Amber Road, Inc. (AMBR, Financial) has been a long time holding of the Fund. It provides subscription software (SaaS) services delivered through the cloud that enables some of the largest companies in the world to navigate difficult trade regulation environments. Shares were crushed last year after revenue growth disappointed. But customer retention has been fantastic (in no small part due to the company’s unique database of tariffs, trade regulations and other laws which are constantly refreshed). And the order book is accelerating to the point where we believe that the company can start putting up high-teens revenue growth again. We had sold a majority of our position in 2015 (taking some tax losses when the business environment was uncertain). But we bought back the position near the lows (shares were trading at around 1.5x sales), when we perceived that the business was turning around.
From Baron Discovery Fund's second quarter 2016 commentary.
