We’re celebrating the best in SaaS for 2024 with The SaaStock Awards.
We received nominations from all corners of the world from the SaaS companies setting new standards for SaaS success and paving the way for those that follow.
The nominations are in, the judges have deliberated, and now, it’s time to meet the shortlist.
Category: Best Enterprise Software Solution
The SaaS company that serves large scale organisations (+1000 employees) most effectively.
Howwe Technologies
Howwe Technologies helps enterprises convert strategic decisions into tangible financial outcomes. Companies often face challenges with prioritising and executing their key goals, the Howwe SaaS solution uniquely addresses this and ensures a focused and effective execution.
Founder: Ulf Arnetz
Employees: 11-50
Headquarters: Stockholm, SE
Why is Howwe Technologies shortlisted? Howwe’s enterprise customers include Ikea Industry, Ramirent, and PayEx. The company promises its customers an ROI of between 8-25x within 18 months. It does this by delivering a comprehensive approach that encompasses proven methodology, a user-friendly platform, and expert support to enable CEOs to drive, predict, and visualise strategic progress.
Flywire
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company that fuels global growth in SaaS companies by allowing them to offer a frictionless payment experience to their customers around the world.
CEO: Mike Massaro
Employees: 1001-5000
Headquarters: Boston, MA
Why is flywire shortlisted? Through its Global Payments Network, Flywire provides localised payment options including: bank transfers, card payments and alternative payment methods, in 140+ currencies across 240+ countries or territories. On top of that, Flywire’s comprehensive software provides full automation of secure payment processing and reconciliation into ERP systems, simplifying back office processes and minimising time spent reconciling international invoices.
Optimizely
Optimizely is on a mission to make the lives of marketers better, so they can easily create and optimise digital experiences across all channels. Optimizely One, an operating system for marketers, offers teams flexibility and choice to build their stack their way with a fully SaaS, fully decoupled, and highly composable solution.
CEO: Alex Atzberger
Employees: 1001-5000
Headquarters: New York, NY
Why is Optimizely shortlisted? Optimizely helps 10,000 businesses globally orchestrate their entire content lifecycle, monetise every digital experience, and experiment across all customer touchpoints. This gives marketers control and visibility across every phase of the content and campaign process, accelerating efficiency with thoughtfully-embedded AI. Optimizely is trusted by teams at companies including Royal Mint, Rakbank, and Dolby.
Wallester
Wallester is an embedded finance solution with two key offerings: Wallester Business and Wallester White-Label. Wallester Business is a comprehensive, free-to-use corporate expense management platform that provides instant virtual and physical card issuance, real-time transaction monitoring, and integrated accounting services. Wallester White-Label is a customisable payment infrastructure solution that allows businesses to launch their own branded Visa card programs rapidly.
Founders:
Employees: 51-200
Headquarters: Tallinn, EE
Why is Wallester shortlisted? Wallester is continuously expanding its customer base and now operates in 37 countries worldwide. Its Business offering includes free-to-use features, eliminates top-up fees for euros, and provides zero transaction fees in ten currencies, significantly reducing operational costs for large enterprises. Wallester White-Label includes features like instant card issuance, branded mobile apps, and advanced back-office portals, enabling enterprises to enhance their financial offerings and customer engagement.
Category: Best Software Solution for SMBs
The SaaS solution that best alleviates some of the challenges faced by SMBs (<1000 employees).
HERO Software
HERO Software offers small and medium-sized trade businesses an ERP solution tailored to their needs that helps them to digitally map processes and increase efficiency. The platform digitises the entire business process–from the first customer contact and the preparation of quotations to the implementation and documentation of the construction site and final invoicing.
Founder: Michael Kessler
Employees: 51-200
Headquarters: Hanover, DE
Why is Hero Software shortlisted? Hero Software was built for SMB trade businesses. From its functions, to product extensions, and usability, it is designed to help its customers improve efficiency and save costs. For some customers, time to process invoices has reduced from 5-10 minutes to one minute, and monthly postage cost savings total €500-€1000.
Kertos
Kertos is a no-code SaaS solution that connects an organisation’s entire infrastructure to manage personal data and fully automate privacy processes. By executing workflows, handling data subject requests, and building self-maintaining records of processing activities, Kertos makes manual privacy (GDPR) compliance a thing of the past.
Founders:
Employees: 11-50
Headquarters: Munich, DE
Why is Kertos shortlisted? Kertos’ integrated solution helps SMBs get security certification-ready in weeks across Data & Process Discovery, Data Subject Requests, Access Management Compliance Documentations, and Certification Frameworks (ISO27001, SOC2, TiSAX). The company has seen exceptional growth over the past two years, growing 4x in 2023, and 3x YTD in 2024.
Travelperk
TravelPerk is the all-in-one business travel platform that helps SMBs more effectively manage their travel needs. Through its real-time reporting dashboard, TravelPerk provides valuable insights into travel data, uncovering hidden savings opportunities, and handing visibility to travel admins to ensure all risks are taken care of.
Founder: Avi Meir
Employees: 1001-5000
Headquarters: Barcelona, ES
Why is TravelPerk shortlisted? TravelPerk offers a solution that can save SMBs up to 30% on travel budgets by streamlining the travel process. The platform gives travellers the freedom they want whilst travelling for work, alongside providing companies with the control they need. It simplifies enforcement with built-in travel policies, ensuring compliance rates of 90% or more, and facilitates VAT recovery. Their commitment to their customers means that account management and customer care teams are the customers first point of contact. The company has also invested in AI over the past 12 months. This has allowed its customer care team to serve twice the volume of queries, with the same number of agents.
Typeform
Typeform is a platform designed to help businesses turn digital interactions into lasting personal connections. Using its no-code tools including: forms, quizzes, surveys, and asynchronous videos, brands can engage their audience and grow their business with ease.
CEO: Joaquim Lecha
Employees: 201-500
Headquarters: Barcelona, ES
Why is Typeform shortlisted?
As a no-code tool, Typeform gives SMBs the powers of developers and designers, and a best-in-class lead generation workflow at a fraction of the cost. Typeform integrates with the tools in their customers’ tech stack enabling them to act on the data collected more quickly. With Typeform forms, SMBs can collect up to 3.5x more data + boost completion rates by 34%. Typeform now serves 150,000 companies. Since launching in 2012, its customers have published 8M forms and generated 3B responses.
Younium
Younium automates subscription management, billing, revenue recognition, and reporting for fast-growing B2B SaaS. It gives businesses complete control over their subscription business, handling all types of price models and advanced contract to ensure proper revenue growth and retention without revenue leakage.
Founder: Niclas Lilja
Employees: 51-200
Headquarters: Stockholm, SE
Why is Younium shorlisted? Younium is tailored for B2B SaaS, with a core data model that helps B2B subscription businesses to grow and scale. Its SMB customers have seen strong ROI from using Younium, including a 20% time saving in finance operations and a 90% decrease in billing lead times. The company has grown by 860% over the last four years and announced a €7.2M funding round in March 2024.
Category: Best Bootstrapped SaaS Business
The SaaS company that’s operating and growing without venture capital funding.
CookieYes
CookieYes is a leading consent management platform (CMP) that helps businesses comply with privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, POPIA, and more. The CookieYes platform is an all-in-one solution to unburden businesses from privacy challenges and non-compliance fines.
Founder: Anvar T K
Employees: 11-50
Headquarters: Milton Keynes, UK
Why is CookieYes shortlisted? More than 1.5 million businesses across 170+ countries trust CookieYes with data privacy compliance. This includes small businesses, startups, non-profits, public sector organisations, and Fortune 500 companies. CookieYes started by acquiring a simple, abandoned cookie banner plugin on WordPress. It has since transformed into a SaaS product for SMBs. Their goal was to remain profitable while pushing for growth within bootstrapped constraints. Over the last 12 months, CookieYes has seen an impressive 225% MRR increase.
Precoro
Precoro is a cloud-based procurement and AP automation system that streamlines the procure-to-pay process. It offers SMBs fast setup, flexibility, and user-friendly design, resulting in up to 10% budget savings, 100% spending visibility, and 80% reduction in manual data entry. Precoro differentiates with its 2-4 week setup, flexible and intuitive design, and continuous customer success support.
Founder: Andrew Zhyvolovych
Employees: 51-200
Headquarters: Brooklyn, NY
Why is Precoro shortlisted? Precoro has been profitable and bootstrapped for eight years and now serves over 1000 companies in more than 80 countries (including the US, UK, Europe, and Asia). It was listed as Forbes’ Best Supply Chain Management Software of 2024. Precoro has also recently launched a mobile app and announced strategic punch-out partnerships with major retailers like Home Depot, Amazon Business, and Staples as well as an integration with NetSuite.
Planium
Planium provides digital sales platforms for health insurers. The Planium solution provides customers with tailored solutions that directly address their needs, supported by a robust relationship structure and pricing that ensures only pay for what they use.
Founder: Danilo Meth
Employees: 51-200
Headquarters: Rio de Janeiro, BR
Why is Planium shortlisted? As a bootstrapped company, Planium focuses on sustainable growth, reinvesting profits back into new developments and strategic marketing. The company currently operates at $2M ARR, has 150 health insurance companies as clients, and more than 100,000 brokers are now certified to sell through Planium platforms. Over the past five years, its average annual growth rate has been 40%.
Signeasy
Signeasy is a leading contract management platform to sign, send, and manage critical business contracts. The platform provides features like document tracking, templates, in-depth usage analytics, multi-admin, and more, combined with industry-grade security and compliance.
Founder: Sunil Patro
Employees: 51-200
Headquarters: Dallas, TX
Why is Signeasy shortlisted? 48,000 companies in over 100 countries use Signeasy to simplify paperwork and increase efficiency across departments like Sales, HR, Finance, and Operations. Since launching in 2010, Signeasy has processed over 100M business contracts for its customers. The platform has been a recommended Google Workspace App for two consecutive years and integrates seamlessly with HubSpot and Office 365.
vFairs
vFairs is an all-in-one event management platform that powers in-person, virtual, and hybrid events including: conferences, trade shows, hiring fairs, student events, internal company events, and more. The vFairs platform features a registration & ticketing platform, mobile application, onsite check-in & badge printing, and a virtual events platform.
Founder: Muhammad Younas
Employees: 201-500
Headquarters: Carrollton, TX
Why is vFairs shorlisted? vFairs offers a scalable solution for events of all sizes, whether 50, 10,000 or 50,000 guests. With specialised features and dedicated project management support, vFairs allows its customers to use the platform to address their specific challenges.
In the last 7-8 years, vFairs has expanded its product offering from virtual events only to hybrid and in-person events–an approach that has helped them scale to $30M ARR.
Category: Most Innovative use of AI
The company that’s using AI in the most innovative way to improve its product and better serve its customers.
ChurnZero
ChurnZero is a platform and partner for Customer Success. It’s designed to help subscription businesses succeed at scale, improve efficiency, increase revenue, and deliver the best possible customer experiences.
Founders:
Employees: 201-500
Headquarters: Washington, DC
Why is ChurnZero shortlisted? ChurnZero built generative AI into its product in early 2023, with Customer Success AI™ (CS AI) which CS teams use to draft content, research information, and develop ideas. CS AI has been trained by customer success experts and helps ChurnZero customers (and its in-house team) to save time, work more efficiently, and scale their impact. More than a content generation tool, CS AI summarises call notes into detailed follow-up emails, provides detailed customer profiles to prepare for meetings, as well as ideates new engagements, written content, and strategic directions on demand.
G2
G2 is the largest and most trusted software marketplace. More than 90 million people annually—including employees at all Fortune 500 companies—use G2 to make smarter software decisions based on authentic peer reviews.
Founders:
Employees: 501-1000
Headquarters: Chicago, IL
Why is G2 shortlisted?
16% of buyers start their software purchasing journey on G2, with 74% discovering G2 during their research process. But a challenge remained: G2’s search functionality was helpful for discovering software only if you already knew what you wanted. Launched in 2023, AI-powered Monty was designed to combat this challenge and makes it easy to search far and wide for software on G2. It does this by analysing buyer needs to suggest suitable solution options, saving time and money.
Since launching, Monty has expanded its skills in additional roles: serving as a dedicated customer support agent for G2’s clientele, an expert in sales prospecting and lead generation as a powerful chatbot on G2 product profiles and external websites, a visionary in software market intelligence, and more.
RevSure AI
RevSure is an enterprise-grade, full funnel attribution, AI solution for complex GTM motions. Unlike legacy attribution solutions, RevSure combines full-funnel attribution with predictive intelligence and active recommendations, providing high-growth marketing teams the information they need to be more effective at every stage of the lead journey.
Founder: Deepinger Singh Dhingra
Employees: 11-50
Headquarters: Wilmington, DE
Why is RevSure AI shortlisted? RevSure’s AI-powered engine enables precise marketing spend reallocations, more effective lead prioritisation, and deeper insights into the buyer journey. This approach allows companies to optimise their go-to-market strategies, improve campaign performance, and scale their operations more predictably. Customers have reported impressive results, including a 50% improvement in Pipeline ROI and a 60% time saving on reporting.
Yuna Health
Yuna is on a mission to revolutionise mental wellness by offering personalised, digital tools that facilitate growth, healing, and self-discovery. The company aims to change 1B lives by harnessing the power of AI to provide affordable, personalised, and timely support to those in need.
Founder: Grant Winns
Employees: 1-10
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Why is Yuna Health shortlisted? Yuna leverages AI to provide mental health care through multi-agent AI systems that mimic human therapists. Unlike other AI solutions, Yuna monitors users’ mental health via passive biometric data, enabling proactive interventions. This approach solves problems of high therapy costs, long wait times, and limited therapist availability. Available for individuals and enterprises, Yuna provides continuous, tailored support that has been proven to reduce anxiety scores by 40% in three months.
Veriom
Veriom is an application monitoring platform that uses AI to audit software systems for limitations and gaps causing software risks and provides the recommended actions for teams to take.
Founder: Nuria Manuel
Employees: 1-10
Headquarters: London, UK
Why is Veriom shortlisted? Hidden gaps and risks as IT systems scale costs businesses over $260B annually. Veriom aims to tackle this problem by auditing IT infrastructures and governance policies through seamless integration with our customer’s internal tools and leveraging AI. The platform uses AI frameworks, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, for efficient data management and search capabilities, including hybrid similarity and keyword searches that generate actionable insights in minutes. The Veriom platform uses early detection and holistic monitoring to deliver a 30% improvement in risk detection and a 12% reduction in technical costs.
Category: Founder/CEO of the Year
The founders and CEOs disrupting the SaaS industry as we know it with their product, innovation, and leadership style.
Avi Meir, Co-Founder and CEO at Travelperk
As Co-Founder and CEO of Travelperk, Avi has led the company to impressive scale since 2015–through the travel shutdown during the pandemic and a turbulent few years for the companies it serves.
Today, TravelPerk is valued at $1.4bn, and boasts over 1,300 employees across Europe and North America, with one in four experiencing career advancement in the past year. In June of 2024, TravelPerk acquired Chicago-based startup AmTrav to help further its expansion in the U.S.To help fund the deal, the company raised $135 million in debt financing from private equity firms Blackstone and Blue Owl.
Muhammad Younas, Founder and CEO at vFairs
As the CEO and Founder of vFairs, Muhammad Younas is on a mission to provide innovative and scalable solutions to businesses around the world and help vFairs become the world’s most loved and trusted technology provider to power events.
Under his leadership, vFairs has bootstrapped to $30M ARR and become one of the fastest-growing startups in North America (as recognized by Forbes in 2023) . A global leader in the event tech space, vFairs currently serves customers across 100+ industries, including government, education, technology, healthcare, telecom, and non-profits, among others. In 2024, vFairs also ranked in Forbes’ Top 500 startup employers in the US.
Sergei Astafjev, CEO at Wallester
Sergei has been leading Wallester since 2020. In that time, Wallester has extended its client base across 37 countries and obtained a cross-border activity licence for entry into the UK market. The introduction of Wallester White-Label and Wallester Business has enabled nearly 1M Visa cards to be issued across the EEA and UK, driving a 400% increase in payment processing value. With a 67% team growth, Wallester is now among Estonia’s top three financial institutions and has been recognized as “Best Expense Management Platform” (2023) and “Best FinTech Partner” (2024) in recent industry awards.
Sunil Patro, Founder and CEO at Signeasy
Since bootstrapping Signeasy over a decade ago, Sunil has been focused on growing a profitable and sustainable SaaS company.
Sunil’s leadership has been pivotal in turning Signeasy into a trusted, profitable company. Today, Signeasy is trusted by 48,000 companies in over 100 countries to simplify paperwork and increase efficiency across departments like Sales, HR, Finance, and Operations. Since launching in 2010, Signeasy has processed over 100M business contracts for its customers and scaled to $9M ARR.
Yogeeta Chainani, Co-founder and CEO at Swaarm
As Co-Founder and CEO at Swaarm, Yogeeta uses her background in product and engineering to deliver innovative solutions that meet customer needs and drive business growth.
Swaarm provides a tracking and attribution platform that empowers agencies, advertisers, and partners with performance-based marketing solutions. With Swaarm, businesses can seamlessly manage, track, analyse, and optimise their marketing efforts at scale. This allows them to make data-driven decisions and achieve scalability in the digital landscape.
A committed leader, Yogeeta has been recognised in the “App Leaders List” for 2024.
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