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The effects of funding on software spend

We were curious what really happens to software spend after a company raises funding, so we dug into the data to find out.
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Tech CFOs in 2025: Balancing Innovation and Resilience

As CFOs step into 2025, they are no longer just financial stewards but strategic leaders navigating a rapidly evolving landscape of AI-driven automation, economic volatility, and growing ESG responsibilities
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The effects of funding on software spend

We were curious what really happens to software spend after a company raises funding, so we dug into the data to find out.
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Finance Leaders

The 12 Best FP&A Tools for 2025

Interested in learning how to enhance your FP&A strategy with the right software tools? This guide is here to help.
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Finance Leaders

How to Create Budget Reports in 5 Steps

Budget reporting is the comparison, analysis, and documentation of the current company's financial performance against the projected budget.
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Scaleup Strategy

Proving SaaS Value: How to Write a Software Business Case in 3 Steps

Your stakeholders won't invest in a new software unless you can demonstrate ROI. Here's how to build an effective business case for software in 3 steps.
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The 2025 Software Spend Report

Find out how much tech companies are spending on software, trends, spend by size, region, and more with insights from 600+ businesses.
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SaaS Insights

Report: AI in 2025 - The Data Behind the Hype

This report aims cuts through the noise and provide a clear picture of AI's current state in the business world. We explore adoption rates, spending patterns, and the value businesses are (or aren't) seeing from their investments. Buckle up – the data might surprise you.
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SaaS Insights

The Top 10 SaaS Accounting Tools of 2024 (so Far)

Navigating the crowded landscape of SaaS accounting tools can be overwhelming, but this guide to the top 10 options of 2024 will help you find the perfect fit for your business.
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Finance Leaders

10 CFO Performance Metrics: What Makes a Great Finance lead?

These 10 performance metrics indicate a great CFO. Fulfil these criteria, and you’re on track to lead your business to financial success. 
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Finance Leaders

Software Tail Spend: Why It Matters and How to Manage It

Uncover the hidden impact of tail spend on your company's software purchases and learn how to effectively manage it with our free, downloadable cheat sheet.
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Scaleup Strategy

What is SaaS Operations?

SaaS Operations (SaaSOps) is a new field that's quickly becoming essential for companies of all sizes.
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Finance

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The effects of funding on software spend

We were curious what really happens to software spend after a company raises funding, so we dug into the data to find out.
Read more
Finance

The 12 Best FP&A Tools for 2025

Interested in learning how to enhance your FP&A strategy with the right software tools? This guide is here to help.
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Finance

DocuSign vs. HelloSign (now Dropbox Sign): Which Is The Better eSignature Tool?

Choosing between DocuSign and Dropbox Sign requires understanding their distinct features, pricing models, and integration capabilities to determine which eSignature solution best aligns with your business needs.
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Finance

How To Calculate Revenue Growth

Revenue growth is the cornerstone of business success, serving as a crucial indicator for investors and a key metric for measuring sustainable performance over time.
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Finance

What is Application Rationalization and How to Implement It

Application rationalization helps you decide which apps to keep and which to cut for a streamlined and cost-effective tech stack. Here's how to do it.
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Finance

8 Top Tools for Small Business Expense Tracking

Every dollar counts. Learn how the right expense tracking tools can help you cut waste, improve budgeting, and stay financially smart.
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Finance

Project Europe: Nurturing Europe's Next Generation of Tech Innovators

Project Europe unites over 150 of Europe's top founders, including Cledara's leadership, to invest €200,000 in promising technical entrepreneurs under 25, aiming to spark the next wave of European innovation.
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Finance

5 Best SaaS Management Tools to Keep Track of Your Apps

Discover the top 12 SaaS management tools to help you monitor your apps, optimize your tech stack, and slash software spend.
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Finance

How to Create Budget Reports in 5 Steps

Budget reporting is the comparison, analysis, and documentation of the current company's financial performance against the projected budget.
Read more
Finance

Proving SaaS Value: How to Write a Software Business Case in 3 Steps

Your stakeholders won't invest in a new software unless you can demonstrate ROI. Here's how to build an effective business case for software in 3 steps.
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Finance

100 Day Plan: Mapping out Your Path to Leadership Success

Starting a new leadership role? A 100 day plan helps you hit the ground running, build credibility, and set the foundation for long-term success.
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Finance

Accounting Software Comparison: Xero vs Sage vs Quickbooks vs NetSuite

Looking to replace your current accounting software? In this post, we compare Xero vs Sage vs Quickbooks vs NetSuite, exploring features, pricing, integrations, and more.
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Finance

Expense Management: How to Take Back The Reins of Business Spend

Managing company expenses might not be exciting, but without a proper system in place, it’s one of the fastest ways to lose money.
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Finance

SaaS Renewal Management: A Complete Guide to Tracking your Tech Stack

In the maze of modern business technology, SaaS renewal management emerges as the strategic compass that helps companies navigate the complex landscape of software subscriptions.
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Finance

9 Best Spend Management Software Solutions for 2025

Discover the best spend management software for your needs, with this detailed rundown of the tools on the market.
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Finance

14 Smart Strategies to Reduce Software Costs as a CFO

Software is typically a company’s second biggest expense after payroll, so here are 14 actionable ways to get your spending under control
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Finance

Tech CFOs in 2025: Balancing Innovation and Resilience

As CFOs step into 2025, they are no longer just financial stewards but strategic leaders navigating a rapidly evolving landscape of AI-driven automation, economic volatility, and growing ESG responsibilities
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Finance

Statement of Retained Earnings: How to Gain Insight into Invested Profit

A statement of retained earnings is a crucial financial document that reveals how much profit your company keeps for reinvestment after paying dividends.
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Finance

What Is Annual Revenue? The Founder’s Guide to Financial Literacy

In this article, we break down annual revenue, what it is, why it matters, and how to calculate it, to help you assess your company's financial health with confidence.
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Finance

Introducing ‘Cledara Spend’ for your Business Expenses

The new feature offers finance teams a unified platform for managing SaaS, travel, and business expenses. At no extra cost.
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Finance

Cledara Recognized as Leader with 16 Badges in G2 Winter 2025 Report

Cledara has been recognized as a leader in G2’s Winter 2025 Report, earning 16 badges across SaaS Spend and Operations Management—an achievement driven by the real-world impact our platform delivers to customers.
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Finance

Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting: How CFOs Can Set, Strategize, and Forecast the Future

Master the differences between planning, budgeting and forecasting, and discover how they drive financial success.
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Finance

How to Calculate Opportunity Cost for Your SMB + Real-Life Examples

Understand opportunity cost, how to calculate it, and why it matters. Plus, discover how Cledara can complement your financial decision-making toolkit.
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Finance

SaaS Spend Management: Optimizing your Tech Stack

Learn how SaaS spend management can streamline your tech stack, cut costs, and boost ROI. Plus, discover Cledara’s 2025 Spend Report
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Finance

How to Outsource a CPA for Your Startup: 5 Key Criteria

Outsourcing your accounting to a CPA can save time and resources—here’s how to find the best fit for your startup.
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Finance

Win Customers in Competitive Markets with Penetration Pricing

Penetration pricing is a powerful strategy to attract customers and dominate new markets by launching products at competitive, low prices—learn how it works and why it could be your next big move.
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Finance

Situation Analysis: Your Key To More Informed Decisions

Discover how situation analysis can give you a comprehensive view of your business environment and help you make strategic decisions backed by real-world data.
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Finance

The What, Why, and How of Unit Economics

Is your business truly profitable at the unit level? In this post, we’ll unpack how unit economics provides the insights you need to make smarter financial decisions and drive sustainable growth.
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Finance

AI Adoption: Statistics, Benefits, and Challenges for 2025

Discover how businesses are navigating AI adoption challenges and uncovering ROI opportunities, with insights and trends from Cledara’s 'AI in 2025: The Data Behind the Hype' report.
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Finance

Cledara 2024 Recap

We revisit this year’s biggest SaaS trends and discoveries, how Cledara has grown, and our biggest achievements.
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SaaS Insights

SaaS Insights

The effects of funding on software spend

We were curious what really happens to software spend after a company raises funding, so we dug into the data to find out.
Read more
SaaS Insights

DocuSign vs. HelloSign (now Dropbox Sign): Which Is The Better eSignature Tool?

Choosing between DocuSign and Dropbox Sign requires understanding their distinct features, pricing models, and integration capabilities to determine which eSignature solution best aligns with your business needs.
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SaaS Insights

8 Top Tools for Small Business Expense Tracking

Every dollar counts. Learn how the right expense tracking tools can help you cut waste, improve budgeting, and stay financially smart.
Read more
SaaS Insights

5 Best SaaS Management Tools to Keep Track of Your Apps

Discover the top 12 SaaS management tools to help you monitor your apps, optimize your tech stack, and slash software spend.
Read more
SaaS Insights

SaaS Renewal Management: A Complete Guide to Tracking your Tech Stack

In the maze of modern business technology, SaaS renewal management emerges as the strategic compass that helps companies navigate the complex landscape of software subscriptions.
Read more
SaaS Insights

AI Adoption: Statistics, Benefits, and Challenges for 2025

Discover how businesses are navigating AI adoption challenges and uncovering ROI opportunities, with insights and trends from Cledara’s 'AI in 2025: The Data Behind the Hype' report.
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SaaS Insights

The Top 85 SaaS Tools of 2024

From communication powerhouses like Slack to AI innovators like ChatGPT, this comprehensive guide analyzes the 85 most popular SaaS tools of 2024, backed by data from over 1.1 million software purchases across 4,000 vendors.
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SaaS Insights

Vertical SaaS vs Horizontal SaaS: The Similarities and Differences

Managing a diverse SaaS stack can be challenging, but understanding the key differences between vertical and horizontal SaaS is essential for optimizing your company's software strategy.
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SaaS Insights

The 5 Most Popular SaaS Monitoring Tools for 2025

In 2025, managing a growing SaaS ecosystem requires powerful monitoring tools to optimize performance, enhance security, and ensure efficient software usage across organizations.
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SaaS Insights

The 2025 Software Spend Report

Find out how much tech companies are spending on software, trends, spend by size, region, and more with insights from 600+ businesses.
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SaaS Insights

Report: AI in 2025 - The Data Behind the Hype

This report aims cuts through the noise and provide a clear picture of AI's current state in the business world. We explore adoption rates, spending patterns, and the value businesses are (or aren't) seeing from their investments. Buckle up – the data might surprise you.
Read more
SaaS Insights

The Top 10 SaaS Accounting Tools of 2024 (so Far)

Navigating the crowded landscape of SaaS accounting tools can be overwhelming, but this guide to the top 10 options of 2024 will help you find the perfect fit for your business.
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SaaS Insights

Introducing our Buyer’s Guides: A Smarter Way to Buy Software

Cledara’s buyer’s guides offer for free all the information needed to make an informed decision when it comes to purchasing software.
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SaaS Insights

The Top SaaS Tools for 2023 based on data from 1,000+ companies

According to Cledara’s world-leading data on software purchasing, these are the 20 top SaaS tools for 2023—by spend, by usage and by growth.
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SaaS Insights

The Software Stack Guide for Startups

All you need to know to set your software stack for scale. Including insights from 400,000+ software purchases and renewals.
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SaaS Insights

Market Insights From our Worlds Leading SaaS Dataset

Leveraging our world-leading dataset on SaaS purchasing, usage, renewals, and churn we look at the health of the SaaS market, the purchasing differences between small and large organizations, new annual purchasing trends, and churn insights.
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SaaS Insights

Ramp vs Brex: A Comprehensive Analysis

Which is best for your business, Ramp vs Brex? Our ultimate rundown can help you decide.
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SaaS Insights

SaaS Market Defies Turmoil

Cledara can reveal that overall spending on software by companies has increased by 25% over the past 12 months. Uncover more spending patterns in the software market, the evolving role of finance teams, and the top emerging software applications.
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SaaS Insights

What is SaaS?

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a cloud computing model that allows users to access applications over the Internet. But there's far more to it - find out here.
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SaaS Insights

The Great Flattening

Jason Lemkin, founder and CEO of Saastr, discusses the shifts and challenges in the SaaS market at Saastr Europa 2023. He reveals how the market is experiencing a 'flattening' with a slowdown in growth and tightening fundraising landscape.
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SaaS Insights

Avoid $65m Cloud Bills with a Cloud Management Platform

Wondering if it's time to adopt a Cloud Management Platform? Here's everything you need to know before investing.
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SaaS Insights

The Top SaaS Companies in 2023 According to Our Data

We dug into our data to see what we could learn about the 300 most successful SaaS companies in 2023.
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SaaS Insights

State of AI in B2B

Discover the latest insights on AI adoption in the business world, as Cledara reveals the top 150 AI-powered SaaS products used by startups to improve efficiency and drive growth.
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SaaS Insights

Q1 2023 SaaS Market Insights

Discover the latest insights into the Q1 2023 SaaS market, including the growth in software spend, top growing software categories, and the most popular new software applications in March.
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The Future of SaaS - Five Predictions from Bessemer

Cledara is recognized as a top player in the fight against inefficiency and sprawl in the SaaS industry in Bessemer Venture Partners' State of the Cloud 2023 report.
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SaaS Insights

3 Reasons Why SaaS Vendors Are Raising Prices and What You Can Do About It

Fight software price rises and stay proactive in managing your SaaS subscriptions to get the most bang for your buck.
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SaaS Insights

Software Spend Slumps Despite Modest Annual YoY Growth

In February 2023, software spend decreased by 3.7%, despite a 21% yearly increase. Cledara found that IT and security software had the highest increase.
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SaaS Insights

What is SaaS Operations?

SaaS Operations (SaaSOps) is a new field that's quickly becoming essential for companies of all sizes.
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Navigating the Storm: Insights from ProfitWell's Patrick Campbell

Get SaaS & subscription market insights from ProfitWell's Patrick Campbell. Learn growth and retention strategies, prioritize your team, optimize pricing, & reduce churn.
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Software Comeback: January Spend Rebound among Larger Startups

Latest data from Cledara reveals a rebound in software spend for 2023, driven by larger startups increasing their spend after adapting to economic conditions.
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The effects of funding on software spend

We were curious what really happens to software spend after a company raises funding, so we dug into the data to find out.
Read more

The 12 Best FP&A Tools for 2025

Interested in learning how to enhance your FP&A strategy with the right software tools? This guide is here to help.
Read more

DocuSign vs. HelloSign (now Dropbox Sign): Which Is The Better eSignature Tool?

Choosing between DocuSign and Dropbox Sign requires understanding their distinct features, pricing models, and integration capabilities to determine which eSignature solution best aligns with your business needs.
Read more

How To Calculate Revenue Growth

Revenue growth is the cornerstone of business success, serving as a crucial indicator for investors and a key metric for measuring sustainable performance over time.
Read more

What is Application Rationalization and How to Implement It

Application rationalization helps you decide which apps to keep and which to cut for a streamlined and cost-effective tech stack. Here's how to do it.
Read more

8 Top Tools for Small Business Expense Tracking

Every dollar counts. Learn how the right expense tracking tools can help you cut waste, improve budgeting, and stay financially smart.
Read more

Project Europe: Nurturing Europe's Next Generation of Tech Innovators

Project Europe unites over 150 of Europe's top founders, including Cledara's leadership, to invest €200,000 in promising technical entrepreneurs under 25, aiming to spark the next wave of European innovation.
Read more

5 Best SaaS Management Tools to Keep Track of Your Apps

Discover the top 12 SaaS management tools to help you monitor your apps, optimize your tech stack, and slash software spend.
Read more

How to Create Budget Reports in 5 Steps

Budget reporting is the comparison, analysis, and documentation of the current company's financial performance against the projected budget.
Read more

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