Stax

MAY 2, 2024

A merchant cash advance (MCA), also referred to as a merchant loan or business cash advance, is a short-term business financing option that allows small business owners to receive cash advances based on future credit or debit card sales. Your future revenue acts as a guarantee.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 10, 2020

For every $1 of revenue collected by a hospital, $0.25 That’s several multiples higher than the highest payment processing fees in other industries, and even worse, most of that spend … The post Investing in Alpha Health appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Stax

MARCH 19, 2024

Business owners are increasingly showing an overwhelming preference for SaaS platforms with embedded payment capabilities as part of their offerings. Not to mention the benefit of extra revenues from payment processing fees collected on each transaction. What are Integrated Payments?

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. CEO : Vinicius Roveda Goncalves. RD Station. CEO : Tiago Dalvi.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 12, 2021

Like any business, creating an app requires laying the groundwork before launch. Here’s a five-step guide for getting ready to launch your app, including how to do your research, ways to monetize your app , and what to include in your business plan. How are they monetized? Build an App Step 1: Do Market Research.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 5, 2023

Fiscal Policy Fiscal policy involves the use of government revenue collection (taxation) and expenditure (spending) to influence a country's economy. Government spending takes many forms, including investment in infrastructure, provision of social services, and transfer payments like social security and unemployment benefits.

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Payment Services Cloud Government Banking 169

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses. Grew to over a hundred million dollars in revenue in five years.

Payment Solutions 150

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 28, 2020

As Chief Credit Officer at Lighter Capital, I work behind the scenes grappling with the data that informs all of our decision-making regarding financing deals, from revenue-based financing (RBF) to term loans and lines of credit. What should VCs make of revenue-based financing? Turning revenue-based financing into pre-VC growth.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Some industries like government and healthcare have been particularly affected. For instance, recent data by Verizon shows data breaches in the healthcare industry increased by 58 percent. While these causes can be dangerous for businesses dealing with sensitive data (think payment processing apps), most of them can be prevented.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2020

As the coronavirus outbreak upends lives and businesses everywhere, support teams are increasingly the first place that customers turn to for guidance. Whether it’s checking on shipment status, processing refunds, or fielding requests for payment relief, support reps are facing mounting pressure.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

If you’re running a subscription or SaaS business, you know that at the end of the day your chief metric is monthly recurring revenue (MRR). MRR gives your company that forward looking measurement and predictive revenue to actually grow your business. What is a dunning process? Think about that. Let’s be real.

SaaS Payments 105

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 8, 2024

Our healthcare system is expected to spend over $25 billion on cell and gene therapies by 2028, according to EvaluatePharma and as shown in the figure below. So, while these therapies have the potential to change patients’ lives, they could also lead to ballooning healthcare costs.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Adjust your revenue forecast Base-Case scenario Worst-Case scenario Review bank balance before expense adjustments 4. Evaluate your new plan Expense breakdown Comparison to 2019 Comparison to 2020 Target Quarterly view % of Revenue 6. Other things to consider Loans Payment terms Annual plans 7.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Although the total value of venture investments in tech declined 13% from 2018 through 2020 amid an overall venture funding pullback—the first decline since 2012—tech venture investments came roaring back during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Although the total value of venture investments in tech declined 13% from 2018 through 2020 amid an overall venture funding pullback—the first decline since 2012—tech venture investments came roaring back during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Technology 40

Technology Venture Capital Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments 40

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education. These platforms provide functionalities that a diverse user base benefits from, such as project management, social media, automated workflows, or customer relationship management (CRM). What is Horizontal SaaS?

SaaS Payments 88

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Founded: 2012. Based in: New York. Founded: 2008.

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Some companies report revenue churn, others only share customer or user churn numbers, and often there’s no distinction between whether churn numbers are annual or monthly. I mean, just take a look at all these different surveys: A 2018 KBCM Technology Group survey reported a median annual revenue churn rate of 13.2% Image via Recurly.

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Software Platform Consulting

MARCH 23, 2016

In addition, many of these policies are put in place, suppliers would say, to recover from the abuses buyers heap on them: habitually late payments. virtual card fees piled on an invoice and late payment process. healthcare supplies. And don’t get me started on the airlines–which may be colluding !

Payment Solutions 40

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Services Payment Methods 40

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. That’s way post-revenue.

Investment 160

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 160

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Founded: 2012. Based in: New York. Founded: 2008.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC Their first round of Angel investment in 2008 had not been a round for the sake of raising a round, or funds really even earmarked to invest heavily in growth. Buffer was so hot at the time - revenues were growing 150% per year - that the terms they got for their Series A were insanely good.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

How after that payment was processed or that service order was signed, you set your sights on cloning that customer. For example, if you sell healthcare wearables to hospices and palliative care organizations in the U.S., Your sales team is responsible for bringing revenue into your company. Here’s what I mean….

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. And basically SaaS revenue models is just magical for investors and for businesses. And you can basically predict revenue ahead of time and therefore raise money early on to grow even faster. MRR, obviously.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

According to Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, the one thing necessary for any company to succeed in China – or in any of the Asian countries – is to get local investment. SAIF Partners is one of the top private equity firms that provides growth capital financing for Asia businesses. SaaS Investments: Goodera, and others.

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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

How after that payment was processed or that service order was signed, you set your sights on cloning that customer. For example, if you sell healthcare wearables to hospices and palliative care organizations in the U.S., Your sales team is responsible for bringing revenue into your company. Here’s what I mean….

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

I mean, I think in a bunch of categories like healthcare and distance learning and infrastructure, this recession, which super sucks for a lot of people, it is going to be an accelerator for tech, because businesses are going to rely on technology and are also going to adopt technology faster. Aileen Lee: Yeah. Aileen Lee: Yeah.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

This here is an example from a Burmese restaurant called Thamee, in DC, which has partnered with World Central Kitchen, and they’re donating thousands and thousands of meals to people in need, healthcare staff, and frontline workers, Black Lives Matter protesters in the community. It is staggering.

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 159

Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Indie.VC (V3) Website: [link] Key Personnel: Bryce Roberts Revenue Requirement: Post revenue, but no minimum requirement. Board Seat: No Investment Docs: [link] Application Deadline: March 1, 2019 Apply Here: [link] Indie VC is the OG on this block and describes itself as “growth revenue for post-revenue companies.”

SaaS Payments 102

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

We invest in companies that transform the way people work. We mostly do seed-stage investments and a little bit if Series A. We’re investing both down and up the stack, anything from infrastructure to the data layer, to algorithm, to application. Business, the customers are getting impacted.

Technical Review 145

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: So for those that aren’t familiar with Salesforce Ventures, we are the strategic investment arm for Salesforce. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky. How do we make them feel part of the team and integrate them? Companies tend to stick around.

Sales Hiring 160

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 160

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Integrity Selling for the 21st Century. Strategy and Process. Predictable Revenue. Leveraging transparency and vulnerability in your presentations and your negotiations leads to faster buyer consensus, larger deals, faster payments, longer commitments and more predictable sales forecasts. Agile Selling. Spin Selling.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year. In revenue, the US government takes in 3.5 So the amount that we’ve handed out just in money going out of the US government is equal to 86% of the total revenue we take in in a year.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC): The sum invested in acquiring a new client, typically through marketing and sales efforts. Just keep in mind that it is a goal that you can achieve and that, when you do, your business will be changed forever. If it is outside your core market, this includes the insurance, healthcare, banking, etc.

Enterprise 10

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. A report from Bain & Company predicted that “Indian SaaS companies will reach $30 billion in revenue by the year 2025”. Indian SaaS enterprises deal with a wide variety of clients across finance, education, healthcare, and wellness. IBSFintech.

SaaS Payments 11

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Some solutions are expensive and might require a large upfront investment. Web authentication with security keys – users can authenticate themselves using FIDO-compliant security keys, using platforms like Yubikey or Google Titan. Inherent MFA. In many organizations, cybersecurity and specifically access control is lacking.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But we’ve had to figure it out over the last 10 years to understand how to find these small business customers. That economic activity is far greater than the dollar that goes to the small business because they’re generating revenue from that dollar, and it turns into more money. The house call used to be routine.

Payment Methods 102

Payment Methods Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Business 102