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Behind the Round with SaaStr:  Chorus.ai Raises $45 Million

SaaStr

Founded in 2015, Chorus operates a SaaS platform that provides valuable insights from conversations – say with calls, video conferences and emails — for revenue teams. Last year, the company doubled its headcount, tripled revenue and landed on G2’s Top 100 Global Software list. .

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Weave at $130,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. This is a challenge so many SMB businesses have that also have a services component and a hardware component. As you can see below, the SaaS itself has a typical 73% gross margin.

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How to build a successful embedded payments strategy | Ep 33

Payrix

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast.

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The 9 best tools for your early-stage startup tech stack

Intercom, Inc.

This is especially important for small teams, where you need to operate at a scale far beyond your headcount (without burning out your team by working around the clock). Can we easily onboard new employees or teams as our numbers grow? Ensure the tools you use integrate together. Can it integrate with the tools we use every day?

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Best Payroll for Small Businesses

Stax

Yet it isn’t always cost-effective to hire an in-house team to manage payroll, especially for businesses with a small headcount. Subscribing to a specialist payroll process not only ensures that you pay employees accurately and on time, but also allows your business to stay compliant with an ever-changing tax code.

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

The Angel VC

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. If you’re setting yourself up for hypergrowth, the margin for error is very thin.