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PE Loves SaaS Again: Thoma Bravo Buys Olo for $2 Billion

SaaStr

The SaaS PE market is heating up again, and Thoma Bravo just made a big statement buying SaaS restaurant pioneer Olo for $2 Billion. per share — a whopping 65% premium over Olo’s closing price on April 30th (the last trading day before acquisition rumors started swirling). That’s $10.25 That’s $10.25

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Navan Files for IPO: The Opening of B2B IPO Floodgates?

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Instead, the company pivoted aggressively into expense management and payments, expanding beyond its travel roots. Digital health company Hinge Health’s May 2025 debut particularly stands out—the company priced at $32 per share (top of its range) and opened at $39.25, closing up 17% on its first day. valuation, raised $2.5B

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Merchant of Record for Mobile Games: What It Is and Why You Need One

FastSpring

So where do you start if you want to provide more global payment solutions to your player base while chipping away at the hefty 30% fees that mobile marketplaces charge? Very simply, a merchant of record (MoR) is a legal entity that sells services or goods to a customer. How Is an MoR Different From a Payment Service Provider ?

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5 Interesting Learnings from Lightspeed Commerce at $750,000,000 in “ARR”

SaaStr

One leader in SMB commerce is Lightspeed Commerce, founded way back in 2005. And their mix of software, payments and hardware revenue drives up the total deal size — but puts a lot of pressure on margins. Software subscriptions are only growing 9%, vs. 41% for payments / transaction revenue. #2. Not EBIDTA positive yet.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Olo at $130,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Growth fueled by the addition of transactional revenue, not SaaS revenues. Olo’s explosive growth in the past 24 months prior to IPO wasn’t fueled so much by its SaaS revenue, but by transaction revenue as part of orders. As last as 2018, 93% of Olo’s revenue was pure SaaS. Billion valuation today.

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5 Best Paddle Alternatives in 2024

FastSpring

The company handles transactions for sellers of digital products, providing the infrastructure for global online payments while taking responsibility for tax collection and remittance, fraud prevention, and other aspects of the checkout process. It’s a capable solution, but by no means is Paddle a universal, one-size-fits-all option.

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Press Release: FastSpring CEO David Nachman on Google Play Case Ruling: “This is a Win For Gamers and Studios”

FastSpring

FastSpring provided key evidence about alternative payment options in EPIC’s antitrust lawsuit against Google Santa Barbara, CA – December 12, 2023 – Overnight in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California a jury found that Google Play and Google Play Billing represent an illegal monopoly run by Google.