saas in nyc: 2015 overview, primary venture partners
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2015-2025: The NYC SaaS Decade?
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As the enterprise SaaS market continues to mature, and as we watch a blossoming of SaaS activity in New York City, we believe NYC is poised to become a true leader in the formation of companies leading the next wave of enterprise transformation, ultimately challenging even the Bay Area for SaaS leadership. Primary Venture Partners took a deep look at the existing NYC SaaS landscape, seeking a clear understanding of the reality behind our anecdotal sense of our home market’s strengths. What we found is exciting and bodes awfully well for Primary and our friends who are focused on NYC SaaS investing. There is much more to come! Key Findings: 9 SaaS company formation and investing has been rapidly accelerating in recent years,
and growing much more quickly than in the Bay Area
9 We’ve already seen a bunch of early exit successes, but with a growing pipeline of extremely well-funded, high growth successes, we can expect many, many more
9 NYC is particularly well positioned to lead as vertical SaaS applications continue to grow in importance vs. the historic horizontal paradigm
We are living in a SaaS economy
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Nationally, >$200B of public market value created in the last decade
2004 CA-based Salesforce.com becomes the first true SaaS company to go public with a $1.3Bn valuation (now >$40B)
Today SaaS companies make up over $200Bn of public market value*
*includes companies that have switched to a cloud-based subscription software model since 2004 and acquisition values of acquired public SaaS companies
NYC SaaS Activity Rapidly Accelerating
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Measured by rounds or $$, the last 5 years have seen rapid growth
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350
700
1,050
1,400
1,750
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75
150
225
300
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
rounds dollars
Source: Crunchbase; Internal Analysis
Rounds
CAGR (rounds): 31% CAGR (dollars): 40%
$ millions
NYC SaaS Financings, by # rounds and $ invested
NYC beginning to over-index on SaaS
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While SaaS has stayed steady in relative importance nationally, it is steadily growing in share of overall startup activity in NYC
20%
24%
Bay Area NYC
2014 While not historically thought of as a SaaS stronghold, NYC now 20% over-indexes on SaaS financings vs Bay Area
21% 21%
Bay Area NYC
2009 SaaS represented an equal share of total financings amongst Bay Area-based and NYC-based companies
Source: Crunchbase; Internal Analysis
New York is closing the gap
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NYC SaaS investments are growing at a faster rate than the Bay Area
Investment Dollars
Similarly, the growth of $$ invested in NYC SaaS companies has been more than
double the pace of growth of Investment dollars in the Bay. While on average still smaller than Bay Area financings, NYC
deals are getting bigger fast..
Number of Rounds
Five years ago, NYC had only 25% as many SaaS deals as the Bay Area. The NYC SaaS market has grown 2x as fast as the Bay’s, and last year had half the
new SaaS deals of the Bay Area.
Source: Crunchbase ; Internal Analysis
2009 2014
50%
15% 33%
25%
bay area nyc
NYC as % of Bay Area
With some notable successes
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Top exits for NYC-based SaaS companies
$745 million A social media marketing platform, acquired by Salesforce June 2012
$675 million*
$2.75 billion*
$230 million
$100 million+**
$200 million+**
Data governance software platform for unstructured data, went public in March 2014
Cloud platform for clinical trials used by pharmaceutical industry went public in June 2009
Data management platform for programmatic ads, acquired by Rocketfuel August 2014
Helps organizations implement BYOD mobile policies, acquired by Google May 2014
Payment processing technology for financial services, acquired by Google April 2012
* Market capitalization in March 2015 ** Financial terms not disclosed; these price ranges widely reported Source: Crunchbase ; CB Insights; Internal Analysis
and more potential in the pipeline
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Recent large financings suggest a pipeline of potential future unicorns
Platform enabling SMBs to sell their services online $77 million funding
Monitoring service producing unified metrics and events from IT infrastructure $53 million funding
Modular desktop and API products for integrating datasets / back-testing services $180 million funding
Simple and fast cloud hosting service built for developers $90 million funding
Cloud-based technology platform dedicated to improving cancer care $140 million funding
Equity trading platform for mutual funds, hedge funds and family offices $100 million funding
SaaS-based recruiting technology solutions to the Global Fortune 1000 $41 million funding
Next-generation database technology for enterprise customers $311 million funding
Automated patient check-in process for healthcare providers $73 million funding
Aggregates and analyzes disparate user data to provide personalized marketing $48 million funding
Cloud-based translation management platform $63 million funding
Complete social media management platform for enterprise brands $123 million funding
Low-latency market data and exchange connectivity solutions for financial firms $53 million funding
Small business digital presence management platform $116 million funding
Automated platform for managing online offers, reviews and email campaigns $40 million funding
Source: Crunchbase ; Internal Analysis *includes NYC enterprise / SaaS companies that have raised over $40 million
Rapidly changing SaaS Landscape
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A collection of fundamental changes are reshaping the SaaS landscape and redefining keys to success in building the next generation of winners
Consumerization of IT
Simplification of development
Verticalized solutions Mobilization Generational
transition
Simplified applications, sold from the bottom up to empowered end-users
Standardized, low cost, off-
the-shelf infrastructure
Ubiquitous SaaS adoption
creates sufficient scale
for industry-specific
solutions
Extends enterprise IT into the field
and redefines UX; billions of
new end points
Enterprise tech buyers
are increasingly net & mobile
natives
• Success is increasingly domain expertise & customer access-driven; a marked shift from SaaS 1.0, which was infrastructure & engineering-driven
• With access to unparalleled density of talent and customers, NYC is positioned to thrive
The domain expertise capital of the world
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NYC’s breadth of sector clusters is unparalleled and a critical asset
520,000 small businesses* make NYC the largest hub for small businesses in the U.S., nearly 2x the size of second place LA
9 Real Estate 9 Finance 9 Healthcare / Pharma 9 Insurance 9 Fashion 9 Law 9 Advertising / Marketing 9 Consumer / CPG 9 Media / Publishing 9 Retail / SMB
Source: S&P, Business Journal * Defined as businesses with 1-99 employees
19% of all S&P 500 companies are headquartered in the tri-state area of NY-NJ-CT
NYCLA
ChicagoMiami
PhiladelphiaWashington
DallasAtlantaBoston
HoustonSan Francisco
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Sample Regional Vertical Market Strengths
Real Estate Finance Customer Base: Top NYC-based Firms
Market Size & Trends
NYC Disruptors
$72bn Global software spend by Banking & Securities firms
IT spending in the finance sector is high, with firms spending 6.3% of revenue on IT solutions on average
Disruptable market?
Strength of NYC disruptors?
Source: Crunchbase; Gartner; Frontline Partners; BCG; Internal Analysis
Customer Base: NYC’s Real Estate Market is Huge
Market Size & Trends
NYC Disruptors
$17bn Global software spend by Real Estate firms
Disruptable market?
Strength of NYC disruptors?
Largest global CBD Midtown New York City
68% Highest percentage of residential renters in the U.S.
Current real estate online consumer experiences lag other industries, scoring only 52% of the cross-industry average
Domain expertise capital of the world
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Sample Regional Vertical Market Strengths (cont’d)
Healthcare / Pharma Insurance Customer Base: Top NYC-based Firms
Market Size & Trends
NYC Disruptors
$31bn Global software spend by Insurance firms
Current insurance online consumer experiences lag other industries, scoring only 55% of the cross-industry average
Disruptable market?
Strength of NYC disruptors?
Customer Base: Top NYC-based Firms
Market Size & Trends
NYC Disruptors
$19bn Global software spend by Pharmaceutical firms
Disruptable market?
Strength of NYC disruptors?
(ImClone)
Source: Crunchbase, Gartner, Informa Ovum, BCG; Internal Analysis
Spending likely to increase as firms use BI to incorporate data from social media, electronic medical records and genetic sequencing
Domain expertise capital of the world
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Law Advertising / Marketing
Source: Crunchbase, Gartner; Internal Analysis
Customer Base: Top NYC-based Firms
Market Size & Trends
NYC Disruptors
$2.3bn Global spend on eDiscovery software by Legal firms
Spending on eDiscovery software is growing strongly and is expected to double by 2018
Disruptable market?
Strength of NYC disruptors?
Customer Base: Top NYC-based Firms
Market Size & Trends
NYC Disruptors
$5bn Global software spend by Marketing / Advertising firms
As more marketing driven spend moves online, it will be important for large marketing firms to keep pace
Disruptable market?
Strength of NYC disruptors?
COUNSELYTICS
Domain expertise capital of the world Sample Regional Vertical Market Strengths (cont’d)
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Media / Publishing
Source: Crunchbase, Gartner, Internal Analysis
Customer Base: Top NYC-based Firms
Market Size & Trends
NYC Disruptors
$17bn Global software spend by Publishing, Broadcasting and Entertainment firms
Disruptable market?
Strength of NYC disruptors?
Domain expertise capital of the world
Consumer / CPG Customer Base: Top NYC-based firms
Market Size & Trends
NYC Disruptors
$14bn Global software spend by consumer goods manufacturers
Disruptable market?
Strength of NYC disruptors?
CPG companies expected to focus software tools for managing real-time KPIs and supply chain integration
Sample Regional Vertical Market Strengths (cont’d)
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Small Retail & Other SMBs
Source: Crunchbase, Gartner, Business Journal, Internal Analysis
Customer Base: NYC as an SMB hub
Market Size & Trends
NYC Disruptors
$23bn Global Software spend by Retailers alone
SMB expected to increase IT spending by 38% in 2015, focusing on CRM tools, BI tools and security
Disruptable market?
Strength of NYC disruptors?
520,000 Small businesses with 1-99 employees located in NYC
58,000 Jobs added by the retail sector in NYC since 2009
Domain expertise capital of the world
NYC
LA
Chicago
Miami
Philadelphia
Washington
Dallas
Atlanta
Boston
Houston
San Francisco
5x as many SMBs in NYC versus San Francisco / the Bay Area
HONEY
NYC also offers an unparalleled opportunity for SMB platforms
A magnet for talent
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NYC acts as a strong funnel for talent to tech startups
Feeder Industries A steady stream of business and technical candidates freshly trained by top tier banks, consultants and tech firms
Strong Schools Technical and general candidates from top schools like Columbia, NYU (and Cornell’s tech campus to come )
Tech Community With the major tech titans as anchor tenants, the largest meetup group in the world, and a robust group of accelerators, the NYCTech community continues to grow
Demographics The city is a magnet for a diverse inflow of young college grads looking to live amongst their peers in the most dynamic city in the world
TALENT
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Tech Jobs in NYC Since the financial crisis, tech jobs in NYC have increased by 33% versus 8% job growth in the city as a whole
+33%
Average NYC Tech Salaries Technology jobs can be among the best paying in the city
$79,500 $65,400
$118,600
Average͒(all jobs) Average͒(excl. securities) Tech industry
Source: New York State Comptroller's Office
NYC investors are leading the charge
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A new growing base of native capital adds to NYC’s strength
Source: Crunchbase; Internal Analysis
other NYC-based
Most active investors in NYC SaaS companies (by total financings in the past five years)
What Next?
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NYC’s SaaS ecosystem has arrived, and is poised for growth. So what now?
9We are catching up to the Bay Area, and the growing importance of vertical SaaS should help us further close the gap in the coming years
9With a strong and growing pipeline of budding unicorns, we can expect Medidata to have plenty of company in the NYC SaaS Unicorn Club by 2020
9 Look for a couple of sectors to really flourish – early promising candidates are real estate, finance, healthcare/pharma, and small business
9The big question: will we build standalone, anchor tenants in the community, or a steady stream of M&A fodder for the big SaaS titans?
Thank You Brad Svrluga, Co-Founder & General Partner [email protected] @bradsvrluga