SaaS
McEasy is digitizing Indonesia’s logistics, transportation and supply chain industries
In Indonesia, many logistics providers still use old-fashioned systems to track their operations and fleets, including pen-and-paper ledgers. McEasy wants to change that. The startup, which develops s
TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS success stats, leveraging ad tech chaos, 2022 layoff trends
I remember the dread I felt as a startup worker during downturns when I read about mass layoffs at tech firms that had previously been considered ascendant.
Recurring revenue growth is the key to overcoming economic headwinds
Capchase concluded that "best-in-class" SaaS startups are still growing and that unit economics are reliable predictors of future success.
Social care SaaS maker Birdie tops up with $30M
Birdie, a U.K.-based caretech software-as-a-service maker, has closed a $30 million Series B funding round led by investment firm Sofina, with Omers Ventures and Index Ventures also participating R
August Health digitizes senior living communities for better care
Senior living communities often rely on paper or legacy systems to manage their operations, making it difficult for healthcare providers to keep track of residents’ needs. August Health is on a miss
Tiger Global backs SaaS omnichannel social commerce platform SleekFlow in $8M funding
Social commerce — the process of buying and selling products or services directly through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok — is becoming the most natural way for consumer
Selling to startups is not the same as selling to SMBs
Brex's recent decision to exit part of the SMB market was big news. In this context, we want to talk about just what an SMB is and how not all small accounts are the same.
OpenView’s Kyle Poyar shares how to build a standout software company in the 2020s
The best software companies of the 2020s will be built over the next 12 months. But the way to build and scale a standout company in the 2020s doesn’t look like it did in the past.
SaaS platform LeadSquared becomes unicorn with $153 million fresh funding
LeadSquared, a SaaS startup that is helping sales teams become more efficient with its CRM platform, is the latest Indian startup to become a unicorn. LeadSquared said on Tuesday it has raised $153 mi
Spendflo helps companies track their SaaS expenses
Many people have plenty of online subscriptions that they barely use and can save a fair amount of money with a service like Truebill to see all their recurring payments in one place. Spendflo wants t
Bluesheets wants to better manage financial data and workflows via its business automation platform
Bluesheets, a Singaporean AI-powered data-processing platform that enables financial automation for enterprises, has raised $4 million led by Insignia Ventures. The latest funding, which brings its to
Glint Solar’s SaaS is helping developers spin up a pipeline of renewable energy projects
Norwegian startup, Glint Solar, has built a SaaS platform to help developers identify strong contenders for ground-based (or floating) solar projects with the goal of supporting a fast-growing industr
AppOmni raises $70M to find and secure vulnerabilities in SaaS app stacks
As more enterprises migrate apps and workloads into the cloud, so grows the need for more sophisticated tech to secure that activity. That’s resulted in a strong run of funding rounds for startu
Investors have flipped their weighting of growth versus profitability
Battery's new report, The Cloud Quarterly, provides insights on what type of public SaaS companies have seen their valuation take a hit or resist in recent months and what they have in common.
Boldstart Ventures has two new funds to plug into teams with an idea and little else
Boldstart Ventures, a seed- and early-stage venture firm that markets itself as a “day one partner for developer-first, crypto-infrastructure and SaaS founders,” has closed on two new fund
Faster ML models, crypto M&A and what’s ahead for on-demand pricing
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex and Grace are back to cover the biggest, boldest and ba
SWVL plans to lay off 32% of its team two months after going public
Egypt-born and Dubai-headquartered mobility startup SWVL is planning to lay off 32% of its workforce it said in a statement today. The company’s LinkedIn profile shows it has over 1,330 employee
Paddle acquires ProfitWell for $200M to bring analytics and retention tools to its SaaS payments platform
On the back of Paddle raising $200 million at a $1.4 billion valuation the other week, the London startup is making a key acquisition to bring more functionality to its payments platform for SaaS comp
Stripe launches App Marketplace, scripts and tools incorporating third-party SaaS apps that work alongside Stripe
Stripe, the payments upstart now valued at $95 billion, has been launching a number of new products to expand beyond the API that helped make its name, to build out its position as a platform for fina
Actiondesk is a spreadsheet tool that works with live data
Actiondesk is a new spreadsheet solution for the software-as-a-service era. It connects with the databases, CRMs and SaaS tools that you already use so that you can build dashboards and generate repor