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The Rise of AI-Native SaaS: Why Born-AI Companies Are Scaling Faster Than Ever Lovable, a Swedish vibe-coding platform, hit $100 million in annual recurring revenue eight months after launch. No paid acquisition. Forty-five employees. By contrast, Slack took roughly...
The Quiet Advantage Behind the Fastest-Growing SaaS Companies $20.2 billion. That is the projected size of the API economy in 2026, up from $17.1 billion last year, growing at a 17.9% CAGR. While much of the SaaS conversation this year has centered on AI copilots and...
2,698 SaaS M&A transactions closed in 2025. That is a 28% jump from 2024, the highest annual count ever recorded, according to Software Equity Group's 2026 Annual SaaS Report. The first quarter of 2026 has kept that pace: an estimated 620-plus deals worth over $95...
Cursor, the AI code editor built by Anysphere, crossed $500 million in ARR by mid-2025 and hit $2 billion ARR by February 2026. The company did not hire an enterprise sales rep until well past the $200M mark. That trajectory made Cursor the fastest SaaS company to...
Toast processed $4.1 billion in payments revenue in 2024, dwarfing its $706 million in subscription fees. Shopify Capital originated $4.2 billion in merchant cash advances and loans in 2025 alone. These are not fintech companies. They are SaaS platforms that turned...
The median SaaS company now spends $2.00 to acquire every dollar of new ARR. That figure is up 14% since 2023, and it tells a story that growth-rate headlines alone cannot. The era of "grow at all costs" is over. What replaced it is more interesting: a discipline...
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Nick Franklin spent years leading international expansion at Zendesk before founding ChartMogul, the subscription...
The Rise of AI-Native SaaS: Why Born-AI Companies Are Scaling Faster Than Ever Lovable, a Swedish vibe-coding...
The Quiet Advantage Behind the Fastest-Growing SaaS Companies $20.2 billion. That is the projected size of the API...
2,698 SaaS M&A transactions closed in 2025. That is a 28% jump from 2024, the highest annual count ever recorded,...
Cursor, the AI code editor built by Anysphere, crossed $500 million in ARR by mid-2025 and hit $2 billion ARR by...
Toast processed $4.1 billion in payments revenue in 2024, dwarfing its $706 million in subscription fees. Shopify...
The median SaaS company now spends $2.00 to acquire every dollar of new ARR. That figure is up 14% since 2023, and it...
John Mecke has spent over three decades in enterprise software. He ran professional services at KnowledgeWare, led...
ServiceTitan went public in December 2024 at a $9 billion valuation, serving a market most venture capitalists ignored...
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