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183 articles decelerating

SaaS has appeared in 183 articles since 2015-12. Coverage peaked in 2025Q3 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside TechCrunch, London, Series, IPO.

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183
mentions
Velocity
-50.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
-0.300
velocity change
Sources
46
publications
Thirty Dollars
Microsoft priced Copilot at $30 per seat per month in July 2023. Three years later, its own executive called the number a "major barrier." In the same week, Cur...
Open Source Is Eating the Price Tag
The gap between "announced SaaS feature" and "usable open-source alternative" has collapsed from years to days. When every paid feature has a free clone shippin...
The Bill
On March 12, Atlassian cut 1,600 jobs to fund AI. Oracle added $500M to its restructuring charges, citing AI coding efficiencies. Salesforce's bond investors de...
The Moats That Moved
The same week a widely shared analysis argued LLMs are "dismantling the moats that made vertical SaaS defensible," Figma reported 40% revenue growth and partner...
Exaggerated
On February 6, the Wall Street Journal called investor fears of AI-driven software extinction "exaggerated." The same day, Claude Opus 4.6 found 500 unknown sec...

Coverage Timeline

2025-11-01
Bloomberg 4 related

NEC to buy US-listed CSG, a SaaS provider of customer care and billing services for telcos and other companies, for ~$2.9B in a deal expected to close in 2026

Japan's NEC Corp. is buying CSG Systems International Inc., a US supplier of customer care and billing services for telecom companies …

2025-08-03
Bloomberg 2 related

Thoma Bravo agrees to acquire a stake in Chicago-based Trading Technologies, sources say the deal values the capital markets industry SaaS provider at over $1B

Buyout firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to acquire a stake in Trading Technologies International Inc. in a transaction valued at more than $1 billion …

2025-05-03
Skift 10 related

TPG agrees to acquire Sabre's hospitality solutions unit, which provides SaaS to hotel brands, for $1.1B in cash, as Sabre focuses on its core airline business

SKIFT TAKE  —  Sabre's sale of its hotel reservations tech should help the travel tech company focus on its core airline business.

2025-04-12
Financial Times 2 related

Bain Capital agrees to buy Blackstone-backed HealthEdge, which offers SaaS for health insurers to modernize their systems, sources say for ~$2.6B including debt

Financial Times :

2024-11-07
CTech 11 related

CrowdStrike agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based Adaptive Shield, which offers cloud security for SaaS apps; sources say CrowdStrike will pay ~$300M for the company

just as cloud exploitation cases surge 110% YoY, with 75% of attacks being malware-free. Winners keep winning 😏 [image] @adaptiveshield : 📣 BREAKING NEWS: @CrowdStrike to acquire Adaptive Shield to de...

2024-10-28
Bloomberg

A profile of Italian private equity firm Bending Spoons, which has acquired distressed SaaS businesses like WeTransfer and Evernote, and plans to spend billions

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg : X: @bw X: @bw : After buying Evernote, cutting staff and raising prices, Bending Spoons is looking for its next deal https://www.bloomberg.com/...

2023-09-22
Bloomberg 43 related

Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity company Splunk in cash for $157 per share, a 31% premium on Splunk's September 20 closing price, in a deal valued at ~$28B

https://www.reuters.com/... Chris Merkel / @chrismerkel@infosec.exchange : Scoop: Anonymous has hacked the neuralinks of the leadership teams at Splunk and Cisco.  While I can't identify the specific ...

2022-05-26
TechCrunch 3 related

Zip, whose cloud SaaS product lets businesses simplify their internal procurement process, raises a $43M Series B led by YC Continuity at a $1.2B valuation

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :

2022-01-09
TechCrunch 4 related

Ottawa-based Assent Compliance, a SaaS provider that helps companies with product compliance, trade compliance, and ESG, raises $350M at a $1B+ valuation

Never before has the importance of a smooth-flowing supply chain been as clear as it has been in the COVID-19 pandemic era.

2022-01-08
TechCrunch 4 related

Ottawa-based Assent Compliance, a SaaS provider that helps companies with product compliance, trade compliance, and ESG, raises $350M at a $1B+ valuation

Never before has the importance of a smooth-flowing supply chain been as clear as it has been in the COVID-19 pandemic era.

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2024Q2enterprise -75pts; developer -50pts; consumer -8pts
2024Q3enterprise +8pts; developer -17pts; consumer -25pts
2024Q4enterprise -21pts; developer -21pts; consumer +38pts

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