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The Vertical SaaS Gold Rush: Why Non-Tech B2B Is Growing 250%+ Faster

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The Numbers Tell the Story: Monday.com Q1 2025 : 30% growth, $282M revenue Asana 2024 : Single-digit growth, struggling with churn Mostly Same Product Category, Mostly Different Customers Both companies build “work management” software. ” They’re digitizing their core business operations for the first time.

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Approaching Half a Million Customers: How to Win in SMB with BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte

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In 2006, BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte set out to define a category around financial operations for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). in revenue. With SMBs, the smallest business is owner-operated. A mobile phone is their dominant source of managing business activities. Needless to say, he succeeded.

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M&A Is Back! Melio’s $2.5B Exit to Xero — In Just 7 Years!

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to dominate US SMB payments. revenue multiple proves strong B2B companies with real growth (and it’s strong) can still command premium exits. The deal shows acquirers are hungry for revenue acceleration—Xero expects to more than double group revenue by 2028 with this acquisition.

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The Early Days: How Deel Went From $1m to $100m ARR in Just 20 Months

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👉 10 Things Deel Did to Get from $1M to $100M ARR in 20 Months Deel recently announced it had crossed $1 billion in ARR, joining the exclusive club of B2B companies that have reached true unicorn revenue status. I dream about clients telling me, ‘Hey, I did not receive my payment today. But how did they actually get there?

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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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But a very different one from the 2021 wave: Deal volume is surging : 2025 has been a “green light” year for IPOs, with 52 new U.S. billion after the failed $20B Adobe acquisition Genesys – AI-powered customer experience platform, confidentially filed October 2024. $21 IPOs priced so far—up 62.5% Last valued at $12.5

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

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Every IPO other than Sailpoint is trading up, and we’ve got a jolt of momentum here for the first time since … well … 2021. When COVID-19 decimated business travel in 2020, Navan could have become another casualty. Instead, the company pivoted aggressively into expense management and payments, expanding beyond its travel roots. .

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Adding Payments and Fintech to SaaS Can Be Great. But You Gotta Watch the Margins.

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So in the Boom Times of later 2020 and 2021, almost every VC pushed SaaS companies to at least become a little bit of a fintech. It seemed such an easy way to bolt on more revenue to an underlying SaaS platform. Shopify now gets 2x the revenue from payments and merchant services than it does from SaaS subcriptions.