50 Companies That Use Jira [2024]

PayKickstart, a flagship product of a startup co-founded by Mark Thompson, reached $1 million in ARR and doubled in size year-over-year by solving the outdated, archaic solutions for selling various digital goods online and providing one that is focused on flexibility, minimal functionality, and profit boosts.

BagsAway Luggage Storage is a worldwide marketplace that connects travelers and locals with convenient, secure, on-demand storage locations across key cities; they have stored over 150k bags for travelers thus far, have expanded to 50+ cities and plan to expand worldwide with new funding and members joining in.

Weblium, a hybrid website builder that allows customers to switch between doing it themselves or having it done for them, has grown 200% month over month and is making 20-30 websites daily, with plans to reach 100 custom websites a day while partnering with banks and company registrars to offer website creation as part of their packages.

Maxwell-Scott is a British-born luxury leather goods company handmade in Tuscany that sells to AB degree-level educated professionals with high disposable income and is now taking $400,000 a month across websites in 7 countries.

ShipHero co-founders built their successful e-commerce fulfillment business, offering warehouse management software and outsourced eCommerce fulfillment, growing revenues from zero to $30 million annually, processing over $5 billion of e-commerce gross merchandise volume (GMV) annually while only having received $435,000 in outside capital investment.

MonetizeMore founder and CEO shares his success story of growing his ad optimization business to over $20M in annual revenues by focusing on the offering that delivered the best results, using content marketing for lead generation, and establishing strategic partnerships with complimentary businesses.

Former NFL player and Founder/CEO, Jason Fox, has created EarBuds, a social music app that connects to your Apple Music or Spotify Premium account to allow real-time streaming to other EarBuds users, with the aim of making music social and enabling deeper human connections through technology.

StartEngine has helped over 265 companies raise capital from a community of 190,000 users on their equity crowdfunding platform, and has raised almost $100M to date, offering equity, debt, convertible note, and other types of securities to investors.

Lazy Jar is a fitness app that charges users for failing to meet their weekly fitness goals, launched by Justin Anyanwu, which currently averages $250 per month and has been featured in publications such as TechCrunch, LifeHacker, and Fast Company.

Cookbook designers, Stefan Johnson and Eliot Dudik launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2018 hitting its funding target in 24 hours, thus kickstarting the business that has 6 new products, a monthly revenue of around $40,000, and over 45,000 products sold with plans to double its turnover by 2020 by expanding product line and corporate offering.

Palco4, a disruptive ticketing company, transacts 4 million tickets per year and has a presence in 13 countries with an average monthly turnover of $100k USD, achieving its success through a versatile platform, optimized and efficient value chain, and a business model focused on the promoter.

A cleaning business founder, inspired by Warren Buffett, shares how he turned a $150K savings into Two Maids & A Mop, generating $25M in annual revenues, with 82 locations and almost 400,000 homes cleaned last year, by outworking and outpassioning others, and creating a customer feedback system that directly controls employee wages.

Leaf Grow is a Facebook Ads automation and insights platform that has been growing double digits month on month since it started, delivering material performance gains to businesses all around the world, with a mission to drive long-term value and create market opportunities for brands on a global scale.

CallPage, an inside sales platform that facilitates converting website visitors into customers, has expanded tools to become a full-fledged platform with artificial intelligence, voice-to-text services and emotion recognition, and is rapidly growing in international markets.

This case study follows the story of Stacey Haynes, founder of Thrivette, a business consulting and resource community that helps people start and grow their businesses, and how she and her husband have made over $10k per month through consulting and merchandise sales on platforms like Amazon, Etsy, and Shopify.

eCommerce marketing agency Visiture has achieved impressive growth, with revenues up 84% YoY, exceeding $1m monthly recurring revenue, representing more than 140 merchants including Spanx and BarkBox, and landing at #753 on the 2019 Inc. 5000 list; CEO Brian Cohen advises startups to concentrate on one core service line, work with well-known brands and to use content marketing to establish expertise.

Imaginovation, a technology and app development company in Raleigh, NC, was recently named one of the Top Technology Companies in North Carolina by Clutch and has grown an average of over 40% in revenue every year since it was founded in 2011 by co-founders Michael Georgiou and Pete Peranzo.

Nextiva, an Arizona-based business communications company, has developed an all-in-one platform called NextOS, which offers CRM tools, team collaboration tools, and business communication tools, resulting in a significant shift in its business model, and has grown from just a few employees to over 1,000 spread around the world, entirely self-funded, and focused on providing amazing service to its customers.

Pet platform BabelBark connects the entire ecosystem of pet care to one app, resulting in over 200,000 pets using the platform and experiencing 800% YoY growth.

BearTax is a cryptocurrency tax software that helps traders consolidate trades and calculate taxes without heavy lifting, serving over 10,000 users across the globe in the US, Australia, Canada and India.

SmartrMail is an email marketing app for ecommerce merchants that generated more than $50m in sales last year through sending over a billion emails and making over $100K in monthly recurring revenue, whilst maintaining profitability since the start of this year.

GreenBanana SEO co-founder Kevin Roy explains how his digital marketing company grew from just two employees working on a beer pong table to 16 employees generating around $6 million in annual revenue by focusing on pay-for-performance SEO and being transparent with reporting.

Marketing agency TribalVision grew from a one-man shop to one of the top marketing agencies in Rhode Island and the Boston market, serving over 80 clients and employing 75 full-time marketing specialists, by aligning with clients' needs and focusing on lead generation with online marketing tactics.

Grobo, a smart hydroponic growing system company that creates boxes for growing plants, is making $165K per month and increasing quickly, with its flagship products enabling users to easily grow food and cannabis at home.

SearchTap, a search technology product for websites and mobile applications that provides fast and relevant search solutions, shared how they developed a $10K/month SaaS search tool for eCommerce stores.

How a Ph.D. in computer engineering created a patented agile framework and turned it into a profitable training and consulting business, after realizing that his accumulated technology knowledge was losing value over time.

How one founder turned a successful Kickstarter campaign into a $40 million tabletop game company with a focus on crafting a few special products each year and using social media to build community and relationships with customers.

Viima, a Finnish-based bootstrapped innovation management software company, has managed to grow their recurring revenue at a rate of around 70% year-over-year, with more than 13,000 organizations from all around the world using their platform to manage innovation ideas, showing that online and inbound marketing are indeed the most effective ways to create a low-cost customer acquisition machine and a leading brand in the field.

Coassemble is an online training platform that has seen >100% YoY growth since launch, capturing the untapped market segment of small to medium businesses looking to train online for the first time, with over 1,000 businesses signing up to the platform and 90% of new customers training online for the first time, using a focus on ease of use, flexible sharing options, deep reporting, and genuine engagement experiences.

Appscrip is a globally-acclaimed service-based app and web development company that has delivered over 350+ apps/year globally with an in-house team of 150+ developers, at an average of 45 days/app that otherwise would take almost 6-9 months to develop, generating an average monthly revenue of $2,50,000 and garnering recognition from Deloitte, Clutch, Good firms, while also encouraging women entrepreneurs.

Growave, an all-in-one marketing tool for Shopify brands, went from struggling to be profitable to earning over $110,000 monthly with over 12,000 merchants using the app worldwide, thanks to an improved marketing and retention strategy implemented after the launch.

WPX, a WordPress hosting company, started as a side project bootstrapped with just a server and a few licenses, and is now a team of over 100, servicing over 11,000 customers globally, with an annual income of $3M, thanks to their consistent focus on providing fast, reliable service and tech support for non-techies.

This case study is about a CEO who built Jelvix, a software development and consulting agency specializing in digital transformation, into a $3.6M/year business with clients including Samsung and Louis Vuitton.