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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/03\/29\/orb-which-helps-b2b-companies-price-their-products-raises-19-1m\/<\/a><\/br> Alvaro Morales and Kshitij Grover were working together as engineering leaders at Asana for five years, during a time when the company underwent major changes to pricing and packaging. The initiatives were painful for both the engineering and finance departments, they say \u2014 which is when the pair realized that they wanted more flexibility over how software-as-a-service (SaaS) products were billed and monetized.<\/p>\n \u201cWe found it counterintuitive that billing tools often constrain and dictate what teams can try out,\u201d Morales told TechCrunch in an email interview. \u201cThey should, instead, enable the flexibility to meet customers where they are.\u201d<\/p>\n To achieve this flexibility (or at least try), Morales and Grover co-founded Orb<\/a>, a pricing platform that helps companies automate a range of different billing types \u2014 usage-based, subscriptions or a mix of both. Orb today revealed that it\u2019s raised $19.1 million across Series A ($14 million led by Menlo) and seed ($5.1 million led by Greylock) rounds to date, which Morales says is being put toward customer acquisition, go-to-market and R&D efforts.<\/p>\n \u201cThe trend towards usage-based pricing has accelerated in recent years, and so has the hype around it. [But] there\u2019s no one-size-fits all approach to pricing,\u201d Morales, who serves as CEO, said. \u201cWe like to think of Orb as marrying an analytics product and a billing product to create a new approach that provides flexibility and enables experimentation. Orb gives companies a single source of truth that can connect every unit of product usage to revenue.\u201d<\/p>\n To Morales\u2019 earlier point, it\u2019s true, certainly, that more SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based pricing. In a 2021 survey<\/a> from OpenView, 45% of SaaS companies said that they\u2019re using usage-based pricing, up from 34% in 2020. Twilio, Strip and Plaid are among big middleware companies charging by usage, while Shopify, Slack and HubSpot are among the major application companies that have opted for the model.<\/p>\n Orb handles a range of billing tasks, including collecting and metering product usage data, invoicing customers and generating revenue reports. Within the platform, users can model out alternative pricing plans and orchestrate changes in real time, drawing on product usage insights to find revenue opportunities.<\/p>\n
\nOrb, which helps B2B companies price their products, raises $19.1M<\/br>
\n2023-03-29 21:53:22<\/br><\/p>\n