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Markets2026-09-11 · source-backed
The all-cash deal (Bending Spoons) values Miro at about 2x its revenue. Miro has about $600M in ARR, 250,000 customer organizations and positive cash flow. Bending Spoons closed its purchase of Airtable at $1.28B the week before. Mature single-product SaaS caught between big suites and AI-native tools now has a public exit price, and it's about two years of revenue.
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Between August 4 and August 8: Bending Spoons agreed to buy Airtable ($1.285B EV, 2.7x ARR), Klaviyo agreed to acquire AI customer-success startup Agency, and OpenAI acquired NextSlide. The buyers have nothing in common: a public app consolidator, an e-commerce marketing platf...
HubSpot quietly switched Breeze AI agents to $0.50/resolution pricing on April 14. That makes five. Intercom at $0.99/resolution (already past $100M ARR on this model). Sierra at $150M+ ARR on pure outcome pricing. Salesforce at $2/conversation or $0.10/action. Zendesk launchi...
Per-seat pricing is dying. Not slowly. Not in theory. Right now, across three unrelated categories, simultaneously. HubSpot: $0.50 per resolved conversation. Salesforce Agentforce: $800M ARR on "Agentic Work Units," converting 20 trillion tokens into 2.4 billion discrete measu...
HubSpot: $0.50 per resolved conversation, $1 per qualified lead (launching April 14). Zendesk: $1.50-$2.00 per automated resolution. Intercom: $0.99 per resolution. Three of the top five CRM/support platforms independently converged on resolution-based pricing in the same quar...
HubSpot beat Q2 revenue at $912M, up 20%. Beat EPS at $3.26 against $3.02 expected. Its Data Agent is at 16,000 customers, up 80% quarter over quarter. Its Customer Agent resolves 72% of tickets without escalation. The stock had its largest one-day drop in 12 years on the NYSE...
$688 billion in hyperscaler AI capex against $110 billion of revenue. No capex breakeven until 2031 or 2032. Those are Scale Venture Partners' Rory O'Driscoll's numbers from SaaStr AI 2026, and they're the backdrop for the most useful strategy conversation I've read this month...
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