Akeel Jabber | Horizen Capital

SaaS District

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Top Startup and SaaS Podcast for Startup Founders, Entrepreneurs and Investors. Learn how to optimize your growth strategy a SaaS startup entrepreneur from beta all the way to exit. We cover topics such as raising capital, acquisitions, leadership, B2B sales, growth marketing, scaling, hiring, M&A, conversion optimization, productivity, bootstrapping, venture capital, private equity, and innovation. By sharing industry lead expertise, we want you to implement the best-proven tactics to help you scale your SaaS company. Top Podcast Industry Nominations:- 13 Best SaaS Marketing Podcasts | SaaS M...

Author

Akeel Jabber | Horizen Capital

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Business

Podcast website

horizencapital.com

Latest episode

Jul 3, 2026

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Episodes

The Secrets Behind Growing an On-Demand Design Platform and Scaling to the Inc. 5000 with John Grzybowski | Podcast #97 01.04.2021

Johnathan Grzybowski, is the Chief Marketing Officer and co-founder of Penji, an on-demand graphic design service. Penji’s goal is to provide an innovative solution by making essential tools and resources more accessible and affordable for entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders. Penji has been named as “top startup to watch” according to Philadelphia Magazine and mentioned in major publicatio...

An Investors Perspective on Today SaaS Market & 6 Core Principles That Every Startup Founder Should Know with Joseph Pizzolato [SDI] | Podcast #96 30.03.2021

JP is an Entrepreneur & Tech Investor at Felix Capital with 10+ years of experience investing in, advising and operating companies across Europe and the USA. He was previously at Vitruvian Partners, a global growth equity fund, where he specialised in B2B Software, Fintech and Consumer Internet businesses. He was involved in a number of high profile investments across countries, including Pind...

How to Buy Profitable Online Businesses and Build Different Streams of Passive Income with Jaryd Krause | Podcast #95 25.03.2021

Jaryd Krause, is an online business mentor, coach & investor teaching people how to work less & earn more by buying established online businesses that are already profitable. Jaryd believes that buying and renovating websites is the best way to grow an investment portfolio – better than real estate, better than stocks, and way better than money in the bank.  Jaryd also runs the Buying...

How To Fundraise Money for Your SaaS at The Super Early Stages (pre-seed round) With Elizabeth Yin [SDI] | Podcast #94 23.03.2021

Elizabeth Yin is the co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund for software startups & entrepreneurs. In the Past  Elizabeth was a partner at 500 Startups where she invested in seed stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator. In a prior life, Elizabeth co-founded and ran an adtech company called LaunchBit (acq 2014). Elizabeth has a BSEE from Stanford and a...

Hitting a 100% YoY growth, 200,000+ active users & 5M ARR with No Outside Capital and No Background in Tech with Bryan Clayton | #93 SaaS Podcast 16.03.2021

Bryan Clayton is the co-founder & CEO of GreenPal, a web and mobile app that instantly connects homeowners with home service professionals.  Bryan’s experience, between his multiple exits & past ventures include being the founder of PeachTree, one of the largest landscaping companies in Tennessee, growing it to over $10M in annual revenues before selling it in 2013.  GreenPal has...

Using the Power of Personalization at Scale wit Matt Barnett | #92 SaaS Podcast 11.03.2021

Matt Barnett, the Founder & CEO of Bonjoro, a personal video messaging & customer delight platform to welcome & onboard customers & clients. Bonjoro also helps customer success teams convert and retain more customers through personalized  video.  Matt is a former designer & expert product builder with a passion for building a great business culture. As Bonjoro continu...

How to Make Your SaaS Company Acquisition Worthy with Yaagneshwaran Ganesh[SDI] | #91 SaaS Podcast 09.03.2021

In this episode Akeel Jabber joins the ABM Conversations Podcas t with Yaagneshwaran Ganesh, a B2B marketing for those wanting to explore strategies, tactics and real experiments to drive revenue, customer engagement, retention and increase your customer lifetime value. During this interview we cover: 00:00 Contentfy, Your On-Demand Content Team (Sponsor) 01:02 - Intro  02:13 -  Key Ques...

Sharing the Journey of Building Legal Tech SaaS Business to $10MM ARR with Vishal Sunak | #90 SaaS Podcast 04.03.2021

Vishal Sunak is the founder & CEO LinkSquares, the first AI-powered end-to-end contract lifecycle management platform. Vishal is responsible for developing strategies aimed at assisting both corporate legal and finance teams with the review of their contracts and works to prevent his customers from having to read each contract one by one.  Vishal founded LinkSquares with the goal of build...

Using Inorganic Growth and Bolt On Acquisitions as an Expansion Strategy with Steve Levely [SDI] | #89 SaaS Podcast [ Growth Hacking ] 02.03.2021

Steve is the CEO of Ackroo ,  a platform that provides marketing, payment and point-of-sale solutions for merchants of all sizes.  Ackroo’s self-serve, data driven, cloud-based marketing platform helps merchants in-store and online process and manage loyalty, gift card and promotional transactions at the point of sale in order to attract, engage and grow their customers while increasing...

The 4 Reasons why Ideal Clients Never Buy Your Product & the 4R’s To Maximize Your Sales Process with Dan Morris | #88 SaaS Podcast 25.02.2021

If you’re over the $250k of ARR mark, go to https://www.mindracerconsulting.com/saas-district-listener-offer and mention the SaaS District Podcast to redeem a free sales readiness assessment! Dan is an experienced investor, advisor, and B2B growth expert on a mission, looking to impact 1000 businesses positively by 2025.  Dan helps  companies to succeed in volatile markets, increasing pr...

Leveling up your Leadership development, sales team and going from $0-$100M ARR mark 3 times with J. Ryan Williams | #87 SaaS Podcast 23.02.2021

J. Ryan Williams is a founder, media producer & coach with an extence Startup operator & advisor trajectory,  achieving the $0 - to $100M ARR mark 3 times Ryan is a keynote speaker who devoted his career to leadership development. As an executive coach, he works with high potential teams and leaders at once-in-a-generation technology companies such as Airbnb, Lyft and the like, as wel...

Bootstrapping 3 Successful Companies & Helping Creative Entrepreneurs Make a Living Doing What They Love with Spencer Fry | #86 SaaS Podcast [ Bootstrapping ] [ Entrepreneurship ] 19.02.2021

Spencer is the Founder & CEO of Podia , a platform with one of the most creator-friendly tools that can help you sell online courses, digital downloads, membership subscriptions and more, Spencer is a serial entrepreneur & has been all his life, he co-founded three bootstrapped companies TypeFrag (2003), Carbonmade (2007), and Uncover (2012). Spencer specializes in building consumer produc...

Building a Fast, Scalable Growth Campaign For Unforgettable SaaS Companies with Luis Camacho | #85 SaaS Podcast 17.02.2021

Luis Camacho is the Founder & CEO of Fantom Agency, an elite digital marketing agency for SaaS & B2B companies alongside the strongest community where they help SaaS companies over the $20K MRR mark, who are trying to scale up via a predictable and strategically thought out customer acquisition process. Luis has helped many SaaS companies increase lead and subscription volume, penetrate ne...

Building an Empire of Portfolio Companies in the WordPress Industry with Syed Balkhi [SDI] | #84 SaaS Podcast 13.02.2021

Syed Balkhi is a Multi-Founder, CEO & an award-winning entrepreneur, recognized as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by the United Nations. He’s also been  featured on Inc., Forbes, Entrepreneur magazine, Fortune, Fast Company, FOX Business, and The Wall Street Journal.  With over 15+ million websites using the software built by his companies to grow, he’s become a...

Launching a Profitable SaaS and Using a Podcast to Generate Business Ideas with Alex San Filippo | #83 SaaS Podcast 11.02.2021

Alex San Filippo is the Founder at Podmatch.com , an A.I tool used to generate interviews by bringing in Podcast Guest and Hosts on the same platform. Alex is also the host of the Creating a Brand podcast A top 20 entrepreneurship podcast that releases weekly masterclass interviews. During this interview we cover: 00:00 Contentfy , Your On-Demand Content Team (Sponsor) 01:02 - Intro  02:06 -...

SaaS Valuations, Exit Planning and the M&A Market in 2021 [SDI] | #82 SaaS Podcast 04.02.2021

Pierre-Alexandre Heurtebize is an expert in financial modelling, Business Plan modelling, Financial Due Diligence , Corporate finance, and Private Fquity investments.  He holds an MBA from top tier Business School ESSEC (Paris / Cergy), formerly an investment associate in small caps private equity, he has over 4 years of experience in M&A financial due diligence at PwC, one of the big 4 o...

Where to Launch Your Next Tech Startup & Why? with Dom Einhorn | #81 SaaS Podcast 31.01.2021

Dom Einhorn is a serial entrepreneur, his expertise lies in assisting startup entrepreneurs as well as startup investors in selecting the right business model and/or the right startup(s) to invest in, he’s currently the founder & CEO of Uniqorn Incubator, the largest rural incubator-accelerator of its kind in the world. Located in southwestern France. Dom created the first online art auction b...

Top 10 Challenges SaaS Companies Faced in 2020 (Best of Season 1 – #80 SaaS Podcast) 29.01.2021

2020 was so far the year of the Software as a Service (SaaS industry because of a complex combination of  factors including political changes that disrupted data processing  agreements in the UK, the ongoing global pandemic that impacted every industry, but validated the cloud-service, value proposition and a record-breaking year for SaaS IPOs that derived in a fertile ground to make thi...

How to Generate a Consistent Flow of Highly Targeted B2B Leads Every Month Without Spending on Ads with Ken Wells | #79 SaaS Podcast 22.01.2021

Ken Wells is the founder & CEO of SalesKey, a sales & marketing company helping B2B companies identify, attract and close their target clients. What they call a Done for you Lead Generation Service and a coaching program with SaaS founders. Ken has over 17 years of B2B Sales & Marketing experience which includes helping grow multiple Inc. 500 & 5000 companies, Ken’s a book reading...

Building a leading Ecommerce marketplace, new growth initiatives & tech innovation in Latin America with Nestor de Haro | #78 SaaS Podcast 20.01.2021

Nestor is an engineer & entrepreneur and founder of Mi Refacción, a high-tech startup focused on connecting the user with more than 200 brands and companies with their inventory.  Prior to Mi Refacción he was involved in the aftermarket retailer industry for many years as a general manager, where he identified the clear problem in the market that was lacking in this industry. He has been...

HoriZen Capital’s Deal DNA for a Great SaaS M&A Playbook [SDI] | #77 SaaS Podcast 15.01.2021

Visit TK’s SaaS Go-To-Market Program now & accelerate growth to $3M ARR and beyond with an Unstoppable strategy. Hello everybody, this is your host Akeel Jabber and welcome back to another episode of SaaS District, on today's episode my good friend TK Kader invited me to his podcast "SaaS & Scotch" we’re I had the opportunity to talk about myself, my background, about Horizen Capital and&n...

How to Quickly Scale your SaaS Company to >$10 Million ARR with Matt Wolach | #76 SaaS Podcast 13.01.2021

Matt Wolach is a B2B SaaS sales coach, Founder, Investor, a specialist in software demos, and the creator of the perfect deal process that helps software leaders turn bad demos into conversion machines creating an experience that gets prospects emotional and ready to take action. During this interview we cover: 00:00 A word From The Sponsor 01:02  Intro 01:51 Matt’s Background, & Creating...

How Lately grew their MRR from $25,000 – $74,000 in less than 10 months With Kate Bradley | #75 SaaS Podcast 08.01.2021

Kate Bradley is the Co-Founder and CEO at Lately, an AI-powered social media marketing SaaS platform that helps marketers scale their publishing and reach. Lately’s artificial intelligence uses your historical social media data to learn what works with your audience and what to post next. During this interview we cover: 00:00 A word From The Sponsor 01:02  Intro 01:50 Kate’s Background, XM Ra...

10 Essential Traits to Building a Remarkable SaaS Company with Ton Dobbe | #74 SaaS Podcast 06.01.2021

Ton Dobbe is an author, podcast host, speaker & founder of value inspiration, a growth consultancy focused tech-entrepreneurs where they help B2B software CEO’s grow their businesses. Ton believes that the future belongs to software businesses that create products worth making a remark about. Ton is also the founder of the Tech-entrepreneur-on-a-mission tribe, a community focused on delivering...

How to Accelerate Your SaaS Company’s Sales Revenue & Growth with Doug Brown | #73 SaaS Podcast 01.01.2021

Get a FREE copy of the Sales International Best Selling Book Win-Win Selling at: https://www.winwinsellingbook.com/ Doug Brown is the CEO of Business Success Factors, where they help Business Owners and CEOs to increase revenue and acquire large accounts using systems that have positively increased sales up to 862%. Doug started working in his family's business at the age of 3 yo and, since then h...

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