SaaStr
MARCH 29, 2023
and IPO’d in 2004 (!), and transitioned into SaaS later and through acquisitions, and then into a broad platform for fundraising and educational management. $100 Increased Transaction Fees and Raised Prices on Renewals. Like Blackbaud. It’s a real oldie in educational and nonprofit software. It was founded in 1981 (!)
OPEXEngine
JUNE 2, 2021
Smart pricing enabled process management software provider Cherwell to get the most from its subscribers while new businesses languished. Cherwell was founded in 2004 as an IT process improvement software company and later expanded into other process areas within companies, including HR, facilities, and finance.
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Tom Tunguz
JULY 28, 2016
The more than $600B in cash on the balance sheets of large public tech companies combined with a recent pricing correction in SaaS companies presaged a flurry of acquisition activity. First, 15 of the 22 US software acquisitions worth more than $0.5B But it hasn’t unfolded as expected in three different ways.
Casey Accidental
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale. And you start being able to acquire more of them in a scalable way i.e. an acquisition loop. In fact, they complain more, because they like the product enough to care.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 13, 2015
At its peak, the company would be worth $40 billion, but after the dotcom crash, the share price returned from the stratosphere to normal levels. Before its acquisition, which was consummated at the highest historical multiple of any software company , Ariba was the largest independent procurement software business.
SaaStr
MAY 1, 2020
Will these CACs remain low priced? How does Navin expect company pricing to change over the next few months? * In my early twenties I founded three companies between 1995 to 2004 which all had successful exits, including an acquisition by Microsoft and an IPO. What have been his major moments of learning?
Tom Tunguz
MARCH 31, 2015
Private market rounds were 14x as common as IPOs in 2014, compared to the 2004-2007 era, when IPOs were about as equally common as large private financings. As Bill Gurley wrote, “These large, high-priced private financings are the defining characteristic of this particular technology cycle.”
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