December 10, 2015 | Fortune
This Software Upstart Helps Fortune 500 Companies Control Spending
Does your company pay the best possible price for business supplies or corporate travel? Or could it negotiate a better deal?
November 25, 2015 | FierceCIO
CIOs need to leave the stacks behind to innovate for their business, expert says
Innovative companies of today can no longer rely on CIOs whose purview doesn't extend past back-office server stacks.
November 13, 2015 | VentureBeat
Coupa Ranked Number 110 Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2015 Technology Fast 500™
The Savings-as-a-Service Company Attributes the Recognition to its Customer Success and Year-Over-Year Growth.
November 8, 2015 | VentureBeat
Don't over-complicate that acquisition
Companies make acquisitions for many reasons. For a high-growth company, I think the best reason is to grow faster.
November 10, 2015 | Rob Bernshteyn | EBN
The X-Y-Z Framework for Product Management
"What is your product roadmap?"
It's one of the biggest questions you get at an enterprise software company, and rightfully so. It's also a critical query fielded by electronics OEMs.
November 9, 2015 | Jessica Davis | InformationWeek
Amex Travel Dumps On-Premises For Cloud Apps
American Express Global Business Travel was saddled with 16 different legacy on-premises ERP systems. Rather than update, the $1.5 billion company ripped them out and replaced them all with simple cloud apps.
November 8, 2015 | Rob Bernshteyn | VentureBeat
Don’t over-complicate that acquisition
Companies make acquisitions for many reasons. For a high-growth company, I think the best reason is to grow faster. You can gain access to talent, speed up time-to-market, and snap up innovations that allow you to command a premium price.
July 27, 2015 | Thomas Finn | Healthcare Matters
Coupa Review: “Savings as a Service” Shakes Up Healthcare’s Thinking on Spend Management
“It’s the economy stupid” was a phrase coined by campaign strategist James Carville in support of Bill Clinton’s successful presidential run in 1992. And Coupa’s bid to become the spend management industry’s dominant solution provider is based on similar, simple wisdom.
July 2015 | CIO Story
Coupa Software Inc: Delivering Savings-as-a-Service That Drives Profitability
Another day, another round of big-dollar tech funding deals.
Oracle can be a strong financial backbone for global organizations, but many Oracle customers are challenged to optimize their Procure-to-Pay and Expense Management processes. Faced with siloed business processes and technologythat is not well integrated and was built for back office power users, they must deal with poor usability and adoption, incomplete data, and lack of real time visibility. In addition, customers today face increasingrequirements around compliance, regulations and policies.
July 21, 2015 | Phil Wainewright | Diginomica
Juniper Networks refocuses spend management strategy
With its global roll-out of Coupa software, Juniper Networks has a new spend management strategy that focuses on high-value contracts.
July 13, 2015 | Xavier Olivera | Spend Matters
Spend Matters 50/50: Coupa – A Provider to Know in 2015
Coupa is one of our 50 Providers to Know. We will be highlighting all 100 companies (50 to Know, 50 to Watch) in our 2015 Spend Matters Almanac over the span of 100 days. Practitioners are encouraged to browse the categories listed in our Almanac to find the provider that best fits their needs.
July 13, 2015 | Trevor Clawson | Forbes
Scaling Up And Into Europe - Coupa Banks On Core Values As Dublin Office Opens
A city isn’t a city without its ‘silicon’ district. London has Silicon Roundabout (opening out to Tech City), New York has Silicon Alley and, over in Ireland, Dublin welcomes high-tech companies to Silicon Docks.
July 9, 2015 | Jim O'Donnell | TechTarget
SAP Business Network faces spirited challengers
SAP paid almost $15 billion for the companies that comprise its SAP Business Network, but analysts think it might not have been money well spent.
July 8, 2015 | PYMNT.com
Coupa Buyout Tackles The Emailed Invoice
With the B2B Software-as-a-Service market booming, Coupa emerged as the industry’s latest unicorn following an $80 million funding round last month. The company offers cloud-based spend management tools for businesses and recently updated its software offerings to provide expense management and cash flow insight for both mobile and desktop platforms.
July 7, 2015 | Gina Hall | Silicon Valley Business Journal
San Mateo's Coupa Software buys Australian company to boost Savings-as-a-Service value
Coupa Software, a cloud-based invoice management platform, acquired InvoiceSmash on Monday for an undisclosed sum.
July 7, 2015 | Jason Busch | Spend Matters
InvoiceSmash Acquisition: Coupa Attempts to Smash Other E-Invoicing and Supplier Networks
Coupa announced Monday it had acquired InvoiceSmash, an upstart vendor from Australia that looks somewhat similar, on the surface, to the type of PDF extraction e-invoicing services offered by providers like Transcepta and Tradeshift, among others, that extract data and metadata from documents and then present them in an easy-to-leverage format from an accounts payable automation.
July 6, 2015 | Ben Kepes | Network World
Coupa acquires InvoiceSmash to bring clarity to invoicing
As organizational processes become ever more complex, finance departments are looking for solutions to help make their lives more efficient.
June 19, 2015 | PYMNTS.com
Coupa Enhances Enterprise Software Solution
Coupa Software, a provider of cloud spend management solutions for the B2B industry, has announced the rollout of a software upgrade, Coupa Release 13, to enhance its business capabilities.
June 11, 2015 | Phil Wainewright | diginomica
The digital rocket heading for enterprise procure-to-pay
After a week thinking about how enterprise procure-to-pay operates I’ve realized these processes are in desperate need of radical digital transformation.
June 1, 2015 | Heather Clancy | Fortune
Cloud software company Coupa snags $80 million to cut corporate spending
Coupa Software, a software startup that helps the likes of Salesforce, Sanofi and Swiss Re drive down procurement costs, has nearly doubled its backing with an oversubscribed $80 million round.
The financing was led by T. Rowe Price Associates along with Iconiq Capital and Premji Invest. Existing backers Crosslink Capital, Battery Ventures, and El Dorado Ventures also participated. The new money bring Coupa’s total funding to $165 million.
June 1, 2015 | Timothy Hay | Wall Street Journal
Coupa Valued at More Than $1 Billion in New Funding Round
Coupa Software Inc., an early entrant into the now-booming market for cloud-based enterprise software, has been valued at more than $1 billion in an $80 million funding round that will help the company expand into several new overseas markets, the company said.
The oversubscribed new funding round was led by new investors T. Rowe Price Associates, Iconiq Capital and Premji Invest, the company said. Existing investorsBattery Ventures, Crosslink Capital and El Dorado Ventures joined the round, the company said.
June 1, 2015 | Arik Hesseldahl | Re/Code
Cloud Startup Coupa Lands $80 Million Round at $1 Billion-Plus Valuation
Say hello to the latest cloud company to take an investment at a valuation of more than $1 billion. Coupa Software, a cloud startup that aims to help companies manage and control their spending, has closed an $80 million investment round.
Investment firm T. Rowe Price led the round along with Iconiq Capital, the investment firm that manages the personal fortunes of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. PremjiInvest, the investment firm known for overseeing the personal wealth of Indian tech billionaire Azim Premji, also participated in the round.
June 1, 2015 | Gina Hall | Silicon Valley Business Journal
San Mateo-based financial software company attains 'unicorn' status
Coupa Software became the latest Silicon Valley company to join the unicorn club after raising an $80 million investment round on Monday.
T. Rowe Price Associates and Iconiq Capital led the round, with participation from new investor Premji Invest and existing investors Crosslink Capital, Battery Ventures, El Dorado Ventures and Rally Ventures. Qatalyst Partners served as the exclusive placement agent to Coupa in the transaction. The company has raised more than $165 million to date and is valued at more than than $1 billion,
June 1, 2015 | Jason Busch | Spend Matters
Coupa Valued at Over $1B in Latest Funding Round
Coupa Software, one of the leading and highest growth procurement technology suite providers, announced it raised $80 million in it latest funding round, bringing the total capital raised to over $165 million. The latest funding round was made at a post-money valuation of over $1 billion, according to the company.
June 1, 2015 | Heather Somerville | SiliconBeat
Funding flurry: Sumo Logic, Coupa Software, Snapchat
Another day, another round of big-dollar tech funding deals.
Monday morning brought news from Sumo Logic, a cloud-based machine data analytics platform, that the Redwood City-based firm had raised $80 million. The financing round — led by DFJ Growth, and including new investor Institutional Venture Partners and existing investors Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures and Accel Partners — brings Sumo Logic’s total venture funding to $160.5 million.
April 16, 2015 | Business Wire | Venturebeat.com
Deloitte Selects Coupa’s Cloud-Based Spend Management Suite to Drive Bottom-Line Savings
Coupa Software, the leading provider of cloud-based spend management solutions announced today that Deloitte in Canada has deployed Coupa’s savings-as-a-service platform. Deloitte selected Coupa’s spend management suite in January 2015 to address its need for a centralized procurement process that could improve governance, reduce risk and help employees easily drive immediate savings.
February 11, 2015 | Thomas Kase | Spend Matters
Coupa Acquires Sourcing Solutions Startup ZenPurchase
Coupa, a firm known for its successful cloud-based procure-to-pay solution (with strong source-to-settle suite aspirations) and a ferocious growth pace, has just announced the acquisition of ZenPurchase, a tiny startup with no more than a handful of employees that only saw the light of day barely 2 years ago.
