article thumbnail

The Next Big Thing in AI Compliance: What ISO 42001 Means for Your SaaS Company with Prescient Security’s COO

SaaStr

The Next Big Thing in AI Compliance: What ISO 42001 Means for Your SaaS Company The Cold Hard Truth About AI Risk in SaaS Picture this: Your product team’s AI chatbot gets breached. The Bottom Line ISO 42001 isn’t just another compliance checkbox. No protocol. Just chaos. Sound familiar? The smart play?

article thumbnail

How The Top 25 B2B Public Companies Have Performed In 2025 So Far — And What They Tell Us About the Future

SaaStr

Veeva (+18.5%) ZoomInfo (+7.4%) Veeva continues to prove the vertical SaaS thesis: Deep pharma/life sciences expertise Regulatory compliance built-in Switching costs approaching infinity AI integration that actually matters The lesson : Horizontal is commoditized. Tier 3: Vertical Specialists Average Return: +15.3%

B2B 264
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Only 11% of Unicorn Exits Are IPOs Now (Down from 53%)

SaaStr

Compliance costs + reporting requirements → Secondary markets emerged. The Compliance Reality Why Going Public Became Less Attractive (And What SaaS Founders Should Know) IPO share of unicorn exits: 83% → 11% from 2010 to 2024. No more “IPO for growth capital” pressure → Public markets got expensive. The hidden story?

article thumbnail

Dear SaaStr: What’s It Like Being Beaten Up by Investors?

SaaStr

But as a compliance application, we found that at least for today, it decreased compliance when the end user had to download the app. For example, I recently sat through a pitch where the VCs beat up the founder of a browser-centric product for not having a native mobile app. His response?

article thumbnail

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

SaaStr

Regulatory Requirements Create Infinite Moats Try switching away from Toast when you’ve got 50 restaurant locations with integrated POS, payments, payroll, and compliance systems. Try replacing Samsara when it’s monitoring your entire fleet for DOT compliance.

article thumbnail

5 Interesting Learnings from Circle at $2.3 Billion in “ARR”

SaaStr

The “Regulatory Moat” Strategy: Compliance as a Competitive Advantage Circle was the first to receive a New York State BitLicense, which is famously difficult to obtain, in 2015. This early investment in regulatory compliance has become their key differentiator against Tether and newer entrants.

article thumbnail

The Early Days: 5 Things Vanta Got Right, And 5 It Got Wrong, Getting to First $10m ARR

SaaStr

5 Things Vanta Got Right and 5 They Got Wrong getting to the first $10m ARR When Christina Cacioppo co-founded Vanta in 2017, security compliance was an afterthought for most startups. billion with over 8,000 customers worldwide, having fundamentally transformed how companies think about trust and compliance. A color-coded spreadsheet.