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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Average deal size in early-stage start-ups has gone up over the last two years.

The Indian Software as a Service (SaaS) landscape continues to mature rapidly, with 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 Indian SaaS companies

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First Published: Mon, December 06 2021. 23:32 IST

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