The critical metrics for each stage of your SaaS business

How healthy is your SaaS business? We’re bombarded with KPIs and an endless series of metrics to tell us how we’re doing. But instead of using data to measure our progress, it’s much more likely that we get lost and start focusing on metrics that are easy to track but don’t mean anything. Fo...

Sonam Gulati

Times Internet-backed Instamedia sold off; founder launches SaaS platform Betaout

Times Internet-backed Instamedia, a Shimla-based content network, has been sold off by the investors to a Dubai-based media group. The buyout happened in June last year and the founder of Instamedia (earlier known as Instablogs), Ankit Maheshwari, has again started a new venture. The new initiative,...

Sainul K Abudheen

SaaS startup Finahub targeting retail brokers with all-in-one customer management platform

Finahub Internet Services LLP, a Kochi-based SaaS startup that offers a customer management platform for retail brokers, is betting big on multi-million retail investors in India for the success of its web-based solution. Set up in early 2012 by engineering graduates Rajesh S and Ajith K George, the...

Sainul K Abudheen

Education startup Foradian Technologies to introduce plugin marketplace, SaaS dashboard

Foradian Technologies Pvt Ltd , which offers cloud-based education solution Fedena, is introducing a plugin marketplace along the lines of Amazon market place   in a couple of weeks to allow customers to innovate education technologies as plugins of Fedena . Fedena is a free and open source web app...

Mohanjit Jolly

Health as a service: Tackling obesity with technology

It turns out that one of the most interesting and devastating exports from the US during the past few of decades has been the fast food industry. I still remember when the first Taco Bell opened in Bangalore and the hoopla around the event was closer to a five star hotel opening or a red [...]...

Sainul K Abudheen

Social recruiting startup HireRabbit exits beta, launches web tools for hiring on Facebook

HireRabbit, a SaaS startup that enables businesses to build custom job and ‘company culture’ tabs on Facebook without the hassles of coding, has come out of closed beta and is up there on public domain. The company provides web tools to enterprises to facilitate hiring via Facebook. Run by Banga...

Sainul K Abudheen

Nexus Ventures-backed Aryaka unveils Application Delivery as-a-Service

Nexus Ventures-backed Cloud WAN Optimization as-a-Service provider Aryaka has launched Application Delivery as-a-Service to enable home office workers, mobile users and its customers to access enterprise applications and cloud resources anywhere, anytime. The California-headquartered Aryaka, which m...

Sainul K Abudheen

Cloud-based SaaS startup Nevales unveils new brand, next-gen security gateway device

Cloud-based managed security services provider, Nevales Networks, has launched its next generation security gateway device that provides higher density and faster performance to its SMB (small and mid-sized business) clients. The Mumbai-based startup, which recently was listed in Techcircle.com’s ...

Sonam Gulati

Info Edge CEO Hitesh Oberoi on Toostep acquisition, Internet as an investment opportunity & more

Info Edge (India) Ltd, which runs the recruitment site Naukri.com and other classifieds like matrimonial site Jeevansathi.com and real estate portal 99acres.com, has announced the acquisition of Toostep Consultancy Pvt Ltd, on a slump sale basis. Toostep, a technology company, has developed a softw...

Anand Rai & Sainul Abudheen

Techcircle SaaS Forum 2012 announces top 10 SaaS startups in India

If there is one area within the new-age technology that is red hot right now, it is software-as-a-service or SaaS – both in terms of startup activity and as a tool for entrepreneurs to build a low-cost business from scratch. Techcircle.in has come up with a listing of India’s top 10 emerging Saa...