39 Saas Business Success Stories [2023]

Hi everyone. My name is Mike Taber and I’m the founder of Bluetick.io. We’re a self-funded SaaS app that helps salespeople, customer success reps and busy founders close the loop with their customers using sequences of automated email follow ups.

I wasted several years of my life trying to get my last product off the ground, only to eventually pull the plug because it wasn’t going anywhere. I wanted to be reasonably sure this was going to work so I spent almost three months talking to prospective customers and validating the idea. By the end of that process, I had collected enough prepayments that on paper, I had over $1,000 MRR without having written a single line of code.

Hi guys! My name is Rajiv Poddar and I run a business called Scribie, an audio/video transcription service. Our customers send us recordings of their Zoom meetings, phone calls, YouTube videos, etc. and we send them back a document that is neatly typed out and is as accurate as possible. The work is done by freelancers spread across the world and we provide them a platform that helps them do it efficiently. Our AI, online editor, and other tools improve their productivity.

Hello, my name is Kaius Meskanen and I'm the founder of Choicely mobile app builder.

Our monthly revenue is now $70,000 and our 2021 revenue is 4 times the revenue of 2020. Choicely app platform is already used by leaders in media, sports & entertainment, such as ITV Studios (Love Island TV Show apps), Banijay, International Judo Federation & IMG (Miss Universe app with over 3 million downloads).

Hi, my name is Rick Blyth and I am the founder of the Merch Wizard & KDP Wizard chrome extensions which I developed for niche Amazon sellers.

Eventually, I will be diving back into building a bigger Micro SaaS app utilizing everything that I’ve learned and with a much bigger exit in mind. For the time being though, my focus is on sharing the knowledge I’ve gained over the past few years of going it alone and inspiring others to take their first steps.

My name is Michael Dent and I’m the founder of PropertyData, a subscription website for property investors and developers in the UK that helps them make better-informed decisions when buying a residential property.

I started the business in April 2017, and today it’s making $128,000 per month in recurring revenue.

Hey, I’m Mike from Italy. I run 9 SaaS (software-as-a-service) products currently, one of which is Treendly, where we discover rising trends you haven’t heard of. Overall my business is doing ~$8k/m, of which Treendly does around $1k/m.

Secondly, you need to decide what to bring with you and what to leave behind. I focus on my strength, which is data collection, and I focus on going to market as fast as possible. So, I don't care about writing tests for my code, I don't care about design a lot, I don't care about having a good logo, etc. Those are things that we say we need, but we don't actually need until we are profitable.

My name is Dmitriy Peregudov, and I run Giftsenda - the SaaS gifting platform for Sales & Marketing teams.

During the winter holiday season of 2021, our team processed and delivered over 40,000 gift orders in 200+ countries worldwide.

I’m Ryan Kulp, a marketer and long-time musician turned self-taught developer and micro PE fund manager. I grew up in Atlanta and then lived in NYC and San Francisco for 8 years after finishing school. Throughout this time I worked for a bunch of venture-backed tech startups, learning what to do and more importantly what NOT to do in a founder or management role. I also started and failed a couple of startups, using a mix of personal and “friends and family” funds but losing it all.

Nowadays our revenue is > $1mm annually and last month we were acquired by Relay Commerce.

I’m Priit Vaikmaa, CEO of TextMagic. We’re a SaaS company that specializes in providing SMS marketing solutions for businesses across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Europe.

Hi there! I’m Oleg - the serial entrepreneur with a technical background, and along with my friend Andrii, I’m running a web scraping service - ScrapingAnt. The primary goal of this service is to provide an ability to forget about the handling of your data extraction infrastructure and get all the needed data from the web using our easy-to-integrate API.

In December 2021, we made a 7.1k $ profit, but it wasn’t the average month, as we got a tremendous one-time data extraction job. A usual month is averagely twice less in money.

Hello, My name is Abhishek, the founder of Mutant Mail, Incises, Know My Site, Reality Burst, Smart Banya, and services. All these SaaS products and services work under the umbrella of Fresent LLC.

Our main goal is to help our customers succeed using Mutant Mail. After all, their success is our success. It took us 2 weeks on our soft-launch to acquire 10 paid customers, and 5 days on AppSumo launch to get another 100 paid customers. As you can imagine things have been crazy for us with the launch.

Hi! I’m Tomas Milar and I’m the founder of Eqvista, a sophisticated equity management software that allows companies, investors, and shareholders to track, manage and make intelligent decisions about their company’s equity. We target most companies, from seed-stage to pre-IPO companies, but we also cater to startups since it’s challenging for new founders to manage their companies at the early stages.

Aside from our equity management platform, we also offer one of the leading 409A valuations in the market. We have helped over 6,500 companies (and counting!) with their cap table, business valuations, and IRS filings. We believe that running a business should be easy, you just have to find the right resources. Eqvista has everything ready for you.

• Keap was primarily founded in 2001 and back then the company used to be called Infusionsoft. The founders of Keap, Clate Mask and Scott Martineau, rebranded Infusionsoft in 2019.
• Keap offers CRM and sales and marketing automation that can streamline any business process by integrating with more than 2,500 software applications.
• At the moment, Keap has grown to become $100 million dollar company.
• They now offer Max Classic, the original Infusionsoft product, Keap Lite, Pro, and Max. Currently, 60% to 70% of new customers buy the Pro product, though demand for their Lite product is also rising.

Listen to the full podcast on mixergy.com ➜

• Upvoty, a comprehensive user feedback tool, was founded by Mike Slaats in 2018. With this platform, users have a single location for all of their customer feedback.
• The Upvoty team developed this platform because they are aware of the challenges associated with gathering and managing customer feedback from a variety of channels, including chats, emails, and phone calls.
• This company is focusing on SaaS companies though it introduced its product as a general feedback tool for essentially everyone.

Read the full story on ideamensch.com ➜

In 2012, Patrick Campbell founded ProfitWell - a software platform that focuses on positioning, marketing analytics, and saas metrics.

• Profitwell has an annual revenue of $22M.
• Its products are used by over 30,000 companies, such as Canva, Autodesk, and more, to monitor and automate the growth of their subscription revenues.
• Paddle has acquired Profitwell for $200M in cash and equity.

Read the full article on growandconvert.com ➜

Ziflow, a leading online proofing experience, was founded by Anthony Welgemoed & Mat Atkinson.

Large teams can work more efficiently together by using Ziflow to streamline the review and approval of creative content.

Before Ziflow, Anthony was also the co-founder and CTO of ProofHQ, one of the industry’s top online proofing solutions.

Anthony’s software development background and industry knowledge helped him develop an online proofing automation tool to save the creative team hours of manual work.

With Ziflow, businesses can empower creative teams can streamlining feedback and deliver extraordinary work on any creative asset.

Compared to conventional methods, Ziflow customers immediately see an ROI and a significant workflow improvement of up to 48%.

Read the full article on medium.com ➜

• Cristina Vila and Brad van Leeuwen founded Cledara in 2018.
• The company aids businesses in streamlining the process of finding, purchasing, managing, and terminating subscription software.
• Together with her co-founder Brad, Cristina has grown Cledara to $2.4M ARR with over 700 clients.
• Cledara has also assembled a team of nearly 50 individuals and raised $7 million.
• The team has collaborated with prestigious financial organizations and fintech startups, such as PayPal, Caixa Bank, Railsbank, and more.

Read the full article on saasclub.io ➜

• Colton Bollinger founded Jumper Media in 2016, and it now assists over 3000 small businesses in using social media to tell their stories.
• He established this business to assist companies in using Instagram to build brand awareness.
• After working with more than 15,000 brands, influencers, and small businesses, he modified the brand strategy in 2020.
• The founder established a team in the Philippines to boost audience reach, engagement, and sales for more than 1600 businesses on Instagram in less than six months.
• Colton has received recognition for his Instagram-focused marketing strategies in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Yahoo.

Listen to the full podcast on podcasts.apple.com ➜

Closet Tools, a web application that saves time and increases sales for Poshmark vendors, was founded by Jordan O'Connor.

To stay visible on Poshmark, the automated company engages in randomized sharing, CAPTCHA solving, and auto-following.

His path is from having a lot of debt and college debts to developing skills through assisting others, then using those talents to start a firm that generates more than $38k in monthly revenue.

The software was originally only a thirty-line piece of JavaScript code that helped business customers save almost thirty minutes of work. O'Connor published an article about Poshmark bots in 2019 and saw a large increase in Google traffic afterward.

Later, he posted on the Poshmark subreddit and garnered the attention of a few hundred people. O'Connor also began sanding his technological abilities by enrolling in SEO classes and studying on Udemy.

Listen to the full podcast on podcasts.apple.com ➜

Torecord was founded by Ohad Ronen, Tom Brachel, and Tal Kedmi. The tool is built to help users leverage customer-facing communication to solve problems and effectively communicate solutions.

One of the three founders, Ohad, studied computer science & entrepreneurship and is currently working on building the upcoming knowledge engine for the web.

Torecord allows end users to create visually shareable records of their problems, which significantly shortens the support cycle for support teams.

Businesses or organizations can use these records to communicate with their teams to comprehend and quickly address user issues. Everything is done directly from the product without any downloading.

Current stats:

• 70 people on their waitlist
• 5 users on a paid plan of about $250/mo
• $1,250/month in revenue

Listen to the full podcast on podcasts.apple.com ➜

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Adrian founded FeedCheck, a SaaS that helps brands analyze customer reviews from the Internet. They have customers like Nestle and are making $15k/mo.

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Rob co-founded MicroConf, the largest community for bootstrapped founders. They have hosted +24 in-person events and are running an online community.

Kevin is the founder of SoftwareIdeas, a newsletter that sends validated SaaS business ideas. In only 4 months, it grew to +$8k/mo from 400 paid readers.

Gaurav founded a company that builds SaaS businesses. Helpwise started as an internal email tool and, with a $20k budget, it has grown to $100k/year.

• Corey Kossack is the founder and chief executive officer of Aspireship, a platform for career development and hiring in the SaaS sector.
• The platform prepares candidates for lucrative careers in sales, account management, and other go-to-market specialties before putting their best in touch with expanding businesses across the country.
• Corey and his team have assisted thousands of job seekers from all walks of life and levels of experience in securing lucrative positions in SaaS sales.
• Aspireship's impact has been discussed in journals like The Wall Street Business Journal and Phoenix Business Journal.

Listen to the full podcast on podcasts.apple.com ➜

• Giancarlo De Lio and Katrin Shechtman founded Trust Chain Global, a fintech platform and third-party workflow management solution.

• The platform enables the global commodities community to transact transparently and legally faster and with better safety.

• Trust Chain Global started as a SaaS company and is shifting to cutting-edge technologies like blockchain to bring trust, confidence, and transparency to the commodities market.

• Through the platform, parties can transact more quickly and with greater assurance thanks to continuous identity verification, digital escrow and payments, and a smart deal management system.

• Founded in 2021, the startup secured its seed round with Toronto-based venture capital firm N49P and Entrepreneur First in Q1 of 2022.

• The startup is growing its customer base through its internal network and hopes to grow revenue through its Escrow service and user subscription fees.

Watch the full interview on youtube.com ➜

Ahead Intranetaims to develop the most inspiring intranet to foster employee engagement.

They are working hard to assist organizations in embracing a growth mindset that fosters employee engagement, innovation, and customer satisfaction with the help of the SaaS intranet application "ahead."

The platform costs 90% less upfront than existing intranet solutions because it doesn't require linking platforms or complicated IT project implementations.

To date, they are making $78K/month and have grown the team to 14 employees.

Listen to the full podcast on podcasts.apple.com ➜

My Name is Aditi Sinha and I’m the co-founder of Locale.ai. Locale is SaaS based modern control tower specifically developed for Ops and Data teams at physical businesses.

ClearForMe is an ingredient SaaS solution for brands and retailers' D2C and In-store services, founded by Sabrina Noorani in 2017.

It offers user-friendly ingredient education, filter, and search capabilities based on transparency and customization.

Their partners use ClearForMe to provide user-friendly ingredient education, filter, and search capabilities rooted in transparency and personalization, with over 1.6 million ingredients.

ClearForMe collaborates with more than 300 companies, including Credo Beauty and Ulta Beauty, the most significant clean beauty retailer and the most prominent beauty retailer in the US.

Listen to the full podcast on podcasts.apple.com ➜

Stravito is a knowledge management platform that provides organizations with a safe and centralized hub for all their marketing expertise and insights.

The company was founded by Thor Olof Philogène, Sarah Lee, Anders Örbom, and Andreas Lee in 2017 and is headquartered in Stockholm.

A group of businesspeople with years of experience in technology and consumer goods came together to create Stravito.

This knowledge technology company offers centralized insights and makes them available to all teams. They assist consumer business decision-makers more than anyone else in meeting their customers' needs, wants, and desires.

Listen to the full podcast on audacy.com ➜

Systeme.io, a tool that assists business owners in launching their online ventures, was founded by Aurelien Amacker in 2016.

Aurelien is a French internet marketer who earned well as a launch-focused internet marketer before finding success with the SAAS company Systeme.io.

His first major launch brought in over $500,000 in sales after he started teaching internet marketing to a French audience online and leveraging partnerships.

The founder’s simple yet ambitious objective was to develop an all-inclusive marketing platform that could essentially do anything to help online businesses grow.

Systeme.io has more than 6,000 users who have collectively generated $11 million for online business owners.

Read the full story on yaro.blog ➜

Emil Egeland established Yellow Jersey, a SaaS company providing ERP/project management systems to support business growth across industries.

The Yellow Jersey team has nearly two decades of experience collaborating with businesses experiencing rapid growth.

They accelerated the growth of several startups, taking two companies from zero to one million dollars in just 12 months and another from one million to six million dollars in less than two years.

To assist businesses in growing, he has released more than five SaaS business apps over the years.

Listen to the full podcast on podcasts.apple.com ➜

Tara Darbyshire, Peter Novosel, and Jon Darbyshire founded the SmartSuite, which provides a collaborative Work Management platform that enables teams to plan, track and manage workflows.

Before building SmartSuite, the founders took the time to understand what appeals to that market - how they collaborate, communicate, and manage files.

Around 90 outside developers worked for 3 years to build the core platform, and it managed to acquire 400 customers in just 4 weeks at $100,000 MRR

SmartSuite currently offers three monthly seat pricing tiers:

• $10 for Team
• $25 for Pro
• $35 for Enterprise.

Currently, they are seeing 10 to 12 seats per customer on average. The largest deal they had closed since their launch four weeks ago is for 150 seats.

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