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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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5 Interesting Learnings from Okta at $2.75 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

The Learning : At scale, customer count growth in your premium tier matters more than total customer adds. scale is still a stong growth engine. Best-in-class SaaS companies typically see 35-40% international mix at this scale. Okta’s hitting this while growing, proving you can scale without proportional headcount growth.

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Is AI Penetration … Slowing Down? Ramp Says Possibly

SaaStr

New spending data from Ramp reveals a possible trend: end user AI adoption may be hitting its first growth slow down. But it’s just one data point, albeit across many Ramp customers. Many organizations are stuck in “pilot purgatory”—running successful experiments but unable to scale them.

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Databricks Just Caught Snowflake at $3.7B ARR. Here’s How They Did It (And What’s Next)

SaaStr

That would make them the fastest-growing infrastructure company in the [link] (public software companies) data set. Compare this to the Meritech data: most infrastructure companies at this scale are growing 20-30%. When enterprises commit to data infrastructure, they commit big. Every dataset becomes training data.

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Leveraging Consumption to Drive Growth: The SaaS Expert's Guide to Usage-Based Pricing

Speaker: Igor Stenmark, Andrew Dailey, &Youssef Yaghmour

However, despite the growing recognition of its benefits, there is a lack of comprehensive guidance on the practical steps to launch, expand, and scale these intricate pricing models. Integrate with your external systems, from your CRM to your ERP, to synchronize data and align reports and dashboards across your entire ecosystem.

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A Look Back at Q1 '25 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

In this post, I’ll take a data-driven approach in evaluating the overall group’s performance, and highlight individual standouts along the way. Let’s get into some high level data. Of course, the above chart shows historical (ie lagging) data. The median beat was ~2.2%

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5 Things You Need to Know About API Solutions in Business Payments

USIO

What Are API Solutions in Payments? In the context of business payments, API’s connect your platform directly to a provider like Usio. No manual data entry. Real-time status updates let you know exactly when funds move, when invoices are paid, and where problems are popping up. Let’s make payments easier, together.