Paddle simplifies software sales for SaaS companies by providing a platform that manages billing, payments, tax compliance, and customer support. Its tools allow developers to focus on product development instead of administrative tasks. Paddle's all-in-one solution includes payment processing, subscription management, invoicing, and compliance with international tax laws, helping clients streamline operations and scale efficiently. The company earns revenue through transaction fees and subscription plans, aligning its success with that of its clients. Paddle's platform is flexible, easy to configure, and offers extensive API documentation for seamless integration. It also supports webhook notifications for real-time updates. The goal of Paddle is to be a vital partner for software companies aiming to grow internationally while managing the complexities of tax and compliance.

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DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Instant Nodes is thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership with global payment giant, Paddle.

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Paddle, the payments infrastructure provider, has today opened applications for its third AI Launchpad, offering 75 ambitious AI founders the chance to participate in a 6-week program to help them build, launch and scale their AI-powered business ideas.The potential for AI startups is huge, with generative AI startups globally raising more than $25 billion in funding in 2023, a figure that is predicted to rise to around $45 billion this year. However, developing an AI product is just the beginning and founders need to have a strong commercial and operational understanding, not just great technical skills, if they are to build a sustainable, scalable AI business.Empowering AI innovatorsPaddle’s AI Launchpad is designed to empower and support AI innovators and help founders to reach the pinnacle of their market niche. The program is aimed at AI-focused businesses whose core product offerings are built on natural language processing, machine learning, or other AI driven features and participants should have a minimal viable product ready by the start of the program. Applicants must also demonstrate clear signs of market traction and potential for scalable growth, with a growing customer or user base.Successful applicants will have the opportunity to meet and collaborate, fostering a supportive ecosystem of like-minded individuals through weekly workshops, office hours and a private ‘Launchpaddler’ community on Slack. Other benefits of the program will include:Expert mentorship: Participants will have access to mentorship and live masterclasses from top software industry leaders, providing invaluable guidance and insights.Cash Prize: The program will culminate with a cash prize of $20,000 for the best offering, as judged by a panel of experts, to help accelerate the development and market reach of the winning startup.Additional benefits from partners: Participants can receive up to $350,000 in Google Cloud credits and access to dedicated AI training and resources.Christian Owens, Founder and Executive Chairman of Paddle, commented: “Paddle’s AI Launchpad began as a way to help a new generation of software founders build in one of the world’s fastest-moving categories, but it quickly became more than that. The vibrant, dynamic and supportive community that has emerged from our two previous programs is inspiring to see

Paddle Opens Applications For Expanded Ai Launchpad To Help More Ambitious Ai Founders Scale

British payments infrastructure provider Paddle has restarted its funding program for artificial intelligence (AI) startups. The company announced the 2024 installment of its AI Launchpad in a news release Tuesday (March 12). The six-week program is designed to help software founders scale their AI-powered ideas, giving participants guidance from industry experts and the chance for the business with the best offering to win $20,000. Last year, that prize went to Virtual Staging AI, a platform that lets real estate professionals sell properties faster by using AI to digitally furnish images of empty rooms

Paddle Restarts Launchpad Program For Ai Founders

Following the success of the inaugural 2023 program, Paddle's 2024 AI Launchpad will help 50 promising AI founders accelerate the growth of their businesses.Successful applicants will gain access to an exclusive community of AI founders and experts, the chance to win $20k , and a host of other benefits from Paddle partners., and a host of other benefits from Paddle partners. Founderpath has allocated $10 million in funding for selected AI Launchpad participants.in funding for selected AI Launchpad participants. Applications open today, 12th March, and will close on Sunday 14th April.LONDON, March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Paddle , the payments infrastructure provider, today opens applications for its second AI Launchpad, a 6-week program aimed at empowering ambitious software founders to build, launch and scale their AI-powered business ideas. Participants in the expanded 2024 program will gain access to tailored guidance and practical insights from industry experts and will have the chance to win a $20k cash prize from Paddle for the best offering, as judged by a panel of experts.Ever more businesses are turning to AI to boost revenues, with Paddle's latest SaaS Benchmarks Report finding that 46% of software companies added AI to their product in the last year. However, building an AI-powered tool is not the same as building a successful, sustainable AI business. Through its AI Launchpad program, Paddle is offering 50 innovative, ready-to-scale, AI-focused companies the support they need to accelerate their growth and effectively monetize their AI products.AI Launchpad 2023: Helping founders unlock growthPaddle AI Launchpad was founded in 2023, with a panel of judges selecting Virtual Staging AI, a platform that allows real estate professionals to sell properties faster by using AI to digitally furnish images of empty rooms, as the winner of the inaugural program.After participating in the Launchpad and receiving tailored advice and mentorship from Paddle and a range of industry experts, Virtual Staging AI decided to switch its payment strategies, with remarkable results

Paddle Launches Expanded Ai Launchpad To Help Ambitious Ai Founders Accelerate Growth

New CPO Stuart Bailey is former CPO of Silverbird and CurrencycloudCFO Philip Watson previously worked as Senior Vice-President, FP&A at ZoomInfoColine Marchal joins as VP of People from European insure-tech InsifyThe senior hires arrive as Paddle reaches the milestone of $1 billion annual run rate in payments, having launched its new Billing product and inaugural AI Launchpad in 2023LONDON and NEW YORK, Feb. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Paddle , the payments infrastructure provider for software companies, today announces it has appointed Stuart Bailey as its new Chief Product Officer, Philip Watson as Chief Financial Officer, and Coline Marchal as VP of People.The senior appointments follow a landmark year in which Paddle launched Billing, the complete billing solution for SaaS; conducted its inaugural AI Launchpad, a 6-week programme to help ambitious AI founders accelerate growth; and celebrated the milestone of $1 billion in annual run rate in the payments that it manages for its growing customer base.Incoming CPO Stuart Bailey is an experienced product leader in the fintech sector, adept at building and growing high-performing product teams in startups, scale-ups and large corporations. Stuart was previously CPO at Silverbird, a digital payments platform for international trade, and Currencycloud, the cloud-based platform for B2B cross-border payments that was sold to Visa in 2021. Stuart will be responsible for Paddle's strategic product direction, ensuring Paddle continues to create products that deliver value to the thousands of software sellers using its platform.New CFO Philip Watson brings over 12 years of experience in the enterprise software sector. Prior to Paddle, Philip worked at the private equity firm Hg Capital, where he was the Portfolio Finance & Operations Director, leading the Portfolio Finance team in operationalizing value creation for Hg's portfolio companies. Before his time in private equity, Philip spent over 7 years at ZoomInfo, where he founded the FP&A, sales commissions, and financial technology teams and helped to grow the business to over $1.2b ARR

Paddle Bolsters Leadership Team With New Cpo, Cfo And Vp Of People Ahead Of The Next Stage Of Global Expansion

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Read this article in:After years of rapid growth for SaaS, the industry has entered a new normal. While the pandemic buoyed the sector to new heights and seemed to represent an era of easy sales and soaring customer demand, the data shows that we are now in a period of correction.While SaaS businesses are still growing in 2023, they are growing slower than they were during the pandemic. Revenue growth is now averaging 11 per cent, according to Paddle’s data – down from 45 per cent from 2022 – while churn rates are also currently 9.6 per cent higher than they were at this time last year.These figures reflect a period of ‘normalisation’ post-pandemic, marked by rising interest rates and enterprises cutting down on their software expenditure.What does this mean for the SaaS market? It is not all as bad as it seems. The industry is still growing and it is becoming clear that many of the pandemic-inspired changes to our ways of working are sticking around, meaning that there are still scaling opportunities for SaaS businesses

Saas Has Entered A ‘New Normal’ – Here’S How To Thrive In It

Payments infrastructure provider Paddle has announced the launch of Paddle Billing, a new set of APIs and features that will help businesses upgrade their billing capabilities, increase revenue and retain more customers.

Paddle announces Paddle Billing API set for SaaS companies

Paddle , the payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies, has today announced Paddle Billing, a new set of APIs and features that will help businesses upgrade their billing capabilities and in turn increase revenue and retain more customers.Announced at the company’s product event Paddle Forward , Paddle Billing marks a major step forward for Paddle’s core Merchant of Record (MoR) offering, introducing new developer-friendly features and tools to help the company’s 4,000 customers scale while delivering a more seamless, flexible experience.Today’s announcement comes as Paddle celebrates another significant milestone. The company now processes over $1 billion in payments annually, an achievement reached within 11 years of the business being founded in 2012.The new normal for SaaSAfter multiple years of extremely rapid growth, partly driven by the pandemic, the SaaS industry has now entered a new normal.According to Paddle’s data , SaaS businesses are still growing but churn rates remain 10% higher than last year, driven by enterprise cost cutting, rising interest rates and tighter budgets, making effective retention strategies more important than ever. With software companies also looking to reduce costs and make sure engineering resources are deployed where they can add the most value, they want to be able to make sure their teams are focused on developing new products rather than building and maintaining payments infrastructure and billing stacks.In this environment, SaaS businesses have to be smarter than ever about how they scale and where they spend.Futureproof revenuePaddle Billing addresses these challenges by introducing a range of enhancements and functionality improvements designed to help SaaS companies grow sustainably at a time of rising churn and constrained developer resources.Through a new set of developer-friendly APIs, Paddle’s customers will be able to integrate the platform into their payments stack more easily than ever, and take advantage of new features including:More ways to accept and manage payments with less friction , thanks to new webhooks providing real-time payment updates and a single API that integrates seamlessly with CRM and ERP platforms and accounting software., thanks to new webhooks providing real-time payment updates and a single API that integrates seamlessly with CRM and ERP platforms and accounting software. Tailored billing plans for different customer segments , including flexible multi-product subscriptions, complex pricing models, and bespoke discounts., including flexible multi-product subscriptions, complex pricing models, and bespoke discounts. Hyperlocalised payments, including the power to set pricing at regional levels and not have one-plan-per-currency. Paddle is the only solution provider on the market to offer this.As well as reducing costs and increasing efficiency for SaaS businesses, Paddle Billing improves the developer experience by prioritising frictionless integration and total customisation

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