We are forever changing how companies buy, manage and renew SaaS. With over $1 billion in SaaS purchases across 1,700+ suppliers, the Vendr SaaS buying platform enables the world’s fastest-growing companies to purchase SaaS, without friction and at a fair price.
Vendr is an invaluable extension of Finance and Procurement teams that entire companies can lean on to buy and renew any SaaS product in the world. Customers end up saving money but ,more importantly, save time and stress associated with managing a constantly growing expense line.
Vendr Founder and CEO Ryan Neu decided to hang up his sales hat and start Vendr, to remove friction in B2B sales.
InVision becomes our very first customer.
Vendr gains traction and the team grows. Enter Vendr’s first hire, Jeff Swank, VP Customer.
Vendr gets accepted into Y-Combinator
We hire our second Charleston-based team member and first executive buyer Paige Wojda
We open our office at Charleston Digital Corridor
Vendr secures a seed round of funding from Sound Ventures, Craft Ventures, F-Prime, and Garage Capital
Vendr secures Series A of $60M, led by Tiger Global
Vendr acquires SaaS community Capiche.com to help everyone make better software purchasing decisions
Blissfully joins Vendr to bring our customers the single best way to buy and manage software
Talking about SaaS budgets, pricing, and contracts can evoke a lot of emotion. Leading with kindness creates an ideal experience for all parties — buyer and seller alike. We take pride in being kind to each other, to our customers, and to suppliers. We believe that kindness is a competitive advantage.
Early on, Ryan volunteered with Samaritans’ suicide hotline. Recommended by expert negotiator Chris Voss, Samaritans teaches you to, “Save your sorrys,” because people don’t want to hear apologies — they want to be heard. At Vendr, this mantra represents how we actively listen to one another and take bold risks without apologizing.
In the new category of SaaS buying, what we deliver to our customers feels like magic. We go beyond expectations. More than saving customers money — we save time, relieve stress, and leave the SaaS purchasing process better than when we found it. We obsess over customers, from increasing capital efficiency to getting deals closed fast.
Every day in Slack, the #we-are-awesome channel lights up. A CSM cheers on an Executive Buyer, a Marketer does a round of applause for an Account Executive, our CEO shares positive feedback from LinkedIn. We celebrate each other’s work, empowering everyone to be better and have fun along the way.
Our 2020 year-end employee survey asked people to describe our company culture in one word — and “kindness” topped the charts.
While fast-growing environments can often feel stressful, there's a heightened sense of self-awareness where every Vendr vet is happy to lend a hand to the next.
Employees gave Vendr an eNPS score of 87, which is 57 points higher than the average SaaS company. While much of the team is new, people's generosity goes a long way to a sense of belonging.