Category: Customer success

India’s path to SaaS leadership is clear, but challenges remain

Manav Garg Contributor Manav Garg is CEO and founder of Eka Software Solutions and is founding partner of SaaSboomi and Together Fund. Software as a service is one of the most important sectors in tech today. While its transformative potential was quite clear before the pandemic, the sudden pivot to…

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Upscribe, raising $4M, wants to drive subscription-first DTC brand growth

Upscribe founder and CEO Dileepan Siva watched the retail industry make a massive shift to subscription e-commerce for physical products over the past decade, and decided to get in it himself in 2019. The Los Angeles-based company, developing subscription software for direct-to-consumer e-commerce merchants, is Siva’s fourth startup experience and…

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Develop a buyer’s guide to educate your startup’s sales team and customers

Yousuf Khan Contributor Yousuf Khan is a partner at Ridge Ventures. Prior to joining Ridge, he was the first CIO of Automation Anywhere, CIO and Vice President of Customer Success at cloud-based AI platform Moveworks, as well as CIO of Pure Storage, Qualys and Hult International Business School. More posts…

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How our SaaS startup improved net revenue retention by more than 30 points in two quarters

NRR is the most underrated metric out there Tim Kopp 8 hours Tim Kopp Contributor Tim Kopp is the chairman and CEO of Terminus, an ABM platform that powers high-performing go-to-market teams. There’s certainly no shortage of SaaS performance metrics leaders focus on. While all SaaS companies do, and must,…

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Vista acquires Gainsight for $1.1B, adding to its growing enterprise arsenal

Vista Equity Partners hasn’t been shy about scooping up enterprise companies over the years, and today it added to a growing portfolio with its purchase of Gainsight.  The company’s software helps clients with customer success, meaning it helps create a positive customer experience when they interact with your brand, making…

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The good SaaS times will end and challenges are coming

Ed Byrne Contributor Ed Byrne is an entrepreneur, investor and co-founder of Scaleworks. More posts by this contributor Working backwards to uncover key success factors Netflix is still too cheap We’ve had a great decade-long run in SaaS — abundant capital, a thriving economy and a massive existing market shift…

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