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How 1,000+ B2B Startups Are — And Aren’t — Growing. The Real Data.

SaaStr

This isn’t your typical “here’s what public companies are doing” report – this is real data from real private companies dealing with real challenges in 2025. Learning #4: The Equity vs. Bootstrap Reality – Paying for Growth Has Hidden Costs The data reveals a fascinating paradox in B2B funding strategies.

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Figma - Benchmarking the S1 Data

Clouded Judgement

Here’s some additional data on their products I mentioned above (all copy / pasted from the S1) FigJam : “FigJam is our product tailored for ideation, brainstorming, and rapid communication of ideas. .” ” [ My note: Their products here are Figma Sites and Figma Buzz.]

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We’re Back. Q1 Was a Record for Tech Acquisitions in Dollars. But Deal Count? It’s Doubled But Isn’t Close to 2021.

SaaStr

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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Snowflake Buys Crunchy Data for $250m, Databricks Buys Neon for $1B. The New AI Database Battle.

SaaStr

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. This acquisition builds on previous AI investments, including the 2023 purchase of Neeva, a generative AI search startup.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

This report aims to highlight the current state of B2B database and contact acquisition strategies and organizations’ goals to leverage data to fuel their go-to-market strategies in 2020 and beyond. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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The Most Acquisitive Acquihirers in Software

Tom Tunguz

I reviewed the roughly 560 US software acquisitions under $400m since January 1, 2020. ServiceNow tops the list with 5 acquisitions. Examining the data by dollars reveals Motorola spent $800m, more than double the average across this group. Number of Acquisitions. Alphabet ingested 4 companies. So did Medallia.

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How to Convince Investors to Fund You With Data: Christoph Janz of Point9 Capital

SaaStr

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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Why Product Led Growth is a Customer Success Responsibility

As the eyes and ears of an organization, Customer Success can drive acquisition, expansion, and retention. Customer success should be leading the Product Led Growth (PLG) initiative by adding weight to customer feedback, offering actionable, data-driven insights throughout an organization, and better serving customers.