The Top 100 SaaS Companies Have an Average Valuation of $5.2 Billion; Plus Weekly SaaS News and Updates

Blackline has quietly been one of our favorite SaaS companies because they just never gave up. The company was bootstrapped and waited until the pre-IPO phase to raise external capital. Solo, solo, and bootstrapped to $400m ARR. Wow.

First, try everything — and double down on anything that works. Most startups find that at best 1–2 channels really work for them. If it works at all, keep doing it. You’ll get better at it.

Recently Bessemer Venture Partners did another great deep give on Cloud metrics at the Cloud 100. They’ll update their classic “State of the Cloud” on Sep 27-29 at SaaStr Annual 2021 in the SF Bay Area. We take a look at a few metrics that really stood out this year.

With SaaStr Annual 2021 now just a month away, and one of the first IRL events in some time — we’re getting a lot of questions from sponsors wanting to know how to get the best ROI from their sponsorship package. So we reached out to a few of our returning sponsors who absolutely crushed it at the 2015-2020 Annuals to learn what worked for them.

Determining the areas of investment early on can be a daunting task for any business leader. Join Guru’s CEO & Co-founder Rick Nucci and Airtable’s CMO Archana Agrawal as they discuss the business investments that matter most and what leaders can do to set themselves up for success in their next phase of growth.