You didn’t think we only had 18 startups we would feature, did you? Hailing from New Delhi and Russia, through the UK and Ireland and all the way to San Francisco, we have gathered another stellar cohort of up and coming SaaS startups below. This year’s SaaStock will help more than a hundred diverse and exciting startups break ground through our Startup Program.
We’re very excited about seeing them grow and learn and compete for the title of Best SaaS Startup of 2018. If you are a startup with less than $1M ARR or $1M in investment, you took can apply and be part of that unique experience.
Zokri
Zokri want to help SaaS companies keep growing. Their mission is to remove the hurdles that stop companies with good products and potential to reach their market. Such hurdles are faulty strategies, bad alignment between teams and investors, as well as lack of improvement in sales and marketing, but also average productivity, etc.
To achieve their goal, Zokri have created a platform that combines all the elements needed to monitor and manage business growth. This includes dashboards, objectives and key results (OKRs), growth initiatives, check-ins, talent management and investments, all in one place! All of these together form the necessary mix to accelerate and stabilize growth.
CEO: Matt Roberts
Founded: 2018
Based in: Ashtead, UK
Funding to Date: N/A
Cumul.io
Cumul.io’s cloud analytics platform helps organisations pull together and visualise their data to gain actionable insights at a fraction of the cost of traditional BI platforms. Their solution features over 40 data visualization types as well as several geospatial visualisations. Thanks to the drag and drop function, companies can use these visualisations to create deeply interactive and informative dashboards with just a few clicks.
Insights gleaned from these dashboards can be shared widely with colleagues and partners to enhance collaboration or with customers to make the brand stand out. Cumul.io’s platform can be fully integrated and operationalised in white-label form into other SaaS solutions, greatly enhancing their own services.
CEO: Karel Callens
Founded: 2015
Based in: Leuven, Belgium
Funding to Date: €550K from Imec.istart and Smartfin Capital
Spider Guard
Spider Guard help data-driven startups and tech companies by taking over their data protection and privacy responsibilities. They offer compliance solutions that make it easy for businesses to follow ever-changing data protection and privacy laws. This includes end-to-end GDPR compliance projects and project management.
Their Virtual Data Protection Officer (DPO) service includes informing businesses about their responsibilities, and monitoring and assessing their compliance. It also includes staff training to enhance data privacy awareness.Spider Guard can also represent companies on privacy issues during negotiations and even act as their EU representative on GDPR-related issues.
CEO: Tom McNamara
Founded: 2018
Based in: Dublin, Ireland
Funding to Date: N/A
Customer SuccessBox
Customer SuccessBox provides B2B SaaS companies with a platform that helps them acquire, onboard, upsell and retain customers. Thanks to the AI and machine learning that are part of the platform, companies can now track customers’ every step across these stages. At the early stages this helps them determine when exactly trial / proof of concept (POC) accounts achieve early value milestones and can be converted.
Companies can also carefully plan their onboarding journey, segmenting customers according to their progress, and taking the right actions to win them over. And with the patent pending real-time Account Health feature, business can directly monitor customers’ status and reduce churn. This allows success managers to improve both Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) and Life-time Value (LTV) for their business!
CEO: Puneet Kataria
Founded: 2016
Based in: San Francisco, USA
Funding to Date: $1M from Pi Ventures and Axilor Ventures
Warm Call
Warm Call helps buyers and vendors that are a good fit for each other to connect. On the buyer side, Warm Call sets up Buyer Bot that can interact with vendors and evaluate them on the basis of buyers’ needs and criteria. The bot can set up initial appointments and collect vendor details. This reduces the amount of unsolicited calls and emails, and helps buyers find those vendors that have something relevant to offer.
Vendors, on the other hand, can use the buyer bot to find those customers that are a good match for their products and services. This saves them time, is more cost effective when compared to other solutions, and improves their efficiency because they connect with the right buyers.
CEO: Krishna Teja Edara
Founded: 2017
Based in: Toronto, Canada
Funding to Date: N/A
SmileBack
SmileBack have developed a one-click customer feedback solution to help companies supercharge their customer satisfaction. SmileBack makes it easy for managed service providers (MSPs) and IT solution providers to collect authentic and actionable feedback.
For example, providers can integrate simple visual surveys at the end of every customer ticket to collect immediate feedback. They can also set up customisable notifications that light up when their most important clients require support. And, of course, various key metrics can easily be tracked to help make decisions that increase satisfaction, improve customer retention and grow revenue!
CEO: Ryan Grant Little
Founded: 2018
Based in: Wilmington, USA
Funding to Date: N/A
Standuply
Standuply is a free standup bot for Slack that functions as a digital Scrum Master and manager assistant. With it, companies can run asynchronous standup meetings in Slack in text, audio or video across the globe and improve their communications. Beyond standup meetings, the platform allows managers to conduct polls, gather retrospective meeting notes, set and manage advanced reminders, and more!
Standuply also sheds light on team performance and goals through project flow diagrams and team analytics dashboards, or by integrating with any tools used by a company. With Standuply information flow is fast and transparent helping a team of 8 people can save up to 40 man-days a year!
CEO: Alexey Kistenev
Founded: 2016
Based in: Russia
Funding to Date: N/A
Vipfy
With Vipfy businesses can find the SaaS solutions that will help them take care of their daily tasks. Their interactive advisor function is designed to suggest the best services based on several easy to answer questions. Vipfy then unifies all cloud services used by a business, allowing users to access them with one login instead of remembering a password for each one.
And since all services are accessed through the same platform, data exchange between them is also automated so users don’t have to import and export it constantly. Vipfy also offers the possibility to centralise monthly bills for all services, as well as to manage users and access across all platforms.
CEO: Nils Vossebein
Founded: 2018
Based in: Saarbrücken, Germany
Funding to Date: N/A
letX
LetX’s self-defined goal is to be the wingman to your marketing journey. To achieve their goal, letX have developed a 360-degree approach that provides a complete suite of offbeat SaaS tools. Their suite includes the products letReach, letConvert, and letSpin, and other products that are designed with the purpose of maximising companies’ ROI.
LetX’s suite allows marketers to extensively cover every stage of the marketing process. This includes acquiring, engaging and converting leads and users to become customers. But it also includes learning through the actionable analytics provided by the platform and understanding user behavior and needs.
CEO: Vipul Garg
Founded: 2015
Based in: New Delhi, India
Funding to Date: N/A
LobbySpace
With LobbySpace brands have their digital signage in their own hands. To create any type of content, brands can use one of the many pre-designed templates. Content creation is simple and straightforward. They can also include dynamic apps anywhere they wish, whether it’s news headlines, a weather forecast or something else. And they can schedule the publishing of content on any platform.
LobbySpace is hardware independent which means that it can be used on any browser-based device. It also supports multiple screens at once which allows business to display different content at different locations at the same time. And even if the device loses its connection, content will keep running in offline mode.
CEO: Sam Haertl
Founded: 2017
Based in: Germany
Funding to Date: N/A
Method Grid
Method Grid offer a platform where companies can design their service methodologies and operating procedures. With Method Grid, companies have a way to centralise but also share, organise and update their standards and best practices, making sure that everyone is on track.
The benefits of using Method Grid are numerous. It helps guarantee the consistency of services offered by the company due to the accessibility and transparency of all rules and procedures. It also helps facilitate organisational growth and, effectively, win more work. Moreover, it allows and enhances knowledge-based collaboration, helping issues be addressed by those that are best suited to address them.
CEO: Dom Moorhouse
Founded: 2018
Based in: Bath, UK
Funding to Date: N/A
Oneup Sales
Oneup Sales is a sales productivity platform that helps sales managers motivate and manage their teams. Their Sales Engagement Stack provides managers with a set of tools covering the whole sales management and motivation journey, helping them create a culture of success.
The tools featured in the stack help managers analyse team behavior to understand which areas of sales performance are in need of improvement. Based on that data, managers can create automated competitions or collaborative challenges to drive team performance and motivation. Finally, to highlight individual or team achievements, managers can create beautiful slideshows, leaderboards and more.
CEO: Derry Holt
Founded: 2015
Based in: Birmingham, UK
Funding to Date: N/A
Sapenta
Sapenta offer an all-in-one digital workplace experience. Their cloud-based enterprise software helps deliver productivity at the individual level which result in gains at the enterprise level. With Sapenta, every team member has a clear grasp of their own tasks and is provided with all the necessary collaboration tools to complete them successfully.
Sapenta’s platform includes project management, online Gantt charts, agile task boards and even travel booking tools to reduce time spent on low-value tasks. It also enables distributed teams to work closely, thanks to being accessible from any place at any time.
CEO: Oonagh McNerney
Founded: 2015
Based in: Barcelona, Spain
Funding to Date: N/A
TalentHunter.AI
TalentHunter.AI is an anonymous careers marketplace platform for IT sales professionals. The platform uses AI to score and match professionals with job openings at top tech companies. Professionals create a free profile where they can anonymously showcase their experience as well as state their desired career development paths
TalentHunter’s AI then matches them with those career opportunities that fit their requirements. Applicants’ identities remain anonymous until a company applies to them for an interview with salary details and more revealed up front. Then it’s up to the applicant to decide which offers they want to take up. Tech companies can also benefit greatly from TalentHunter’s platform by reducing their time to hire and their recruiting costs while connecting to the best IT sales professionals.
CEO: Debra Tuck
Founded: 2017
Based in: London, UK
Funding to Date: N/A
Trackly
With Trackly individuals and teams can track their productivity and understand how they spend their time, and what they can improve. Trackly offer a productivity tracker that records, analyses and recognises users’ activity patterns. It can then help users and teams spot their unhealthy work habits and time-drains that reduce their productivity and focus.
With Trackly, teams gain clarity how and where their time is spent. Thanks to the insights offered by Trackly’s tool they can improve their workflow, adopt better habit and achieve deep work with ease.
CEO: Yuli Azarch
Founded: 2017
Based in: Hove, UK
Funding to Date: N/A
Concert Finance
Concert Finance helps solve problems for sales and service teams, as well as accounting, through real-time commissions payout automation and calculation. Through Concert, sales teams have immediate visibility over their commissions, instead of having to do the math themselves. They also gain confidence in making sales projections for as much as a whole quarter.
Accounting, on the other hand, can make use of Concert’s highly customizable rule engine to calculate and amortise commissions. They can also automate invoice and revenue recognition on the basis of companies’ Salesforce data.
CEO: Bryan Wilson
Founded: 2017
Based in: New York, USA
Funding to Date: N/A
Cyclr
With Cyclr’s integration platform SaaS companies can boost their delivery of integrations and automations to their end-users directly from their own applications. This makes Cycler an embedded Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS) that works behind the scenes to provide immediate connectivity with over 130+ APIs.
Implementing Cyclr helps SaaS companies save engineering time and overhead while offering seamless embedding and integration capabilities. Cyclr also provides free developer tools and a drag and drop integration workflow builder. With them, companies can create their own custom integrations with any application. Cyclr can be deployed in the cloud or on a VPC, granting maximum control to users.
CEO: Fraser Davidson
Founded: 2013
Based in: Eastbourne, UK
Funding to Date: £500K
InfiniGrow
InfiniGrow is a marketing planning platform, powered by AI. Its purpose is to serve as SaaS marketers’ navigator and help them make smarter and faster decisions that maximise their ROI. InfiniGrow aggregates various sources of data, such as product, market, goal and performance data, to produce insights regarding the best channels and strategies.
InfiniGrow provides real-time feedback on campaigns and market trends allowing marketers to dynamically reallocate budgets and maximise growth and performance. Marketers can also use the platform to centralise all their marketing data, manage campaigns and measure the impact of their activities.
CEO: Daniel Meler
Founded: 2018
Based in: Tel Aviv, Israel
Funding to Date: N/A
Join these startups and many others for the SaaStock Startup Program and compete for the title of Best SaaS Startup of 2018. We can’t wait to meet you and help you on your path to success.