SaaStr

JULY 7, 2025

on June 26 , driven by 39% revenue growth to $884 million in Q1 • U.S. on June 26 , driven by 39% revenue growth to $884 million in Q1 • U.S. 📈 Performance Summary Tables Top 10 SaaS Winners (1H’25) Bottom 10 SaaS Losers (1H’25) – Negative YTD Performance 🚀 Top 10 SaaS Gainers (1H’25) 1. .

AI

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2025

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.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

JULY 23, 2025

Enterprise-grade capabilities are minimal. The Metrics Revenue Velocity: Combined Lovable + Replit ARR growth: $210M in 8 months Loveable’s growth rate: 1,250% month-over-month in early months Replit’s acceleration: 45% monthly subscriber growth post-Agent launch User Economics: Loveable: $2.2M Reliability issues abound.

Software Review

SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2025

With this news, we will be introducing Snowflake Postgres: enterprise-grade, AI-ready, and fully managed. ” Snowflake’s Enterprise-Focused Approach Snowflake’s strategy targets enterprise customers and government agencies. Snowflake’s Broader AI Strategy Snowflake’s momentum in AI is accelerating.

VP of Engineering

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2025

The Great Spending Showdown: AI vs SaaS in 2025/2026 — What Every B2B Leader Needs to Know We’re witnessing the most dramatic shift in enterprise tech spending since the cloud migration began 15 years ago. growth rate vs. SaaS’s 18.4%

AI Search

SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2024

in revenue. Selling to Multiple Stakeholders If you sell into the Enterprise, you understand there are different stakeholders. Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. About a third of core BILL revenue comes from suppliers making a choice about a payment, so BILL builds experiences for them.

SMB

SaaStr

JUNE 9, 2025

The market is once again rewarding recurring revenue models and predictable growth patterns. Focus on the fundamentals that make companies IPO-ready: predictable revenue growth, expanding margins, and clear path to profitability. Companies with real revenue, real growth, and real paths to profitability are getting rewarded.

B2B

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Companies successfully implementing PLG are seeing dramatically lower customer acquisition costs as a percentage of revenue. Plus, these motions are creating more predictable, sticky revenue streams. The infrastructure cost for real Enterprise readiness is massive. Who doesn’t want that?

Enterprise readiness

SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2025

The Mega-Deal Era Is Over — Enterprise deals are clustering in the $100K-$150K range The Shift : Enterprise deals are clustering in the $100K-$150K range (down from ZIRP-era budgets) The New Model : 39% of buyers prefer pay-as-you-go pricing. Align sales comp with net revenue retention, not initial ACV 3.

AI Search

USIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Fortunately, PayFac-as-a-Service (PFaaS) exists to save you from the $1M+ upfront cost, 12+ months of setup time, and the headaches that come with managing payments, compliance, and risk. Usio PayFac-as-a-Service Without the Drama Best for: SaaS companies that want revenue share, fast onboarding, and actual human support. Eventually.

PayFac as a Service

USIO

JULY 1, 2025

What once required months of development, multiple vendors, endless compliance headaches, and the patience of a saint… can now be handled with a few lines of code and a supportive partner who gets it. The revenue opportunity? SOC 2 – to give your compliance and audit teams peace of mind. Real Revenue. You’re not alone.

Payments

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Businesses may never know how much revenue might be leaking from overlooked nooks and crannies. The purpose of the revenue growth management strategy is to steer a business in an organized, and sustainable direction. In this blog, you will find out the meaning of revenue growth management, its importance, components, and challenges.

Payments

USIO

JUNE 6, 2025

The compliance. But your provider (like Usio) handles the compliance, risk, and infrastructure behind the scenes. That means less drop-off, faster revenue activation, and better user experiences. Revenue Sharing & Monetization When you embed payments, you create a new revenue stream. And yes—we share revenue.

PayFac as a Service

Stax

JUNE 18, 2025

Functionality Vertical solutions are built with industry-specific workflows and compliance needs in mind. Activant Capital reports : Vertical SaaS is outpacing traditional enterprise software growth by a significant margin. While enterprise software grew at 11.1% in 2023 with a projected CAGR of 9.6% through 2034.

Merchant Services

USIO

JUNE 24, 2025

In 2025, choosing the right embedded payment processor is about more than just rates and APIs — it’s about revenue share potential, support quality, payout flexibility, and long-term partnership. Why Usio is #1: Revenue Share from Day One : Usio partners don’t need to hit huge volume to earn. Print/Mail : Not supported.

Payments

FastSpring

APRIL 29, 2025

Publishers and developers need a payments partner built specifically to scale with player demand, ensuring reliable transactions and uninterrupted revenue even during the most intense spikes in player demand. We empower you to offload the complexity of global payments, sales tax and VAT compliance, player payments support, and more.

Payment Services

Stax

JUNE 3, 2025

This democratizes access to powerful tools, whether you’re a startup or an enterprise. Prioritize customer success, not just customer acquisition While getting new users in the door is important, retention is what drives predictable revenue and strong unit economics.

Payment Services

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

Understanding SaaS sales models Before you start selling A typical sales process Sales and revenue operations Setting sales targets Hiring salespeople Understanding SaaS sales models There are three main SaaS sales models, each tailored to different customer types and buying journeys. Enterprise sales are often outbound or referral-driven.

Scale

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Getting it wrong impacts your Net Revenue Retention (NRR) performance, customer experience, and operational efficiency. Traditionally, companies have set CSM ratios based on revenue tiers or account sizes, yet these methods are woefully simplistic when considering the complexity of driving customer adoption, retention and expansion in B2B.

Technical Review

USIO

JUNE 27, 2025

Onboarding delays cost time and revenue. From payment acceptance to disbursements, compliance to reporting, we give you everything through a single integration. Whether you’re a lean startup or a scaling enterprise, our APIs are designed to support your growth. Does API Make Onboarding Easier?

Payment Solutions

Payrix

APRIL 10, 2025

Embedding payments and financial experiences is the next frontier for trade and field service software platforms looking to boost revenue while enhancing the customer experience. By taking control of your payment processing, platforms focused on the trades industry can unlock new revenue streams and gain a competitive edge.

Payments

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 20, 2024

So let us first understand the unique factors that affect SaaS accounting: Revenue Recognition: SaaS revenue depends on the subscription model, and the recurring nature of the income stream can create complexities in revenue recognition compared to traditional businesses. Let us understand what they are and their difference.

Payment Services

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A powerful CRM helps organize customer data, streamline sales pipelines, and automate marketing ultimately boosting revenue. In fact, 92% of businesses say CRM software is crucial to achieving their revenue goals. Its early vision was to end software as we knew it instead delivering enterprise applications via the internet.

Scale

Blulogix

JUNE 13, 2025

By BluLogix Team What Enterprises Really Need from Agile Billing—And Why Most Platforms Can’t Deliver, According to MGI Research For years, the billing software market has been flooded with tools that promise flexibility, automation, and ease of use. Most of them were built for startups, SMBs, or simple direct-to-consumer models.

Payment Features

Blulogix

MARCH 12, 2025

Schedule a demo with a BluLogix billing expert today and take the first step towards revolutionizing your revenue management. Increased Revenue Potential Hybrid models allow businesses to monetize services more flexibly. Scalability As businesses grow, usage-based pricing automatically adjusts revenue streams.

Payment Features

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more.

Scale

Valuize Consulting

JULY 11, 2025

From our perspective, working with leading enterprise companies, these challenges often stem from a fundamental issue: a fragmented understanding of customer data across the organization. Sales’ “account tier” vs. Finance’s “revenue tier”) lead to unreliable reporting.

Data

Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

Theyre easy to integrate and set up, with the host taking care of data security measures, including PCI compliance and fraud protection. On top of PCI compliance, you might have to pay extra for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certification. Just like self-hosted gateways, merchants using API-based solutions are responsible for security.

Payment Methods

Blulogix

MAY 13, 2025

Yes, it handles financial reporting, general ledger entries, and compliance. Schedule a demo with a BluLogix billing expert today and take the first step towards revolutionizing your revenue management. Its the backbone of many enterprise finance operations. Revenue leakage : Devices go live before finance knows.

Finance

Valuize Consulting

APRIL 4, 2025

Historically, time tracking has been the domain of professional services, where billable hours directly translate to revenue. Applied effectively, time tracking reveals powerful insights, optimizes resource allocation, and transforms CS from a perceived cost center into a proven revenue driver.

Scaling

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

To choose the right payment processing solution for your business, you need to evaluate your business needs, evaluate security and compliance standards, and evaluate different payment processors based on pricing, features, customer support, and scalability. Faster resolution speed reduces revenue loss due to fraudulent claims.

Payment Services

SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2024

6 billion of new revenue per year. Security and compliance are strong, with Wiz turning down billions from Google. And we talked about security compliance. There is no downturn in security compliance. But Zscaler , CrowdStrike, Rubrik , for all of these folks in security compliance, there is no downturn.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2025

OpenAI for general use, Anthropic for reasoning, Google for enterprise integration, open-source for cost optimization and inference speed. 100M+ Revenue = Dedicated AI Leadership Threshold The Numbers : At $100M-$200M revenue: 50% have dedicated AI/ML leadership vs. 33% under $100M. This jumps to 61% for $1B+ companies.

AI

Teamgate

JULY 25, 2025

Sales teams often struggle with vague objectives like "increase revenue." by implementing personalized follow-up sequences for enterprise clients." This clear focus helped them hit or surpass revenue targets. For instance, businesses using CRM systems report increased revenue by as much as 41% per salesperson.

Scale

SaaStr

JULY 31, 2025

Why the patient money in enterprise software creates the most extraordinary wealth Everyone knows B2B software scales beautifully—recurring revenue, sticky customers, predictable growth. His vision of “No Software” seemed almost absurd to enterprise buyers accustomed to on-premise installations.

B2B

User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

If youre running paid campaigns, ROAS helps measure how much revenue your ads generate in comparison to the amount spent. For instance, a project management app might promote team collaboration features to startups while emphasizing security and compliance to enterprise clients. Customer acquisition cost ( CAC ).

Mobile

Blulogix

JUNE 12, 2025

BluLogix was included in this year’s guide in large part due to our ability to seamlessly integrate the entire Q2C process—from CPQ and contract to provisioning, invoicing, revenue recognition, and beyond. Schedule a demo with a BluLogix billing expert today and take the first step towards revolutionizing your revenue management.

Payments