USIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Fortunately, PayFac-as-a-Service (PFaaS) exists to save you from the $1M+ upfront cost, 12+ months of setup time, and the headaches that come with managing payments, compliance, and risk. Payrix Flexible, but Bring a Developer (or Five) Best for: SaaS companies willing to invest developer time into embedded payments. Eventually.

PayFac as a Service 179

PayFac as a Service Merchant Services Payfac Payments 179

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 24, 2025

For many current large language models, once they are exposed to domain-specific challenges or niche inquiries—like in-depth product troubleshooting or compliance-related questions—they can stumble. This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation.

Enterprise 157

Enterprise AI Cloud Artificial Intelligence 157

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A-LIGN is a technology-enabled security and compliance partner that helps global organizations take a strategic approach to confidently mitigate cybersecurity risks. It helps companies simplify every aspect of managing an international workforce, from culture and onboarding, to local payroll and compliance. appeared first on SaaStr.

Cybersecurity 279

Cybersecurity Venture Capital compliance Government 279

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

It was too big a flag for a company at the edge of where I like to invest. Not doing so may cost you in a lower valuation, less investment, or even losing an interested buyer or investor. I know of first-time founders who get money in, but they don’t know how to strategically invest in the business areas that need the most nurturing.

Finance 334

Finance Outsourcing Services Systems Review Technical Review 334

SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2023

Many net-new purchases are for data security, compliance, risk management, and AI-powered tools. Compliance : The cost of GDPR compliance has totaled around $9B globally since its introduction. AI-Powered Tools: AI-related purchases in Q1: Made up 41% of new investments in Q1. So, what’s driving these purchasing trends?

VP of Engineering 299

VP of Engineering Trends Cybersecurity Sales Hiring 299

USIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Businesses that invest in improving payment processes through technology see a 20% increase in customer retention and vendor satisfaction. Ensuring Security and Compliance Security is non-negotiable in payment systems, especially for companies handling sensitive financial data.

Payment Solutions 130

Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments Payment Methods 130

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This is the fifth post in a content series exploring Intercom’s investment in supporting large businesses. We protect it throughout its lifecycle with robust security practices, tailored role-specific staff training, and rigorous compliance with regulations. Compliance: Don’t just take our word for it . Employee security.

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compliance Data Software Review Scale 138

Scytale

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When you first hear the term “SOC 2 Type 2 compliance,” it might sound like you’re entering some kind of information security maze. Whether you’re just starting out or are somewhere in the middle of the journey, SOC 2 Type 2 compliance is designed to help your business strengthen customer trust. But guess what? It doesn’t have to be.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

To do this, Lucid invested in a growth team tasked with iterating on all aspects of pricing, packaging, click pathing, and CTAs. With a PLS motion, it involves addressing more complex purchasing behaviors like enhanced legal, security, and compliance measures, and you need to train your team on those complexities.

Scale 312

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring compliance 312

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

We are passionate about helping businesses and communities thrive by advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests, serving more than 20,000 clients and more than one million merchant locations in over 130 countries. Insight Assurance is a professional services firm providing cybersecurity compliance, risk management, and tax services.

Merchant Services 261

Merchant Services Cybersecurity compliance Finance 261

USIO

JULY 1, 2024

While many strategies involve significant investments in marketing, sales, and technology, there are also effective methods to boost recurring revenue that require minimal financial outlay. In the competitive world of Software as a Service (SaaS), generating recurring revenue is essential for sustainable growth.

Payments 306

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 306

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The first big investment in cybersecurity you should make is hiring a CISO. Compliance. Investments. Whatever form it takes, knowing potential motives and objectives can help you organize your investments. Compliance. compliance can feel incredibly daunting. Secure Compliance. Risk Appetite.

Cybersecurity 246

Cybersecurity compliance Government Strategy 246

Payrix

APRIL 17, 2025

A payment facilitator manages compliance with payment network rules and other financial regulations. This includes verifying the identities of sub-merchants through Know Your Customer (KYC) checks, ensuring PCI compliance for secure handling of payment data , and mitigating risks through fraud or chargebacks.

Payment Services 100

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 100

SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? Teleport’s Zero-Trust security approach makes it the tool of choice for CISOs and compliance officers, but developers love it because their experience accessing everything from SSH and Windows servers to databases to Kubernetes to web applications is simply easier. #2.

Venture Capital 289

Venture Capital Benchmarks Cloud compliance 289

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Its proprietary technology simplifies the employment process by managing the complexities of local compliance, labour contracts, payroll, benefits and taxes. We enable companies to manage their distributed teams via a simple dashboard while taking responsibility for local labor law compliance on their behalf.

Cloud spend optimization 264

Cloud spend optimization AWS Scale compliance 264

Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

When a software company becomes an ISV, because theyve introduced payments into their environment, they must uphold the compliance requirements of the PCI DSS and empower their users to do the same. Learn more about PCI compliance management. Learn more about the different types of software-led payments.

Payments 130

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions PayFac as a Service 130

Payrix

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In the latest episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments Podcast, host Ian Hillis sits down with Candice Raybourn, Head of Partner Activation at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, to discuss the crucial topic of PCI compliance. Candice underscores the financial and reputational risks associated with non-compliance. is essential.

Payment Services 113

Payment Services Merchant Services Payments compliance 113

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2024

It could be a 6-month, 12-month, or multi-year venture, so you want the cash to invest in an upmarket strategy properly. Once you do, invest and go hard after this market and grow the sales team to serve that upmarket customer. #3: Make sure you can make that investment from a product perspective. Look at your team.

Sales Hiring 306

Sales Hiring Scale SMB compliance 306

Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

There were also quite a few questions around cost and compliance. And on the latter - there will be more guardrails and structure in place to appease some of the compliance questions. This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation. This year, there was tons of experimentation.

AWS 299

AWS Cloud AI Search Cost optimization & reporting 299

SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

” What are the Most Important Investments that Ensure a Future 50 Company Can Adopt? Compliance matters. Arvind Jain, CEO of Glean explained: “ The first thing is just working on all security aspects and compliance. So getting your SOC-2 certification, HIPAA compliance, GDPR, and FedRAMP. Security matters.

AI 299

AI Enterprise Artificial Intelligence compliance 299

Scytale

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

These companies come into contact with lots of sensitive data in one way or another and so, data security compliance has pretty much become a must in this digital and tech day and age. A careful compliance strategy is non-negotiable for SaaS businesses. However, successful compliance management doesn’t just happen.

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compliance Technical Review SaaS Systems Review 96

SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

Let me take a few example of the unicorns and decacorns I’ve been lucky enough to invest in. Talkdesk, last valued at $10B, started off as an SMB Zendesk and Salesforce plug in at a $25m valuation when I first invested. Because they want custom features, compliance, security etc. That’s your call.

SMB 332

SMB Enterprise Government compliance 332

SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? We recently led a [ $50M series B ] investment in Todyl, which is a modular cybersecurity platform for small and medium businesses. What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? What’s different about your fund / how you invest and support founders?

Venture Capital 280

Venture Capital Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Scale 280

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

We created a product that was simple to use for entrepreneurs who were juggling a thousand different priorities and didn’t have (and didn’t want) an expertise in regulation, compliance or sales tax. As we matured as a company, though, so did our product — and that caught the eye of larger customers. . What were their challenges?

Scale 291

Scale Business Finance compliance 291

SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Secureframe helps companies get enterprise ready by streamlining SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS and HIPAA compliance. Verdane is a specialist growth equity investment firm that partners with tech-enabled and sustainable businesses based out of Europe to help them reach the next stage of international growth.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS Enterprise readiness 261

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

By scaling your PLG motion, you can achieve higher revenue per employee because you aren’t investing as many dollars in messaging, marketing, and building the big sales teams. Does this integrate with all the other tech my company has invested in? It hurts badly if you touch it later, especially the compliance pieces.

Underperforming Technical Team 289

Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Scale Payments 289

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2021

Enterprise clients expect a high level of security, compliance and legal protections as a given, so you should have things in place, like GDPR and certifications like SOC-2, PCI, etc. So it’s worth the effort to invest in bolstering your credibility for enterprise customers. Key Takeaways.

Scale 300

Scale Sales Hiring Enterprise Sales 300

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

When you buy one Atlassian product and have your compliance requirements checked, you automatically get all the other product compliance requirements. Both partners need to consider cultural fit as a priority and ensure they are both invested in one another’s success. This makes it easy for customers to expand their use cases.

Scale 265

Scale Scaling Marketplace as a Service Entrepreneurship 265

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation. Altimeter is an investment adviser registered with the U.S. The list goes on. There are so many others. What do all of these have in common? Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Systems Review 144

Systems Review Cloud AI Artificial Intelligence 144

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This means that the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Data must forge a close relationship to ensure that access controls, compliance, governance, and other security methods are organized across both teams. Another challenge is ensuring that data security policies are aligned across both data and security teams.

Government 213

Government compliance Software Engineering Engineering 213

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As we write in our piece It’s All About The Money (Movement), moving money internationally is an opaque, fee-intensive process that requires two things: actually “moving” the money and leveraging onboarding and compliance workflow software.

Investment 87

Investment compliance Onboarding Software 87

Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

Theyre easy to integrate and set up, with the host taking care of data security measures, including PCI compliance and fraud protection. On top of PCI compliance, you might have to pay extra for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certification. Just like self-hosted gateways, merchants using API-based solutions are responsible for security.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 88

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

b) Some folks like to invest in the company they advise. One can’t start investing in a brand early enough. Example 2: Compliance and security norms change when you go to other geos. The bells and whistles of compliance, security, analytics/reporting needs to be built as one moves upmarket. Scale brings new challenges.

Scale 299

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity 299

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Cyvatar is a technology-enabled cyber security as a service (CSaaS) provider disrupting a $150 billion industry by introducing and delivering smarter, measurable managed security subscriptions to help you achieve compliance and security faster and more efficiently.

Banking 265

Banking Payment Features Venture Capital Subscription 265

Scytale

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These criteria further highlight that every aspect of data is expertly managed to ensure complete protection and compliance. As SOC 3 reports are designed for public use and serve as excellent marketing tools, they offer a simplified, customer-centric overview of your organization’s security and compliance measures.

compliance 52

compliance Underperforming Technical Team Scale Technical Review 52

Stax

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

TL;DR PCI compliance is essential because it helps prevent data breaches, ultimately cultivating customer trust. What is PCI Compliance? Why Is PCI Compliance So Important? PCI compliance is essential because it helps prevent data breaches, ultimately cultivating customer trust. That’s where Stax comes in.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods compliance 88

BetterCloud

DECEMBER 16, 2024

So, as a cautionary tale, its important to understand the hidden risks of shadow IT , including: Operational Security Compliance Financial Remaining unchecked, these four major risks only continue to grow and consequences amplify. Risk 3: Shadow IT poses a compliance risk Related to security risk is compliance risk.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence compliance Systems Review Technical Review 52