Impero

From a valuation perspective, the sector has been hit by a higher interest rate environment, which potentially could have peaked. At the same time, we have seen a lower growth rate in Q1 2023 from the listed global SaaS companies, which is now closer to Gartner's projected 2023 SaaS global market growth.

Do you want to know more about the latest development in the SaaS sector and get investment insights from an institutional Nordic SaaS investor as well as presentations of listed SaaS companies and recent insights from their management?

Our third monthly Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) newsletter is out! In our newsletter, we shed light on the recent market development and the current trend of companies being taken off the stock market (takeover and delistings).

Today, we publish our updated investment case one-pager on the Danish SaaS company, Impero. Impero’s B2B compliance management platform enables companies and organizations to secure high standards within the wider compliance domain. The company serves more than 140 customers across several countries, including large well-known corporations such as Maersk, Volkswagen, SimCorp, GroupM, and Bank Austria. 

Today, we have sent out our second monthly Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) newsletter, which covers news from March month and the recent development in the ARR valuation multiple. This newsletter’s theme focuses on the growth outlook for 2023, providing perspectives from Gartner reports, a CIO survey, as well as new 2023 guidance from the listed companies. Looking into the Danish SaaS sector, we see that the expected 2023 growth rates (we take the midrange of the SaaS companies’ 2023 ARR guidance) are slightly above the realized ARR growth from 2022.

Last week, we hosted a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deep dive event, focusing on the market outlook for 2023 and market drivers. In the introduction, we set the scene and provided an update on the current investor topics in the SaaS sector followed by projected overall software market growth rates in 2023 and valuation perspectives.

The SaaS HCA Index, measured on a simple ARR multiple (median) across 19 listed Danish SaaS companies, increased slightly to 4.3x ARR by the end of January 2023 from 4.2x ARR by the end of December 2022. However, the SaaS companies’ share prices increased by a median return of approx. 14% in the first month of 2023 and thus rebounding from larger declines during 2022. In general, the relatively small increase in the median ARR multiple itself is explained by new higher reported ARR numbers from some of the SaaS companies, which have updated the market with end of 2022 numbers.

The SaaS HCA Index, measured on a simple ARR multiple (median) across 19 listed Danish SaaS companies, declined to 4.2x ARR by the end of December 2022 from 4.6x ARR by the end of November 2022. Note the index shows the development over time for the sector, using the latest reported ARR numbers (which differ between the companies), and almost all companies have been tracked for at least a year (the latest SaaS IPO was in December 2021).

HC Andersen Capital and Inderes have the pleasure of inviting you to a virtual seminar focusing on the First North and Spotlight listed growth companies in the Nordic region. The macroeconomic environment has been challenging in 2022, and we are now looking into 2023. Get an update on several growth companies and industries before year-end and ask your questions directly to the management.

HCA Market Close 13.12.22 – SKAKO A/S gains on the announcement of a new order, while MapPeople and Impero adjust their 2022 full-year guidance down.

Nordic public markets host a broad selection of SaaS companies. In this article, we will give you an overview of 26 listed SaaS companies from Finnish and Danish markets, their respective software categories as well as their maturity stage. This article aims to serve as a starting point for finding interesting companies in the Nordic SaaS sector and help guide you toward content on these companies.