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Best in Class

Posted 15 November 2017
By Thomas Olszewski

Lessons from publically traded Enterprise SaaS 

Slide deck below

There are sixty publicly traded enterprise SaaS companies. Together, they have been one of the best performing segments of the stock market, up nearly 400% since 2011.

A selection of the 60 publicly traded enterprise SaaS companies

Among them there are just 12 which fit the following criteria:

  • Growing revenue at 25%+ YoY
  • 70%+ gross margin
  • Capital efficiency of 30%+ (growth — burn)

What makes these companies so successful?

It may surprise you to learn:

  • Our “Best in Class” SaaS companies have ACVs that range from $240 USD per anum to $519,000 USD.
  • All of our non-USA “Best in Class” companies were self-serve products
  • 85% of our Best in Class companies are founder led
  • A number of fast growing, multi billion dollar enterprise SaaS companies have gross margins of 50–65% (e.g: twilio, shopify, cloudera).

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