ICYMI... A big thank you to TechCrunch for their exclusive article on Payabli. We are in the midst of exciting times with our recent Series A fundraising led by QED Investors, and it propels Payabli into an even brighter future, enabling us to achieve the following: - Strengthen our next-generation Payments Infrastructure and Monetization Platform, enabling software companies to embed and monetize payments through a single developer-friendly API - Accelerate our market differentiation by unifying Pay In and Pay Out with true Embedded Payables products for software companies - Empower "Need to Pay" verticals, adding significant utility to software companies by monetizing their Bill Pay products and Pay Out modalities - Hire top-tier engineering and client-facing talent to further drive innovation, scalability, and client acquisition We are also thrilled to highlight and celebrate our notable product launches, including: 🔀 Split Funding for complex settlement use cases 🛠️ Creator No-Code Embedded Component Builder 💸 On-Demand Payouts 🤖 AI-powered Integration Bot Laura Bock of QED Investors shared her thoughts on the news: "We are thrilled to partner with Payabli in their vision to make every software company a payments company. The shift of trillions in payment processing to embedded software platforms has created space for next-gen infrastructure players. Payabli’s dedication to 'wowwing' their customers and supporting entrepreneurs is core to their mission." From TX Zhuo, General Partner at Fika Ventures, our investing partner: "We are excited to continue supporting Payabli in its bold vision to transform payments from a cost center into a monetization engine for software platforms. Payabli's agnostic payment infrastructure simplifies complex integrations, reducing admin and compliance costs. We eagerly anticipate their next wave of growth under Will and Jo's leadership." Our team is ecstatic about this news! https://hubs.ly/Q02DwrtD0 #TechCrunch #SeriesA #FinTech #Payments #FinTechNews #Payabli #PaymentInnovation #EmbeddedPayments
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G2M Leader turned Founder, building next generation Payments Infrastructure to make every Software Company a Payments Company
https://lnkd.in/gixaTuAE As an early Seamless/GrubHuber, turned ServiceTitan, turned Payments Founder, I found this piece by Matt Brown to be fascinating. In a new paradigm of “Dark Software”, where SaaS companies focus on even narrower ICPs coupled with broader product offerings, the fintech stack they choose to build on becomes even more critical. Brown highlights the need for more embedded fintech players to support this new model, offering Dark Software more extendability through aggressive bundling of multiple financial products. From day 1 at Payabli we’ve subscribed to this philosophy. We started with coupling Embedded Payment Acceptance with Embedded Payables. Think every software company offering their own embedded BILL. New programs like lending, banking and others are on the horizon. Aside from extensibility into new fintech programs another important consideration is the scalability / flexibility of the fintech infrastructure Dark Software companies build on. We’re particularly passionate about unbundling Payment Operations I.e Boarding, Underwriting, Risk, Billing, etc. As companies scale, having the ability to move seamlessly from a managed program where the Pay Ops are handled by the infra partner to an autonomous model where the SaaS company truly handles everything including compliance, risk, administration, "owning the paper", etc in exchange for more lucrative economics is critical. Adrian Rosario is doing some exciting work unbundling Pay Ops that we’ll be unveiling soon. Highly recommend the https://notes.mtb.xyz sub stack for thoughtful insights and commentary on the state of Fintech and SaaS #payments #fintech #saas #software
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Absolutely a great read like Joseph Elias Phillips said. In today's rapidly evolving #fintech space, building software with extensibility in mind is not just a preference but a necessity. Vertical #SaaS companies should strive to become the entire operating system for their clients' business. By managing their daily operations, collecting invoices, paying their bills, and more in one place, SaaS companies can create a sticky product that their clients love to use while driving up their LTV in the process. However, it's easier said than done to quickly integrate a ton of products while also providing meaningful revenue to your company, I'm sure Johnny Mejias can attest to the first part. Ensuring that experience feels seamless is a major obstacle to conquer when you have tons of different schemas to code to or reports to ingest across those products. So if you're a SaaS company looking to embed #fintech products, make sure you work with a partner who can provide an easy integration, reduce the cost of operations, and is adaptable to emerging technologies for your full-stack product vision beyond just 2024. I am pumped to deliver a ton of new tools that will enable Vertical SaaS companies to do just that at Payabli. Keep your eyes out for the cool stuff we will be announcing this year. And be sure to follow us for updates: https://lnkd.in/eCjV4peb Check out https://notes.mtb.xyz for other great posts as well. #Fintech #SoftwareDevelopment #Innovation #saas #payments
G2M Leader turned Founder, building next generation Payments Infrastructure to make every Software Company a Payments Company
https://lnkd.in/gixaTuAE As an early Seamless/GrubHuber, turned ServiceTitan, turned Payments Founder, I found this piece by Matt Brown to be fascinating. In a new paradigm of “Dark Software”, where SaaS companies focus on even narrower ICPs coupled with broader product offerings, the fintech stack they choose to build on becomes even more critical. Brown highlights the need for more embedded fintech players to support this new model, offering Dark Software more extendability through aggressive bundling of multiple financial products. From day 1 at Payabli we’ve subscribed to this philosophy. We started with coupling Embedded Payment Acceptance with Embedded Payables. Think every software company offering their own embedded BILL. New programs like lending, banking and others are on the horizon. Aside from extensibility into new fintech programs another important consideration is the scalability / flexibility of the fintech infrastructure Dark Software companies build on. We’re particularly passionate about unbundling Payment Operations I.e Boarding, Underwriting, Risk, Billing, etc. As companies scale, having the ability to move seamlessly from a managed program where the Pay Ops are handled by the infra partner to an autonomous model where the SaaS company truly handles everything including compliance, risk, administration, "owning the paper", etc in exchange for more lucrative economics is critical. Adrian Rosario is doing some exciting work unbundling Pay Ops that we’ll be unveiling soon. Highly recommend the https://notes.mtb.xyz sub stack for thoughtful insights and commentary on the state of Fintech and SaaS #payments #fintech #saas #software
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Embracing the 'Dark Software' paradigm, Payabli's Joseph Elias Phillips aligns with Matt Brown’s insights. As #SaaS platforms focus on narrower ICPs and broader product offerings, the importance of the #fintech infrastructure they partner with becomes increasingly vital. Read more below 👇 #fintechevolution #embeddedfinance #embeddedpayments #software #darksoftware #SaaSpayments #softwareinnovation
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https://lnkd.in/gixaTuAE As an early Seamless/GrubHuber, turned ServiceTitan, turned Payments Founder, I found this piece by Matt Brown to be fascinating. In a new paradigm of “Dark Software”, where SaaS companies focus on even narrower ICPs coupled with broader product offerings, the fintech stack they choose to build on becomes even more critical. Brown highlights the need for more embedded fintech players to support this new model, offering Dark Software more extendability through aggressive bundling of multiple financial products. From day 1 at Payabli we’ve subscribed to this philosophy. We started with coupling Embedded Payment Acceptance with Embedded Payables. Think every software company offering their own embedded BILL. New programs like lending, banking and others are on the horizon. Aside from extensibility into new fintech programs another important consideration is the scalability / flexibility of the fintech infrastructure Dark Software companies build on. We’re particularly passionate about unbundling Payment Operations I.e Boarding, Underwriting, Risk, Billing, etc. As companies scale, having the ability to move seamlessly from a managed program where the Pay Ops are handled by the infra partner to an autonomous model where the SaaS company truly handles everything including compliance, risk, administration, "owning the paper", etc in exchange for more lucrative economics is critical. Adrian Rosario is doing some exciting work unbundling Pay Ops that we’ll be unveiling soon. Highly recommend the https://notes.mtb.xyz sub stack for thoughtful insights and commentary on the state of Fintech and SaaS #payments #fintech #saas #software
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Fintech startup Forward grabs $16M to take on Stripe, lead future of integrated payments Forward enables SaaS companies to reduce payment fees, saving them money. Started processing payments in Q4 2023, done a few million transactions since then. $16M seed financing led by Commerce Ventures, Elefund, Fiserv. #Fintech #Payments #SaaS #StartupSuccess #StripeAlternative
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🚀 Berlin-based Monite adds €5.5M to expand financial services! API-first fintech Monite secures a strong €5.5 million top-up round, bringing its total seed funding to $16 million. Co-led by Valar Ventures LLC and Third Prime, with continued support from existing investors, Monite is poised for expansion in the US B2B market. Why Monite? 💼 In a landscape where B2B payments often suffer from inefficiencies, Monite steps in to provide seamless financial operations within daily B2B platforms. Monite's Impact 🌍 Empowering B2B platforms with robust revenue and spending management workflows, Monite enables quick implementation of invoicing solutions, seamless accounting integrations, and cutting-edge accounts payable automation. The Next Chapter 📈 Despite a 40% decline in fintech venture capital interest in 2023, Monite shines with a 10x increase in monthly recurring revenue and 5x year-over-year customer growth, capturing the attention of Valar Ventures. Exciting times ahead for Monite! 💳 #fintech #b2bfinance #innovation
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Why BaaS companies are venture bets on the future of embedded finance BaaS businesses that want to build a successful business off developer-centric, self-serve APIs, as they put together a customer base, are also building a portfolio of venture-like ‘bets’ on those companies. The quality of those bets will be a major driver of growth. If companies they’re partnered with break out, it can exponentially grow their transaction volume and revenue. For BaaS, this means that embedded finance—made up by companies looking to embed cards or rewards or lending into their core product experience instead of fintechs that offer those things as the product itself—may be the opportunity they need to find that massive growth runway. So far, the tendency has been that the economics of building for fintechs aligns well with going upmarket and building for the enterprise. A few breakout successes can almost be enough to build a strong business. The limitation there is that fintech companies have such rigorous requirements that at scale, their BaaS providers can become beholden to their roadmap. A company like Marqeta where 73% of their business comes from Square cannot build for the long tail of fintechs and companies that might embed some financial function into their product—though this opens up a corresponding opportunity for today’s BaaS companies. The situation, as one senior BaaS executive described it to us: "Either you become a very high-end professional services company like Green Dot or Q2 or Synapse, or you try to basically do what Galileo and Unit and Productfy are doing, which is aggregate the long tail, all the hundreds of thousands of FinTechs, and basically try to monetize on the 10 to 20% of them that are going to start to grow up and become larger and larger and larger." Because Marqeta is so firmly in the enterprise and isn’t going after the everyday fintech developer, it leaves open the long tail for the BaaS companies—and there are a magnitude more potential ‘embedded finance’ companies in that long tail than there are fintechs. Similarly, Twilio didn’t necessarily pursue the most active companies already embracing some form of telephony as part of their core product. They went after companies like Uber— that needed to be sending texts every second as part of operating a car dispatch service, connecting drivers and riders. These were companies that wanted telephony as a means of enabling new kinds of product experiences. Going after these kinds of ‘embedded telephony’ companies became Twilio’s main growth engine. Twilio’s customer growth did also remain majority-SMB even as they went public and disclosed those numbers that showed high customer concentration—because their long tail strategy was successful, and it was mainly a few breakout successes like Uber and WhatsApp that made their revenue look overly concentrated. Subscribe https://lnkd.in/gcWnV_AC Source Sacra #baas #bankingasaservice #fintech
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Why BaaS companies are venture bets on the future of embedded finance BaaS businesses that want to build a successful business off developer-centric, self-serve APIs, as they put together a customer base, are also building a portfolio of venture-like ‘bets’ on those companies. The quality of those bets will be a major driver of growth. If companies they’re partnered with break out, it can exponentially grow their transaction volume and revenue. For BaaS, this means that embedded finance—made up by companies looking to embed cards or rewards or lending into their core product experience instead of fintechs that offer those things as the product itself—may be the opportunity they need to find that massive growth runway. So far, the tendency has been that the economics of building for fintechs aligns well with going upmarket and building for the enterprise. A few breakout successes can almost be enough to build a strong business. The limitation there is that fintech companies have such rigorous requirements that at scale, their BaaS providers can become beholden to their roadmap. A company like Marqeta where 73% of their business comes from Square cannot build for the long tail of fintechs and companies that might embed some financial function into their product—though this opens up a corresponding opportunity for today’s BaaS companies. The situation, as one senior BaaS executive described it to us: "Either you become a very high-end professional services company like Green Dot or Q2 or Synapse, or you try to basically do what Galileo and Unit and Productfy are doing, which is aggregate the long tail, all the hundreds of thousands of FinTechs, and basically try to monetize on the 10 to 20% of them that are going to start to grow up and become larger and larger and larger." Because Marqeta is so firmly in the enterprise and isn’t going after the everyday fintech developer, it leaves open the long tail for the BaaS companies—and there are a magnitude more potential ‘embedded finance’ companies in that long tail than there are fintechs. Similarly, Twilio didn’t necessarily pursue the most active companies already embracing some form of telephony as part of their core product. They went after companies like Uber— that needed to be sending texts every second as part of operating a car dispatch service, connecting drivers and riders. These were companies that wanted telephony as a means of enabling new kinds of product experiences. Going after these kinds of ‘embedded telephony’ companies became Twilio’s main growth engine. Twilio’s customer growth did also remain majority-SMB even as they went public and disclosed those numbers that showed high customer concentration—because their long tail strategy was successful, and it was mainly a few breakout successes like Uber and WhatsApp that made their revenue look overly concentrated. Subscribe https://lnkd.in/gcWnV_AC Source Sacra #baas #bankingasaservice #fintech
Why BaaS companies are venture bets on the future of embedded finance BaaS businesses that want to build a successful business off developer-centric, self-serve APIs, as they put together a customer base, are also building a portfolio of venture-like ‘bets’ on those companies. The quality of those bets will be a major driver of growth. If companies they’re partnered with break out, it can exponentially grow their transaction volume and revenue. For BaaS, this means that embedded finance—made up by companies looking to embed cards or rewards or lending into their core product experience instead of fintechs that offer those things as the product itself—may be the opportunity they need to find that massive growth runway. So far, the tendency has been that the economics of building for fintechs aligns well with going upmarket and building for the enterprise. A few breakout successes can almost be enough to build a strong business. The limitation there is that fintech companies have such rigorous requirements that at scale, their BaaS providers can become beholden to their roadmap. A company like Marqeta where 73% of their business comes from Square cannot build for the long tail of fintechs and companies that might embed some financial function into their product—though this opens up a corresponding opportunity for today’s BaaS companies. The situation, as one senior BaaS executive described it to us: "Either you become a very high-end professional services company like Green Dot or Q2 or Synapse, or you try to basically do what Galileo and Unit and Productfy are doing, which is aggregate the long tail, all the hundreds of thousands of FinTechs, and basically try to monetize on the 10 to 20% of them that are going to start to grow up and become larger and larger and larger." Because Marqeta is so firmly in the enterprise and isn’t going after the everyday fintech developer, it leaves open the long tail for the BaaS companies—and there are a magnitude more potential ‘embedded finance’ companies in that long tail than there are fintechs. Similarly, Twilio didn’t necessarily pursue the most active companies already embracing some form of telephony as part of their core product. They went after companies like Uber— that needed to be sending texts every second as part of operating a car dispatch service, connecting drivers and riders. These were companies that wanted telephony as a means of enabling new kinds of product experiences. Going after these kinds of ‘embedded telephony’ companies became Twilio’s main growth engine. Twilio’s customer growth did also remain majority-SMB even as they went public and disclosed those numbers that showed high customer concentration—because their long tail strategy was successful, and it was mainly a few breakout successes like Uber and WhatsApp that made their revenue look overly concentrated. Subscribe https://lnkd.in/gcWnV_AC Source Sacra #baas #bankingasaservice #fintech
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Why BaaS companies are venture bets on the future of embedded finance BaaS businesses that want to build a successful business off developer-centric, self-serve APIs, as they put together a customer base, are also building a portfolio of venture-like ‘bets’ on those companies. The quality of those bets will be a major driver of growth. If companies they’re partnered with break out, it can exponentially grow their transaction volume and revenue. For BaaS, this means that embedded finance—made up by companies looking to embed cards or rewards or lending into their core product experience instead of fintechs that offer those things as the product itself—may be the opportunity they need to find that massive growth runway. So far, the tendency has been that the economics of building for fintechs aligns well with going upmarket and building for the enterprise. A few breakout successes can almost be enough to build a strong business. The limitation there is that fintech companies have such rigorous requirements that at scale, their BaaS providers can become beholden to their roadmap. A company like Marqeta where 73% of their business comes from Square cannot build for the long tail of fintechs and companies that might embed some financial function into their product—though this opens up a corresponding opportunity for today’s BaaS companies. The situation, as one senior BaaS executive described it to us: "Either you become a very high-end professional services company like Green Dot or Q2 or Synapse, or you try to basically do what Galileo and Unit and Productfy are doing, which is aggregate the long tail, all the hundreds of thousands of FinTechs, and basically try to monetize on the 10 to 20% of them that are going to start to grow up and become larger and larger and larger." Because Marqeta is so firmly in the enterprise and isn’t going after the everyday fintech developer, it leaves open the long tail for the BaaS companies—and there are a magnitude more potential ‘embedded finance’ companies in that long tail than there are fintechs. Similarly, Twilio didn’t necessarily pursue the most active companies already embracing some form of telephony as part of their core product. They went after companies like Uber— that needed to be sending texts every second as part of operating a car dispatch service, connecting drivers and riders. These were companies that wanted telephony as a means of enabling new kinds of product experiences. Going after these kinds of ‘embedded telephony’ companies became Twilio’s main growth engine. Twilio’s customer growth did also remain majority-SMB even as they went public and disclosed those numbers that showed high customer concentration—because their long tail strategy was successful, and it was mainly a few breakout successes like Uber and WhatsApp that made their revenue look overly concentrated. Subscribe https://lnkd.in/gcWnV_AC Source Sacra #baas #bankingasaservice #fintech
Why BaaS companies are venture bets on the future of embedded finance BaaS businesses that want to build a successful business off developer-centric, self-serve APIs, as they put together a customer base, are also building a portfolio of venture-like ‘bets’ on those companies. The quality of those bets will be a major driver of growth. If companies they’re partnered with break out, it can exponentially grow their transaction volume and revenue. For BaaS, this means that embedded finance—made up by companies looking to embed cards or rewards or lending into their core product experience instead of fintechs that offer those things as the product itself—may be the opportunity they need to find that massive growth runway. So far, the tendency has been that the economics of building for fintechs aligns well with going upmarket and building for the enterprise. A few breakout successes can almost be enough to build a strong business. The limitation there is that fintech companies have such rigorous requirements that at scale, their BaaS providers can become beholden to their roadmap. A company like Marqeta where 73% of their business comes from Square cannot build for the long tail of fintechs and companies that might embed some financial function into their product—though this opens up a corresponding opportunity for today’s BaaS companies. The situation, as one senior BaaS executive described it to us: "Either you become a very high-end professional services company like Green Dot or Q2 or Synapse, or you try to basically do what Galileo and Unit and Productfy are doing, which is aggregate the long tail, all the hundreds of thousands of FinTechs, and basically try to monetize on the 10 to 20% of them that are going to start to grow up and become larger and larger and larger." Because Marqeta is so firmly in the enterprise and isn’t going after the everyday fintech developer, it leaves open the long tail for the BaaS companies—and there are a magnitude more potential ‘embedded finance’ companies in that long tail than there are fintechs. Similarly, Twilio didn’t necessarily pursue the most active companies already embracing some form of telephony as part of their core product. They went after companies like Uber— that needed to be sending texts every second as part of operating a car dispatch service, connecting drivers and riders. These were companies that wanted telephony as a means of enabling new kinds of product experiences. Going after these kinds of ‘embedded telephony’ companies became Twilio’s main growth engine. Twilio’s customer growth did also remain majority-SMB even as they went public and disclosed those numbers that showed high customer concentration—because their long tail strategy was successful, and it was mainly a few breakout successes like Uber and WhatsApp that made their revenue look overly concentrated. Subscribe https://lnkd.in/gcWnV_AC Source Sacra #baas #bankingasaservice #fintech
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Why BaaS companies are venture bets on the future of embedded finance BaaS businesses that want to build a successful business off developer-centric, self-serve APIs, as they put together a customer base, are also building a portfolio of venture-like ‘bets’ on those companies. The quality of those bets will be a major driver of growth. If companies they’re partnered with break out, it can exponentially grow their transaction volume and revenue. For BaaS, this means that embedded finance—made up by companies looking to embed cards or rewards or lending into their core product experience instead of fintechs that offer those things as the product itself—may be the opportunity they need to find that massive growth runway. So far, the tendency has been that the economics of building for fintechs aligns well with going upmarket and building for the enterprise. A few breakout successes can almost be enough to build a strong business. The limitation there is that fintech companies have such rigorous requirements that at scale, their BaaS providers can become beholden to their roadmap. A company like Marqeta where 73% of their business comes from Square cannot build for the long tail of fintechs and companies that might embed some financial function into their product—though this opens up a corresponding opportunity for today’s BaaS companies. The situation, as one senior BaaS executive described it to us: "Either you become a very high-end professional services company like Green Dot or Q2 or Synapse, or you try to basically do what Galileo and Unit and Productfy are doing, which is aggregate the long tail, all the hundreds of thousands of FinTechs, and basically try to monetize on the 10 to 20% of them that are going to start to grow up and become larger and larger and larger." Because Marqeta is so firmly in the enterprise and isn’t going after the everyday fintech developer, it leaves open the long tail for the BaaS companies—and there are a magnitude more potential ‘embedded finance’ companies in that long tail than there are fintechs. Similarly, Twilio didn’t necessarily pursue the most active companies already embracing some form of telephony as part of their core product. They went after companies like Uber— that needed to be sending texts every second as part of operating a car dispatch service, connecting drivers and riders. These were companies that wanted telephony as a means of enabling new kinds of product experiences. Going after these kinds of ‘embedded telephony’ companies became Twilio’s main growth engine. Twilio’s customer growth did also remain majority-SMB even as they went public and disclosed those numbers that showed high customer concentration—because their long tail strategy was successful, and it was mainly a few breakout successes like Uber and WhatsApp that made their revenue look overly concentrated. Subscribe https://lnkd.in/gcWnV_AC Source Sacra #baas #bankingasaservice #fintech
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Why BaaS companies are venture bets on the future of embedded finance BaaS businesses that want to build a successful business off developer-centric, self-serve APIs, as they put together a customer base, are also building a portfolio of venture-like ‘bets’ on those companies. The quality of those bets will be a major driver of growth. If companies they’re partnered with break out, it can exponentially grow their transaction volume and revenue. For BaaS, this means that embedded finance—made up by companies looking to embed cards or rewards or lending into their core product experience instead of fintechs that offer those things as the product itself—may be the opportunity they need to find that massive growth runway. So far, the tendency has been that the economics of building for fintechs aligns well with going upmarket and building for the enterprise. A few breakout successes can almost be enough to build a strong business. The limitation there is that fintech companies have such rigorous requirements that at scale, their BaaS providers can become beholden to their roadmap. A company like Marqeta where 73% of their business comes from Square cannot build for the long tail of fintechs and companies that might embed some financial function into their product—though this opens up a corresponding opportunity for today’s BaaS companies. The situation, as one senior BaaS executive described it to us: "Either you become a very high-end professional services company like Green Dot or Q2 or Synapse, or you try to basically do what Galileo and Unit and Productfy are doing, which is aggregate the long tail, all the hundreds of thousands of FinTechs, and basically try to monetize on the 10 to 20% of them that are going to start to grow up and become larger and larger and larger." Because Marqeta is so firmly in the enterprise and isn’t going after the everyday fintech developer, it leaves open the long tail for the BaaS companies—and there are a magnitude more potential ‘embedded finance’ companies in that long tail than there are fintechs. Similarly, Twilio didn’t necessarily pursue the most active companies already embracing some form of telephony as part of their core product. They went after companies like Uber— that needed to be sending texts every second as part of operating a car dispatch service, connecting drivers and riders. These were companies that wanted telephony as a means of enabling new kinds of product experiences. Going after these kinds of ‘embedded telephony’ companies became Twilio’s main growth engine. Twilio’s customer growth did also remain majority-SMB even as they went public and disclosed those numbers that showed high customer concentration—because their long tail strategy was successful, and it was mainly a few breakout successes like Uber and WhatsApp that made their revenue look overly concentrated. 👉 More insights https://lnkd.in/d94JgWBU Source Sacra #fintech #banking Leda Florian Alex Ali
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