Chargebee
Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2011CEO / Founder
Krish SubramanianEmployees
1001-5000Funding
Series D+ — $655MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.1/10Website
chargebee.com/
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About Chargebee
Chargebee is a subscription billing and revenue operations platform founded in 2011 by Krish Subramanian, Rajaraman Santhanam, Thiyagarajan T, and Saravanan KP. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Chennai, India, where it was originally founded.
Chargebee's platform handles subscription lifecycle management, recurring billing, invoicing, revenue recognition, and pricing experimentation. It supports billing models including flat-rate, usage-based, tiered, and hybrid structures. The company serves SaaS, e-commerce, and other subscription-based businesses, with customers including Freshworks, Okta, and Calendly. Its product suite includes Chargebee Billing, Chargebee RevRec for revenue recognition, and Chargebee Retention, the last of which was acquired through the purchase of Brightback in 2020.
Chargebee has raised approximately $655 million in total funding. Its Series G round in January 2022 raised $250 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, led by Tiger Global Management. The company previously raised $125 million in a Series F round in April 2021. As of the early 2020s, Chargebee employed over 1,000 people globally.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Chargebee competes with, and how they differ.
Stripe Billing is bundled into Stripe's payments platform and priced as a percentage of processed volume rather than a standalone SaaS fee, winning merchants already on Stripe for payments; Chargebee is payment-gateway-agnostic and specializes purely in subscription and revenue-management workflows (quoting, invoicing, dunning, receivables).
Zuora targets large enterprises with a heavier, highly customizable revenue-management suite (RevPro, billing, orders) and longer implementation cycles, while Chargebee is positioned toward faster-to-deploy mid-market and SMB SaaS billing.
Recurly focuses narrowly on subscription billing and payment/dunning recovery for mid-market subscription commerce and media companies, with a smaller product footprint than Chargebee's broader suite spanning quoting, receivables (via its Numberz acquisition) and retention (via Brightback).
Company Timeline
Key milestones in Chargebee's history, with sources.
- Acquisition
Acquired Inai, a payments intelligence startup
Chargebee acquired Inai to add real-time payments observability, fee intelligence, and AI-driven revenue-recovery tools for merchants.
electronicpaymentsinternational.com - Acquisition
Acquired Trainn, an AI-powered customer training platform
Chargebee acquired Trainn, a 14-person startup founded by Chargebee alumni that builds product videos and training content for SaaS companies, to add customer education tooling.
inc42.com - Milestone
Laid off 10% of staff amid macroeconomic pressure
Chargebee cut about 142 employees (10% of staff), with CEO Krish Subramanian citing the economic downturn and reduced visibility into future demand.
techcrunch.com - Acquisition
Acquired Numberz, launched Chargebee Receivables
Chargebee acquired accounts-receivable automation company Numberz and used it to launch Chargebee Receivables, an order-to-cash platform for subscription businesses.
pymnts.com - Funding
Series H — $250M led by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India
Chargebee raised $250M at a $3.5B valuation, more than double its valuation from the prior April, with participation from Insight Partners, Sapphire Ventures and Steadview Capital.
siliconangle.com - Acquisition
Acquired Brightback, a customer-retention platform
Chargebee acquired customer-retention specialist Brightback to expand its revenue-management product into churn prevention and retention workflows.
globenewswire.com - Funding
Series G — $125M led by Sapphire Ventures, reaching unicorn status
Chargebee raised $125M at a $1.4B valuation with Tiger Global and Insight Venture Partners participating, becoming a unicorn roughly 10 years after founding; total capital raised to date was reported at $230M.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Series F — $55M led by Insight Partners
Chargebee raised $55M in a round led by Insight Partners with participation from existing investors Steadview Capital and Tiger Global; media estimated the resulting valuation at roughly $500M.
entrackr.com - Funding
Series B — $5M led by Tiger Global
Chargebee raised a $5M Series B led by Tiger Global, with Series A investor Accel Partners also participating, to grow its subscription-billing platform for SaaS companies.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Series A — $800K from Accel Partners
Chargebee raised an $800,000 Series A from Accel Partners, its first institutional funding round.
techcrunch.com - Founded
Chargebee founded in Chennai
Chargebee was founded in 2011 as a subscription billing and payment-gateway-agnostic recurring-revenue platform for SaaS companies, later headquartered in San Francisco.
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