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Chargebee Success Story
For business owners, monitoring their clients' subscriptions and ensuring a positive experience with their product or service is no easy process. The list is limitless such as gathering client information, creating bills, collecting payments, etc. The challenge starts when a company has a large clientele because it gets too difficult to maintain the spreadsheet.
Gone are the days when companies do not have to manually update their subscriptions and manage their revenue operations. Several companies offer tools or software to help businesses enhance their sales growth and billing services.
In this article, we are going to talk about Chargebee, which is among the top 10 best subscription management software in the market today. Chargebee is a subscription management and recurring billing application that assists SaaS and SaaS-like enterprises in streamlining Revenue Operations.
Here's the success story of Chargebee that enfolds all about the company, including its startup story, business and revenue model, funding and investors details, acquisitions, growth, and more.
Chargebee - Company Highlights
- Headquarters-California, USA
- Sector-Financial Services
- Founder-Krish Subramanian, Rajaraman Santhanam, Saravanan KP, Thiyagarajan Thiyagu
- Founded -2011
- Valuation-$3.5 billion
- Revenue-$115.4 million
- Total Funding Raised-$468.2 million
- Website-www.chargebee.com
Chargebee - About
- Founded in 2011, Chargebee operates as a subscription and recurring billing management platform. It helps many SaaS-based businesses in simplifying their revenue processes and other billing services. The company claims to work with the world's largest payment gateways, such as Stripe, Braintree, and PayPal, to automate recurring payment collection, as well as invoicing, taxes, accounting, email alerts, SaaS Metrics, and customer management.
- The company's intelligent platform manages all of its client's critical workflows from lead to ledger using powerful connectors such as Salesforce, Xero, Quickbooks, Avalara, and Slack, among others. Chargebee has four official offices in over 17 nationalities.
Chargebee - Industry Details
- The financial services industry is one of the most important industries as it consists of money-related services and other activities like lending, payment, investments, insurance, fund transfers, etc. These services are used by every person, organization, corporates, government, and investment institution.
- The global financial service industry is expected to touch $37,34.95 billion in 2026 at a CAGR of 9.6%.
Chargebee - Founder and Team
Chargebee is founded by four friends; Krish Subramanian, Rajaraman Santhanam, Saravanan KP, and Thiyagarajan Thiyagu.
Krish Subramanian
- Krish Subramanian is the CEO and Co-Founder of Chargebee. He is a graduate of Bharathidasan University. Before co-founding Chargebee, Krish worked in companies like MatexNet Pvt Ltd, TCS, and Cognizant Technology Solutions.
Rajaraman Santhanam
- Rajaraman Santhanam is the Co-founder and COO of Chargebee. He did his graduation in Computer Science & Engineering from Bharathidasan University. Before Chargebee, Rajaraman was associated with Zoho Corporation for almost 10 years.
Saravanan KP
- KP Saravanan is the Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Chargebee. Previously, he worked at Zoho Corporation as a Technical Architect for 12 years.
Thiyagarajan Thiyagu
- Thiyagarajan Thiyagu is one of the co-founders of Chargebee. He is presently serving as an Architect at Chargebee. studied at Madurai Kamaraj University. Thiyagu has 15 years of experience in the business and was formerly a Technical Lead at Zoho Corporation, where he oversaw projects to establish integration frameworks for numerous products, notably the Zoho Office suite of apps.
Chargebee - Startup Story
- The success story of Chargebee began in 2011 with its headquarters in San Francisco.
- It began in 2009 when Krish Subramanian worked for Cognizant, he came to a fork in the road when he was offered a long-term chance to open an account and establish a team in the United States. It would have taken 5-7 years to invest. Instead, he chose to return to India and thought of starting his own business. Subramanian's college classmate, co-founder Rajaraman Santhanam, was working at Zoho at the time, designing a SaaS platform. They both had always wanted to start their own business since they were in college. With time, they enlisted the help of Saravanan KP and Thiyagarajan T, both of whom worked at Zoho with Santhanam. They all left Zoho to work with Subramanian as co-founders of Chargebee. In the beginning, their temporary workplace was a drawing room in the house of one of the co-founders. That's how they gradually got their headquarters in San Francisco.
- The four founders claim that success did not come easy to them and they had to work hard to reach where they are today.
Chargebee - Mission and Vision
- Chargebee's mission is to provide best-in-class infrastructure for every business they serve. Chargebee mentions, "We believe in the elegance of good code, the promise of subscriptions, and the importance of every single customer's experience."
Chargebee carries out its business activities based on the following values:
- Curiosity
- Empathy
- Customer Centricity
- Bias For Action
Chargebee - Business Model
- Chargebee's business model operates on a B2B basis. To be more precise, it operates on a SaaS business model.
- The company's main business operations are designed to meet the SaaS demands of businesses that deliver solutions to clients in a variety of industries. They also give critical company data, statistics, and insights to assist businesses in fast-growing.
- Chargebee offers services to simplify subscription billing and management. The company's main focus is to assist businesses in retaining and expanding their consumer base with help of their advanced subscription management software.
Chargebee's top services are as follows:
- Subscription Management
- Recurring Billing
- Product & Pricing Models
- Recurring Payments
- Revenue Recovery
- SaaS Reporting and Analytics
- Security and Compliance
- Retention
- Integrations
- Global Expansion
- Checkout and Self-Serve Portal
- Account Receivables
Chargebee - Revenue Model
- Chargebee mainly found an exciting way to generate its revenue during the ongoing pandemic, when most individuals spent their days at their homes.
- The company generates revenue through monthly subscriptions to its software, which streamlines the billing process for subscription businesses. It offers plan subscriptions like Launch Plan, Rise Plan, Scale Plan, and Enterprise Plan.
- Every plan offered by Chargebee is designed to meet every business need.
Chargebee - Funding, and Investors
- Chargebee has received $468.2 million in investment across eight rounds. Their most recent fundraising came from a Series H round on February 1, 2022. Chargebee is funded by six investors. Their most recent investors are Sequoia Capital India and Insight Partners.
Chargebee - Mergers, and Acquisitions
- Chargebee has acquired two companies. On January 18, 2022, they made their most recent purchase, Brightback. Brightback provides subscription-based businesses with entrepreneurial guidance on customer lifetime value. The other company acquired by Chargebee is RevLock on October 5, 2021. RevLock is an American-based company that offers revenue recognition software for software firms that automates ASC 606 compliance.
Chargebee - Awards and Achievements
Chargebee has won the following awards:
- Chargebee was ranked no. 6 in 'Best Small Business Products' and no. 19 in the 'Best Software Products of 2021' list
- Chargebee has achieved Cloud Award Program for Best Payment, Finance, or Billing solution (2018-2019).
Chargebee - Competitors
The top competitors of Chargebee are:
- Maxio
- Recurly
- Zoho Subscriptions
- Sage Intacct
- Chargify.
- Paddle
- Billsby
- Stripe Billing
Chargebee - Future Plans
- Since the pandemic, Chargebee has seen exponential growth with a revenue of $115.4 million. It is taking a lead role in offering subscriptions to SaaS-based companies, and e-commerce in managing their revenue systems. The company is already making great progress in helping companies in becoming more profitable, however, it intends to further automation in this sector and enhances commercial revenue processes to emerge as a better option for its clients and to keep up with their expectations.
