Fast SaaS: 7 SaaS Startups You Need to Know
Talkin' Cloud has rounded up 7 of the latest SaaS startups disrupting the way we work.
August 25, 2016
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Talkin’ Cloud has rounded up 7 SaaS startups who are disrupting the way companies recruit new talent, provide customer service, and manage their spending – all without unwrapping a box of software. Click through the slideshow to see more.
Launch: 2016
Founder(s): Ashwin Kumar, CEO and co-founder; Catherine Jue, CTO and co-founder
Investors: Y Combinator
The Pitch: Sway is a SaaS company for SaaS companies. It provides a “full-stack” accounting solution that connects with existing financial systems – accounting software, payment processors, payroll – and handles a company’s bookkeeping with SaaS-specific revenue recognition built-in. Sway also comes with a Slack integration to collaborate with team members on a company’s finances.
Amium (AeroFS)
Launch: 2016
Founder(s): Yuri Sagalov, co-founder and CEO
Investors: Y Combinator, Avalon Ventures, NHN Investment, Andreessen Horowitz
The Pitch: Amium centralizes file sharing, file synchronization, and team messaging to help teams work more effectively. It is used by companies marketing, design, financial services, government, energy, and other sectors.
Launch: 2015
Founder(s): Kristian Tanninen, CEO and founder
The Pitch: SignupLab helps SaaS companies drive and automate B2B SaaS sales. All sign-ups, customers and subscriptions are organized into one process, and it syncs with services like Stripe, Intercom and MailChimp.
Launch: 2016
Founder(s): Eric Christopher, founder and CEO
Investors: High Alpha
The Pitch: Currently in beta, Zylo provides an online command center for all subscription-based software, or software as a service (SaaS), used across a company. Its platform “provides an online command center for all subscription-based software.” It also helps companies make decisions around contract renewals by identifying idle or underused software licenses.
Launch: 2015
Founder(s): Rodolph Ardant, CEO and founder
Investors: Thibaud Elziere, eFounders
The Pitch: Spendesk is software as a service that helps companies keep track of spending. It allows companies to set policies to define budget limits, manage online subscriptions, create customized approval flows, and control how company money is being spent. Spendesk also allows companies to create virtual credit cards which are designed for online purchases and can be only used once.
Launch: 2016
Founder(s): Mike Myer, CEO and co-founder; Bill O’Neill, VP engineering and co-founder
Investors: Venrock, Next Frontier Capital
The Pitch: Centricient Messaging is a cloud software application that connects enterprises and their customers via popular messaging platforms like Facebook Messenger and text messaging. Centricient is releasing integrations for Oracle Service Cloud, Salesforce and Zendesk.
Launch: 2012
Founder(s): Stephanie Leffler, CEO and co-founder; Ryan Noble, president and co-founder
Investors: Lewis and Clark Ventures and Highland Capital Partners
The Pitch: OneSpace launched its Software as a Service platform, OneSpace Project Center, earlier this month to offer a complete end-to-end solution for virtual talent management. Prior to the launch of its SaaS platform, OneSpace provided managed workforce solutions to a variety of enterprises, including Facebook and Microsoft.
Launch: 2012
Founder(s): Stephanie Leffler, CEO and co-founder; Ryan Noble, president and co-founder
Investors: Lewis and Clark Ventures and Highland Capital Partners
The Pitch: OneSpace launched its Software as a Service platform, OneSpace Project Center, earlier this month to offer a complete end-to-end solution for virtual talent management. Prior to the launch of its SaaS platform, OneSpace provided managed workforce solutions to a variety of enterprises, including Facebook and Microsoft.
This post is part of a Penton Technology Channel Group special report on Software-as-a-Service.
While vendors like Salesforce and Workday are behind some of the more well-known software as a service (SaaS) solutions, they represent just a fraction of the cloud-based software available today. In fact, according to a recent report by BetterBuys, new SaaS offerings and startups are rising at a rate of more than 1,400 over the last five years among various sectors. The global software as a service market was estimated at $34.78 billion in 2015.
In its recent State of SaaS report, which analyzes the U.S. SaaS market, BetterBuys found that the majority of SaaS market share is held by “other” vendors (57 percent), while Salesforce, Microsoft, Adobe and SAP make up the rest of the top five SaaS vendors, by market share.
With that in mind, who are some of the SaaS startups that you should be watching in 2016? Talkin’ Cloud has rounded up 7 SaaS startups who are disrupting the way companies recruit new talent, provide customer service, and manage their spending – all without unwrapping a box of software. Click through the slideshow to see more.
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