SaaS Startup Early Revenue and Growth Estimates

Basel Barzanji
4 min readJan 11, 2018

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While getting started on my second SaaS startup, I was intrigued with the monthly revenue and growth rate SaaS startups are able to reach within the first few months to the first year of operations. I went through several demo day pitches from the 500 Startups program and noted down some of my findings.

I am not trying to predict startup success here or anything else. I am only interested in early startup revenue and growth indicators that attract investors or validate that the company might be on the right path to success.

In summary, most SaaS startups were able to reach an impressive monthly revenue and growth rate with little or no funding. On average, SaaS startups were making $58,000 per month when pitching to investors with a monthly growth rate of 50%.

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Here are the are revenue slides from the pitch decks

Podozi

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

GetAccept

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Linkett

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Ticktate

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Qualio

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

HealthStartup

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

BrewPublik

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

MentiMeter

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

RapidAPI

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Dobt

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Resourceio

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

TechStartup

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Visiblee

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Yoderm

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Bigfinite

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Bottlestonight

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Arka

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Blavity

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Avocode

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Conceptdrop

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

TraceAir

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Cosyrobo

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

BurstIQ

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Ascente

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Nurseversity

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

ParkBench

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Histowiz

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Hamptonslane

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Transtutors

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Easyten

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

oddup

Average SaaS Startup Revenue — Basel AlBarzanji

Read Part 2 — SaaS Startup Early Revenue and Growth Estimates II

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Basel Barzanji

Product Development Consultant. Founded & sold capital markets platform. Interested in Python, Finance and Machine Learning.