SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

For years, the standard was “about 10x” Top tier SaaS companies would tend to raise at around 10x ARR, with ones with slightly lower growth often raising at 5x. Per Pitchbook and IVP, top-tier growth rounds had a 114x ARR ask at the very peak in 2021! It Was 114x in 2021. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

With no more funding coming, and growth way down. Well, the best in SaaS and venture and Cloud are not just still growing at epic rates, but they’re acquiring so much funding … they can still run the 2021 playbook. But of those 200, maybe 50-100 can still run the 2021 Playbook. So can you pay less these days?

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Martech

MAY 18, 2023

growth in 2024, the forecast said. Digital ad spend saw a dramatic rebound in 2021 following the initial wave of the COVID pandemic — when it saw growth of 37.6%. CTV’s projected growth for 2023, however, is 21.2% — nearly triple digital’s growth. growth in retail media search. Digital slice of the pie.

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Martech

JULY 28, 2022

Mobile gaming spend will climb from $120 billion in 2021 to $136 billion in 2022. That’s saying a lot when, in the US, we saw console gamers grow by 21% year-over-year in 2021. The post Mobile leads growth in the expanding in-game advertising industry appeared first on MarTech. This makes mobile gaming advertising 3.2

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

And broader Cloud players had great years too, from MongoDB to Cloudflare to Azure, if not quite as crazy as at the peak of 2021. Now, plenty of SaaS leaders saw Q2’23 in particular as their low point, and saw growth reaccelerate at least a smidge from there. Altimeter: SaaS Growth Has Finally Rebounded.

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Martech

APRIL 14, 2023

Digital advertising revenue growth slowed to 10.8% This is a significant drop from 2021’s record 35% gain, but still a healthy gain. Having near 11% growth and all those impediments? That may be a bigger accomplishment than 2021’s gaudy numbers. Display shows growth. in 2021 to 2.8% Why we care. billion.

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Martech

JUNE 3, 2024

As companies prioritize “efficient growth,” vertical software has gained prominence due to its lower customer acquisition costs, higher expansion sales and stronger gross retention than its horizontal counterparts. In 2021-2022, software companies could easily raise vast amounts of money and win vast numbers of customers.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

In 2021, there were many more high-spending e-commerce days in November than in 2020. The post Prime Day contributed to significant e-commerce growth this year appeared first on MarTech. The biggest discounts offered by e-commerce sellers during Prime Day were toys (15% discount) and apparel (12%).

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2024

From startup to $500M CARR, Spencer Burke, SVP of Growth at Braze, shares how Braze scaled a growth and customer success team. In the chart above, showing the growth from $2M to $20M, you can see what product market fit looks like. Building an Experimental Team They started a growth team at Braze that Spencer manages.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

There’s a lot of great data in the report, but one analysis helped answered a question I’ve been wondering the past 12-18 months: Are start-up actually more overvalued today than at the peak of Cloud mania in 2021? Because valuations are as high as ever, and yet … public software multiples are far, far, far lower than 2021.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Median Revenue Multiples and Growth Rate is Down This chart is similar to the previous one but without the 10-year rate. Now, a light blue line shows the median consensus NTM growth rate for that same 100 software companies. By comparison, the median growth rate for these businesses from 2015-2017 was 27%. Why is that?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2023

How do you build a successful, high-growth company that is also profitable? Expensify’s COO, Anu Muralidharan, debunks the fallacy that profitability comes at the expense of growth. As an industry, we’ve assumed all profitability comes at the expense of growth, but that’s just not true. Can it have a meaningful impact?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

It’s not the crazy hiring market of 2021. Not as many folks as 2021, in some cases. And it’s no easier today to find great people than it was in 2021. In 2021, it was the opposite. If you are running the same playbook in 2025 to get a job that you ran in 2021, it probably won’t work. It’s different.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

While Zoom Enterprise is growing at a healthy clip, churn is over 3% a month for its SMB customers As a result, it’s now predicting 1% growth next year 1% pic.twitter.com/i2k2W9QbVX — Jason Be Kind Lemkin  (@jasonlk) February 27, 2023 So Zoom has just been the craziest story of all time in SaaS. Let alone the crazy peak of Nov 2021.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2022

growth from 9.8% These 2023 estimates have been boosted just from October 2021 as well as from April 2021. But the growth rate in 2022 (9.8%) is down from 2021 (15.9%), and down from earlier estimates (11.5%). for the growth rate for 2022. All of IT spending is predicted to grow at a healthy 5.5%

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Tibor Shanto

JULY 5, 2021

He was awarded the accolade of BESMA UK Sales Director of the year and was listed in the top 50 Sales Keynote speakers by Top Sales World in 2019 & 2021. Ian has led large and small sales teams and built sales teams of 4 organisations through growth to exit. He explores how the medium is as critical as the message itself.

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SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

They’ve been driving the lion’s share of the S&P and NASDAQ growth. This chart is a basket of high growth defined by 30%+ in the markets. It wouldn’t be high-growth in private markets. Compare that to the high in the manic zero interest rate environment of 2021 at 25.1 It was 10.8

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SaaStr

JULY 18, 2022

Cloud spending is still expected to grow even faster in 2022 than 2021 , from 18.4% growth in 2021 and expected growth of 22.1% And on a related note, CMO marketing budgets are still up across the board.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

With too many examples from SaaStr Annual 2021 to call out specifically, here are 2 “Cloud talks plus decks” that I can imagine the Self-Taught Founder relying upon: David Sacks On SaaS Org Charts. Additional Resources: SaaStr Annual 2021 Sessions Worth Studying. Full Session YouTube. The much lower R-squared (0.22

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SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2023

Here's the thing about venture right now Seed stage remains vibrant, similar to any of past 5-6 years Series A and later has gotten over 2021, and is back in market … but … Has moved back to Default No Pacing is far slower because of it — Jason Be Kind Lemkin  (@jasonlk) March 19, 2023 So folks in venture are back to business.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2024

So there’s a curious thing anyone close in venture capital fundraising and rounds today: Valuations for Hot VC Deals remain far higher than pre-March 2020 … even though growth for the overall public SaaS and Cloud companies has slowed to … all time lows. And growth rates have fallen to all-time lows. Databricks is Growing 60%+ at $2.4

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SaaStr

JULY 17, 2024

It’s always been hard to raise venture capital, but if you’re in the group of folks VCs do want to fund, it’s like 2021 in some ways. These unicorns are often different from the 2021 unicorns. From 2018 to the end of 2021, a weird thing happened. Then, the end of 2021 hit, and it started to normalize. The top U.S.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Q: When Should A Slow Growth Company Hire a Head of Sales? Whether you’re a slow-growth company or a rocketship, a great VP of Sales will make everything a little bit better quickly. So, don’t go too early and burn the team out, but don’t wait too long and exhaust your TAM and slow your growth.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2024

So it’s been a sloooow time in SaaS IPOs since the boom times ended in December 2021. There have been just 3 SaaS IPOs since December 2021: Klaviyo OneStream Rubrik And all were strong ones, at $500m+ ARR or so, growing ~50% or so. And plenty more at $200m+ ARR with maybe less strong growth, that still want to IPO.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

So in the era of 2021, the time of 1,000 unicorns, it seemed like everyone and anyone someday, just might be a decacorn someday. Sometimes, growth slowed a bit from the crazy pace of 2021. But growth continued for many leaders. And some like Cloudflare and Mongo hardly saw growth slow at all. The trifecta.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2024

And as stock prices rip higher, growth VC floods back in. As is growth, in some cases. It’s 2021 but all over again, and different But in SaaS overall, the growth playbook hasn’t totally worked out on the last 4 SaaS IPOs. But overall, the growth investments weren’t big wins. It’s natural.

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2024

And at the growth stage, top decile may not even be enough to raise another round. About 20%-25% are growing like it’s 2021. And can raise VC funding, including growth capital, quickly and effortlessly. This is roughly what I see in my own portfolio at SaaStr Fund. Well, not quite, but at least close. That’s my bet.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A year ago, growth was at 48%. Customer Count Growth Driven in Large Part by Acquisitions There are only so many big banks to sell to, and nCino’s core customer count has grow slowly but steadily from 335 in 2021 to 428 today. But new products from acquisition have fueled the overall customer count growth to 1,858. #2.

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SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2023

In this post, we’ll share the learnings from SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin’s frontline analysis of the current state of the market in 2023, and distill down into why we’re now in the era of efficient growth in SaaS. billion cash acquisition deal in December 2021. Another example is HubSpot.

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SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2022

That seed rounds peaked in March and have been falling even since, and activity is now half of what it was then: It’s just one data point, but it ties to the generate observation that seed rounds took a little longer to slow down than growth rounds did … but slow down they have. It is what it is. It is what it is. Just be aware of it.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2024

So it’s been a long IPO drought since HashiCorp was the last IPO of the Boom Times in December 2021. But they are ar $780,000,000+ in ARR, with an 86 NPS and strong revenue growth at 29% overall and 49% in subscriptions (yes, it’s confusing). 500m+ ARR, with ~50% growth? Is this the new bar to IPO in SaaS?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In 2021, they trained GPT3 on Github repositories, produced a model that could code, and released embedding that allowed people to vectorize language and search across it to perform recommendations. Aliisa joined OpenAI in 2021 after leaving WalkMe after 3.5 Some companies like Jasper built on top of OpenAI’s models.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2024

It’s not 2021 again, but so much has changed as the year ends: Many top SaaS and Cloud stocks are up +40%-60% or more in the back half of the yea r. Many top SaaS and Cloud leaders have seen growth re-accelerate. Twilio is now above 10% growth again. This isn’t 2020 levels of growth, but acceleration is acceleration.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2024

Of course, ARR growth comes into play as well. In this article, you’ll learn about the 4 vital signs investors are looking for: Revenue growth Sales efficiency Churn Cash burn When you’re at $0-$5M in revenue, most of your investment goes into product. When starting out, growth rates are super high, like 900%, which is insane.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2022

Following Snowflake’s blow out quarter announcing big acceleration of growth at the end of the quarter, Salesforce has now announced a record quarter as well, growing a stunning 24% at a now $30 Billion in ARR. Snowflake also noted certain industries were buying / using less, even if overall growth at the end of the quarter was very strong.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2024

Billion in ARR now, but like many, its growth has slowed substantially the past year, to just 17%. Still, Wall Street seemed to like its slower but efficient growth. NRR Remains Solid at 110%, But Down From 130% in 2021 NRR remains healthy, but down materially from the Go Go Days of 2021, when at $700m ARR, Elastic had 130% NRR.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We’ll share the answers in today’s brand new episode of CRO Confidential, where our host Sam Blond, partner at Founders Fund, sits down with Toast CRO, Jonathan Vassil to talk about their proven customer acquisition strategies that led to its record-breaking growth. market tapped, signaling massive growth potential.

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