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The SaaS CFO

by Ben Murray · English

Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO, talks all things SaaS.

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Growth Hacking in Healthcare: Meet the Startup Making Waves with a $50M Series B!

Flagler Health’s growth-hacking approach in healthcare, centered on outcome-based pricing, “white-glove” onboarding, and channel partnerships to scale a vertical software suite for musculoskeletal…

13 Nov 2026 · 23m · 14 chapters

The Secret to Hiring Top Finance Talent in Just 5 Days!

Mavi’s AI-powered recruiting model for in-house finance teams, claiming it can source and place vetted global finance talent in as fast as five days, addressing a North American accounting/talent…

11 Nov 2026 · 28m · 13 chapters

Quantum Computing: The New Frontier in High-Performance Simulations

Calibri TD’s use of quantum computing to accelerate high-performance numerical simulations for complex engineering problems, aiming to reduce the exponential complexity that forces classical HPC…

6 Nov 2026 · 15m · 11 chapters

How AI is Reshaping Small Business Lending in Africa

How Flow Intelligence uses AI and financial intelligence to turn messy small-business data in Africa (bank/M-PESA/ERP) into investor-ready metrics, enabling faster, data-driven small business…

3 Nov 2026 · 15m · 9 chapters

Scaling AI Builds: Hermetiq’s Data Layer for Bazel and DevOps Innovation

Hermetic’s “data layer” for Bazel build systems, positioned as “Datadog for Bazel,” to make AI-generated code production-ready by improving build observability, diagnosing why Bazel builds break or…

29 Oct 2026 · 13m · 7 chapters

The Future of Fintech: AI and Small Business Lending in Emerging Markets

The future of fintech for small business lending in emerging markets, focusing on how AI underwriting and software can expand credit access and improve financial operations.

27 Oct 2026 · 25m · 15 chapters

2027 CFO Playbook: Understand and Analyze Your Cloud & AI Spend

How CFOs should understand, budget, and control cloud and AI (token/inference) spend for 2027 planning, including forecasting, cost allocation (COGS vs OPEX), and the risks/opportunities of cloud…

21 Oct 2026 · 36m · 13 chapters

Unlocking Hidden Talents: The Future of Skills Mapping with AI

Giacomo Marchiori (Talentware) discusses an AI-native “skills intelligence” platform that maps and continuously updates employee skills using HRIS data plus external benchmarks, then applies the…

15 Oct 2026 · 19m · 12 chapters

Closing Books Faster with AI: A Vision for Accountants

Truewind AI for Accountants (“Truen/Truewind”) and how AI agents speed up the accounting close by generating journal entries and work papers from messy upstream data, without replacing the customer’s…

8 Oct 2026 · 27m · 14 chapters

The Million-Dollar Blueprint: Building a TikTok Empire with AI

Ali Mirzaei (Dimension) explains how to build and scale TikTok Shop operations using AI, focusing on SellerOS/Seller Center automation, “TikTok shop autonomy,” and the business lessons behind…

1 Oct 2026 · 14m · 5 chapters

Stop Bleeding Cash: Smarter AI Spend for SaaS

How SaaS and internal AI spend should be tracked and governed beyond invoice totals—moving from provider bills to attribution by user/department/use case, plus proactive budget controls and…

24 Sep 2026 · 24m · 11 chapters

AI for Logistics: Inside 5U AI’s Journey to Transform Operations

5U AI’s mission to deploy “digital employees” (AI workers) for logistics firms, automating repetitive back-office and customer-facing operations like order entry and customer quoting to increase win…

17 Sep 2026 · 21m · 14 chapters

Turning Company Shutdowns into Opportunity with Simple Closure

Simple Closure helps companies shut down faster and compliantly, turning shutdowns into opportunity by monetizing leftover assets (code/data and other assets).

10 Sep 2026 · 18m · 12 chapters

Skyrocket Your Sales: Insider Tips from a Sales Guru

RevReply’s sales automation for B2B lead conversion, starting with speed-to-lead autoresponders and evolving into an “autonomous conversion system” that books more qualified meetings without adding…

3 Sep 2026 · 24m · 10 chapters

How They Raised $6.3 Million: The Story of a Cybersecurity Startup's Journey

Donguard’s funding journey and go-to-market for its cloud security design-to-deployment platform, plus pricing and AI/agent architecture.

27 Aug 2026 · 26m · 15 chapters

Taming Contract Chaos: Meet the AI That Transforms Business Operations

Library’s AI “contract team” that finds, reads, and turns business contracts into searchable plain-English data and proactive insights (renewals, auto-renewals, price hikes, effective dates, signed…

20 Aug 2026 · 27m · 13 chapters

How to Secure $25 Million in Series A Funding

iPlissa’s path to raising a $25M Series A and scaling mid-market finance software, including product positioning, go-to-market, pricing, AI strategy, and fundraising process.

13 Aug 2026 · 33m · 13 chapters

Why Vertical SaaS is Winning in Construction—Proven Metrics and Global Expansion

Vertical SaaS for construction procurement—why “vertical SaaS is winning,” how ProcurePro digitizes GC procurement workflows, and how AI/data (especially pricing) will drive an “intelligence layer”…

6 Aug 2026 · 27m · 15 chapters

Unlocking the Secrets of the Software M&A Market in 2026

Mid-2026 update on the software M&A market, focusing on how AI “SaaSpocalypse” headlines changed deal volume, diligence, valuation dispersion, and what buyers now require from founders (metrics,…

29 Jul 2026 · 46m · 20 chapters