Enterprise software companies are focused firmly on healthcare. If you want proof, look at how Oracle and Microsoft both backed up trucks loaded with money to buy health tech companies this year.
Justworks files to take its SMB-focused, HR-themed SaaS business public
Today, we’ll dig into Justworks’ business, its economic performance and what it might be worth. Let’s have a little IPO fun one last time this year!
Samsara prices at top of range, crashes through $10B valuation mark in public debut
We have 72% growth, 70% gross margins, nine-figure revenues and a 27x multiplier. There’s more to be said, but perhaps this begins a slightly more conservative pricing regime for software companies.
IoT data collector Samsara’s IPO will be fun to watch
Samsara would have to command a revenue multiple of just under 12x to meet its final private price. Will it manage that? Er, yes. Yes, it will.
What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story
Confluent’s approach of growing from open source to commercial product has worked out well — the company defied conventional wisdom and still ended up thriving.
A wave of LatAm fintechs are laying down new global commerce rails
When it comes to e-commerce, the world is smaller than ever. Developing a new global financial infrastructure capable of supporting a world dominated by digital commerce is a massive challenge.
Microsoft’s shift to the cloud is a lesson in corporate evolution
Jared Spataro, corporate vice president for Microsoft 365, talks about Microsoft’s move to a cloud-centric model.
Haven’t switched from CentOS 8 yet? Here are your options
Red Hat promised that it would continue to support each CentOS release for about a decade. However, the company changed its mind and suddenly cut support for the latest CentOS release.
3 things GitLab’s wild IPO pricing says about public markets
At minimum, we can say that public markets are as welcoming to high-growth SaaS as private markets. And perhaps, with GitLab’s IPO pricing, slightly warmer.
Investors share how infrastructure as code is taking over DevOps
Infrastructure as code (IaC) has been gaining wider adoption among DevOps teams in recent years, but the complexities of data center configuration and management continue to create problems — and opportunities.