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7 Predictions for SaaS in 2018

Tom Tunguz

Several landscape altering SaaS acquisitions will come to fruition because of cash availability from repatriation and because there are enough public SaaS companies at scale to add material revenue and market cap to buyers. Blockchain in the enterprise takes the reign as the buzzword for 2018. Some ideas: Google buys Salesforce.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. The Covid Boost for SaaS. NRR of 110%+ since 2018 — sort of. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

The Latin American SaaS landscape is hustling and bustling, having seen more IPOs in the last 6 months than the previous 20 years combined. We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. Founded : 2011.

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ISV vs PayFac: The Similarities and Differences Between Independent Software Vendors and Payment Facilitators

Stax

According to the Pew Research Institute , in 2022, a whopping 41% of Americans said they don’t use cash at all for any of their weekly purchases—a significant jump from 29% in 2018. FIS Global reports that in Norway, Sweden, and other Scandinavian countries, more than 90% of transactions processed at point-of-sale (POS) in 2023 were cashless.

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How to Drive NRR Over 100% With SMBs

SaaStr

Let’s take a look at a few Cloud leaders that show this quantitatively: #1 Shopify’s NRR has grown from 100% to 110% as its merchant services (payments) has exploded. Pretty good for SMB SaaS. In fact, now it’s more than 2x the size of its SaaS software alone. More on that here.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s It Like to Have Your Company Acquired by One of the Tech Giants?

SaaStr

2018’s Top 50 Acquisitions in SaaS. Unless there is a huge earn-out or retention payment tied to performance, the pressure is off. E.g., to be the head of all business services, or all web something or other. Contingent payments incent — and modify — behavior. It’s a lot of change. The pressure is off.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Olo at $130,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Growth fueled by the addition of transactional revenue, not SaaS revenues. Olo’s explosive growth in the past 24 months prior to IPO wasn’t fueled so much by its SaaS revenue, but by transaction revenue as part of orders. As last as 2018, 93% of Olo’s revenue was pure SaaS. Billion valuation today.