SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

By: Rob Nathan, EVP, Integrated Solutions at CardConnect. With thousands of new startups emerging everyday and the average turnover rate for business applications trending at 39% annually, the SaaS industry couldn’t be more competitive. Making payments accessible overseas. Securing payments. A 2017 U.S.

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Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

But launching your eCommerce store is just half the equationaccepting payments efficiently and effectively is a whole different ball game. On the surface, it seems effortless, with customers only taking a few seconds to initiate and complete payments. The eCommerce payment solution infrastructure involves several key players.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 88

FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2023

If you’re currently using 2Checkout or Stripe to sell digital goods or SaaS but are considering switching — to the other, or to other options such as FastSpring — you may be wondering whether there are substantial differences between the platforms and their services. What does all of that mean? What Is FastSpring and Who Is It For?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

Check is a payroll-as-a-service API that lets you embed payroll directly in your vertical SaaS, HR, or time-tracking platform. Embed white-labeled dashboards in your SaaS application or portal. Finix makes it easy for software platforms of all sizes to process payments while increasing revenue and reducing cost.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2022

So is Square a SaaS company? The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional” payments and software. And yet … and yet … its engine is all software and really SaaS. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. businesses. #4.

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USIO

AUGUST 12, 2024

Innovative SaaS Payment Gateways for Startups In the highly competitive world of startups, managing payment processing can indeed be a significant challenge. Furthermore, the complexities, high costs, and time-consuming processes can easily divert your focus from what truly matters: growing your business.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

According to the US Federal Reserve in 2022, general-purpose card payments reached $153.3 On top of that, 69% of Americans online in 2023 said they used digital payment methods to make a purchase. As a business owner, you just cant afford to ignore these statistics. But selecting a good payment solution can be overwhelming.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 88

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

Cecily Sackey, Senior Customer Success Manager @ Capchase & Alex Pedraza, Head of New Business @ Capchase. Emerging Insurance Disruptors: Are they Really SaaS? Secrets to Aligning Marketing and Revenue Strategies with Marqeta’s CMO. 3 Ways Payments Drive Growth for SaaS Companies with Adyen’s SVP.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Latin American SaaS landscape is hustling and bustling, having seen more IPOs in the last 6 months than the previous 20 years combined. We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. Founded : 2011.

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The Angel VC

APRIL 24, 2015

When I talk to SaaS startups and take a look at their metrics, it still happens quite often that some of the numbers aren’t quite clear to me and it takes some time to clarify things. That said, I believe most SaaS companies can focus on a small number of revenue metrics which aren’t overly complicated.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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. A few weeks ago, to great fanfare, the marketing automation Cloud leader Klaviyo filed an S1, marking the first pure SaaS company to file to go public in a 2-year draught in SaaS IPOs.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

A lot of our SaaS older times don’t quite know what to make with a lot of B2B startups these days, let alone some public SaaS companies. So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. Doesn’t ARR stand for Annual Recurring Revenue?

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 360

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2023

So over the past decade-and-a-half we’ve come up with a lot of yardsticks, metrics and rules for SaaS companies. But — they are broken if you aren’t really a traditional, 100%+ NRR SaaS company. In particular: Hybrid SaaS with payments and fintech usually has far, far lower gross margins than pure software. It depends.

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FastSpring

JUNE 13, 2025

As a 25+ year digital veteran, David’s accolades include acquiring and operating many design plugin and theme businesses including WordPress’ #1 theme framework Genesis, and his teams have built plugins monetizing with marketplaces, direct purchase, and in support of SaaS products for top brands like Cloudflare, AWS, WP Engine, and more.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 2, 2021

They help B2B SaaS marketers turn organic search into a source of repeatable revenue through software and coaching. Panther helps remote startups hire anyone, anywhere, in just a click. They handle global payroll, taxes, compliance, and benefits — so startups can focus on work that matters. No matter where they live.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2023

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. SAP for Startups? Grab tickets here.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In this new SaaStr series called “What’s new at…,” Jason Lemkin chats with WorkOS CEO and founder Michael Grinich about what it takes to be Enterprise ready in SaaS, building vs. buying, and who the stakeholders are in a B2D motion. Developer-Led Growth Differs From Product-Led Growth WorkOS is a developer platform.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

The SaaS industry has seen explosive growth in the past decadeand this is expected to continue this year. Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2022

With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure.

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Merchant Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 269

Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space. It was an Embedded Finance play starting with payments. [It

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Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 147

SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin answered the community’s most pressing questions about SaaS — from investor appetites and IPOs in 2024 to managing and hiring a Head of Sales as a solo founder to AI and the future of customer success. The number one is Klaviyo, the only SaaS IPO in two years.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Just how big is the current web3 B2B SaaS total addressable market (TAM)? In the last six months, 103 web3 companies generated revenue on-chain, the smallest of which recorded a few hundred dollars of sales & the largest, Ethereum, tallied $401m. Total Revenue, $M. of Revenue spent on Software. in startup market cap.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

But those three things are what got Starbucks its first profitable coffee shop in Seattle, not what allowed that shop to morph into an $80 billion business with 30,000 cafes around the world. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. That kind of growth? Salesforce?

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Payments Scale Revenue SaaS Payments 186

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Integrating customer-facing subscription management tools on your own site.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

But, as a business grows, teams may find that this success hinges on overcoming one final hurdle: building a financial stack. Suzanne Xie kicked off her journey in SaaS as the Founder and CEO of Lightwell. What makes a SaaS business so hard? Platforms-as-a-service. But this reticence only results in greater pain.

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Payment Features Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 255

FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

We don’t have to look far to find examples of B2B SaaS companies that have found traction using a self-service or product-led motion. Look at Zoom or Slack: businesses designed for enterprise organizations that use B2C-like onboarding flows (such as product-led growth, or PLG) to fuel interest and adoption. Prepare to Be Iterative.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. We’ll see 1,000+ of the best SaaS founders, execs, and VCs February 22-23 at SaaStr APAC 2023 ! Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Grab tickets here.

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Education 246

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2024

PayPal: Their Market Stayed the Same PayPal started as a payment encryption service, and now they’re a web-based payment processor. They never gave up on their core inbound marketing platform. If you have an early-stage startup with 15 different ideas, you’re not pivoting. Was HubSpot a Pivot? But that’s not a pivot.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods PayPal 254

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. This was precisely my experience upon meeting Toni and Carlos, the founders of Embat, in an area we’ve extensively have been exploring: treasury management and payment automation.

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Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Scale 272

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With nine figures in revenue, Ariel and SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin talk about all things Navan, rebranding when you have brand equity, building B2B software for people, pricing and business models, and much more. They learned from some of the biggest in SaaS — Aaron Levie and Jeff Lawson. Navan used to be TripActions.

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Payment Solutions Payments Travel Scale 276

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands.

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Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

Whether you are a startup owner, a manager of a growing business or the CEO of an established company, you might find yourself asking questions like “ Should our SaaS subscription model be monthly, annually or both ?” History of the subscription pricing model: From newspapers to the rise of SaaS subscription.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

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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The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

Almost exactly four years ago I published a financial plan template for SaaS startups based on a model that I had created for Zendesk a few years earlier. The original v1 model was a very simple plan for early-stage SaaS startups with a low-touch sales model.

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FastSpring

MAY 14, 2024

Austin is already home to some of FastSpring’s key team members, including our Chief Revenue Officer Mark Kole and Chief Marketing Officer David Vogelpohl. By embedding ourselves within this dynamic environment, we aim to foster closer connections with our customers and immerse ourselves fully in Austin technology.

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Technology 158

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The story of payment processors begins in 1998 when Confinity (later X.com, but you probably know it as PayPal) was released. This early payment processor did very little and wasn’t all that important to global commerce. That history might be interesting to some, but the real questions are: What are payment processors?

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