The SaaSiest Podcast

In this episode, we speak to Linn Bredesen CTO, itslearning, the fast-growing EdTech SaaS company from Norway that is supporting and empowering students and teachers all over the world with their Digital Learning Management System. Linn takes us through the amazing growth of itslearning, and more specifically how they have successfully prepared their product and teams to manage peaks in usage, esp...

In this episode, we speak to Jessie VanderVeen CMO, Controlant, the Icelandic SaaS company behind the offering "Cold chain as a Service" enabling some of the world’s biggest organizations to monitor and control their supply chains in real-time. Jessie walks us through the journey that Controlant has been on, creating a new category within an established vertical. She shares her thoughts on the rol...

In this episode, we speak to Christian Lund Co-Founder and CPO, Templafy , who recently made the Financial Times list as one of the 125 fastest-growing companies in Europe, with a unique product offering related to Dynamic Document Creation. Christian tells us all about how they established product-market fit and landed their first enterprise customer within months of inception, going enterprise a...

In this episode, we speak to Johanna Fagerstedt CMO at Quinyx , the fast-growing workforce management SaaS platform which allows its customers to seamlessly forecast, schedule, and manage its workforce. Johanna who recently made The Software Report “The Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS" joins us to share her thoughts on "SMarketing" - the art of getting Sales and Marketing to be one revenue team! How...

In this episode, we speak to Nora Huovila CEO and Co-founder, Videoly , providing an easy way to get hand‑picked user-generated and relevant brand videos to online stores. Nora shares her vision on what company culture should be all about and how you get there. For her, it all started by putting the employee first, the human! Join us as Nora shares her view on how you build a strong culture early...

In this episode, we speak to Mads Fosselius CEO and cofounder at Dixa , one of the fastest-growing conversational customer support platforms in the world. Here is a humble and yet bold story of how Mads and his co-founders decided to disrupt a customer service world, where point solutions were the norm, with a Platform philosophy to bring it all together. Join us as Mads shares how they got starte...

In this episode, we speak to Ólöf Kristjánsdóttir Director of Marketing at Tempo, the most popular time tracking and planning tool for developers and tech resources with over 20k customers in the Atlassian ecosystem. Ólöf takes us on the journey from how the initial product was built in Iceland to solve internal time tracking problems, to a commercial rollout and now being one of the top-grossing...

In this episode, we speak to Ola Sars Founder and CEO of Soundtrack Your Brand, the music tech startup that is revolutionizing the B2B space. Ola introduces us to the concept of a content-driven SaaS company, and what it means to be running the Spotify of the B2B world. This is an exciting journey with one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the music tech space with several exits in the past,...

In this episode we speak to Mathias Thulin Co-Founder of GetAccept, the all-in-one digital sales platform provider, about Product-Led Growth. Mathias walks us through the 5-year journey of GetAccept going from an outbound driven, to inbound and to now being a hundred percent focused on a product-led growth strategy. What does it mean to make a transition like this? What are the key elements to con...

In this episode we speak to Johan Jardevall, CEO at Wiraya about how Wiraya went about creating a new category in the customer engagement space with their Mobile Customer Activation SaaS Platform. Johan shares his learnings and experience in how to define product market fit, how to go to market, and most importantly how to convince the customer about the value this brings to their business. For an...

In this episode we speak to Youtse Sung , VP Marketing at Outpost24 , a SaaS cyber assessment company, from Sweden. Youtse walks us through the 3 pillars of marketing including People, Technology and Process. Learn how to define marketing success, the key metrics to track, the tools to use and why digital first is a must. For anyone working with marketing in startups and scaleups this episode pres...

In this episode we speak to Emil Eifrem , founder and CEO at Neo4j , a unicorn specialized in graph database management systems. This is one of the most successful start-up journeys that any Nordic company has achieved in the past 10 years. From the small university town of Lund to a UNICORN, they took the battle to the biggest giants like Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon and won on their home turf. L...

In this episode we speak to Hadar Cars , Investment Director at Industrifonden , one of the largest early stage venture capital funds in the Nordics with an active management of 6 billion SEK in assets. In this episode Hadar gives us the investor’s perspective on what they look for in successful SaaS start-ups, what are the characteristics and what metrics do they particularly look at for future p...

In this episode we speak to Fredrik Skantze , founder and CEO of Funnel.io . Fredrik walks us through his journey from MIT into the world of SaaS and now running one of the hottest B2B SaaS startups in Europe.  Funnel.io was recently named the 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor in Marketing and Data Analytics. The journey to success and high growth wasn't linear and in this episode,  we will hear specifical...