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Perfios posts 46% profit surge, revenue tops ₹700 cr in FY25
Fintech SaaS unicorn Perfios reported a 46% jump in net profit to ₹104.3 cr for FY25, while revenue grew 20% to ₹669.5 cr, with SaaS services accounting for over 95% of sales. The Bengaluru firm also completed three strategic acquisitions and saw domestic sales rise to ₹575 cr.
The SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind call tackled the toughest challenges faced by high‑ACV SaaS CEOs, from inconsistent outbound prospecting and cold‑email deliverability to slow product development and offshore team management. Participants shared practical tactics such as separating cold‑email tools from CRM systems, leveraging AI for specs and rapid MVPs, exploring revenue‑based financing, and building systematic lead‑tracking and analyst‑relations to scale beyond $2‑3M pipelines. Ryan Allis framed the discussion with a hands‑on, growth‑focused perspective, emphasizing actionable tool recommendations and balanced work‑life practices for founders.
Will OpenAI be the canary in the coal mine? AI Story of the Week: It’s OpenAI’s Bubble, and We’re Just Living in It... For those of you who primarily know me for SaaS Metrics - there is something else that...
Thank you Jon Fortt and Morgan L Brennan for having me on Closing Bell Overtime today to speak about the momentum we are seeing at UiPath. As I shared, the growth of agentic AI is not hype and the customers...
The post reviews a wave of AI‑centric SaaS fundraises, highlighting major rounds for Vercel, Glean, and others, and notes that 2025 venture capital remains strong, especially for AI‑native companies. It also details a series of strategic M&A moves, such as...
Tomorrow in New York I'll be speaking at Canvas( Miro 's massive customer event) on AI Transformation and how to re-imagine your SDLC (software development lifecycle) for a post-AI World. (example slide included) Yes it will be recorded & live...
Every Founder must write a Manifesto. Writing one is one of the most effective way to generate attention and pipeline. But here's the thing... You can't call it a Manifesto. You have to give it a meaningful title. On this...
The post promotes SaasRise’s 16‑week Done‑With‑You B2B SaaS Growth Program for mid‑market and enterprise SaaS firms, teaching ABM lead list building, AI‑personalized outbound, and multi‑platform digital ad scaling. It outlines the curriculum, live instruction by Ryan Allis and David Trachsel,...
Congrats to the Topline team on their launch of Topline Media! AI is reshaping buyer behavior. GTM needs to keep up. I’ll be sharing a few perspectives in an upcoming post, but also looking forward to learning from others in...
SaaS let you win by drawing straight lines. Requirements in, code out. QA ran their checklist. Customers got exactly what the roadmap promised. The whole machine ran on one idea. If you could predict it, you could control it. AI ignores your...
The post promotes a webinar and upcoming 16‑week Done‑With‑You B2B SaaS Growth Program that teaches a seven‑step system for building a repeatable customer acquisition engine, covering ABM lead list creation, AI‑personalized outbound, content scaling, digital ad strategies, and SDR/AE team...
Karri Saarinen (@karrisaarinen), co-founder and CEO of Linear, was the first designer at Coinbase and a lead designer at Airbnb. On Design Review with YC's @aaron_epstein, he shares how his design background shaped Linear's product philosophy, why quality and craft matter...
The SaasRise Mastermind recap delivered a rapid‑fire set of tactical recommendations for SaaS founders, covering finance (capitalizing development costs to boost EBITDA), AI integration (simple OCR pipelines, sandboxed APIs, and short‑term AI‑driven email outreach), and market‑specific pricing (usage‑based models for...
The post argues that sustainable B2B SaaS growth comes from building repeatable systems—specifically outbound prospecting and digital ads—rather than isolated tactics, emphasizing the importance of clear unit economics, a high‑quality ABM list, AI‑personalized outreach, and data‑driven ad experimentation. It outlines...
Slack is testing an update for Slackbot that transforms it into an AI assistant. Presently, it operates as a tool for delivering reminders and notifications. With the update, Slackbot can create custom plans tailored to your workspace, sift through a...
AI ops tools combine. They don't compete. Whenever a new tool launches, people go "RIP existing tools" (especially if it's from OpenAI). But they're missing the point. The field of ops and AI automation is WAY too big to be covered by one single...
We recently signed a $3M ARR SaaS in the CRM space. This company doubled their trial volume in 12 months but the revenue barely moved. Worse, their trial-to-paid conversion has stagnated at 9.8%, down from ~15% historically. Here’s what was...
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Dear SaaStr: I Want to Keep Doing 1-on-1s With My VPs, But How Do I Streamline Them? 1-on-1s may be partially out of fashion, but most CEOs I work with still do at least some of them. 93% of you...
What kills SaaS momentum? - Waiting for perfect - Overthinking features - Ignoring signals Replace endless planning with small, testable systems. Build the engine, let automation handle the grind.
AI doesn’t care about the quality of your work unless you do. Most people drop in a prompt and expect miracles. But the output never rises above the discipline of the person using it. If you accept average, so will your tools....
Adversaries from cybercrime gangs to nation-state cyberattack squads are fine-tuning weaponized AI with the goal of defeating new patches in 3 days or less. The quicker the attack, the more time to explore a victim’s network, exfiltrate data, install ransomware...
After 1M+ downloads of their previous model, @nanonets is launching Nanonets-OCR2, a next-gen suite for image-to-markdown conversion & visual QA. From LaTeX math & tables → mermaid charts, signatures → watermarks. It handles it all. https://t.co/qK76htUkO6
Want a PE exit or a durable SaaS business? Track this metric. 💡 ROSE = Return on SaaS Employees It shows how efficiently your team drives recurring revenue. Hit $1.50+ and you’re scaling smart. 🎥 https://t.co/VPN9Qc0set #SaaSMetrics #SaaSFinance https://t.co/91Z4lKzqGJ
The SaasRise CEO Mastermind recap for the week of Oct 5‑9 2025 delivers a fast‑track guide for founders, covering AI integration, product development, accounting, financing, scaling, leadership, security, and cold‑email tactics. It stresses treating AI as a strategic tool—deploying it where ROI...
.@Pulse__AI just launched Ultra Nano, their new enterprise-focused document extraction model with complete self-hosting, already running across Fortune 50s, insurers, investment firms, banks, and foundational model labs. https://t.co/Yvoajxl8Gy Congrats on the launch, @sid_mnk and @ritvikpandey21!
It’s wild how people still spend hours on Zoom trying to close deals… Half won’t ever buy. The other half ghost you. When I started closing deals in DMs, everything changed. Zero sales calls, but my company keeps growing. How? Comment "SALES" for my Sell...
In the episode, Peter Sunna, CPO of Kognic, explains why the company abandoned traditional feature roadmaps in favor of a "How We Win" operating system that aligns product, sales, marketing, and customer success around a clear target segment and differentiation...
Don't go into fundraising ... in the dark Try the NEW SaaStr AI Pitch Deck Analyzer Find out in seconds: - Where you stand - Odds of getting funded - Where to improve your deck ...
🐦@_claybird is an agent that plans, generates, and edits your AI video ad. Marketers rely on slow, expensive agencies to produce ads. With Claybird, they go from idea to studio-quality ad in minutes. https://t.co/PFE7rJVOPl Congrats @_AbdullahNauman & @sadjamz_! https://t.co/5yANw2t8hj
Huge congrats to the @dbt_labs and @fivetran teams on their merger! Cant wait to see what they accomplish together The combined company will have ~$600m ARR and north of 10k customers https://t.co/6mGdI01dap
Clicks (https://t.co/gxJWa7Xl6V) automates repetitive back-office work for recruiting & executive search firms, saving 60% on costs while reducing time-to-close. Describe your process via video call or documentation, and they'll ensure it's automated exactly your way. https://t.co/R6f6da7EYS
ComplyDo (@ComplyD0) automates how enterprises comply with hundreds of global regulations. Already used by leading global players to replace months of manual work, reduce consulting hours, and accelerate market access. Without a fleet of consultants. https://t.co/VpcLqrcbeT Congrats on the launch, @SchuhmannLeo, Moritz, and...
A great sales rep does most of the work for the prospect: Does the scheduling Does the demos Solves the problem Helps sell other stakeholders Follows up Simplifies deployment Yes, this is a lot more work than sending a Calendly link the next day, I do admit
Sign of a high churn app? The annual discount is more than 20%
Sometimes, the most straightforward, on-trend deals are the most lucrative. Vercel and Supabase, pre-AI infrastructure components, have become essential for building next-gen apps, riding the wave of growth. https://t.co/6tI8ChhNfe
Founders when they see competitors raising another round at half the ARR: https://t.co/bVyXFoWmI0
🚛 How do you sell to giants like FedEx, UPS, or Amazon? Brett Carlson, CEO @ServiceUp, breaks down their GTM strategy — from enterprise sales to channel partnerships — in The SaaS CFO Podcast. 🎥 Watch here: https://t.co/Oal69L1wsJ #SaaS https://t.co/4XgJk0wQqb
My friend Johann (@johann_sath) got acquired on @acquiredotcom and was on the podcast to share the story. He also recently launched a new SaaS tool. He sold so he could build new startups. And he's doing exactly that! Check out his new startup...
Everyone’s saying OpenAI just killed Zapier and n8n. But that’s not really what happened. Here's what no one is telling you 👇
.@Praxim_AI is the agentic copilot in Microsoft Word that actually works. It’s far more capable at document creation and editing than even enterprise vertical-specific AI add-ins costing over $1,000/month, bringing powerful editing and drafting tools to everyone. Trusted by professionals from accountants...
n8n is a free SaaS idea catalog. There is an arbitrage opportunity that can take you from idea to profitable SaaS with near-zero risk and a very low budget. Here's how it works: 1️⃣ Browse n8n workflows Stop "imagining" what your SaaS is going...
Great demo from the @SlackHQ platform team on how the Slack MCP server can be used from @claudeai! See it at Dreamforce! ❤️🤖 https://t.co/EteWIlTGDf
"5 Questions to Ask When Growth Slows" https://t.co/hUTsdByjy0 https://t.co/Az0LupLabj
Wonderful to be in Mexico City to launch @Salesforce’s $1B investment in Mexico — expanding our new five-story HQ and Global Delivery Center to help companies become Agentic Enterprises with AI + humans working together. ❤️🇲🇽 @aliciabarcena https://t.co/cfiusrYcmS https://t.co/fgwHIHE4cZ
Has there been any innovation in the "product onboarding for SaaS" category? or is it mostly still "first click here, then there"?
Dari (@use_dari) built the easiest way to build reliable browser agents. Dari learns a workflow once, then caches the deterministic DOM steps. They also handle 2FA via text codes, TOTP, or email. Congrats on the launch, @avyvar and @benhong03! https://t.co/ikt2uiitbw
Most engineering metrics are broken. They count PRs and commits, not real impact. Developer 360 from @CodeAntAI changes that. Built on top of their AI code reviews, it shows what’s actually being built, fixed, or improved— with real visibility into engineering...
Love your feedback - working on NEW AppSumo deal page design. Thoughts? https://t.co/orwBft6P4s
How is this legal? @wpengine By default they show you "Cart Subtotal" But in reality, they added some random product extension for an additional $400/year and there is a hidden "New subscription total" that you don't know about unless you hit...
