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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. ” Snowflake’s Enterprise-Focused Approach Snowflake’s strategy targets enterprise customers and government agencies.

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The Wild Ride of Informatica: 32 Years, 2 IPOs, to $8 Billion Acquisition by Salesforce

SaaStr

First IPO in 1999 First acquisition for $5.3 What This Means for Your B2B Company If you’re building enterprise SaaS today: Think infrastructure, not just applications. IPO private IPO acquisition is becoming a common path. Focus on AI-readiness. Informatica acquired for $8 Billion! But founded … in 1993!

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The Journey from Freemium to PLG to SLG: Key Learnings from Dropbox, Salesforce and Vimeo

SaaStr

Companies successfully implementing PLG are seeing dramatically lower customer acquisition costs as a percentage of revenue. Because too many startups fall into what Gross calls the “Enterprise Mirage” – landing a few big logos through heroic efforts but failing to build repeatable systems.

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Best Applicant Tracking Systems for 2025

How To Buy Saas

Greenhouse has separate modules for Onboarding and CRM that can be added, making it a comprehensive talent acquisition suite. In short, choose Greenhouse if you need a powerful, enterprise-ready ATS and are prepared to invest time and resources to leverage its full potential for a more optimized and fair hiring process.

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Sales–Product Tension: The Secret to Segment’s Success

Andreessen Horowitz

acquisition. I think the annual planning process that we actually ended up running was pretty similar to every other one we had run, but it was a couple months after we had just really deeply understood what it was people were using Segment for today and what they wanted to be able to rely on it for at a bigger, more enterprise-ready scale.

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. The post Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video) appeared first on SaaStr.

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6 Aptrinsic Competitors You’ll Kick Yourself for not Knowing About!

SmartKarrot

It also has guided engagements like Native Behavioral Targeting and is enterprise ready. The Salesforce integration helps you use customer acquisition data to build continuity once users are in your platform. They offer business hours support, as well as online walk-throughs. Pricing: Free trial and upgrade. Amplitude Analytics.