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Why India Leads in Digital Payments

Andreessen Horowitz

Over the past decade, India’s central bank—the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)—has become one of the most proactive regulators in the world, advancing the digitization of payments and financial services at a rapid pace. By 2019, the government had issued a unique ID to nearly every adult resident in India; today, the system is used by 1.3

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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

Stax

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.

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5 Interesting Learnings from AppFolio at $660,000,000 in “ARR”

SaaStr

There are several big leaders in property management software, and AppFolio is one of them. At $660m in “ARR” (a lot of that isn’t software, as we’ll see below), it’s trading at a $7.2 AppFolio is what the markets want in a software+ company, at least in 2023. Let’s dig in.

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Epic Games Versus The App Store: A Fight for Autonomy and Freedom in the Ecommerce Era

FastSpring

Note: Apple announced that it would be reducing the App Store fee from 30% to 15% for most developers starting on January 1st, 2021. For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. How viable is it for companies to shop their apps outside of mainstream marketplaces?

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5 Interesting Learnings from Toast at $500m in ARR, and a $3B Total Run Rate

SaaStr

And they are both incredibly impressive — 118% growth at $3B run-rate and $500m in ARR in software alone may be an all-time record — but also, perhaps not SaaS? #1. With gross margins of only 21%, is Toast really a software company? Wix just has more software revenue to blend the total margins higher.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Instructure at $620,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Instructure is one of the leading learning management systems for education with its Canvas product. It was founded in 2008 but took a while to get going, hitting $1m in revenue in 2011 selling to Utah schools — and then scaled from there. It rocketed to $100m in ARR just 5 years later in 2016. Your kids may well use it.

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UIPath S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

UIPath offers software to build robots, programs that automate repetitive work. Robots read pdfs that customers provide and input that data into other computer systems. The UIPath suite includes the software to write, execute, monitor, and maintain these robots. Lastly, let’s touch on UIPath’s revenue streams.