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

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TL;DR: While most public SaaS companies are growing at 8-10%, the companies crushing it are those selling outside the tech bubble – restaurants, construction, logistics, and e-commerce. They’re growing 2-3x faster than traditional horizontal SaaS. Many are doing pretty, pretty, well. At Least Right Now.

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Approaching Half a Million Customers: How to Win in SMB with BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte

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Jason starts with the meta-question we’ve been asking a lot of SaaS leaders lately ( Klaviyo , ZoomInfo ) — ‘are we in a downturn?’ This gets more challenging when you have stakeholders who aren’t the ones buying the software. Going Long We’ve written before on the power of going long in SaaS.

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M&A Is Back! Melio’s $2.5B Exit to Xero — In Just 7 Years!

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to dominate US SMB payments. Key Metrics at a Glance Exit Valuation : $2.5B (down from $4B peak in 2021) Revenue Multiple : 13.4x Key Metrics at a Glance Exit Valuation : $2.5B (down from $4B peak in 2021) Revenue Multiple : 13.4x Takeaway : Don’t just digitize a process—eliminate the friction entirely.

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Adding Payments and Fintech to SaaS Can Be Great. But You Gotta Watch the Margins.

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So in the Boom Times of later 2020 and 2021, almost every VC pushed SaaS companies to at least become a little bit of a fintech. It seemed such an easy way to bolt on more revenue to an underlying SaaS platform. Shopify now gets 2x the revenue from payments and merchant services than it does from SaaS subcriptions.

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The Early Days: How Deel Went From $1m to $100m ARR in Just 20 Months

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I dream about clients telling me, ‘Hey, I did not receive my payment today. ” This brutal honesty has become Wang’s signature—and it’s exactly what propelled Deel from $1M to $100M ARR in just 20 months, making them (briefly) the fastest-growing SaaS company in history. .” What is going on?'”

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Is it Really ARR? In 2021+, Yes. As Long As NRR is > 100%

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A lot of our SaaS older times don’t quite know what to make with a lot of B2B startups these days, let alone some public SaaS companies. But like “Cloud” and “SaaS”, its definitely has evolved. But like “Cloud” and “SaaS”, its definitely has evolved. In 2021+, Yes.

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Navan Files for IPO: The Opening of B2B IPO Floodgates?

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Every IPO other than Sailpoint is trading up, and we’ve got a jolt of momentum here for the first time since … well … 2021. initial public offering on Friday, becoming the latest enterprise software company to test increasingly receptive public markets. The IPO market has been … on fire in 2025. But we may have our first.

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