By Mitch Zuklie and Richard D. Harroch SaaS (Software as a Service) companies, are attracting some of the top talent and funding in technology today. The most notable SaaS companies occupied seven of the top 10 verticals by venture capital deal activity recently, and three of the top 10 by investments. Venture investment is running ahead of last year’s pace, which was more than double the volume of each of the prior three years. SaaS is being applied to solve all kinds of problems, such as monitoring and security, business intelligence analytics, accounting and finance, healthcare, HR and workforce management,