SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

He also co-founded Coincall, a privacy-focused crypto portfolio tracker, later selling it in 2019. With SOC 2 compliance, the startup not only prioritizes innovation but also ensures top-tier data protection. Backed by 1.93 But as technology advances, so do the challenges.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. SOC 2 compliance: A Beginner’s Guide.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Reserve Bank of India first issued its directive related to subscription charges in 2019. Manual rebills will be the best way to maintain compliance. As a Merchant of Record provider, FastSpring’s service includes help with compliance for issues just like this one. Book a demo or create an account today !

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2018

In this 24 step GDPR compliance checklist, we’re spoon feeding you everything you should know to become compliant by the May 25th deadline! Why We Built This GDPR Compliance Checklist. All the terms under GDPR are legally binding and non-compliance carries penalties and fines of up to €20 million (or nearly $25 million).

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Scytale

JANUARY 21, 2025

HIPAA violations ) and legal settlements, such as Capital Ones $190 million payout following a 2019 breach. To prevent sensitive data from being leaked or falling into the wrong hands, companies must prioritize compliance and maintain it consistently. So, how can your business stay ahead and avoid becoming a cautionary tale?

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2025

Regulatory compliance can be a moat, not just overhead Spending five years securing money transmitter licenses across 50 states created a significant barrier to entry that competitors can’t easily replicate. The company went public in 2019, thirteen years after its founding. The compliance risk is significant,” Ren says.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 25, 2019

Want to learn more about the 5 ecommerce payments trends shaping 2019? Throw in the complexities of maintaining global sales tax/VAT compliance into the mix and you might start to feel a bit overwhelmed. To close, it looks like 2019 will be an exciting year for ecommerce! Keep reading to find out more. billion , a 19.3%

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2019

To recap a fantastic year at FastSpring, we want to take a look back at our top 10 blog posts from 2019. So, grab a cup of coffee, settle in, and take a look at some of the 2019 highlights from the FastSpring blog. PSD2 Guide: The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to Compliance. Subscription Finance: What is MRR?

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Payrix

MARCH 20, 2024

This experience allows software companies to monetize payments without taking on the risk and compliance that comes with payment processing. However, the level of control also comes with an added level of risk and responsibility in terms of financial and compliance liabilities. Since then, that number has grown to almost 2,000.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 27, 2019

For starters, Google released their Year in Search 2019 findings with our favorite fictional babies, Baby Yoda and Baby Shark, topping the “Babies” search categor y, ahead of the real-life Royal Baby who took the numb er three spot. That’s 2019 for you. . Top 10 Blog Posts from 2019 . 2019 is almost a wrap.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2025

The payment system was introduced in 2019 by the major card schemes, including Visa, American Express, Mastercard, and Discover in response to the demand for a more standardized, frictionless, and secure online payments regime. Your testing should check for security compliance, technical performance, and mobile responsiveness.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? It was initially compliance focus. Look, this is not just about compliance, it’s about every vertical. For Collibra, a cross-organizational data governance platform, the company went from slow growth to hypergrowth.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

So we sell to the environmental department and usually the buyer that we’re talking to might have a title of director of environmental compliance. They know environmental compliance better than anyone we’ve ever heard.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

By 2019, the government had issued a unique ID to nearly every adult resident in India; today, the system is used by 1.3 This helped with fraud and enabled smooth KYC compliance. billion Indians, over 90% of the population. In addition, the government created bank accounts for nearly the entire population. In the U.S.,

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In 2019, Company X posted $1.2 On the expenses side, they were also able to cut down on taxes by automating VAT tax compliance for their ecommerce platform. In 2019, Apple reported revenue numbers of $260 billion and a net income of $55.3 million in revenue and a net income of $800,000.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Today, Lyft ($LYFT) has 5,000+ employees, operates dozens of offices around the globe, and went public on March 28, 2019. Security/Compliance: Early-stage startups are likely not going to be SOC certified. Be aware that it might not check all the boxes from a compliance/security standpoint. IPO’d in 2019 at a valuation of $7.8

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Buffer Resources

MARCH 1, 2024

  For the first time since 2019, that’s going to change.   But, thanks to a series of unfortunate events (notably, a pandemic), more than half of my teammates are in the same boat as me. Buffer is a fully remote, global company; many of us have never been in a room with our teammates. 

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Stax

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In June 2019, Fidelity National Information Services ( FIS ) acquired Worldpay in a massive $35 billion deal, making it the largest financial technology merger at the time. Security and Compliance Ensuring Safe Transactions and Regulatory Adherence At Worldpay, the security and compliance of payment processing solutions are paramount.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A recent study by the Better Business Bureau states that fraud and identity theft rose by 45% from 2019 to 2020. The same study indicates a 72% increase in account takeover since 2019. The record of authorization must also be retained for a specific period (often two years) to demonstrate compliance if needed.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Security and compliance are crucial to us, and using payment processing tools ensures the protection of sensitive customer payment information and maintains regulatory compliance. Our 2024 retreat will be our first full company retreat since 2019, and we plan on budgeting $5,500 per person (roughly $440,000 total).

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Frontegg

JUNE 10, 2021

2019 2020 2021 2022 Cloud Application Infrastructure Services (PaaS) 37,512 43,498 57,337 72,022 Cloud Application Services (SaaS) 102,064 104,672 120,990 140,629 Cloud System Infrastructure Services (IaaS) 44,457 50,393 64,294 80,980 Desktop as a Service (DaaS) 616 1,203 1,951 2,535 Total Market 242,697 257,867 306,948 364,062 Source: Gartner.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

It seems like 2019 is starting with a cool down. Considering the waste involved and the scarcity of resources, I hope that initiatives like Little Bird will experience a serious push in 2019, and that change to digital is possible independently from the clerical inertia. Rodrigo Martinez Partner Millennials will rise to power!

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Achieved GDPR Compliance. The future looks bright in 2019. I would like to thank our incredible customers on behalf of the entire team for helping us make 2019 such a fantastic year, and we are looking forward to helping you make next year your best year ever! The team is thrilled to have two locations to work together.

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FastSpring

JULY 31, 2019

Using the double opt-in is a simple additional step to your signup process, but it ensures that you are in compliance with GDPR and other data privacy laws. According to Campaign Monitor’s 2019 Email Marketing Benchmarks report, the average open rate of emails from over 20 industries is only 17.92%. Mistake #2: Neglecting mobile users.

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Marketing Software Review Mobile compliance 96

BetterCloud

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Winners included ten individuals and teams who, through their SaaSOps practice, helped their companies scale, increased productivity, decreased friction, strengthened security, achieved greater compliance, protected users and data, or otherwise took initiative and significantly improved the lives of users. Innovation in Education.

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Natalia Luneva

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Email marketing, Lead generation, Customer service, Food, Compliance, Sales, Healthcare, Design (including photo and video editing), Text messaging, Music, Business operations, Real estate. In 2019, AWeber launched the “7-Day Challenge to Jumpstart Your Email Marketing in 2020”. . 5 Obsidian Data, Compliance and Collaboration Tools.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

Numbers wise, the average Series A was up 16% in size over 2019 at around $15M, but early-stage venture investment was down 11% over 2019. And if that’s not all confusing enough, why do I hear like 5 different definitions of data governance and how does that relate to compliance and privacy?”. Autonomy CEO extradited.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 14, 2022

If there’s one thing we’ve learned as we build full-stack SaaS across industries and user cases, it’s this: SaaS is a 3-sided balancing act: feature agility; compliance readiness; and return on infrastructure investment. Adapted from DORA’s State of DevOps Report 2019 , pp.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In the Plus plan, you pay up to $15 per month and get unlimited searches and integrations, as well as enterprise-level services such as single sign-on, compliance reporting, and guaranteed uptime. And for larger companies with 50–100+ employees, things such as compliance reports, SLAs, and support become more important.

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Stax

AUGUST 26, 2024

” Expansion and recognition (2019-2021) By 2019, we entered our expansion phase, and Stax made big moves that propelled us to the next level of growth and visibility. Launching PayFac and ISV solutions In 2019 and 2020, Stax became more than just a payment processor for merchants. The people are smart and supportive.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

“Not only have we accomplished major milestones in terms of organic growth, but our acquisitions have made us a force within the compliance industry. She has also been recognized as industry leader, including being an MM&M 2019 Hall of Femme Member and a winner of PM360 Magazine ELITE 2019 Strategist award.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

I was like, ‘Oh, this is so bad’” Brian Scanlan: One of the most traumatic outages I was involved with, even though I was not actually there during the outage, was the great Elasticsearch outage of January 2019. That is one of the reasons why compliance by design is so important. And when we can, we try to manage that risk.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We then looked at their revenue from 2019, 2020, and 2021 to identify trends. Global Tax Management And Regulation Compliance. To compare the performance of B2B versus B2C businesses, we randomly selected 30 FastSpring users that only serve B2B or B2C markets from across the globe. B2B Versus B2C Quarterly Sales.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

State of DevOps Report, DORA Research Institute, 2019 The latest iteration of the study was launched in May 2021. Using logging to track, compliance, traceability, resource utilization, and system behaviors are a core competence for application of log data.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

Look, it’s 2019, we’re using Slack and E-mail and WhatsApp. What does it mean in 2019? Tiago Paiva: A smaller example of this is PCI compliance. We need PCI compliant, HIPAA compliance, GDPR. Think about a communications platform between the customer and your company. Jason Lemkin: Why? Why do we need it?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

According to that same data, Brazil has grown significantly more receptive to digital sales techniques and may now require a greatly reduced local, physical presence compared to 2019. Now that we’re in 2021, you’ve got data from at least three quarters of the COVID era. Analyze your specific sales and market, then look across the globe.

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