to the COO of Plaid, to the CMO of Marqeta, the best of Cloud and SaaS in finance and money are at SaaStr Money this Wednesday! We have an incredible line-up for SaaStr Money 2021 this Wednesday !! It’s FREE so sign-up ASAP here.

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Finance Cloud SaaS 144