SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2025

Billion PostgreSQL Battle for AI Agent Supremacy Brief Overview : Two data giants are making strategic moves to dominate the AI agent infrastructure market through major PostgreSQL acquisitions. rose to 30.8%, and experts predict a record number of SaaS mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in 2025. Databricks: The $1.25

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2025

So SVB still is the #1 bank for tech companies in Silicon Valley and they have a ton of data. The data shows down rounds comprised 30-50% of IPOs even during “good” periods. They have 24% of all U.S. VC deals now come from accelerators and incubators — and that's going way up.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Iconiq is one of the leading growth investors in B2B leaders and it has one of its latest reports out here on Efficiency & Growth in 2025. Two data are perhaps most helpful for founders. First, what’s the bar for top quartile growth among venture-backed B2B start-ups? At $25m ARR, the answer is: 100% growth 110% NRR 0.9x

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SaaStr

MAY 29, 2025

At SaaStr + AI Summit 2025, Jason Lemkin and Kyle Norton CRO of $1B+ vertical SaaS leader Owner (where Jason is on the board) did a deep dive on AI in Sales today. The systems can identify coaching moments, surface deal risks, and provide data-driven insights that would take hours of manual analysis. And where it will be very soon.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2025

When SaaStr Fund made the first investment in RevenueCat back in 2018, nobody could have predicted that this “simple API for managing in-app subscriptions” would become the infrastructure powering 33% of all mobile subscription apps and reach a $500M valuation in 2025. Basic questions like “What’s our churn rate?”

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

SaaStr Annual has always been the go-to event for SaaS founders, executives, and investors, but 2025 is shaping up to be the best one yet. It’s 50% about the intersection of AI + B2B, 50% about GTM in 2025+, and … 50% about helping you meet the best of the best! 100+ scale-ups and start-ups showing you how they do it!

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Sydney Sloan, CMO at G2 and SaaStr fan favorite, shares insights from G2’s annual buyer behavior report to help prep you for the 2025 buying cycles. T he good news is that G2’s data shows that more people are going to be buying software in 2025 than in 2024 , with only 6% saying they are going to buy less.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2025

New spending data from Ramp reveals a possible trend: end user AI adoption may be hitting its first growth slow down. as of April 2025, the growth trajectory has flattened since late 2024. But it’s just one data point, albeit across many Ramp customers. The AI adoption party might be slowing down—at least temporarily.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Gong has its 2025 State of Revenue out. The findings arent much different from what weve discussed before at SaaStr, but still very helpful to see, given how much data they are pulling from: On average, $100k deals take about 70 days to close. You can grab it here. In general, the report ties to what were seeing everywhere in SaaS.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 17, 2025

In this post, I’ll take a data-driven approach in evaluating the overall group’s performance, and highlight individual standouts along the way. Let’s get into some high level data. Of course, the above chart shows historical (ie lagging) data. The median beat was ~2.2%

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2025

SaaStr Annual + AI Summit 2025 is just around the corner , taking place at the San Mateo County Event Center from May 13-15, 2025. As a company that sits at the intersection of data infrastructure and AI, Snowflake offers unique insights into how massive data ecosystems are being transformed by and enabling advanced AI applications.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2025

Far more than ever, per Redpoint’s latest data. Now there’s a lot going on here and part of the rush in 2024 and 2025 is that more capital is coming into VC again. pic.twitter.com/gXqVrLJ25p — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) March 8, 2025

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SaaStr

MARCH 21, 2025

So RevenueCat has its latest “Sate of Subscription Apps 2025” report out and there is a ton of great stuff in here. So they see 40% of all mobile subscriptions — and a ton of data from it. But the RevenueCat data suggests even longer may work well. Across a stunning 75,000 paid subscription mobile apps.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

And a full half of 2025 will be dedicated in the latest in AI for B2B, including 100+ of the best new players in B2B AI presenting on our new AI Demo Stage! Benchmark Data and Performance Metrics SaaStr sessions typically feature transparent sharing of key metrics and benchmarks that are otherwise difficult to access.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2025

Top Posts: #1: 2025 And The Rise of the Mech AE (Account Executive) #2: 2025 Should Be Better Than 2024 For Almost All Leading Public SaaS Companies #3: 38% of Bootstrapped Start-Ups Have Solo Founders. But Only 17% of VC-Backed Ones Do. And 10%-12% of Ones That IPO. #4:

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SaaStr

MAY 5, 2025

Ok about 2,000 of you have already picked your 2025 SaaStr Annual + AI Summit sessions so far and here are the top sessions … for now: 1. Kick-off to SaaStr Annual 2025 with SaaStrs Founder & CEO 4. Scaling AI-Driven Data Strategies: Snowflake’s CEO + Observe CEO 11.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Canva, Stripe, Databricks, ServiceTitan, Gusto, Wiz should all have epic IPOs in 2025 or maybe 2026. More on that data here. So the best of the best in SaaS and Cloud are still on fire. But one thing is clear: it’s taking longer to IPO: It used to take 10.4 years on average to IPO in SaaS. The last 3 SaaS IPOs took 11.3

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The Daily Egg

AUGUST 21, 2020

By 2025, we’re projected to produce 463 exabytes (4,630,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) of data every day. Which is cool and all… but what does that mean for business owners, digital marketers, bloggers, and data engineers? Big data presents an unprecedented level of insight into your […]. It’s a massive opportunity.

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SaaStr

JUNE 8, 2025

Snowflake Buys Crunchy Data for $250m, Databricks Buys Neon for $1B. 8 Out of 10 SaaS Founders Are Burning Cash Faster Than Ever — And Why YC is On Fire (SVB’s 2025 Data Breakdown) #4. AI, Sales + GTM in 2025/2026: This Changes Everything with Jason Lemkin and Owner CRO Kyle Norton #5. The New AI Database Battle. #3.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 20, 2025

And now we have enough data to add Threads to our roster, too! And now we have the data to prove it. Posts published then had the highest median engagement — that is likes, replies, and reposts — across all the data we analyzed. on Wednesday. Other high-performing times were 7 a.m. – 9 a.m.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

We saw that across 2024 per EY and other data here: Whats Really Going in Venture Today: Deals Are Down, But Big AI Dollars Are Up. And per Sapphire Ventures , 2025 is starting off similarly. year-over-year from the start of 2025 This look at VC deals overall since 2019 show the trend even more viscerally.

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SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2025

G2 has its latest Buyer Behavior report out and while most of its take-aways are things we know or should know, it’s a wake-up call for anyone thinking AI isn’t important in their category: 🚀 Top 5 SaaStr Learnings from G2’s 2025 Buyer Behavior Report 1. Buyers have already done their homework with AI 8.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2025

So 2025 is Good Times Again. 2025 is already even much better. And Zylo’s recent data confirms this. Okta’s data is a bit more optimistic. 2024 was good, as most SaaS leaders saw growth reaccelerate toward the end of the year. And 2024 was really good in B2B AI. The trend isn’t behind us.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2025

So we’ll have ~20 of the latest AI start-ups from YCombinator at a special YC Demo Pod area at 2025 SaaStr Annual! Come meet them (and also watch 100+ present live at our first AI Demo Stage ) at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! 3) Generate high-quality training data that continuously improves AI performance.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2025

That would make them the fastest-growing infrastructure company in the [link] (public software companies) data set. pic.twitter.com/VXSqDIuTZT — Alex Clayton (@afc) June 13, 2025 AI Fueling Unprecedented Growth Databricks just announced they’re targeting a $3.7 Every dataset becomes training data. They were right.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2025

So Bloomberg and CB Insights have the latest data out on start-ups getting acquired, and 2025 is off to a record start : Wiz’s record $32 Billion acquisition by Google pushes the dollar value to a record, but you may have also missed there were 11 VC-backed $1B+ exits already in 2025, worth $54.5

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BetterCloud

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As we round the corner to 2025, the IT landscape is poised for significant transformation. With a focus on streamlining operations and enhancing security, emerging IT trends prove 2025 will be a doozy. This includes discovery, procurement, user provisioning and deprovisioning, usage optimization, user automation, and data governance.

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SaaStr

MAY 28, 2025

Timing and Market Conditions Matte r The B2B software companies that went public in 2024-2025 (ServiceTitan, SailPoint) have shown more mixed results compared to some earlier debuts, potentially reflecting changing investor sentiment toward B2B SaaS valuations. Somewhat smaller IPOs are possible and the market is good with them.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

A huge congrats to Team @owner for a record start to 2025!! Join @owner pic.twitter.com/zaiPTpMEbM — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) February 1, 2025 Sarah Du, CEO Alloy Automation Sarah Du is the CEO of Alloy Automation, a Series A company backed by Andreessen Horowitz. New restaurants up +31% in 1 month!

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2025

Some fun facts: 10+ years of SaaStr conference attendance Partner at Point Nine Capital, a leading early-stage VC firm Geographic reach: Actively investing across Europe, US, and Australia Notable portfolio: Zendesk, Algolia, Contentful, Loom (and many more) Known for his “five ways to build a $100M business” framework The 5 Key Things (..)

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

At SaaStr AI Day 2025, Jim Palmer, Dialpad’s Chief AI Officer (and co-founder of TalkIQ, which Dialpad acquired), shared the tactical playbook they used to build and scale their AI capabilities. Domain Data Is Your Secret Weapon Dialpad’s massive advantage comes from their 8 billion minutes of processed conversations.

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SaaStr

MAY 19, 2025

We’ll do deep dives on all the SaaStr + AI Summit 2025 speakers soon! They had to keep all the data on premise… Get out of my office.” As one top Cloud executive noted at SaaStr 2025: “Our core is strong and gets stronger… but the thousand small competitors are better than ever.”

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