Startup & VC Jargon · Vice President level

"ARR"

"ARR" stands for annual recurring revenue, the total predictable revenue a company expects to collect from subscriptions or contracts over one year.

Say this instead: yearly recurring revenue

How "ARR" shows up at work

The number that determines whether a startup is a business. Every SaaS pitch deck has it on slide two, and every investor asks whether it is truly recurring or just a hopeful projection. Pronounced as a word, not three letters, which is how you know someone lives in tech.

Buzzword

We hit $2M ARR last month, ahead of our model.

Plain English

We hit $2M in yearly recurring revenue last month, ahead of our model.

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