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I’ve been reading SimpleClosure’s H1 2026 shutdown report. It covers the companies it helped dissolve, so it isn’t the whole market, but a few numbers stood out. B2B SaaS made up 27.3% of closures, against 14.4% for AI. The median SaaS company closed at about 3.8 years old, and AI companies at about 2.3 years. Among companies that gave a reason, 28.1% cited insufficient capital or cash flow, and 22.2% cited a personal decision or change in priorities. The report also says AI took about 86 cents of every US venture dollar in H1 2026, and that megadeals of $100M or more took 87.5% of US startup investment. My read is that many SaaS closures come from slow runway and shifting priorities, not one dramatic failure. Money is also concentrating in a few very large rounds, so small teams may have to rely on revenue sooner than they hoped. I’m a full-stack developer early in building my own product, and this made me think about how much cash discipline matters at the start. For people who’ve run a SaaS for a few years: what mattered most for staying alive past year 3? Cheap infrastructure, narrow focus, a first paying segment, something else?   submitted by   /u/Aman_85m [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/20 01:29:14