IT World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This isn't without reason: Ransomware caused losses up to US $20 billion for global governments and enterprises in 2021, 57 times that in 2015; One business or device is attacked by ransomware every 11 seconds globally, costing an average of US$1.85 All this simply solidifies the need for one thing – data protection.

Data 81

Data Government Banking Enterprise 81

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Seed, Series A, Series B and Later Stage startups employ 1M people, up from 650,000 just six months ago, according to Mattermark’s data sources. There’s a world of potential right around the corner, and it’s plain to see looking at employment and fundraising data. 2015 will be an exciting year for Startupland.

Startup 100

Startup Finance Innovation Technology 100

SaaStr

DECEMBER 7, 2019

The first one defined the Unicorn age in 2013, and the second one updated it in 2015. Many remember them just for data on Unicorns as they began to emerge from rare to seemingly everyday (100+ this year so far). We actually don’t have much data at SaaStr on our community members. A bit younger, but not that much.

SaaS 211

SaaS Enterprise Data 211

Tom Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Each year, starting in mid-2012 through mid-2015, these sectors have grown their investment dollars by more than 145%, according to Mattermark data. Bitcoin is the fastest growing sector followed by photo sharing and physical storage (which includes moving and self storage companies).

Investment 100

Investment Startup Transportation Venture Capital 100

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19. I analyzed Crunchbase data and looked for the startup categories that grew fastest in terms of funding rounds year-over-year, provided there were at least 10 rounds in that category.

Startup 349

Startup Software Engineering Finance Engineering 349

Cobloom

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

How often do you check the analytics data for your SaaS lead generation campaigns? SaaS Marketers who check their metrics 3 times per week are 22% more likely to achieve positive ROI ( Hubspot, State of Inbound Report, 2015 ). More often? Checking your metrics can turn your lead generation strategy from good to great.

Data 96

Data SaaS Metrics Strategy 96

Clouded Judgement

JULY 21, 2023

Does the data support it? When we look at the quarterly trends (below) the data is even better So no, software companies don’t suck. Let’s look at Salesforce - they may be in maturity mode in their core CRM business, but they also have marketing, commerce and data cloud products that are not in maturity mode.

Cloud 130

Cloud Software Sales Hiring Scale 130

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

.” Fortunately, the always excellent KeyBanc Capital Markets (KBCM) 2021 SaaS Survey – which covers over 350 private SaaS companies across various stages and categories – provides a very rich data set to work from. My first exposure to the “Rule of 40” was through Brad Feld in 2015.

SaaS 247

SaaS Technical Review Benchmarks Azure 247

SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Rare – only happened twice since 2015 (the other month being April 2020). So Carta has some great hiring (and firing) data above to give us a sense of what’s really happening. And that’s harder to see in the data. Still, what does the data above show us? cc: @nmasc_ @alex pic.twitter.com/jqlvniO0bX.

Startup 191

Startup Cloud Data Metrics 191

SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2023

From 2011 to 2015, the only part of the mobile market that was making money was mobile gaming, but tricking children into buying fish food wasn’t a sustainable business. Braze didn’t find a true product-market fit until around 2014-2015. It’s to give you the opportunity to already be building for the market while it’s still developing.”

Scale 183

Scale Mobile Venture Capital Scaling 183

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

There are a few things that are clear: The “Old” San Francisco, in particular of 2015-2020 in SaaS, is never coming back. I know that’s just one week, one data point. So there’s so much talk on the status of the SF Bay Area on Twitter and beyond. In fact, it’s becoming a distant memory.

SaaS 216

SaaS Engineering Data 216

SaaStr

JULY 7, 2021

5000 “ It was a fun one, analyzing the only public source of data on just how much ARR a lot of SaaS companies had. Box in 2015 was the first IPO from the SaaS 2.0 version of BigMachines) for $360m in 2015 to Salesforce ! No one had IPO’d, no one really knew. generation. in 2011 GAAP revenue. 1272 Bronto Software.

SaaS 266

SaaS Technical Review Scaling Software Review 266

SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

How Did We Get Here — OpenAI OpenAI started as a research lab in 2015. For example… OpenAI has a product called Code Interpreter, officially rebranded to Advanced Data Analytics. Supercharge Sales Coaching OpenAI can supercharge sales coaching by uploading data sets around win rates and understanding how to coach reps.

ChatGPT 220

ChatGPT AI Search Scale Sales Hiring 220

SaaStr

JULY 31, 2020

Founded in 2015, Chorus operates a SaaS platform that provides valuable insights from conversations – say with calls, video conferences and emails — for revenue teams. Chorus’s AI has reveled some interesting insights from the data. Behind the Round with SaaStr: Chorus.ai Raises $45 Million.

Scale 340

Scale Artificial Intelligence Payments Payment Services 340

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. Founded : 2015. Neoway is a platform based on market intelligence and Big Data that helps companies with valuable insights for their growth. Founded : 2015. Founded : 2015. Funding to Date : $26.2M

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

SaaStr

MAY 19, 2023

You can see here multiples are touching the lows of early 2016 and are even lower than 2015 and those early days of SaaS. Share more data, not less. Especially as Seed VCs are getting more and more nervous that no one is going to write the next check anymore. For me, for example, a $4m check just has to work. It just has to.

New CTO 232

New CTO CTO Banking Cloud 232

ReSci

JULY 24, 2015

We're excited to be attending Client Summit 2015 from July 29-31 in Las Vegas in a few days. This year's Summit focuses on the latest technology, trends, data and analytics, which is right up our alley. The post Our Top Picks for Experian Client Summit 2015 appeared first on ReSci.

Trends 40

Trends Technology Data Marketing 40

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2019

But the average MRR has increased substantially from the last time I analyzed the data. The usual caveats to this data analysis apply. These figures are larger than I expected. To be fair, 22% of companies raised at $0 in ARR. note I’m switching from median to average here). That’s quite a growth rate.

Benchmarks 237

Benchmarks Startup SaaS Data Analysis 237

SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2024

Back in 2015, when didn’t have the data or NRR or GRR of 115 public SaaS companies. If there were one or two metrics or data points that Nick learned at Gainsight by sitting in on board meetings, what were they? The supporting data that Nick brought from Gainsight is super interesting. There’s a lot of nuance.

Sales Hiring 232

Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale AI 232

Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I looked at the period of 2015 - 2020 (right up until Covid, so excluding the Covid bubble) and picked out all of the cloud software companies that at one point in time were trading at >10x NTM revenue. Overall, out of my set of 96 cloud software companies, there were 49 that at one point traded >10x NTM from 2015 - 2020.

Cloud 130

Cloud Pricing Investment Revenue 130

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Founded in 2015, Klue addresses a part of the corporate world that has seen little innovation. This is where the AI/ML comes it as the data is put into manageable blocks. Craft Ventures led the round and there was participation from HWVP, OMERS Ventures, Rhino Ventures, and BDC Ventures.

AI 261

AI Consulting Interviewing Innovation 261

SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

By comparison, the median growth rate for these businesses from 2015-2017 was 27%. So o n the one hand, we can look at this data and say the average median multiple is 22% lower than the long-term average, but the median growth rate is down nearly 50%. Let’s look at more data. today, so the ten-year is up almost double.

SaaS 233

SaaS Software Metrics Revenue 233

SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2023

He is the CRO and CO-Founder of Atrium, a data-driven sales management platform that helps sales managers, sales leaders, and sales ops pros use data to improve rep and team performance. For folks who do seed up to early [Series] A…anyone who has been [investing] since 2015 or so –– they’re excited to invest now.”

Venture Capital 170

Venture Capital Investment Sales Hiring Entrepreneurship 170

Baremetrics

JUNE 29, 2021

Data plays a key role in maximizing growth in your SaaS company. And when I say “data is key”, I mean only the data that is readily available and accessible to the people who need it. A lot of information goes unmeasured and unnoticed, and a lot of data isn’t put to good use. 1 What is Data Sharing?

Data 52

Data SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 52

Point Nine Land

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

We’re also disclosing that we led Soda’s seed round 9 months ago alongside Hummingbird and the Data Community Fund (see PR here ). by Cisco), NewRelic (started in 2008, IPO, $5bn market cap), Datadog (started in 2010, $30bn market cap), or, More recently, Instana (started in 2015, raised $57M) that helps companies building with microservices.

Enterprise 40

Enterprise Data Technical Review Blockchain 40

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2020

While data is king in SaaS presentations in general — that’s what founders want — stories work even better in Zoom than IRL. Versus folks that just read slides of data that might have performed well IRL struggled a bit on a Zoom without live audience feedback, etc. And folks were tired after the day.

Scale 298

Scale Startup Scaling Technology 298

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2023

The Long and Winding Road to $10M ARR WorkRamp is an LMS (learning management system) company founded in 2015. Because when we looked at our data, we saw that we had much more success sub 5,000 employees,” Blosser says. SaaStr Workshop Wednesdays are LIVE every Wednesday. Sign up for free.

Scale 186

Scale Scaling SMB Marketing 186

SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In achieving over $724M in ARR and growing to 2,000+ employees since its founding in 2015, they have learned a thing or two about developing a business. . Do take time, however, to build the right dashboards to measure the data you need most. and local cultural values may not accept data-gathering devices as readily as the U.S.

Scale 160

Scale Engineering Marketing Scaling 160

SaaStr

JANUARY 20, 2020

This will be the start of the end of the sweetheart run for SaaS from 2015–2016 through today. “No Not deploying your own data center was a big start of not having to do stuff yourself. “No No code” enables much better software.

SaaS 182

SaaS Engineering Software Revenue 182

SaaStock

MARCH 26, 2019

Founded : 2015. Founded : 2015. Founded : 2015. They use big data and machine learning to understand what each visitor wants and automatically change the banners, product recommendations and even on-site notifications. Founders : Frederico Lacerda. Based in: São Paulo. Funding to Date : $200K. Árvore de Livros.

Startup 210

Startup Artificial Intelligence SaaS Construction 210

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2019

In 2015, I wrote about the trade-off facing vertical SaaS companies. First, they create a data advantage. As they operate, AI agencies create high quality data for training machine learning models. Vertical SaaS companies focus their efforts on a particular group of customers.

Machine Learning 194

Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence AI Startup 194

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Just looking at those two data points in isolation would imply valuations today are ~25% below the long term average. However, we of course can’t just look at those data points in isolation. So far I’ve just discussed two data points - the median revenue multiple and 10Y. Today, it’s hovering around 4%.

Software Review 183

Software Review Cloud Software Revenue 183

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2017

A year later, those trends have continued to converge, and SaaS valuations have resurged, reaching their highs of the 2014-2015 boom. Assuming investors purchase the same ownership stake for their investments in each of these rounds, this data implies the market is paying premium valuations again for SaaS companies. billion from $4.2

Venture Capital 176

Venture Capital SaaS Trends Startup 176

User Pilot

MARCH 12, 2024

Read on to also find tools that can help you collect data, identify trends, and engage users to set your product growth on the right path. TL;DR User behavior analytics (UBA) consists of tracking, collecting, and assessing user behavioral data. Why is user behavior analytics important? What can you track with user behavior analytics?

SaaS 52

SaaS Software Review Systems Review Technical Review 52

The Angel VC

MAY 12, 2018

For example, the monthly subscription amount generated by the January 2015 cohort doubled in less than three years after signup. From 2015 to 2017, Dropbox increased revenue from around $600M to ca. Either Dropbox was pretty wasteful in 2015 or they are extremely efficient now. ;-) I think it’s a bit of both. 9 – Eleven 9s? "Our

AWS 187

AWS Scale Subscription Payment Features 187

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 19, 2024

” If we look historically at the period from 2015-2020 (ignoring 2021 IPOs) the rough medians were ~$200m ARR (minimum was $100m ARR), 50% YoY growth, and >120% net retention. You can find more details in this post I wrote a few years ago. So what can startups do today who have aspirations to go public?

Cloud 177

Cloud Scale Compensation Metrics 177

Stax

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Apple Pay caught up in 2014; in 2015, the wearables market made everyone aware of the tap’s potential. In 2015, many merchants switched to NFC-enabled terminals; by 2019, most banks were issuing contactless cards. Data transmission: The NFC antennas in both devices communicate with each other.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 88