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

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TL;DR: While most public SaaS companies are growing at 8-10%, the companies crushing it are those selling outside the tech bubble – restaurants, construction, logistics, and e-commerce. They’re growing 2-3x faster than traditional horizontal SaaS. Many are doing pretty, pretty, well. At Least Right Now.

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tom Tunguz

But throughout this turmoil, startups must adopt a process to craft a good pricing strategy, and re-evaluate prices periodically, at least once per year. Many infrastructure as a service companies do this. Contract Length Many SaaS startups launch with monthly pricing which encourages customers to try the product and engenders demand.

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PE Loves SaaS Again: Thoma Bravo Buys Olo for $2 Billion

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The SaaS PE market is heating up again, and Thoma Bravo just made a big statement buying SaaS restaurant pioneer Olo for $2 Billion. per share — a whopping 65% premium over Olo’s closing price on April 30th (the last trading day before acquisition rumors started swirling). That’s $10.25 That’s $10.25

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What is Vertical SaaS?

Stax

That’s the main premise of vertical SaaS. Unlike horizontal SaaS solutions that serve a broad range of businesses, vertical SaaS solutions are designed with deep knowledge of specific markets—making them more intuitive, efficient, and impactful. What is Vertical SaaS? Since vertical SaaS platforms are niche-focused (e.g.,

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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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Jason starts with the meta-question we’ve been asking a lot of SaaS leaders lately ( Klaviyo , ZoomInfo ) — ‘are we in a downturn?’ Going Long We’ve written before on the power of going long in SaaS. Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. in revenue.

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SaaStr AI App of the Week: Syllable.ai

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Financial Services: Mortgage & Loan Processing Help users explore mortgage options by collecting key inputs like purchase price, credit score, down payment, and property location, then presenting tailored loan choices with current rates. Business Impact: Increase qualified lead volume 3x while reducing cost per acquisition.

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

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In the latest billion+ acquisition, Xero just acquired Israeli-founded, NYC-based Melio for $2.5B to dominate US SMB payments. The deal shows acquirers are hungry for revenue acceleration—Xero expects to more than double group revenue by 2028 with this acquisition. TL;DR : After years of M&A drought, big deals are returning.