The Day in SaaS 07.05.21: Yahoo Trademark for $1.6 Billion; eCommerce Accelerates More; Bowling Alley SaaS SPAC
SaaStr 450: SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin, and Klaviyo CEO, Andrew Bialecki, on the $9.5B Revolution in eCommerce: Part One • The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors - via Podcast Addict. If you missed this podcast, it’s one of my favorites. The CEO of $9.5B Klaviyo and I sat down to talk SMB sales, B2B ecommerce, and much more.
ShipHero raises $50M to expand e-comm fulfillment network. More B2B e-commerce! Fullfillment outside of Amazon is a huge market.
Software solutions provider EverCommerce prices 19M-share IPO at $17. Yet another B2B e-commerce IPO!
There's Now a Bowling Alley SaaS SPAC. Low-quality SPACs have finally come to SaaS. A Bowling Alley leader starts bulding SaaS software and does a SPAC on its potential .. but at $0 in ARR. Valuation? $2.3 Billion. Crazy times, indeed.
World’s Top Pension Fund Books ‘Historic’ $339 Billion Gain. Pension Funds invest in VCs, PE and tech IPOs. And they’ve had an incredible year because of it.
Egypt's Maxab closes $40 million Series A to fuel expansion of its B2B ecommerce platform. Even more B2B ecommerce, across the globe!
SoftBank buys perpetual Yahoo trademark license for $1.6 billion. Yahoo! is still huge in Japan. It’s almost a parallel universe where Google matters, but Yahoo! won. It’s trademark alone is worth $1.6B to Softbank.
SolarWinds: How Russian spies hacked the Justice, State, Treasury, Energy and Commerce Departments. The SolarWinds hack was even worse than we thought. Over 1,000 engineers worked on the attacks.
Moguls, Deals And Patagonia Vests: A Look Inside 'Summer Camp For Billionaires'. Events are back. Including the legenday Allen & Co meet-up at Sun Valley. "They've organized the biggest matchmaking service for media companies," says Steven Davidoff Solomon, the head of the Berkeley Center for Law and Business.
Using Skype for Business Online? Get ready to say goodbye to it soon | ZDNet. Yes, Zoom beat WebEx. But WebEx is still around. What is really killed, along with Slack and others, was Skype for Business. Now what’s left is part of Teams.
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