Benchmark and Benioff Put $6.5 Million Into Zuora to Create a Salesforce for...
When Tien Tzuo was the chief strategy officer at Salesforce.com, he sat in on a pitch to CEO Marc Benioff for an on-demand software tool startup looking for funding. Benioff was lukewarm to the idea....
View ArticleZuora Aims To Be Salesforce for Online Billing; Benioff Agrees
Zuora, the SaaS startup run by industry veterans from Salesforce and Webex, and backed by the face of SaaS himself, Marc Benioff, is launching its online billing solution today. As Erick explained in...
View ArticleZuora Raises Another $15 Million For Integrated Online Billing And Payment...
Zuora, an SaaS startup that offers online services to manage and automate customer subscriptions and payments, has raised $15 million in a second round of funding from Shasta Ventures and Lehman...
View ArticleZuora Brings Subscription Billing To Facebook Apps
How much would you pay for a Facebook app? For most apps, most people would probably pay nothing. But for some apps, such as member-to-member online tutorial services, charging could become an option....
View ArticleSpare Change On Track To Process $30 Million In Micropayments On Social Apps...
While advertising revenues have been disappointingly low for most applications on Facebook and other social networks, another option app developers are increasingly turning towards is micropayments...
View ArticleBilling Startup Zuora Signs Over $1 Billion In Subscription Revenue In Q1
We’ve written about Zuora, a SaaS startup that offers online services to manage and automate customer subscriptions and payments, and its impressive backing. Today the company has reached a new...
View ArticleZuora Rings Up $20 Million For Billings-As-A-Service Platform
Zuora, a SaaS startup that offers online services to manage and automate customer subscriptions and payments, has raised $20 million in Series C funding led by Redpoint Ventures with the startup’s...
View ArticleSteve Jobs Doesn't Want to Kill Publishers, But Apple's Subscription Strategy...
This guest post is by Tien Tzuo, founder of Zuora, a subscription billing company. Previously, he was chief strategy officer and employee No. 11 at Salesforce.com. Publishers have been struggling for...
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Subscription Billings Platform Zuora Nabs $36M From Index, Greylock At...
Zuora, a SaaS startup that offers online services to manage and automate customer subscriptions and payments, has raised $36 million in new funding from Index Ventures, Greylock Partners, Workday CEO...
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Old Publishers Dive Into The New: Pearson Inks API Billing Deal With Zuora;...
Pearson, the owners of Penguin, the Financial Times Group and a number of education imprints, has made some significant strides into digital with e-books and apps, but it is always on the hunt for...
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Revstream Adds Cloud For Managing The Booming World Of Subscription Services
Revstream has a new offering for SaaS providers and subscription-based companies that takes into account the dynamics of managing cloud services as compared to traditional software billing. The new...
View ArticleZuora Lands $50M From Next World, Paul Allen, Marc Benioff & More To Help...
Over the last few years, Startup Land has played home to the dramatic re-emergence of a tried-and-true, familiar model: Subscription commerce. The rise of smartphones, tablets, “The Cloud,” Big Data...
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Scout, Zuora Partnership Could Help Subscription-Based Businesses Soar
Scout by ServiceSource, a company that helps customers maximize subscription revenue, announced a partnership today with Zuora, the subscription billing service. It’s seemingly a sensible partnership...
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Zuora’s Journey To Managing The Subscription Economy
The idea for subscription billing startup Zuora was born in Marc Benioff’s office. In 2006, K.V. Rao, then a WebEx senior engineer, was meeting with Benioff and Salesforce CMO Tien Tzuo. Tzuo made a...
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Zuora $115M Investment Round Validates Subscription Approach
Zuora, the company that helps customers manage their subscription models, today announced a massive $115M funding round involving not just Silicon Valley venture capitalists, but also public market...
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Life, by subscription
The American dream is no longer for sale — but it is for rent. We are slowly going through a subtle shift in how the economy is owned and operated, with massive implications. On an average day, you...
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Zuora update lets customers mix and match revenue models
Zuora has always been a bit ahead of the curve when it comes to the subscription economy. Company founder Tien Tzuo recognized something in 2008 when he left a comfortable job at Salesforce to launch...
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Zuora latest cloud company to launch predictive data product
Zuora, the cloud company that helps SaaS companies and others manage their subscription businesses, launched Zuora Insights today, a product designed to help customers understand the nuances of the...
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Zuora to acquire Leeyo to help customers cope with upcoming accounting rules...
Zuora, the company that helps customers deal with subscription billing, and counts cloud companies like Box, Okta and DocuSign as customers, announced its intent to acquire Leeyo Software, Inc., a...
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Zuora Rings Up $20 Million For Billings-As-A-Service Platform
Zuora, a SaaS startup that offers online services to manage and automate customer subscriptions and payments, has raised $20 million in Series C funding led by Redpoint Ventures with the startup’s...
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