saas.group: Philosophy and Beliefs

Purpose

saas.group acquires profitable B2B software companies and runs them for the long term. 27 companies, 400+ people, 50+ countries, no headquarters. Each company keeps its name, its product, and its team. What changes is what stands behind it.

saas.group buys companies to operate them, and it holds them. There is no exit clock. saas.group’s purpose is to rewrite the rules of winning in software.

How saas.group got here

Founded in 2017 by Tim Schumacher, Ulrich Essmann, and Tobias Schlottke, saas.group started with a single acquisition and a conviction: bootstrapped software companies are consistently better businesses than the market gives them credit for, and they often lose quite some traction once the founder moves on.

Many acquisitions later, that conviction has become an operating system. saas.group has learned what actually moves a $2M ARR company to $10M, which mistakes repeat across every acquisition, and which parts of a company should never be centralized.

It was an unfashionable bet in 2017. It is still an unfashionable bet.

What saas.group believes

• Boring is underrated. Profitable, bootstrapped, unglamorous B2B software is the best risk-adjusted business in tech. The market prices it as if it isn’t.
• A company loses more when its founder leaves than when its budget is cut. That is the failure mode nobody plans for. saas.group plans for it from the first conversation.
• Independence is the operating advantage. A team that still owns its product moves faster than a team executing someone else’s roadmap. saas.group keeps it that way because it works.
• AI raises the ceiling for every team. saas.group gives every employee the AI expertise it would otherwise have to guess at.