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Pitchbook & IVP: Top Tier SaaS Companies Usually Raise at 15x ARR. It Was 114x in 2021.

SaaStr

So there are a lot of rough and arm chair metrics for fundraising in SaaS in terms of valuations. Per Pitchbook and IVP, top-tier growth rounds had a 114x ARR ask at the very peak in 2021! Average asks and multiple for the very, very SaaS companies went up 700% in the Boom from late 2020-late 2021. It Was 114x in 2021.

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Pilot: 57% of Venture Startups Will Need to Raise More In 2024

SaaStr

And realistically, most won’t have the metrics to pull off another round. Folks that raised in the Go-Go Times of 2021 in many cases have been able to stretch their cash through 2023. Shopify , Datadog, Crowdstrike , Google Cloud-Azure-AWS, Snowflake , etc. And 38% have 12 or less months of runway left.

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What Are Public SaaS Companies Taken Private At? 7.7x ARR On Average Per SaaSomomics

SaaStr

So one thing that has exploded in SaaS in the past decade is the role of Private Equity buying both public SaaS companies (to take them private, “fix” some metrics, and IPO or sell them again), and generally later-stage private SaaS companies. So what do they pay on average? You might be worth less ? is interesting to see.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Canva at Almost $2 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Growing Almost 50% as Approaches $2B in ARR The exact growth rate is based on an The Information report from a few weeks ago, and it seems about right looking at their published metrics. Yes, it may be worth less than its peak 2021 valuation of $40B. That’s awfully impressive. Importantly, growth has accelerated this year.

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Clouded Judgement 10.11.24 - Budget Flush

Clouded Judgement

We all know 2020 and 2021 was the year of excessive software buying fueled by ZIRP. The hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) are always some of the first companies to report earnings during earnings season (coming up in 2 weeks), and there’s always a read through for consumption names (meaning people believe there’s a correlation).

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Cloud Data Lakes - The Keystone to the Decade of Data

Tom Tunguz

Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Global Vice President for AWS Storage will deliver one of the keynotes. In my predictions post for 2021, I said that the 2020s will be the decade of data. Data modelling companies create single definitions of metrics for consistency across organizations. Data engines query the data rapidly, inexpensively.

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MQLs? Aligning Marketing Metrics with Revenue Goals

Sales Hacker

Now, let’s take this idea and apply it to the world of marketing metrics. Knowing that people are incentivized by what they’re rewarded for, marketing metrics boil down to alignment. If revenue is the North Star metric, everything you do should drive towards that. They are a vanity metric. Our unanimous pick?

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