Strategy for scaling companies

Rolling out AI tools across your organisation doesn't have to mean shadow IT, surprise bills, or security nightmares. This guide shows you how to enable AI adoption at the speed your business needs, with the governance your IT team requires.

AI tools now account for over $14,000 in average annual spend per company, spread across subscriptions, API usage, and embedded features that most finance teams do not track separately. This guide walks through a four-step system for AI spend management: building a complete inventory across all three spending categories, centralising payments through dedicated virtual cards, setting layered budgets with real-time anomaly alerts, and consolidating fragmented subscriptions into enterprise deals. With real pricing data from ChatGPT, Cursor, OpenAI API, and others, plus Cledara platform data showing 78% of companies now pay for dedicated AI tools, this is a practical playbook for any finance or IT lead ready to get AI costs under control.

Build a modern expense policy that separates T&E/incidentals from SaaS. Get expert-backed best practices, card/limit design, and a practical rollout plan.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

A comprehensive overview of maturity models in organizations, explaining their importance, types, how they work, their limitations, and how to choose the right model for a company's needs.

Here's our pick of the hottest and most promising German startups in 2023.

Setting procurement KPIs is essential to track your procurement team's performance, ensuring smooth operations, and minimizing costs.

Are you looking to raise venture capital this year? Learn how to attract VCs attention in 2023 with the latest operational trends.

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

From Uber to Amazon, companies are integrating financial products into their offerings through embedded finance.

Strategically implementing FinOps principles can help you bring clarity and efficiency to your scaleup's finances. Here's how to get it done.

Want to optimize your startup costs? Get key insights into software budget allocation in this post.

A great customer onboarding process can help you maximize retention and customer satisfaction. Here's how to make it happen.

In 2023, process efficiency will be key for startups. In this post, we explore the most common SaaS management challenges and how to overcome them.

Looking into your internal processes and the tools that power them? In this post, we share 6 SaaS trends that will make startups become more efficient in 2023.

SaaS management platforms help IT teams manage software subscriptions, reduce shadow IT, and streamline compliance.

Choosing the best SaaS apps for your team while keeping your budget in check is complicated. Learn our top tips for SaaS budgeting today!

Learn what a software tech stack is, why it is important and how to manage one with Cledara.

To boost productivity and ensure the whole business is empowered to work efficiently, strong software management is key.

Meet some of the innovators who embrace remote work.

Virtual cards are quickly becoming the new standard for many startups.

From Crisp and Bots to TestGorilla and Lightyear, the Netherlands hosts an eclectic and exciting group of startups. We’ve pulled together the ones to watch in 2022 and beyond.

Here's how to evaluate your next purchasing decision.

Key lessons from previous downturns can help you succeed in 2022.

Another one for the books! Read all about our latest SaaStock event.

Here's our pick of the hottest and most promising Italian startups in 2022

Is all this tech at work chipping away at company culture? We think so.

Over 100+ founders attended our first SaaStock local Barcelona - Check out the highlights!

Here’s our pick for the most fascinating founders and their stories in Florida so far in 2022.

When the world shut down, our laptops flipped open. How should employees and employers cope in 2022?

Here's our pick of the top fashion tech startups to watch out for in 2022.

We’ve curated a list of the best newsletters, white papers, and books to support CFOs and Finance Leaders in their scale-up journey.

The first 90 days in any new position are vital, especially in a startup environment. Learn the 8 key strategies needed to thrive, excel and succeed in a new accounting role.

Here's our pick of the hottest and most promising French startups in 2021.

Europe boasts an abundance of gaming innovators. But as the sector continues to boom, which companies on the continent are capable of shaping the future of gaming?

We’ve rounded up the 34 Portuguese startups making waves at home and abroad in 2021.

From Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, here are some of the top startups in the Baltics in 2021.

We chose 50 unique startups to watch in the Nordics, one of the most interesting startup ecosystems in Europe where companies like Spotify, Skype, Just Eat and Zendesk were born.

We look beyond the financial implications of SaaS sprawl towards the human toll.

We look at the top 3 most painful unsubscribes out there and give you advice if you are in the position of unsubscribing to any of these. And wait for the bonus at the end!

The most popular email marketing tools of 2020, according to data from Cledara

From the UK, to The Netherlands and Malta, here are some of the top crypto companies in Europe in 2021.

We take a dive into why you shouldn’t give corporate cards to your employees in 2021. We tell you why virtual cards are miles better. And, it’s not just for security.

From Germany, to Spain and the UK, here are the top 50 venture builders in Europe.

We take a look at some of the funniest stories about how traditional corporate cards can be used, misused and abused!

Village Capital's VIRAL Framework helps founders speak the language of investors and scale their company.

Spend 30 seconds to see how much you can reduce your SaaS spend by switching to Cledara

It can be hard to figure out who's best to raise from. We looked at the data for angel investors in fintech startups, so you don't have to!

Cold emails helped Zenefits and Rippling achieve unicorn growth in no time. So by now you should be asking yourself how to replicate that in some way

It can be hard to figure out who's best to raise from. We looked at the data for fintech startups, so you don't have to!

We share why it is a good idea to manage your software assets in your company and how it can accelerate teams.

BYOD is so 2012. 2020 is the age of BYOS. We dig into what BYOS means for companies and Software Asset Management Teams.

I started working for Cledara on what was, for me, day one of the pandemic. This is my experience joining a company right before going into lockdown.

We dive into how you manage spend and SaaS management when your whole team is working remotely.

Optimal actions change every day. To help out, we decided to put together a tactical guide based on some things we’re thinking about doing at Cledara. We want to help startup finance teams to help everyone get through this as strong as possible.

The good folks at Techstars and Anthemis have organised calls with their portfolio this week about how the Coronavirus pandemic is likely to affect startups. Here we share tactical advice for founders based on what we learned from the calls.

We were at StartupGrind Barcelona's Corporate Innovation Summit talking about how startups and big companies can work together. We share our stories and experiences from deals with Barclays, Mastercard, Uber and more.

The rules our team have used to win SaaStock, WebSummit's MoneyConf, give a great Demo Day Pitch and teach startup pitching for the last 7 years.

SaaS can be a major friction for teams. Making it SaaS easier for people makes for happier people.

We've thought a lot about how to do effective strategic planning for startups. This is a step-by-step guide to how we do it. Feel free to try!

The largest tech conferences in Europe

One down, two to go. The road to get into Techstars is a long one. First the application and the videos, then a series of interviews and then, once you’re in, it seems that time just flies by.

I’ve heard a lot about startups having advisors, but as Cledara is my first time as a founder, there was a lot to think about before I set out trying to find advisors to help.