Years from founding to IPO in SaaS

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Sammy Abdullah

Blossom Street

发布日期: 2025年2月17日
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How many years will it take you to exit?? We looked at every SaaS IPO since MongoDB in October 2017.? The data is below along with a few observations (note that ‘IPO Year’ is actually the last full year of financials prior to IPO).

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It’ll take a decade plus.? There have been 78 IPO’s in that period with the last one being Sailpoint.? The median IPO took 11 years and the average took 12 years.?

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The range is wide.? The fastest IPO’s happened in 4 years (Livongo and EverCommerce).? Others literally took 20 to 30 years.?

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