This year’s SaaStock USA will see the inaugural SaaS Revolutionaries. A set of awards designed to champion the North American companies disrupting the SaaS space, across five categories including: fastest growing, best bootstrapped startup, and Austin’s Rising Star.
We received applications from across North America. From chargeback management solutions, to customer insight tools, to analytics and data warehousing, the bar was high and the products innovative.
Each nomination has been diligently reviewed by our team to determine which companies are leading the charge. And with that, it’s time to meet the SaaS Revolutionaries shortlist.
Category: North America’s Fastest Growing SaaS
Celebrating the NA SaaS company with the largest YoY revenue growth.
Chargeflow
Chargeflow is a fully automated chargeback management platform – managing disputes for more than 5,000 brands, including Obvi, Huel, WordTune.
Founders: Avia Chen, Ariel Chen
Employees: 51-200
Why is Chargeflow shortlisted?
Chargeflow is the market’s first AI-powered, fully automated post-purchase chargeback solution. Its users have seen industry leading win rates, a sharp 4-7x increase from the average industry’s 12%.
In 2023, Chargeflow secured $11 million in seed financing from OpenView Venture Partners (following an earlier $3 million pre-seed round).
DiLytics
DiLytics is a systems integration and solution partner, focused on analytics, business intelligence, data warehousing, ETL data integration and enterprise performance management solutions.
Founder: Shyam Panda
Employees: 51-200
Why is DiLytics shortlisted?
DiLytics started its journey in 2011 and has been growing consistently ever since, with operations in the US, Canada, and India. With over 13 years of experience, DiLytics offers 18 services and eight solutions that provide users with plug and play data analytics. To date, the company has executed over 100 projects across more than 12 industries.
Redbrick Technologies
Redbrick Technologies is on a mission to empower the next generation of tech. In its 10+ year journey, Redbrick has gone from a small red-brick office of developers to a network of disruptive digital companies including Leadpages, Shift, Animoto, and Delivra.
Founder: Tobyn Sowden
Employees: 200+
Why is Redbrick Technologies shortlisted?
Redbrick has evolved from a software startup into a multi-national parent company with $100M annualised revenue and over 200 team members. Its most recent portfolio addition, Anomito, marks an effort to double down on software for digital entrepreneurs. On the acquisition, CEO Toby Sowden said “Animoto’s role in Redbrick is really important as it allows digital entrepreneurs to tap into the power of video which is the fastest-growing way to reach people online.”
Zappi
The only company to be shortlisted in two categories, Zappi is the leading consumer insights platform. Over 350 global brands – like PepsiCo, McDonald’s, Reckitt, Heineken, and Vodafone – rely on Zappi to inspire their best ideas, optimise their work in progress, and validate their thinking in every step of the creative process.
Founder: Steve Phillips
Employees: 200+
Why is Zappi shortlisted?
Zappi raised $170m in growth capital, which it’s using to expand data sets across new markets, verticals and categories. The company will also use the funding to power its platform innovation with emerging technologies and continue expanding its team globally. Zappi was also recently named the Best Marketing Insights Platform by the 2023 MarTech Breakthrough Awards and one of the hottest martech companies by Business Insider.
Category: Best Enterprise Software Product
Highlighting the SaaS solution that delivers the most value to enterprise business customers.
Finch
Finch is the leading API for software employment systems. Apps that use Finch can build just one integration to access data from a number of HR and payroll systems, significantly reducing engineering costs and time to market for innovations in employment technology.
Founder: Jeremy Zhang
Employees: 51-200
Why is Finch shortlisted?
Finch is a Series B company with $63 Million+ in total funding, backed by Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, QED, Intuit Ventures, and Y Combinator. To date, more than 3 million employees across nearly 40,000 employers have been connected through Finch.
By hyper-focusing on the employment sector, Finch is able to offer greater coverage of HR and payroll-specific systems and a more granular dataset than generalised unified API providers. It currently supports 4x more HR and payroll providers than any other unified API.
HoneyBook
HoneyBook is the leading clientflow management platform for independent businesses. By combining tools like billing, contracts, and client communication, HoneyBook helps business owners get organised so they can provide top-tier service at every step.
Founders: Oz Alon, Naama Alon
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Why is HoneyBook shortlisted?
HoneyBook is a unicorn funded by Tiger Global Management, Norwest Venture Partners, Durable Capital Partners LP, Battery Ventures, Citi Ventures, Zeev Ventures, 01 Advisors, and others. It’s trusted by over 100,000 businesses, and has facilitated over $12 billion in bookings to date.
Since its Series D, the company launched HoneyBook Capital, which has issued over $27M in small loans to eligible members.
NavigateHCR
NavigateHCR leverages cutting-edge technology to provide efficient and streamlined compliance and reporting solutions – with a view to mitigate compliance risk for employers and give them the tools to efficiently navigate Healthcare Reform.
Founder: Dr Kristin Kahle
Employees: 51-200
Why is NavigateHCR shortlisted?
Today, the company serves over 140,000 Employee Identification Numbers (EINs), and has been recognised for protecting American businesses from fines and fees associated with non-compliance. NavigateHCR is led by Dr. Kristin Kahle, a visionary CEO, founder, and passionate advocate for female entrepreneurs.
RideCo
The RideCo platform powers the largest on-demand transit services in North America including: Los Angeles and Philadelphia, Houston, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Tulsa, and more. The SaaS platform transforms traditional transit systems, enhancing the passenger experience by improving wait times and connecting urban and rural communities with the deployment of both paratransit and microtransit solutions. RideCo’s transformative software, is rooted in proprietary continuous optimisation technology and is supported by the industry’s best customer service.
Founders: Prem Gururajan, Matthew Monteyne, and Darren Maki
Employees: 51-200
Why is RideCo shortlisted?
RideCo’s on-demand technology is advancing transit for riders and reshaping how transit agencies operate their services. San Antonio’s VIA Link Service, for example, reduced the cost per passenger by 36%.
In November 2023 RideCo was ranked the 49th fastest growing company in North America in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and the 4th fastest growing company in Canada in the Technology Fast 50.
Category: Best Bootstrapped Startup
Spotlighting the most impressive SaaS company, built without VC funding.
Hirewise Inc. dba Adeva
Adeva was born out of a vision to enable work without boundaries and to make the world a smaller, more connected place. Its global network offers companies a direct line to some of the world’s best talent. Adeva specialises in providing an exceptional blend of quality, efficiency, and flexibility in tech staffing.
Founders: Katerina Trajchevska, Tosho Trajanov
Employees: 51-200
Why is Adeva shortlisted?
Adeva attributes much of its success and the impact the SaaS platform has on its community to bootstrapping and reinvesting back into Adeva and its customers. The company has recently received rewards and recognition including being listed 48th on fastest-growing tech companies in the USA by Deloitte and the 9th fastest growing company for 2024 by The Financial Times.
Phonexa
Phonexa is an enterprise-grade performance marketing automation solution. It powers lead buyers, sellers, and affiliate networks by optimising inbound and outbound campaigns while increasing compliance and enhancing the customer journey.
Founder: David Gasparyan
Employees: 51-200
Why is Phonexa shortlisted?
Phonexa was founded in 2016 and has a staff of over 200 employees. Its global operations headquarters are based in Glendale, California, with offices and a large presence in the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Canada.
Phonexa has sustained growth in the current climate and continues to scale, and grow its team. The company is led by Lilit Davtyan, an executive still in her early 30s. Lilit is a CPA-turned-CFO-turned-CEO, a member of the Forbes Business Council, and Chief, a private network for female leaders.
Precoro
Precoro is a cloud-based solution for procurement and accounts payable (AP) automation. It challenges traditional methods of procurement management by providing a people-first, self-funded, procure-to-pay (P2P) software.
Founder: Andrew Zhyvolovych
Employees: 51-200
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 recently listed as Forbes’ Best Supply Chain Management Software of 2024.
Userflow
Userflow is a no-code tool for building in-app onboarding. The Userflow products lets whole teams build customized, in-app tours, checklists, and dynamic flows that convert more customers and increase retention.
Founder: Esben Friis-Jensen, Sebastian Seilund
Employees: 2-10
Why is Userflow shortlisted?
Userflow bootstrapped to $4.6M ARR with just three fulltime employees, before it was acquired by Beamer in early 2024.
Hear more about Esben’s story, here.
Category: Austin’s Rising Star
Honoring the most promising Austin-based SaaS startup.
Beamer
Beamer is a no-code product communication platform that helps companies across the globe build better products. Beamer Changelogs, NPS, and Feedback open a two-way communication channel for user learning and product feedback. Updates from Beamer’s platform are unobtrusive, tailored to the customer’s needs and available right within the app.
Founder: Satya Ganni
Employees: 11-50
Why is Beamer shortlisted?
Since its launch in 2018, Beamer has emerged as a recognised leader in no-code product engagement tools. In August 2023, it raised a $20 million growth investment from Camber Partners. Already this year, Beamer has released Beamer Feedback and acquired user onboarding tool, Userflow. Both of which display the company’s commitment to streamlining customer journeys.
ThriveCart
ThriveCart provides landing page developer, marketing automation, affiliate management, content management and cart and checkout solutions for eCommerce.
Founder: Josh Bartlett
Employees: 11-50
Why is ThriveCart shortlisted?
Since launching in 2016, ThriveCart has grown rapidly. It currently serves over 60,000 customers and processes over $1.8B in sales annually. In 2023, ThriveCart secured a $35M investment, led by LTV SaaS Growth Fund and is using it to further develop their platform and triple the size of its workforce.
Category: Best AI Startup
Recognising the SaaS company best leveraging AI to power product innovation.
Masttro
Masttro is the leading global tech solution to provide advisors a full view of wealth. Masttro aggregates, analyzes and reports on total net worth, providing its customers with a single source of accurate, full-picture data to help them make informed financial decisions in near real-time.
Founders: Javier Gutierrez, Domingo Viesca
Employees: 51-200
Why is Masttro shortlisted?
In 2023, Masttro launched Doc AI, an innovative new tool that automates data handling of capital calls, distributions and capital statements.
In addition to this, Masttro also raised $43 Million from FTV Capital and Citi Ventures to fuel it’s expansion into new markets. It currently serves hundreds of clients and has tracked hundreds of millions of transactions across 24 countries, with offices in North America, Latin America, and Europe.
Numa
Numa is a customer engagement platform for car dealerships, backed by Costanoa Ventures, Threshold, and Gradient Ventures. With it, its customers can answer more customer calls, automate appointment booking, and deliver a personalised service at scale.
Founders: Tasso Roumeliotis, Joel Grossman, Andy Ruff
Employees: 11-50
Why is Numa shortlisted?
Numa uses the latest developments in generative AI to help dealerships capture missed revenue opportunities, automate customer communication, and increase overall profitability. Numa is pioneering AI and machine learning technology with patents pending in AI auto dealership communication software.
Oden Technologies
Oden Technologies empowers manufacturers to take a data-driven approach to production improvements. It’s takes the millions of disjointed data points created every day and make it easy, accessible, and usable to reduce waste and increase productivity across a $79tn industry.
Founders: Willem Sundbland, Peter Brand
Employees: 11-50
Why is Oden Technologies shortlisted?
Oden Technologies’ premier product, Process AI, uses AI and machine learning to deliver real time predictive quality and process optimisation. It allows operators to become high performers by streamlining processes with AI-enabled recommendations.
Oden recently raised a $28.5M Series B round of venture funding with NX International Inc Co.
Zappi
Zappi is the leading consumer insights platform. Over 350 global brands – like PepsiCo, McDonald’s, Reckitt, Heineken, and Vodafone – rely on Zappi to inspire their best ideas, optimise their work in progress, and validate their thinking in every step of the creative process.
Founder: Steve Phillips
Employees: 200+
Why is Zappi shortlisted?
Zappi offers on-demand research, automated AI-generated reports and all customer data in one user-friendly platform. In its 10 years, Zappi has tested over 100,000 creative ideas and built a unique data asset of 1.2 billion consumer data points.
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