SaaStr
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Dear SaaStr: How Much Should a SaaS Company Invest in Professional Services? Now how much to invest is a different question. Up to 20% of the ACV is usually OK and you will still be seen as a software business, not a services business. At $500m ARR, OneStream gets about 8% of its revenue from professional services.
SaaStr
JUNE 6, 2025
So Jamin Ball of Altimeter has a great summary of the cumulative revenue growth of all public SaaS companies … and it’s not a great story: Aggregate net new ARR added in Q1 from the software universe isn't looking good! Aggregate quarterly net new ARR added across the cloud software universe dropped to just $1.65
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Tom Tunguz
JUNE 8, 2025
An analysis of their investment patterns since 2020 doesn’t just reveal the accelerator’s strategy—it provides a map to the entire startup ecosystem’s next chapter. The Wiz acquisition and the overall growth rates of security companies as a durable budget within software spending has propelled security more broadly.
SaaStr
JUNE 5, 2025
The New Rules of AI Investing: Why Speed Beats Strategy and Labor Budget Is the New Software Budget The pace of AI advancement has fundamentally broken our traditional frameworks for thinking about technology adoption, market timing, and competitive moats. ” This represents a fundamental shift in venture investing criteria.
Speaker: Brad Pinneke, VP of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms
In this webinar, Brad Pinneke, Vice President of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, will dive into the 7 must-have criteria for evaluating payments partners, helping you maximize both efficiency and the long-term value of your investment.
Tom Tunguz
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Constellation Software is a $30b+ publicly-traded software holding company employing more than 25,000. A former venture capitalist, Mark Leonard started Constellation in 1995 with $15m of outside investment & a goal of buying vertical software companies with a moat & good unit economics. Growth Source. Net Growth.
SaaStr
MAY 17, 2022
Q: What are the most common mistakes people do while investing? My top mistakes in venture investing at least: Investing when I didn’t 100% believe in the CEO. No matter how interesting the metrics, even the product is, don’t invest if you don’t 100% believe in the CEO. Investing when the CEO is a bit full of s**t.
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