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At $4.5 billion, investment in SaaS companies grows 170% in 2021

India now has 13 SaaS unicorns and between 7 and 9 companies with $100 mn+ annual recurring revenue (ARR)

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Shivani Shinde

1 min read Last Updated : Dec 06 2021 | 11:32 PM IST

The Indian Software as a Service (SaaS) landscape continues to mature rapidly, with companies driving heightened investor interest. This spans both early-stage companies, with an 85% increase in average value of seed rounds over 2019, and later-stage ones, with a 20 percentage point increase in share of Series D+ funding rounds over 2019. Key findings from Indian SaaS Report 2021 by Bain & Company.

SaaS is driving value creation in 4 ways:

100% growth in exits, from 6 in 2018 to 12 in 2021
Strong ARR-to-funding ratio in line with global SaaS peers
Creation of a strong talent pool
New firms founded by ex-employees of

Topics : SaaS technology SaaS industry Indian companies unicorn companies

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