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

SaaStr

The Numbers Tell the Story: Monday.com Q1 2025 : 30% growth, $282M revenue Asana 2024 : Single-digit growth, struggling with churn Mostly Same Product Category, Mostly Different Customers Both companies build “work management” software. The “productivity software” that seemed essential in 2021 is now getting cut.

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How SaaStr Fund-Backed RevenueCat Went from a $1.5M Round at $7M Valuation in 2018 to $500M+ Today

SaaStr

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. ” required weeks of developer time to answer.

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Is AI Penetration … Slowing Down? Ramp Says Possibly

SaaStr

The shift from “innovation budget” to “operational budget” means AI tools must compete directly with established software investments—and many aren’t winning those comparisons yet. Beyond basic ChatGPT usage, effective AI implementation requires specialized expertise that’s in critically short supply.

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What is AI SaaS? All you need to know

Panintelligence

Software as a service (SaaS) organizations have always been at the forefront of innovation. SaaS solutions transcend industries and functions, offering tools from payment processing to data storage. After this ChatGPT boom, adoption was at an all-time high. It's the nature of the business. What is AI SaaS?

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Payment Horror Stories: The How and Why Behind the Most Vicious Attacks on Your Payment Stack

FastSpring

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview payments industry legend and VP of Payments at FastSpring, Jeremy Waxman about his thoughts on what the most common payment stack attacks are, why bad actors choose those particular types of attacks, and what you can do to make your payment stack more secure regardless of who your payment provider is.

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Salesforce, Microsoft, Google and Atlassian All Raise Prices Again in 2025. Hooray.

SaaStr

The major SaaS providers have announced another round of significant price increases for 2025, continuing a trend that’s putting pressure on enterprise software budgets across the board. Many customers report discovering these increases only through automatic payment notifications. per user (6.7% per user (6.7%

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GTM 133: Build your AI Outbound Machine with ChatGPT | Jordan Crawford

Sales Hacker

Jordan explains how to use AI tools like ChatGPT, Deep Research, and Claude to create your own AI workflow for prospecting accounts and creating highly targeted and extremely valuable messages for target decision-makers. Did you have some sort of chat GPT access early that we didn’t know about? Uh, with ChatGPT.

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