FastSpring

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Bright Market, LLC
Company type Private
Industry SaaS
Founded2005
Founder
Headquarters
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • David Nachman (CEO)
  • Sian Wang (CFO)
Products
  • Billing
  • Payments
  • Checkout
  • Personalization
  • Customer acquisition
  • Back office software
Website www.fastspring.com

Bright Market, LLC, dba FastSpring, is a software as a service (SaaS) company that offers a full service e-commerce platform for companies that sell software and other online digital products. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Santa Barbara, California. [1]

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History

Founded in 2005 by Dan Engel, Ken White, Jason Foodman and Ryan Dewell, the company is based in Santa Barbara, California. [2] The four founders put in a combined $30,000 to launch the company. [3] [4] FastSpring initially focused on companies selling desktop software and downloadable games, before moving into SaaS in 2011. [5] In March 2011, FastSpring launched its subscription e-commerce platform for subscription-based businesses to manage online subscription payments. [2] [6] The company received its first outside investment in April 2013 for an estimated $12 million from Pylon Capital. [5] [7] In 2018, Accel-KKR purchased a majority stake in FastSpring. [8] [9]

FastSpring was recognized with a Silver Stevie Award for Customer Service Department of the Year in 2013 [10] and again in 2014 [11] and 2015. [12] It has been a five-time Inc. 5000 honoree over six times. [13]

In July 2018, Sian Wang was named CFO of the company. [14] In March 2019, David Nachman was named CEO, succeeding Chris Lueck. Nachman was formerly CEO of government technology company Vision, and chief business officer of Velocify, a SaaS CRM business. [15]

Products and services

FastSpring's platform offers digital commerce products for software, cloud-based, and as-a-service businesses, supporting a variety of digital products and distribution models. It enables purchases and subscriptions for desktop, mobile, and apps. [5] [16]

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