SaaS Mag

by | Sep 4, 2026 | Business, Technology On May 1, 2025, Redis put its core database back under a license the Open Source Initiative recognizes. CEO Rowan Trollope wrote that the earlier move to the Server Side Public License “hurt our relationship with the Redis community,” and shipped Redis 8 with AGPLv3 as an option.

by | Sep 2, 2026 | Business, Technology Ask a software engineer whether AI made them faster this year and 84% will say yes. Ask their VP of engineering to put a number in front of the board and 39% have nothing to show. Both figures come from the same study: GitKraken’s State of AI in Engineering 2026, published on August 20 and built on responses from 554 developers and engineering leaders.

by | Aug 31, 2026 | Business, Technology At 11:28 UTC on 18 November 2025, a configuration file inside Cloudflare’s bot management system grew past the size the software reading it could handle. Core traffic across the network started returning 500 errors. The main impact was not cleared until 14:30, and the last dependent services came back at 17:06. Matthew Prince called it Cloudflare’s worst outage since 2019.

by | Aug 28, 2026 | Business, Technology Atlassian closed fiscal 2026 on June 30 with $6.57 billion in revenue, 26% growth and an 85% GAAP gross margin. It also runs customer data residency in eleven separate geographies, on every paid cloud tier, at no extra charge.

by | Aug 25, 2026 | Business, SaaS Growth Hacks Sixty percent of sales development reps hit quota last year. That is the lowest reading on record in The Bridge Group's 2025 SDR Models, Motions and Metrics report, which surveyed 351 B2B companies. Now set a second number from the same research beside it. Pipeline generated per SDR reached $3.78 million, up sharply from $2.83 million in the 2022 edition. Fewer reps clearing quota, more pipeline per rep.

Organizations now spend an average of $55.7 million a year on SaaS, according to Zylo’s 2026 SaaS Management Index. That figure climbed 8% over the past twelve months. The number of applications sitting inside the average portfolio barely moved, down a fractional 0.07% year over year. Spend keeps rising even though the shopping list stopped growing.

Vanta crossed $300 million in annual recurring revenue in April 2026. That number, up 69% year over year, belongs to a company that sells something most SaaS founders considered a painful checkbox five years ago: compliance automation. The category barely existed before 2020. Today it is worth an estimated $1.3 billion and growing at 18-22% annually. Vanta sits at a $4.2 billion valuation. Drata raised at $2 billion.

by | Aug 21, 2026 | Business, Technology On February 3, 2026, public SaaS valuations lost roughly $285 billion in a single trading session. The market repriced an entire category of software companies whose primary moat was development time. AI-assisted development had compressed that advantage from years to months, and Wall Street noticed. But not every SaaS stock cratered equally.

What a Reverse Trial Actually Is Airtable runs every new signup through 14 days of its Pro plan before downgrading them to the free tier. Canva does something similar with a 30-day window. Calendly, Toggl Track, Loom, and Grammarly all follow variations of the same playbook. The pattern has a name: the reverse trial. And it is quietly becoming the default acquisition model for product-led SaaS.

Gong crossed $500 million in ARR in May 2026, growing 55% year over year. Three months earlier, Clari and Salesloft completed their merger, creating a combined entity with roughly $450 million in ARR and more than 5,000 customers. These are not niche tools anymore. Revenue intelligence, the category built around replacing gut-feel forecasting with signal-driven pipeline visibility, has become a core layer of the SaaS go-to-market stack. The market tells the same story in aggregate.