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Are You Really On The IPO Track? If Not, Maybe Don’t Unicorn

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Thats what all the last 5 SaaS IPOs, all the SaaS IPOs since 2021 in fact, were doing at IPO: Rubrik, Klaviyo, ServiceTitan, OneStream and Sailpoint. Take a look here at the lastest data from Carta on the Unicorn Class of 2021: You can see 61% werent able to raise another round. Thats $500m ARR growing 50%.

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The Latest SaaStr on 20VC: The State of SaaS 2025: IPOs, AI, and the Coming Shakeout

SaaStr

So we were back on 20VC this week in our Latest in Tech deep dive with Harry Stebbings and Rory O’Driscoll of Scale: “The State of SaaS 2025: IPOs, AI, and the Coming Shakeout” The IPO Window Is Cracking Open (Finally) Chime’s $1.67B revenue IPO is the canary in the coal mine. A fund returner is simply not enough.

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The Top SaaStr Posts and Pods of the Week: CEOs Monday + Procore, YCombinator on Fundraising, The 2025 Vibe Check

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The 2021 GTM Playbook Is Mostly Dead. Where Are The 2021 Unicorns Today? AI at Scale: 8 Learnings from monday.com Co-Founder and Co-Ceo Eran Zinman #3.Top Top Posts: #1. But Whats The AI Era Replacement? #2. 60% Are Stuck In Limbo, Per Carta #3. Is Deflation Coming? Top Pods and Vids: #1.

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GTM 146: The Future of Search, AI, and Digital Presence with Mike Walrath, CEO of Yext

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They work with startups and scaling businesses to help take HR off your plate, so you can stay focused on building product, growing revenue, and hiring great people – the go-to-market engine. Everyone called, well, okay, that’s, that was awful, so that’s gotta be the bottom right. Thats where TriNet comes in.

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Is it Really ARR? In 2021+, Yes. As Long As NRR is > 100%

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But as Shopify scaled, its revenue as a percent of commerce on its sites — “Merchant Solutions” — began to eclipse its recurring SaaS revenues. First, Snowflake rolls its large customers into fixed comittments (as does AWS and many others), and bills them in advance. In 2021+, Yes. Call it ARR.

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Who’s Accelerating in SaaS? DataDog. HubSpot. Zendesk. Everyone.

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. — Jamin Ball (@jaminball) August 5, 2021. It really is almost everyone at SaaS that is at scale and has a winning brand. AWS accelerated to 37% YoY growth , up from 32% last quarter. Let’s take a look at a few: Datadog accelerated to 67% YoY growth , up from 51% last quarter. Now is your time, folks.

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

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They typically give them just enough to see if it will work, and the startup grows and scales to the next stage. 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. That’s how it works.

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