TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

That’s when he and Michelle Lee, his first bizops hire, decided to start the subscription intelligence startup Subscript in December 2020. Subscript product dashboard. Image Credits: Subscript. Subscript creates custom data pipelines, and the pipelines create what he called a “revenue source of truth” in Subscript.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Apple announced today several new updates to its podcast creator tools, including, most notably, the addition of Subscription Analytics within Apple Podcasts Connect — the dashboard where podcasters track how their listeners engage with their shows.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2023

X, formerly known as Twitter, is introducing two new tiers for its subscription offering in order to bring in additional revenue. The social media giant is adding a new Premium+ tier that costs $16 per month and offers the “largest reply boost” and removes ads from the For You and Following feeds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Subscription services are on the rise. A recent survey even found that spending on subscription services had more than tripled since March, with one in three respondents saying they’d purchased a new online subscription while quarantining. Fintechs should take note of subscription services. One major lesson? Transparency.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Starting Wednesday, Kyte will now offer a car subscription service, following what the startup says was a successful subscription pilot with Teslas. A range of SUVs, sedans and economy cars, in addition to Teslas, will now be available for longer-term subscriptions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Tumblr’s ill-fated Post+ subscription service is shutting down, the company announced late on Monday.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

The lure of subscription pricing is the guarantee of recurring revenue for your business. Once a customer flips the switch to turn on your subscription, it’s easy money: Easy to recognize your revenue. While that’s true, converting a subscription customer isn’t as simple as flipping a switch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Car subscription offerings. Invygo takes a cut from the subscription price, but the company didn’t specify how much. Roughly 200 cars are available for subscription in Saudi Arabia and 100 in UAE on the platform on a typical day. Invygo offers three kinds of rental services. It is not profitable yet, the startup said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2023

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Graysky, one of the first third-party apps for the Twitter/X competitor Bluesky, is launching a subscription service with its latest release, as a means of generating revenue for its app by offering paid access to features that Bluesky itself doesn’t yet support.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

While the company is perhaps more focused on customer revenue growth acceleration than some of its competitors, it is not alone in its broader space, which could be described as mobile subscription infrastructure. Why mobile subscription management platforms are enjoying tailwinds by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The startup from former Google engineers launched last year to offer a subscription-based news summary app that aimed to tackle many of the problems with today’s news cycle, including information overload, burnout, media bias and algorithms that promoted engagement over news accuracy. The app required a $4.99

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

trillion global subscription payments market by offering to its U.S. customers payment installments for subscriptions, like gym memberships, entertainment subscriptions and online services. “Buy now, pay later” company Afterpay announced Wednesday that it was going after the $1.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Upscribe founder and CEO Dileepan Siva watched the retail industry make a massive shift to subscription e-commerce for physical products over the past decade, and decided to get in it himself in 2019. Upscribe also offers APIs for merchants to integrate tools like Klaviyo, Segment and Shopify — a new subscription offering for checkouts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

RevenueCat , a startup offering a series of tools for developers of subscription-based apps, has raised $40 million in Series B funding, valuing its business at $300 million, post-money. It also aids by sharing subscription data with other tools the business uses, like those for advertising, analytics or attribution.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Citymapper is lowering the paywall around its premium features and introducing a new subscription plan purely for removing ads. And by keeping an ad-free subscription in place, it allows the company to cover its costs and directly monetize a product that it now has to maintain alongside its existing properties.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Challenging times for the tech and consumer industries have created a lot of buzz around “subscription fatigue.” Subscriptions are not dying; they are just evolving. Smart companies are iterating on the subscription model with variations such as usage-based billing. A short history of subscriptions.

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InfoWorld

JANUARY 16, 2024

Microsoft has announced the availability of Copilot Pro, a subscription-based platform intended to deliver advanced features of its Copilot AI technology. Subscriptions can be purchased for $20 per month per person. Unveiled January 15 , Copilot Pro offers capabilities to users wanting to “supercharge” their Copilot experience.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Planet42 , a South Africa-based car subscription company that buys used cars from dealerships and rents to customers via a subscription model, has raised $30 million in equity and debt. Our car subscription [model] is socially inclusive. After that, Planet42 buys the car and rents it out to the customer on a subscription basis.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Fintech startup Revolut is tweaking its subscription plans with a new mid-tier offering called Revolut Plus — it costs £2.99 in Europe, 1% outside of Europe capped at the monthly subscription price) and higher limits across various products. N26 launches mid-tier subscription plan for €4.90 Image Credits: Revolut.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Micro-EV subscription startup Dance , which launched in 2020, has raised an additional €12 million in an equity and debt round led by existing investors HV Capital, Eurazeo and BlueYard. Dance is tapping into the next iteration of EV / micro-mobility in the form of the subscription model. In 2020, Dance closed a $17.7M

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Skio, a startup that aims to take the pain out of selling subscriptions for brands on Shopify, has raised $3.7 Skio is taking on incumbents like ReCharge Payments, which too has built subscription software for e-commerce brands and was valued at $2.1 million in a seed funding round. Skio must be doing something right.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

It might be time for neighborhood restaurants and coffee shops to start thinking about a subscription business — at least according to a new Y Combinator-backed startup called Per Diem. Series A to scale its subscription coffee business. The company is announcing today that it has raised $2.3 Not that this is an entirely new concept.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

trillion subscription market for recurring revenue. When deploying subscription-based business models, SaaS companies often face challenges, like deferred cash flows, discounts and time to recoup customer acquisition costs. For example, Srimal explained that if a company signs a contract for $1.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Launching today with the help of these former teen heartthrobs, Scriber is a creator subscription company geared toward more established figures in entertainment (… like the Jonas Brothers). Besides catering to more established artists, Scriber differentiates itself from other creator subscription products by functioning solely via SMS.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

A new company is looking to do for B2B hardware sales what a growing number of companies have been doing in the consumer sphere, by making it easier for businesses to pay for equipment in instalments through rentals and subscriptions. million in funding to do something similar for B2B transactions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Challenger bank N26 is adding a third subscription product called N26 Smart. N26 Smart is designed to be a mid-tier subscription plan with advanced banking features but without a travel insurance package. In Europe, in addition to the free plan, N26 already provides two subscription tiers called N26 You and N26 Metal.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

million in pre-seed funding to create what it describes as a far more customizable e-commerce subscriptions platform for D2C brands. “The market opportunity is huge, and the existing [e-commerce subscription] tools are just scratching the surface,” notes Laurie. We’re here to break down that mental model.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Car subscription platform Finn has raised $110 million in equity to expand in the U.S. and Europe and reach 30,000 subscriptions by the end of the year, according to the company. Eco-conscious car subscription platform finn.auto raises $24.2M, with White Star and Zalando founders. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Gravy , a startup helping subscription-based businesses recover failed payments, has raised $4.5 ” That means the customer didn’t choose to end their subscription, but — for any one of hundreds of possible reasons — their credit card payment failed. .”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

“As firms prepare for a ‘post-pandemic’ world, we are beginning to see our markets seize the opportunity of all these new potential subscribers and invest in subscription models — and in Zephr.” ” he said. ” Google says its News Showcase will add free access to paywalled stories.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

million to continue building automated payment collection and subscription management tools for Latin America. Rebill differs from legacy providers in that it is targeting medium to large companies, is cloud-based and sold on a subscription basis so customers just have to pay a license fee, Candia told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Grover , a Berlin-based startup that runs a subscription model where people can for set fees rent out consumer electronics like computers, smart phones, games consoles and scooters, has picked up €60 million ($71 million). Similar to cars and films, there is definitely an argument to be made for owning gadgets on a subscription.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 The Big Apple of subscriber bases : Apple may have missed its revenue target (see the Big Tech section) for its fiscal first quarter, but the consumer tech giant is poppin’ bottles and tootin’ horns after announcing it now has 935 million paid subscriptions across all of its offerings.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

After raising nearly $20 million a few months ago, Berlin-based startup Dance is expanding its electric bike subscription service to a handful of new cities. While Dance originally focused on no-commitment plans, customers can now choose to pay for a yearly subscription and get a small rebate.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

The monthly subscription fee includes damage and theft insurance, as well as on-demand maintenance and repairs. In the near future, Motto plans to offer a baby carrier and a front rack as subscription add-ons. Users aren’t just renting a bike, they’re subscribing to a service. Image Credits: Motto.

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