SaaStr

JANUARY 13, 2023

We’ve had Fractional CFOs for a very long time, and perhaps they inspired the trend. They usually come in and handle compliance and oversight for an existing finance team that perhaps lacks the seasoned experience to handle models, venture capital and debt, prepare for an audit, etc. But Fractional CFOs are often different.

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Payrix

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In 2023, the Embedded Finance market was valued at $73 billion and projected to grow to $523 billion by 2032, growing at a compound annual rate of 24%, according to a recent report. It’s still early days for Embedded Finance, but the preliminary statistics coming out of this space are rather significant.

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Payments Payment Solutions Embedded Payments Trends 130

Clouded Judgement

JULY 16, 2024

We can expect the company to start trading on the public markets next Wednesday Subscribe now OneStream Overview From the S1 - “OneStream delivers a unified, AI-enabled and extensible software platform—the Digital Finance Cloud—that modernizes and increases the strategic impact of the Office of the CFO.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Let’s bucket these businesses by growth to see trends. And if it continues, we should expect the IPO, the direct listing, and special purpose acquisition vehicles (SPACs) to present compelling financing options to later stage founders. The valuation multiple has doubled in about two years.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2022

So I’ve seen a trend among many startups these days which is to sort of have a VP or Director of Business Ops instead of a VP / Director of Finance. They handle the cash too, but also go deep on the business in a way a “finance person” usually simply can’t. True finance folks (e.g., In fact, they usually don’t know how.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

The automation of QA is a secular trend that perhaps accelerated with more software engineers working from home. The question for 2021 will be: how will vaccinations and a return to normalcy change consumer and enterprise buying behaviors, and consequently, startup financing rates in different categories?

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2023

Sometimes you can offer flexible payment terms to customers, but then finance part of the future payments to recover the CAC upfront and be able to redeploy the cash in the future. Ideally, the faster you grow, the more money you have, but it doesn’t always work out that way. Getting your customers to pay upfront is not always easy.

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SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

Some have held off on raising subsequent financing and hope to grow through their valuations. Over the last couple of years, that number has trended higher as businesses try to grow through the prior round of valuations. Now, they’re approaching two years between financings. Companies are raising down rounds.

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Payrix

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The conversation unpacked notable trends, challenges, and opportunities for software companies navigating this dynamic landscape. While this trend offers businesses a way to offset processing expenses, it has also drawn increased scrutiny from regulators and brands. How do you really look at minimizing impact with change?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 18, 2022

Our new report reveals the top five trends transforming support and how to capitalize on them. Last year, as the world grappled with the global pandemic, we released our first Intercom Customer Support Trends Report. Download the Intercom Customer Support Trends Report 2022. Want a sneak peek into the report’s findings?

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USIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Digital disbursements offer features like same-day or next-day payment options, allowing vendors to manage their finances more effectively. Enhancing Vendor Relationships with Data Insights Digital disbursement platforms often come equipped with analytics tools that provide valuable insights into payment trends.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 130

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2024

Token / Index YTD Performance, % BTC 37 SOL 36 QQQ 19 DOGE 11 ETH 9 Series A valuations have increased through 2022 and since have seen a much higher variance, with both meaningfully higher & lower prices than the trend line. Year-to-date, the correlation of the public & private web3 markets has been weak, around 0.2,

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 23, 2024

For a later-stage company, the costs of a private financing might may touch $1m in the upper reaches, but is much more likely to be measured in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. which will further underscore the trend. A company with about $100m in revenue will pay between $9-26m to go public.

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Revenue Finance Trends Startup 308

ChurnZero

JANUARY 6, 2025

” So what 2025 customer success trends can we anticipate? Trend 1: Customer teams strengthen their revenue focus. Trend 2: AI and automation become transformative. Trend 3: Customer teams double down on outcomes and value. Trend 4: Digitally enhanced human relationships continue to evolve.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 12, 2024

46% of all US venture financings in dollar terms in 2024 were AI. AI is more than a market trend - we’re watching the software industry undergo a cognitive reimagining of how we build software, they way we work & what is possible with software. Within a year, half of software companies are AI companies.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Last week, Databricks announced their Series I financing at $43b. Soon, we’ll be equipped to compare longitudinal trends & one day relative efficiency. At the same time, they released quarterly figures similar to a public company’s reporting. It’s also an opportunity to compare Databricks to Snowflake.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 10, 2019

2018 observed the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. Institutional seed funds might respond to this trend by writing bigger checks, raising bigger funds, raising opportunity funds or concentrating their portfolios. Rewind a decade. Angel investing was an important part of the Startupland ecosystem.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. So at the end of the year, no one wants to implicitly tell their higher ups / finance org that they “need less because they spent less.” Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Budget Flush Coming? First - what is a budget flush?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Digital Finance Today. It’s now embedded in how consumers think about financial services and how they want to consume them, and that trend will only continue.” . More diverse industries are beginning to develop their own digital finance tools, which will pave the way for significant innovations in the near future.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2023

The red is a linear model based on data from 2010 to 2018 that predicts activity rates for each financing series of US & Canadian software companies. [1] By looking at the cumulative rounds since 2010, we can see that Seed, A, & B volumes all trended meaningfully above their predicted counts. But the gap is narrowing.

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Payrix

JUNE 25, 2024

Embedded Finance is more than just a buzzword; it represents a fundamental shift in how financial services are delivered and consumed today. What is Embedded Finance? What is Embedded Finance? Customer data : Embedded Finance uses existing customer data to personalize experiences and offers, enhancing relevance and timing.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2024

But there’s a trend I want to highlight now that we’ll see all across 2024. The customer financing is there. So we try to be positive on SaaStr — that’s what helps the most. Showing folks the way, often through tougher times. And I’m highlighting so if it’s you — you can get a bit of a kick in the arse and go do something about it.

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Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

And it’s all thanks to embedded finance and embedded fintech. Embedded finance isn’t entirely a new concept. Airline credit cards, payment plans for costly items, and car rental insurance are forms of embedded finance that have been around for a while. Everything is done under one platform.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 7, 2020

However, Q4 2019 saw meaningful dip from Q3, but it's too early to say whether it's an aberration, or the beginning of a longer-term trend. That answer never changes: build businesses prudently and finance them when you can at reasonable valuations so the company can grow into them over time. It's been go, go, go for nearly a decade.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As always, submit questions through the registration form & I’ll weave them into the conversation.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 16, 2022

2022 B2B SaaS Trends [Webinar Recap]. That’s why we sat down with SaaSOptics and Chargify executives Caitlin O’Neil, CFO , and Matt Downs, CRO , to weigh in on the biggest trends of 2022. Trends in Billing and Pricing . Trends in Subscription Management . Trends in Metrics and Analytics .

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 22, 2018

Long-term trends in the start of fundraising market have been consistent over the last 10 years. Many founders have aspired to “skip” a round of financing. in investment - skipping a round of financing. How do you skip a round of financing? The blocks haven’t changed positions, though they do rotate.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 9, 2023

Finance understands this intuitively, so they are inclined to support budget requests that will help teams close more deals. So said Randy Wootton , chief executive officer at Maxio and Alli Tiscornia , chief customer officer at ChurnZero in our webinar, “ Finance & CS: Charting a path to profitability.”

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Infinicept

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We talk about payment trends – including connected commerce, embedded payments and embedded finance – and how they fit together. [link] Our guest on this podcast is Diana Mehochko, COO of NCR Payments. We also cover how we can balance the need to deliver connected, seamless solutions that meet.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 23, 2024

Previously, I had worked in corporate finance, so I knew exactly how much the companies I worked for spent on engagements with PR firms. Information on relevant current events or studies As mentioned above, if we can, we’ll include a few sentences tying our news to a trend journalists may currently be interested in. 

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2024

In 2020, 2021 and 2022, the trend in SaaS was to expand hires in sales, marketing, and other resources ahead of actually having the demand to feed them. For smaller companies, go after the founders because they likely won’t have finance people yet. For Mid-Market companies, you might connect with people in finance or accounting.

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SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of SaaS, Venture Capital, Bootstrapping, and Valuations – understanding market trends and investment patterns is critical. We’ll explain Jason’s take on the recent market fluctuations, highlighting major deals that shaped investment patterns and their effects on valuation trends.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

I examined the first screen that loaded in 25 popular iOS apps across a variety of use cases (such as social media, retail, services, personal finance, and more). Personal finance: (PayPal, Revolut) 41.0%. Otherwise, they’re flying in the face of a clear trend present in popular apps across the globe in many common use cases.

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Stax

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The main difference between Quicken and QuickBooks is that Quicken is primarily a personal finance management software while QuickBooks is a full-featured small business accounting software. Quicken includes features that let users view the complete picture of their personal finances on a single dashboard.

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