Current Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples Revealed
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close
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Fizzy Beta Invites Launch Next Week After Rebrand
For all those waiting on a Fizzy beta invite, a couple things: 1. The initial batch should begin next week. We had our all-company retreat this week and decided to hold off on invites until everyone was back at work. 2. We’re...
Bootstrapped AI SaaS Duo Generates $200K Profit
What’s better than one B2B SaaS? Two B2B SaaS. Two profitable AI SaaS duo for content creation + SEO automation. > $252K TTM revenue > $200K TTM profit > 20% YoY growth > 5K+ customers Bootstrapped + Lean Listed on @acquiredotcom: https://t.co/hVgmr7nPE3 https://t.co/gTiI2EJmqJ
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AI Empowers B2B Buyers, Redefining Marketing's Funnel Role
AI is changing the balance of power in B2B. “Get on the phone with us and we’ll tell you pricing.” No more. “Get on the phone and we’ll show you our product.” No more. Today’s buyers now self-educate, run deep...
AI Productivity Gains Require Upfront Workflow Redesign
There is a wide gulf between those getting major productivity gains from AI agents and those that don’t. The difference comes down to being willing to do the work up front to make the agent effective by giving them the...
Velvet Offers Adobe‑Premiere‑Level AI Video Creation in Seconds
Velvet (@Velvet_Videos) is building the Adobe Premiere of AI video, allowing creative teams to generate and edit dozens of cinematic AI videos in seconds. https://t.co/lYvqpwSEXb Congrats on the launch, @lrmantovani_ & @luke_tux! (They made this launch video using Velvet by spending ~$50 in...
Guest Speakers Aren’t Growth Hacks—Build a Demand Strategy
If you’re relying on your guest speaker to drive signups, it’s because you don’t have a demand strategy. Guest speakers aren’t your growth hack. They’re your marketing partners.
Stay Close to Customers: Let Market Feedback Guide
Always be close to your customers. Don't build a product nobody wants. Too many startups fail from this. The market has the feedback you need to hear.
AI‑Powered Agentforce Transforms IT Support via Slack
Today, with the launch of Agentforce IT Service, Salesforce is helping customers transform IT support with an agent-first, conversational IT suite that delivers instant, AI-powered resolutions directly in Slack. For decades, IT teams and employees have faced frustrating productivity drains...
Software Valuation Multiples Skyrocket with Growth Rate
This week on Clouded Judgement: Long Live Benchmarks! - Median software multiple: 5.2x - High Growth software median: 26.8x - Mid Growth software median: 7.7x - Low Growth software median: 4.0x - 10Y: 4.0% https://lnkd.in/gmxVt3u6
ClickHouse Powers Netflix's 5PB Daily, Scaling for AI Era
ClickHouse is handling 5PB PER DAY, 10M+ events per second for Netflix ...Having a database that can scale like this while staying performant will become more important than ever as data explodes in the age of AI
Exercise.com Joins Daxko in Strategic Acquisition
Congrats to Joel Ohman , Alicia Howson , John Gadbois , Joel VanderPol , and the team at Exercise.com for their recent acquisition by Daxko . Best of luck as you kick off the next stage in your journey. Glad...
Get Real-Time Site Mockups Instantly with Alloy
Tired of waiting days (or longer) to get mocks and changes back to your website? That are never really what you want? Just use @alloy_app and tell it whatever changes you want to your site "Change to: SaaStr + Salesforce Agentic...
Fully Automated Platform Scales ROI-Optimized Influencer Campaigns
.@1stcollab is a fully-automated, ROI-optimized influencer marketing platform that helps brands test, optimize, and scale influencer campaigns with just a few minutes of setup. It already powers some of the largest influencer marketing campaigns on social media. https://t.co/STbw7FTvGm
AI Becomes Standard, Not Competitive Edge, in SaaS
AI won’t be a differentiator soon — it’ll just be expected. Loved this conversation with Ali Hussain from Tabs on the next era of revenue automation. Episode 215 is live! 👇 ▶️ https://t.co/DnEm2UuQMc #SaaS #AI https://t.co/GZ7BSG8hiS
Why Every Company Needs a Head of Customer
Head of Customer. who has that title? I don't see it and we should have it. who buys our stuff? Customers. who are we building our company for? Customers. instead, we have: Head of Marketing Head of Product Head of...
Software's Siren Song Masks Its Hard Reality
the siren song of software is real "it'll be so much easier than services!" "it's way more scalable!" "we can finally grow without adding headcount!" then they try it and realize: software is one of the hardest businesses to build the grass isn't always...
Founders Must Master Sales to Scale Successfully
Every founder is in sales. If you can’t sell it, you can’t scale it. Learn sales if you want to win.
Automate AI News Posts with Brand‑Aligned Voice
AgentKit + FeedHive MCP 🤯 Being first to the conversation after the breaking news hit gives you a HUGE advantage on social media. - It creates authority - It creates trust in your brand - It drives business But keeping up with the constant stream...
AI Democratizes Skills, Sparking a Specialization Showdown
One big effect of AI agents is that they take previously scarce resources and skills and make them abundant and available to everyone. As a consequence, you can “self-serve” many more of the hard problems that you used to have to...
Self‑Improving Support System Boosts CSAT and Revenue
Redapto (https://t.co/oB9ElDblBa) builds self-improving systems for Customer Support teams. It audits 100% of customer conversations, identifies quality gaps, and auto-updates knowledge bases, boosting CSAT and unlocking millions in retained revenue. Congrats on the launch, @CherilShah2 & @AnirudhPupneja!
AI Agents Revolutionize Corporate Knowledge with Multi‑Source Reasoning
AI Agents will completely transform how we interact with corporate knowledge by applying reasoning across multiple data sources. Here's an example of ChatGPT's new knowledge feature to pull information from Box and Gmail to combine it an answer a question....
AI-Powered Pitch Analysis Reveals Funding Odds and VC Connections
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Newton's $3.8M Seed Fuels 10x ROI for Dentists
Congrats to Newton on their $3.8M seed! Newton is a digital front-desk assistant for dental practices—handling calls, texts, insurance verification, and filling cancellations. Dental groups using Newton are already seeing a 7% lift in collections and 10x ROI from higher utilization and...
Stop the Leaky Bucket: Retain Customers, Not Just Acquire
SaaS businesses are incredible. Except when you’ve got a leaky bucket. When do you have a leaky bucket? It’s when you put in all your effort to acquire new users and customers. But they leave you months later.
AI Clones Your Voice to Drive Multimillion B2B Deals
Imagine AI (@imagineagi) builds your B2B content pipeline. They clone you → your expertise, your voice, your insights → into high-fidelity personas. 10M driven across clients. $5M deal landed from a single optimized post. Congrats on the launch, @skygodkingdom & @neo_lky! https://t.co/f0bGPPd9SC
AI-Powered Python App Builder Used by 30% Fortune 500
Reflex (@getreflex) is an AI app builder for creating production-grade web apps entirely in Python, powered by its own open-source framework. Just connect your data and enter a prompt. It generates production-ready apps that integrate any data source, API, or Python...
Crustdata Secures $6M Seed to Power Real-Time AI Data
Congrats to @chrispisarski, @thechowdhary, @manmohitg, and @crustdata on their $6M seed! Crustdata is building real-time B2B data APIs to power AI sales, recruiting, and investment agents. While traditional databases provide outdated data and aren’t built for signal-driven workflows, Crustdata’s real-time enrichment...
Open‑source Turn‑Detection Model Boosts Human‑like Voice AI
.@vogentai just released Vogent-Turn-80M: an open-source, state-of-the-art turn-detection model for voice AI. It improves any voice AI stack by detecting when to wait and when to speak, reducing interruptions and making conversations more humanlike. https://t.co/4jmYvazctk https://t.co/NDadilx3Z6
TypeOS Turns Google Docs Into AI‑Powered Workspace
⌨️@TypeOS is Cursor for Google Docs. Students and professionals use it to learn and work faster. From editing and grading research papers, to creating invoices, contracts, or synthesizing articles, videos, and PDFs into a doc.
AI Generates Patent Infringement Claim Charts in Minutes
Patent Watch (@PatentWatchai) is building AI for patent infringements. Upload your patents and find infringing products so you can sell licenses or litigate. It generates detailed claim charts in 20 minutes instead of months, showing exactly which products infringe and how. https://t.co/Q1UX9iCwLR Congrats...
Smart Money Doubles Down on Winners, Not New Startups
We're back! @HarryStebbings @rodriscoll + me: 🧵 1⃣The Great VC Shuffle: Benchmark's big hire 2⃣Why billion-dollar ARR companies that are "still early" 3⃣Why the smartest money might be doubling down on winners instead of hunting for the next big...
E‑commerce Leads Accessibility Lawsuits; Fixing Boosts Conversions
Ecom is the top target for accessibility lawsuits. And it's not even close. 77% of web accessibility lawsuits last year were against ecom sites. Because most of the internet’s accessibility issues happen right when someone wants to buy. But the...
Follow Up Leads in 5 Minutes, Convert 21×
Fun fact for my fellow marketers: Inbound leads followed up in under 5 minutes are 21x more likely to convert. Twenty-one times! 🤯 But here’s the real question — how many of us are actually following up that fast? Not...
AI Team Boosts E‑commerce Conversions Beyond 1% Baseline
Boom is the AI growth team for e-commerce brands. Most online stores convert less than one percent of their visitors. Boom helps brands recover those lost sales by giving them an AI team that works 24/7. It answers product and order questions,...
Visible, Honest Leadership Accelerates Startup Growth
What I see CEOs at struggling start-ups do: - Go dark - Hide - Lash out - Tweet about lots of things non-work - Invest time on tiny expenses - Argue internally What should do: - Be Present - Be Honest - Be the Rock - Be Realistic/Optimistic You just plain grow...
Visibility Beats Secrecy: Fill Your Room to Sell
Being the best-kept secret is not a winning strategy for your business. You can’t sell to an empty room.
Zero‑Friction Product Experience Doubles ARR in One Year
Tally just doubled their ARR from $2M to $4M in less than a year. I interviewed their founder Marie Martens back in February when they were at ~$2M ARR. Their new article breaks down the entire journey, but one section...
Adobe Threatens House Lien over Subscription Access
What's next, Adobe? Asking for a lien on my house to "protect against losing access to my Adobe plan"? https://t.co/ciqEYa3qqP
Avoid Premature Serviceification: Don’t Distribute Your Computing
"The problem with prematurely turning your application into a range of services is chiefly that it violates the #1 rule of distribute computing: Don’t distribute your computing!" https://t.co/mYbAKIRvCf
Monoliths Outshine Microservices for Most Web Apps
The majestic monolith remains undefeated for the vast majority of web apps. Replacing method calls with network calls makes everything harder, slower, and more brittle. It should be the absolute last resort. https://t.co/ZuyGrwrM0Q
Crossing $10M ARR Triggers Churn‑Driven Growth Crisis
Having worked with a number of SaaS CEOs at the $10M+ ARR level, I've started to notice some patterns about some weird things that start happening at this level: Bucket A: everything is great. they don't need my help. keep cranking. Bucket...
Free, Unified Dashboard: Introducing Crazy Egg Web Analytics
We just launched Crazy Egg Web Analytics. Clarity in one dashboard. Free forever. https://t.co/SKfnnQnTtF
Three-Step AI-Driven Workflow Revolutionizes Product Development
Product development has completely changed for us. Three steps. One seamless flow. Step 1: Lovable. Sketch. Prototype. MVP. Ideas take shape fast - design to build, all in one place. Step 2: GitHub + Copilot. Delegate repeat work. Track issues, review PRs. No manual coding - just smart...
Brand Marketing Wins B2B Deals Before Sales Calls
Something people don't realize about B2B buying: Deals are being won and lost before sales calls even happen. Dentsu's massive B2B buyer study - over 14,000 interviews - reveals a shift that's rewriting the rules of how enterprise software gets...
