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The Sheer Momentum You Need For an Enduring IPO in SaaS: 63% Average Growth

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Their Average Growth Rate in Year Before IPO: 63% (excluding prior generation) The Numbers *Top performer from prior generation of SaaS IPOs (2010-2015 era) The SaaS Leaders: 1. Samsara, Toast, Klaviyo, ServiceTitan and Procore. Procore Technologies (IPO: May 2021) Pre-IPO Year Growth Rate: 38.4% million in 2019 to $400.3

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5 Top Learnings from Legal SaaS Logikcull’s Almost $300,000,000 Sale to Private Equity

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I was the first and largest investor in Logikcull as they “de-bootstrapped” in 2015, and at first it grew very quickly, double digits every month. But growth slowed around $10m ARR to almost zero. Andy had to completely reboot the team to reignite growth, pushing past $30m+ ARR by 2023 and selling to a top private equity firm.

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

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The Navan Story: From Pandemic Pivot to IPO Ready Founded in 2015 by Israeli entrepreneurs Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig, Navan has evolved from a corporate travel booking platform into a comprehensive spend management powerhouse. The company’s journey reflects the broader transformation of enterprise software during the pandemic era.

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The VP of AI Trap: Why Hiring One Exec Won’t Transform Your Company. In Fact, It May Make It Worse.

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A “VP of Mobile” in 2015? .” You’re creating a silo in an organization that desperately needs the opposite – pervasive, integrated AI thinking across every function. Think about it. Would you hire a “VP of Internet” in 2010? They became woven into the fabric of how every team operated.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Circle at $2.3 Billion in “ARR”

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The “Regulatory Moat” Strategy: Compliance as a Competitive Advantage Circle was the first to receive a New York State BitLicense, which is famously difficult to obtain, in 2015. This early investment in regulatory compliance has become their key differentiator against Tether and newer entrants.

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Scaling 6 Products to $100M+ ARR Each: Samsara’s CPO Kiren Sekar on Multi-Product Growth

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After Meraki’s acquisition by Cisco, Sekar and several colleagues founded Samsara in 2015 to bring modern technology to physical operations industries that were still using antiquated systems. .” Despite his engineering background, Sekar helped Meraki build a scalable go-to-market engine for their wireless networking products.

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IPO Offerings Are Already Up 62.5% This Year. With Much More to Come. We’re Back

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HubSpot, Box, Shopify). revenue multiple Top performers : 12-15x for high-growth, profitable companies IPO premium : Quality companies commanding 20-30% premium to trading comps The Profitability Imperative Unlike 2021’s “growth at any cost,” 2025 IPOs show: 59% of Q1 2025 IPOs were profitable at listing (vs.

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