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The Early Days: How Deel Went From $1m to $100m ARR in Just 20 Months

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I dream about clients telling me, ‘Hey, I did not receive my payment today. ” This brutal honesty has become Wang’s signature—and it’s exactly what propelled Deel from $1M to $100M ARR in just 20 months, making them (briefly) the fastest-growing SaaS company in history. .” What is going on?'”

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Breaking Into Asia? Benchmarking Data and Insights on SaaS Subscriptions in Asia

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Here are the questions we sought to answer by analyzing anonymized subscription data for transactions across various Asian countries (excluding broader “APAC” regions like Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia): How do customers in Asia’s growing markets prefer to manage their SaaS subscriptions? or EU, or are they different?

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Navan Files for IPO: The Opening of B2B IPO Floodgates?

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Instead, the company pivoted aggressively into expense management and payments, expanding beyond its travel roots. The strategy paid off: Navan now serves over 11,000 businesses globally, including household names like Zoom, Lyft, Shopify, and Heineken. Filed April 2025 Stripe 2010 Patrick Collison Payments $1.4T volume $91.5B

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Need to Know | The Payment Partner of the Future: Balancing Customer Value and Business Growth

Stax

The world of payments is constantly evolving, with new technologies and shifting business demands reshaping how money moves. In an interview with Karen Webster , CEO of PYMNTS , Paulette Rowe , CEO of Stax, pulled back the curtain on the critical strategies and innovations driving the next wave of payment partnerships.

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Mastering Embedded Payments: Strategies for ISVs

Stax

In a recent interview with Austin Prey from PYMNTS , Adam Gray , Chief Transformation Officer at Stax, shared his perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing independent software vendors (ISVs) as they integrate payment solutions to meet the diverse needs of their merchant customers.

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

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20X year 1⃣ 12X year 2⃣ 5X year 3⃣ #deelspeed @deel [link] — Shuooo (@shuoshuooshuooo) January 23, 2023 When we look at SaaS companies’ success stories, everything looks great on their growth maps. Shuo Wang is the CRO and co-founder of Deel, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies.

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Need to Know | Embedded Finance Unlocks Value for Underserved Small Business Sectors

Stax

The rapid evolution of embedded payments is reshaping industries and unlocking new opportunities, particularly for small business sectors that have often been overlooked. Adam Gray , Chief Transformation Officer at Stax, recently sat down with Hal Levey of PYMNTS to discuss emerging trends in payment processing and vertical integration.