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Italian technology company founded in 2013 that has acquired more than 50 technology firms, including Harvest, Evernote, Vimeo and WeTransfer.
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SaaStr says one estimate puts AI-agent access to Salesforce, Atlassian and HubSpot at up to $240,000 a year, for API calls it never paid for. Its own revenue agent proposed mirroring the data into a $5 Postgres database, so vendors are now pricing against a buyer's cost of calling them less.
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A Fortune column says SaaS incumbents answered collapsed multiples with record debt and buybacks presented as AI strategy. It quantifies the de-rating precisely and leaves the debt unsized at the five companies it names.
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Jonathan Weil's essay on the debt-funded software roll-up behind AOL and Vimeo calls the numbers hocus-pocus, and the testable part of it is his claim that rising rates will force the acquisitions to stop.
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A single month of trading undid eight months of AI-disruption pricing in B2B software. That is a multiple moving, not a business changing. The winners were sorted by whose meter the agent workloads run through.
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Bending Spoons is buying its second discounted collaboration platform in five weeks. Some Miro shareholders are putting part of their proceeds into stock of a buyer the public market has just marked up.
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The payments company says it will be IPO-ready by December and that this is still not the time, and against roughly $132 billion of large offerings already on the year's tape, its $650 million of private funding looks like the cheaper trade.
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A UK consultancy says its invoicing software went up more than sixteenfold after Bending Spoons took over. The pricing model changed a year ago; customers on annual terms are only finding out now.
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