5 Interesting Things

When we last checked in on Asana, they were at $240m in ARR growing an incredible 55% a year. You might expect growth to slow in such a highly competitive…
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So an interesting IPO you may have missed is Braze.  Braze a decade ago took a next-generation approach to marketing automation software, focused on being mobile and messaging first.  In…
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Every once in a while a startup just plain executes from Day 1.  It doesn’t happen often, and it’s never quite as linear as it looks.  But Samara’s incredible growth…
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So C3.ai is one of those enterprise software companies ($2m customers on average) you hear about and see their billboards but are never quite sure what they do.  The founding…
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Datadog IPO’d at $330m ARR, and when we last caught up with them they were already at $700m ARR — and it has done nothing but accelerate since then.  Closing…
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Amplitude is a quiet Cloud leader that you might not have heard of — unless you are building software.  There, Amplitude has become part of the core product stack for…
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Expensify: Founded in 2008 … 13 years ago A long, tenacious path to $100m ARR, and then … Boom!! * 60% growth in Year 13 at $140m+ ARR!!* 119% NRR…
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So GitLab is one of those ones that sort of … always was doing well.  It was exciting at YC 2015 Demo Day.  It was exciting as it scaled to…
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Freshworks has IPO’d, one of a next wave of U.S.-Indian SaaS hybrid super success stories.  Headquartered in the U.S., but with 3,800 of 4,300 employees in India, and customers spread…
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Blackline has quietly been one of our favorite SaaS companies because they just never gave up.  A solo founder and even a solo parent, founder Therese Tucker wrote the initial…
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Coupa is one of our favorite enterprise SaaS leaders at SaaStr, and one more folks should know about.  It dominates the enterprise segment of a huge space — Spend Management…
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So Microsoft announced that LinkedIn, which it bought in 2016, has now crossed a stunning $10 Billion in ARR — and growing 27% year-over-year.  That’s pretty incredible.  And in the…
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Avalara is a leading public SaaS company we probably should all know more about.  Avalara manages a big problem — tax and related compliance automation.  Its roots are in SMEs…
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Zoom buying Five9 for $15B to accelerate into enterprise contact center is smart One interesting thing: it was founded in 2001. It's 20 years old. Not everyone always buys the…
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