Subb.me

Name

Subb.me

Website

https://subb.me

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Subb.me was an Amsterdam-based, bootstrapped SaaS startup founded in 2013 that offered software and knowledge for creative entrepreneurs to build and manage professional online subscription services, before shutting down in fall 2014.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Subscription Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Software/SaaS Subscriptions (Consumer & Prosumer) (CRAFAIAB)

Keywords

• Subscription management software
• Online subscription platform
• Creator subscription tools
• Subscription billing software
• Membership site builder

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Core offering

Subb.me offered high-end software and knowledge for creating professional online subscription services. The platform enabled creative entrepreneurs and small businesses to set up and manage their own subscription-based online offerings without needing to build the underlying infrastructure. It functioned as a unified software platform pairing tooling with practical guidance for launching subscription services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Subb.me Platform A unified software platform that combined tooling with practical knowledge resources, enabling creative entrepreneurs and small businesses to set up and manage their own professional online subscription services without needing to build the underlying infrastructure themselves.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Broad incumbents

• Stripe Billing: Stripe Billing is the subscription billing module of Stripe's payments platform, used by SMBs and platforms to run recurring revenue. It competes for the same end user (any business wanting to monetize subscriptions) and is a structural threat to small subscription-enablement players like Subb.me.
• Chargebee: Chargebee is a venture-backed subscription billing and management platform serving SaaS and subscription businesses worldwide. It overlaps with Subb.me's subscription-infrastructure thesis but at a significantly larger and broader scale (enterprise-tier).
• Zuora: Zuora is an enterprise subscription economy platform for billing, commerce, and finance. It serves the same end-market Subb.me targeted (subscription-based businesses) with substantially broader functionality and is a public-market reference point for the category.
• Recurly: Recurly provides subscription management and billing software for recurring-revenue businesses. It addresses the same underlying need — letting companies operationalize subscription services — that Subb.me attempted to serve, but targets mid-market and enterprise customers.

Emerging players

• Bold Commerce: Bold Commerce builds subscription, checkout, and pricing tools for Shopify merchants. It overlaps with Subb.me in providing subscription tooling to SMB merchants, though it operates primarily inside the Shopify ecosystem rather than as a standalone SaaS.

Direct peers

• Memberful: Memberful is a SaaS that lets independent creators and publishers sell memberships and paid subscriptions without building their own infrastructure. It mirrors Subb.me's "subscription service in a box" proposition aimed at creative entrepreneurs.
• Subbly: Subbly is a SaaS platform that lets creators and SMBs launch and run subscription-based businesses end-to-end. It is the closest direct comparable to Subb.me in positioning, target user, and product scope.
• Cratejoy: Cratejoy is a marketplace and platform for subscription-box businesses, providing store-building and order-management tools. It is a direct functional competitor for SMBs wanting to launch subscription services, particularly in the curated-product subscription category.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/subbme
• Facebookfacebook.com/subbme

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Subb.me