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

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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.

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The Early Days: How Veeva Hit $100m ARR With Just $3m Raised — And a Deep Vertical Focus

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Veeva is the dominant cloud software provider for life sciences – serving pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies with mission-critical applications for drug development, clinical trials, regulatory compliance, and commercial operations. I was a software developer, product person. ” 7. .”

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AI and Cybersecurity: How Rubrik’s Co-Founder Built a $1B+ ARR Platform While Joining the AI Revolution

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In a recent conversation at SaaStr Annual + AI Summit 2025 , Arvind shared the tactical playbook behind Rubrik’s scale, revealing counterintuitive strategies for product development, customer success, and AI adoption that challenge conventional SaaS wisdom.

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

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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. Would you use it?

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How Investors & Strategic Buyers Evaluate Integrated Payment Strategies

The article guides SaaS executives in developing strong payment strategies, focusing on the right platform selection, user experience, and ensuring security and compliance. Investors and strategic buyers assess these integrated payment strategies as a measure of a company's growth potential and sustainability.

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Loveable and Replit Both Hit $100M ARR in Record Time. The Vibe Coding TAM: How Big Can This Market Really Get?

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But here’s what makes this particularly fascinating from a market development perspective: this explosive growth is happening while the underlying technology is admittedly broken. This isn’t coincidence. This is category emergence at unprecedented velocity. Security vulnerabilities are well-documented. Reliability issues abound.

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Welcome Back Duplo Cloud & Pylon to SaaStr Annual 2026! 🎉

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They provide a comprehensive solution that automates cloud infrastructure management, enabling development teams to deploy, scale, and manage applications without the traditional DevOps overhead. Pylon – Welcome Back for Round Two! 🚀 We’re equally excited to welcome back Pylon as a 2nd-time sponsor of SaaStr Annual!

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Crafting Tomorrow: A to Z of Delighting Customers with Your Product

Entrepreneurs, product managers, and developers: it's time to bring your vision to life. Overcome Product Challenges: Dive deep into customer needs, market trends, technology, quality, and compliance. Ready to build game-changing software fast? Trigent's eBook, "Crafting Tomorrow," unlocks the secrets.