How Startups Grow with other

Qordoba is a SaaS platform that helps companies maintain consistent writing style, terminology, and voice across their organization. Founded by May Habib, a former VP at a sovereign wealth fund, the company has raised over $21M from top-tier investors including Upfront Ventures, Aspect Ventures, and Bonfire Ventures.

Lucidchart is a visual workspace combining diagramming, data visualization, and collaboration tools founded by Karl Sun, a former Google executive who served as Head of Patents and Head of Business Development in China. The company has raised $114M from top-tier investors including K9 Ventures, Meritech, Iconiq, GV, and Kickstart. Karl was recently named EY's Entrepreneur of the Year for his success in building the platform.

EZPR is a PR-focused company founded by Ed Zitron. The company was featured in a SaaStr podcast discussion with CEO Jason Lemkin exploring PR strategy, media placement, and the actual mechanics of getting coverage in major outlets.

Owl Labs manufactures the Meeting Owl, a 360° smart video conferencing camera designed to level the playing field for remote workers in hybrid meetings. The device features an array of 8 microphones and speaker recognition technology to automatically highlight any speaker at the table, enabling remote participants to feel present and engaged.

Zapproved is a SaaS company founded by Monica Enand that achieved product-market fit and scaled to the point where Vista Equity Partners invested in 2017. The company's journey from PMF to scale is discussed in a conversation between founder Monica Enand and Vista Equity Partners' Rene Yang Stewart.

Glassdoor launched in 2008 as a platform for employee reviews and company insights. The company grew to a $1.2 billion acquisition by Recruit Holdings in 2018, demonstrating successful scaling through business model development, talent recruitment, and strong company culture.

Pleo is a SaaS platform that automates expense reports and simplifies company expenses. Founded by Jeppe Rindom, who previously served as CFO at Tradeshift and CEO at Nodes, the company has raised over $78M in funding from top European and US investors including Creandum, Vaestfonden, and Stripes Group. Pleo focuses on serving SMBs from day one and emphasizes building a strong company culture alongside product excellence.

Adaptive Insights, now a Workday company, is a SaaS platform led by CEO Tom Bogan. The source material is primarily a description of a speaking session where Bogan discusses key principles for building successful SaaS companies, covering team building, vision, metrics, and fundraising strategies.

Kustomer is a SaaS platform providing real-time, actionable customer views with omnichannel conversation intelligence that automates repetitive tasks. The company has raised over $113M in financing from top-tier investors including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint. The profile features Vikas Bhambri, SVP of Sales and Customer Experience, discussing enterprise sales strategy and SaaS market dynamics.

Troops.ai is a Slack-based sales collaboration platform built by Dan Reich, a serial entrepreneur who previously founded Spinback (acquired by Salesforce). The company has raised over $17M in VC funding from investors including Felicis Ventures, Founder Collective, First Round, Nextview, Susa Ventures, and Slack itself. Troops helps sales teams transition from individual performance tracking to account-based collaboration, enabling teams to work in unison and reduce organizational silos.

Logz.io is a SaaS platform providing monitoring, troubleshooting, and security through predictive analytics and machine learning. The company has raised over $45M from top-tier investors including OpenView, 83North, and Vintage. The profile focuses on VP of Sales Bridget Gleason's experience scaling sales at multiple SaaS companies, including 237% ARR growth at Sumo Logic.

Scalyr is a log monitoring and analysis platform for DevOps teams founded by serial entrepreneur Steve Newman, who previously created Writely (acquired by Google to become Google Docs). The company has raised over $27.5M in funding from notable investors including Susa Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Shasta, and GV, establishing itself as a key player in the DevOps tooling space.

Gremlin is a 'failure as a service' SaaS platform founded by Kolton Andrus, a former Chaos Engineer at Netflix who designed Netflix's failure injection service. The company has raised over $8M in VC funding from top-tier investors including Index Ventures and Amplify Partners. Kolton leverages his deep experience scaling reliability at Amazon and Netflix to help organizations proactively identify system weaknesses.

SalesCollider is a sales advisory service founded by Ryan Williams, a veteran sales leader who scaled teams at AdRoll (growing ARR from $4M to $58M), advised InVision on enterprise deals, and grew enterprise sales by 400%+ at LeadGenius. The company helps technical founders navigate early-stage sales challenges and build effective sales functions.

LeadGenius is a SaaS platform that combines human intelligence with machine learning to provide lead generation and data enrichment services. The company has raised $16 million in funding from prominent investors including a16z, Initialized Capital, and SV Angel. Mark Godley, the President, brings 25+ years of SaaS experience and advocates for founders to prioritize customer acquisition over fundraising.

Harness.io is the industry's first continuous delivery as a service platform, founded by Jyoti Bansal, the former Founder & CEO of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company was launched as the first venture from BIG Labs, Bansal's laboratory for creating and launching innovative ideas. The source material focuses on Bansal's insights about scaling SaaS companies across different revenue stages rather than specific traction metrics for Harness.io.

Highfive is a video conferencing startup founded by Shan Sinha, a serial entrepreneur who previously founded DocVerse (acquired by Google) and led Google Apps for Enterprise at Google. The company has raised over $45M from top-tier investors including a16z, Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and notable individuals like Aaron Levie, Drew Houston, and Marc Benioff.

Classy is the world's leading fundraising platform for nonprofit organizations founded by Scot Chisholm in 2011. The company has raised close to $50M in VC funding from Salesforce Ventures, BullPen Capital, Mithril Capital and others, and has helped more than 3,000 nonprofits and social enterprises raise hundreds of millions of dollars while earning recognition as one of 'The World's Most Innovative Companies in Social Good.'

Lessonly is a modern learning software platform founded by Max Yoder that helps teams accelerate productivity by converting work knowledge into lessons. The company has raised funding from notable investors including Tim Kopp (former ExactTarget CMO), OpenView Ventures, and Jay Baer (New York Times Bestseller), and operates successfully outside Silicon Valley from Indianapolis.

Walkme is a cloud-based SaaS platform founded by Dan Adika (formerly a software engineer at HP and Israeli Army computing unit member) that helps professionals guide and engage prospects and customers through online tasks. The company has raised over $90 million in VC funding from top-tier investors including Scale Venture Partners and Insight Venture Partners.