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Stretch your Runway with Maple
Raising capital can be one of the toughest challenges for any business. It demands time, effort, and often multiple rounds of pitching to secure the funding needed for growth. Yet even when successful, this funding may not be enough to sustain a company through unpredictable markets and operational demands. That's why extending your runway — maximizing the time you have to build traction before needing more capital — is essential.
An often overlooked way to stretch your runway is by optimizing billing and revenue management. Inefficiencies in these areas can silently drain resources, while many traditional billing solutions take a percentage of your revenue, hampering growth. Fortunately, Maple is here to help. It accelerates your billing, prevents revenue bleed, and provides investor-ready metrics—all without claiming an uncapped percentage of your revenue or burdening you with bloated software and people costs.
How Maple Bolsters your Runway
1. Accelerate Your Billing
Cash flow is the king in any business. The faster you invoice and collect payments, the healthier your business becomes. Maple streamlines this process by automating billing for all types of services—usage-based, subscription-based, or one-off purchases—reducing time spent on manual invoicing and reconciliation.
Rather than being hindered by manual processes or inflexible systems, you can create custom billing cycles tailored to your business needs. This improvement in cash flow extends your runway and enhances your agility in the face of new opportunities or market shifts.
2. Prevent Revenue Bleed With Uncapped Percentages
Many billing solutions come with a hidden catch: they take a percentage of your revenue. As your business grows, these fees grow too, steadily eroding your profit margins. Maple breaks this mold by offering predictable pricing that scales with your business, without claiming an uncapped slice of your revenue.
By rejecting revenue-based pricing, Maple lets you grow penalty-free. This means you keep more of your hard-earned revenue, allowing you to reinvest in your business and extend your runway further.
3. Avoid Software Bloat
Businesses often grapple with software bloat—paying for unnecessary features or getting trapped in complex, unwieldy systems. Maple is designed to sidestep this issue. It zeroes in on your essentials: efficient, adaptable, and scalable billing without extra frills.
Maple is both lightweight and robust, capable of handling intricate billing needs — such as usage-based models or diverse sales approaches — without drowning your team in paperwork.
4. Support Multiple Sales Motions
Your business evolves, and your billing system should keep pace. Maple supports various sales models—subscription, usage-based pricing, or a combination—offering flexible billing that aligns with your complex sales strategies. This adaptability allows your business to swiftly respond to market demands and customer needs.
With this flexibility, you can diversify revenue streams without cobbling together multiple billing solutions or forcing your operations to fit within a rigid system's constraints.
5. Investor-Ready Metrics
As a founder, you know that presenting solid, transparent metrics to investors is crucial. Investors seek reliable financials, clear forecasts, and evidence of strong growth. Maple's built-in analytics provide a clear view of revenue, customer growth, churn rates, and other key metrics — all accessible from a single dashboard.
With Maple, you can offer potential investors a comprehensive, real-time snapshot of your financial health. This ensures you're always prepared for fundraising rounds and due diligence processes. The ability to generate investor-ready reports on demand bolsters your position when negotiating terms and demonstrating your business's value.
Stretch your Runway with Maple
Maple is the ideal solution for businesses aiming to extend their runway. It optimizes billing processes, prevents revenue leakage, and allows you to retain more profits — all without the burden of software bloat or uncapped revenue-sharing models. By supporting multiple sales motions and providing investor-ready metrics, Maple offers the agility and insight needed to scale effectively while keeping investors satisfied.
With Maple, you can streamline your financial operations and focus on what truly matters — building and scaling your business.