The SaaS CFO · Ben Murray
podcastplaybook$123M Raised to Help Finance Teams Automate Their Financial Operations
Source excerpt
About The SaaS CFOMesh Payments, a New York-based corporate payment and spend management platform, raised $50 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from Entrée Capital, Falcon Edge Capital, and existing investors TLV Partners and Meron Capital. I interviewed Oded Zehavi, CEO and co-founder at Mesh Payments. He is a self-described “payments geek.” Mesh pivoted product strategy during the pandemic. $123M raised, series B of $50M 150 staff, 100 engineers NYC headquarters Servicing 1,000 global companies $1B payment value run rate Doubling down on market share growth Fundraising is about relationships Oded Zehavi’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/odedzehavi/ Mesh’s fundraising story: https://www.thesaasnews.com/news/mesh-payments-raises-50-million-in-series-b
This is a limited feed-provided excerpt, not the full original work.
Apollo layer
What a founder can learn
Founder takeaway
Treat fundraising as a long-term relationship process, supported by measurable traction and a clear plan for deploying capital. Mesh’s reported customer count, payment volume, team scale, and intention to expand market share give investors concrete context for the raise.
Why it matters
Capital is more useful—and the fundraising case more credible—when founders can connect operating evidence to a deliberate strategic priority rather than presenting funding as the goal itself.