SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

The areas of interest are IT, mobile, consumer products and services, healthcare, cleantech, and financial services, among others. SaaS Investments: NQ Mobile, and others. Founded: 2015. Founded: 2015. Founded: 2015. It has more than 100 investments since its founding in 2001. Founded: 2001. Size of fund: $700M.

SaaS Payments 190

SaaS Payments Venture Capital Payment Services Telecommunications 190

SaaStock

MARCH 26, 2019

Founded : 2015. Founded : 2015. Founded : 2015. Elevator pitch : Rabbot offers intelligent software automation for mobile businesses that need to manage and control in a scalable way their fleet journey. To date, they have captured more than 1 million responses of nearly 100,000 employees within dozens of organizations.

Startup 210

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The Angel VC

AUGUST 26, 2015

2) Billions of dollars of on-premise revenues are still up for grabs In spite of this tectonic shift of deployment preferences, IDC estimates that in 2015 the market share of on-premise deployments in the enterprise applications market is still almost 80%. Today there are more than two billion smartphone users worldwide.

SaaS 173

SaaS Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Construction 173

Unbounce

AUGUST 28, 2018

If you run paid ads, chances are you have a mobile campaign or two (or two hundred) live right now. And as such, behavior on mobile is shaping how marketers need to operate. Over the last four years, we were inundated with messages declaring it was finally “the year of mobile”, so much so that it felt like our industry was crying wolf.

Mobile 95

Mobile Underperforming Technical Team Advertising Web Development 95

Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Fast forward to now where much has changed, and research anticipates contactless mobile payments to exceed one billion users globally by 2024. Customers can pay with their watch or phone just by tapping it on a card reader, and businesses can host an entire POS system on a mobile phone.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Services Mobile Payments Merchant Services 88

SaaStr

MARCH 4, 2019

Here’s a discussion Aaron Levie and I had on the topic back in 2015: “If we just sold to end users and silos, We’d Only Be a $25,000,000 Business” — Aaron Levie. And realistically, in the early days, it lacked some of the core sync technology of Dropbox for Dropbox’s core early consumer use cases (especially pre-mobile). And it worked.

Mobile 30

Mobile Content Marketing Cloud Technology 30

ReSci

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

While there's been some debate on whether it's the year of the Sheep or the Goat, we're calling it as irrelevant: in our book, it's definitely the year of mobile. The post Move aside, Sheep/Goat – 2015 is the Year of Mobile appeared first on ReSci. 58% of American adults….

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In the 1990s, Shigetaka Kurita, a designer at Japan’s main mobile carrier, NTT DoCoMo, created a simple heart-shaped pictogram for the company’s pager. It was such a popular feature that it soon expanded to a set of 176 emoji, and other mobile devices started adding their own emoji characters, too. Enter the emoji.

Business 129

Business Communication Trends Banking 129

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

In 2014, that figure fell to 1186 and in 2015, we count 481. The promise of mobile remains only somewhat fulfilled. Seed round volumes in 2016 have halved compared to 2015, but increased in median size by 40%. The rate of new software company formation seems to have declined materially in the past few years.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital SaaS Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 100

Neil Patel

JULY 17, 2021

Mobile-friendliness: Google uses the mobile version of your website for ranking and indexing, which means “mobile-friendliness” is a ranking factor. In 2015, Google released a Hummingbird extension, RankBrain. Optimize for Mobile. Irrelevant links may be affected. Google RankBrain. Here are 10 tips to help.

Mobile 141

Mobile User Experience Social Media Engineering 141

FastSpring

MARCH 16, 2023

From 2015 to 2020, MapTiler doubled the number of countries where it has customers. The Swiss-based SaaS company now helps governments, enterprises, and SMBs in over 120 countries by providing maps API for web and mobile developers.

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments Social Media 148

Unbounce

DECEMBER 10, 2018

In July of this year, the search engine announced that speed will have a more prominent effect on the ranking of mobile searches. 46% of people say waiting for pages to load is what they dislike most about browsing the web on mobile. seconds to load a mobile landing page. to 3 seconds on mobile and desktop is a smart move.

Marketing 111

Marketing Mobile Engineering Branding 111

ReSci

MARCH 17, 2015

This article first appeared on Bronto.com on February 26, 2015 in their Commerce Marketing blog. The post Conquering Mobile: Why Marketers Need to Think Mobile-First, Not Mobile-Friendly appeared first on ReSci. You can find the original version.

Mobile 40

Mobile Marketing 40

Brian Balfour

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

I recently spoke with Andy as part of a 1 hour interview covering: How he brought a web-first product to mobile Activity notifications, rich push, and other techniques for driving mobile growth and retention Andy’s “Mobile Growth Stack” for 2017 You can watch the full interview here, and check out the truncated text version below.

Mobile 62

Mobile Retention Benchmarks Underperforming Technical Team 62

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Mobile phones. More than 20% of US homes in 2015 will have cut the cord - and stopped paying for cable TV service. Communications. Healthcare. Entertainment. In the past ten years, is there an industry startups haven’t upheaved? Startups have been the most transformational force in US society over the past 20 years.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Banking Healthcare Startup 100

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

For the longest time, B2B SaaS companies have failed to put much thought into their mobile experience because: People don’t work on mobile. The bulk of mobile traffic comes from developing nations (read: low budget). is now seeing a 50/50 split between mobile and desktop traffic—a significant change from the 25/75 split in 2015.

Mobile 52

Mobile B2B Scale SaaS 52

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. Micro Startup Acquisition Trends.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

ReSci

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Customer engagement, reducing churn, marketing analytics, and mobile engagement are issues retailers constantly…. The post Our Top Picks for Shop.org Digital Summit 2015 appeared first on ReSci.

Mobile 40

Mobile Innovation Churn Trends 40

Trint

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In November 2015 Edge launched Edge Creative Enterprise Fund, a £40 million fund with backing from the British Business Bank. Edge Investments has also invested in children’s entertainment, live events and mobile games analytics. Media inquiries: Michael Nelson-Wolter, Trint: michael@trint.com www.trint.com

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Investment Artificial Intelligence Banking Entertainment 130

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

At the end of 2015, we shipped over 100 things. In 2015, small things. ” But when we did that, we hired very fast through the end of 2015 and early 2016. There was a period when we didn’t think we understood the mobile technology and landscape and ecosystem, so we hired mobile specialists.

Sales Hiring 160

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Engineering 160

ReSci

AUGUST 4, 2015

Multi-channel retail and innovation in eCommerce are major themes, and there's a lot of emphasis on what's new in mobile as well. The post Sessions You Won’t Want to Miss at Etail East 2015 appeared first on ReSci. Etail East is kicking off in less than a week. To kick-off the start of….

Mobile 40

Mobile Innovation 40

Unbounce

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

All this being true, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) would seem like the hail mary pass that marketers have been waiting for. Essentially, AMP is a Google-backed framework for creating web pages that deliver near-instant load times, even on mobile. Tracking, for instance, has improved dramatically since AMP launched in 2015.

Marketing 111

Marketing Technical Review Software Review Mobile 111

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

This responsive WordPress theme is mobile responsive, modern, and can be used for virtually any subject or business objective. Auberge is built around a mobile-first design concept , which makes it 100% mobile responsive. The layout of this theme is constructed using the Bootstrap framework , with mobile responsiveness in mind.

Content Marketing 142

Content Marketing Marketing Mobile Software Review 142

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

And while this was only one of several strategies Spearmint LOVE used to improve their marketing, the end result was 991% YoY growth from 2015 to 2016. For example, you can dig deeper into your cohort analysis by segmenting mobile traffic vs. all traffic. How to Run a Cohort Analysis in Google Analytics.

Acquisition 145

Acquisition Mobile Retention Metrics 145

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Then you must snatch the golden opportunity to grab consumer attention with the ultimate local guide, on a mobile device including the iPhone and iPad as well as all Android device products. ? of mobile searches are based on location. Overall, local searches are growing 50% faster than overall mobile searches.

Payment Methods 126

Payment Methods Branding Payments Merchant Services 126

Tom Tunguz

JULY 6, 2015

According to ChiefMarTec, in 2015 there are 1875 marketing technology companies, up from 947 last year. Data mobility enables these department software stacks to exist. This fragmentation trend has been happening for quite some time.

Scale 100

Scale SaaS Finance Consulting 100

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 6, 2015

Withthe two venture backed IPOs though August 1, 2015, the trend shows no signs of abatement. And in addition to Facebook, there’s LinkedIn, mobile app stores, enterprise app stores, content marketing, and a host of other customer acquisition techniques not employed 20 years ago. In 2014, a startup needed $54M.

Startup 100

Startup Acquisition Trends Enterprise 100

Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

The best knowledge we have of Google’s algorithm comes in the form of major algorithm updates like: Mobile-first update (July 2019): Googlebot now looks at all websites as a smartphone, prioritizing sites that work well on mobile devices. Aim for under 2 seconds for a really fast site and under one second for mobile devices.

Outsourcing Services 145

Outsourcing Services Social Media Mobile Software Review 145

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

When my co-founders and I launched Branch in 2015, our mission was to deliver world class financial services to the mobile generation. Most importantly, perhaps, was the introduction of UPI in 2016—an instant, free national mobile payment system based on Aadhaar. But around 2017, we began to develop an interest in India.

Payment Services 115

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods 115

IT World

MARCH 5, 2020

The Etsy website and mobile app provide an online shop window to makers of hand-crafted and niche goods. The firm went public in 2015 and soon afterward made cloud migration a priority, so that it could scale its services without having to make big expensive hardware purchases up front, and to better leverage machine learning techniques.

Cloud 75

Cloud Scaling Marketplace as a Service Machine Learning 75

Neil Patel

APRIL 9, 2021

That’s a 10% increase over 2015. That’s why mobile messaging can be a highly effective part of your marketing strategy. Studies show direct SMS messaging even has a higher conversion rate than mobile advertising. The entire text post will show on mobile if no CTA button is used. It’s simple. You ask them!

Software Review 145

Software Review Business Sales Mobile 145

ReSci

APRIL 7, 2015

If there was any doubt that 2015 would be the year of mobile commerce, banish the thought. Starting April 21st, Google's mobile search algorithm will be updated to factor…. The post Google said it: Why marketers need to be mobile-ready by April 21st appeared first on ReSci.

Mobile 40

Mobile Marketing 40

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

With 20% of all search queries on mobile being voice queries , businesses can no longer afford to ignore this rising trend. Tip #6: Make sure it’s mobile-friendly. We live in a mobile-first world, as of February 2017, mobile devices accounted for 49.7% of web page views worldwide. Tip #7: Freshen it up.

Social Media 91

Social Media Mobile Engineering User Experience 91

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2019

Join Molly Ford, Salesforce Global Equality Programs Senior Director, and Leyla Seka, Salesforce VP of Mobile for actionable advice they have applied on their own journey. Leyla Seka – EVP of Mobile @ Salesforce. I’m the Executive Vice President of Mobile at Salesforce. Want to see more content like this session?

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Company Culture Leadership Mobile Cloud 210

FastSpring

MARCH 6, 2019

As of September 2017, Alipay accounted for over 54% of China’s mobile payment segment and is the preferred payment system of choice. s mobile payment and digital wallet allows users to make in-app, online, and in person purchases directly with their Apple device. The UnionPay mobile app is currently utilized by over 9.5

Payment Methods 89

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 89

Subscription Flow

MARCH 12, 2024

Established in the year 2015 because of Shola Akinlade as well as Ezra Olubi, Paystack Nigeria revolutionized the financial technology industry in the nation. It presents a versatile payment platform enabling businesses to receive payments from customers through diverse channels like web, mobile, ATM, and POS terminals.

Merchant Services 98

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Features 98

FastSpring

JUNE 12, 2019

In 2015, the EU commission expanded on the existing regulation and introduced the second Payment Services Directive. A new version of the 3DS has been released that will offer the ability to authenticate transactions using a biometric method that many mobile phones already offer like fingerprints and facial recognition.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 97