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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. The SaaStr Fund Thesis: Mobile Subscriptions Will Explode.

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85% of Business App Trials Start on Day 0. Don’t Waste Your Shot. The Latest Data from 75,000 Apps and RevenueCat

SaaStr

I’m fortune that SaaStr Fund was the first investor in RevenueCat in 2018 and today it’s grown into the #1 tool to manage mobile subscriptions, powering 40% of all mobile subscription apps, and even ChatGPT’s mobile app itself. So they see 40% of all mobile subscriptions — and a ton of data from it.

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RevenueCat: Across 10,000+ Mobile Apps, Longer Free Trials Perform Better

SaaStr

RevenueCat (where I was lucky enough to be the first investor) automates subscription management for mobile apps. It recently published its annual review of data from the 10,000+ mobile apps it powers subscription management for and I learned a few interesting things: Longer Trials Are Better. More on the data here.

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Mobile App Tracking: How to Analyze User Behavior In-App

User Pilot

It’s what you do with the behavior data your app collects. And by behavior data, I dont mean installs (thats the easy part). All questions you can only answer with: Mobile app tracking. This article breaks down what mobile app tracking is, why it matters, and methods to do it well. What is mobile app tracking?

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Reaching Unreachable Candidates

Speaker: Patrick Dempsey and Andrew Erpelding of ZoomInfo

Find and connect with the right talent to fill roles fast with these tools: More data! We have added 10's of millions of personal emails and mobile records. Export results: Easily export candidate data (including contact info) to Excel, shared with colleagues to review or upload in bulk to a recruiter's applicant tracking system.

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RevenueCat: Free Trials Are Way Up, Pricing is Stable in Mobile Subscriptions

SaaStr

So RevenueCat (where I was fortunate enough to be the first investor) now is the embedded mobile subscription API for 30,000 (!) mobile apps, across 290,000,000 subscribers and $6.7 So they do have interesting data. 70% of Mobile Subscription Apps Now Offer Free Trials, At Least in Part. 74% of Mobile Business Apps Renew.

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Cyber Weekend Benchmarking Data: 2024 SaaS and Software Holiday Spend Report

FastSpring

Because FastSpring is a merchant of record for over 3500 companies that use our platform daily, we can analyze aggregate sales data for benchmarking insights into Q4 for your SaaS or software business. trends in year-end SaaS and software sales data. Up-to-date global trends in year-end SaaS and software sales data.