by Robert Solomon | Jul 21, 2026 | B2B Software, Industry Cloud, Insurance, Real Estate
Entrata, a big vertical B2B SaaS company, filed to go public at the end of May. Apparently, vertical SaaS is not dead yet! What is Entrata? Entrata focuses on the rental and multifamily housing market. It describes itself as an operating system “that connects...
by Robert Solomon | Nov 8, 2023 | B2B Software, Industry Cloud, Pricing, Real Estate, Vertical Cloud
The District of Columbia, where I live, just sued RealPage, a real estate management platform, and 14 DC landlords for violating its antitrust statute. The complaint provides fascinating reading about pricing and software platforms. (Note: I’m not a lawyer,...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 13, 2017 | B2B Software, Financial services, Real Estate
When I was at Ariba, we started by automating relatively straightforward business transactions. The transactions usually involved well-defined goods from catalogs, simple purchase orders, and invoices. Many items did not even require proof of delivery. This was an...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 16, 2015 | Financial services, Indirect Spend, Matchmaking, Procure to Pay, Real Estate |
I normally do not write about my clients or board positions, as it is often inappropriate and it is a form of “talking up my book”. Also, the blog is about B2B software, not me. In the case of LeaseAccelerator, however, I’m going to make...
by Robert Solomon | Sep 29, 2015 | Airlines, B2B Software, Electronic Payments, Enterprise Software, Financial services, Insurance, Payments, Public Sector, Real Estate
If you are interested in B2B software generally, you should be particularly interested in the Canadian B2B software industry. I’m not sure what is in the water (beer?) up there, but Canada has more than its fair share of interesting B2B software companies and...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 31, 2014 | B2B Software, Financial services, Matchmaking, Real Estate, Supplier Credentialling
A couple of weeks ago, one of my top ten picks for a website all enterprise software folks should follow, PE Hub Wire, introduced me to another relatively new company that sounds fascinating, Exactbid. This part of the blurb caught my attention (my emphasis added):...
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