SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? The company is an AI platform that empowers teachers to give instant, personalized feedback to students, based in San Francisco. We were really impressed with Class Companion’s founder Avery Pan’s clear vision and mission to help teachers leverage AI to improve education.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2024

We had a great one last time with Harpinder Singh, Partner at Innovation Endeavors. What’s your most recent disclosed investment? What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? For over two decades, Creandum has specialized in early-stage investing, Seed and Series A. Check that out here.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

took over the company in 1952 and decided to make his mark through modern design, they’ve become the single largest design organization in the world, with over 1500 designers working in innovative products from machine learning to cloud to file sharing. For Arin, explainability is a key element when it comes to ethical AI.

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? We recently led a [ $50M series B ] investment in Todyl, which is a modular cybersecurity platform for small and medium businesses. What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? What’s different about your fund / how you invest and support founders?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And the broad impact of this wave of AI is already creating the sort of massive value we’ve seen with other platform shifts, like the internet, mobile, cloud. AI today 1. Previous platform shifts show it can take decades of compounding innovations for a technological breakthrough to turn into a society-wide shift.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. By the end of the year, valuation multiples for Cloud companies hadn’t just fallen below the 10-year trailing average but below the pre-pandemic long-term average we were used to seeing.

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SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2024

One of the strategy changes is to say, “Hey if we turn up the innovation and actual product quality, can we ultimately get around having to spend all this money on advertising?” How do you invest in the positive attributes of the community while protecting that special connection with people? This is part of the playbook.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

During those 30 years as an Open Source platform, multiple developers and professionals adopted and contributed to it to the point where, today, Linux is everywhere—supercomputers, AI, IoT, embedded devices, and so on. Innovation happens more easily on Open Source in a SaaS model. Open Source is an innovation that’s here to stay.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

I’ve been trying to write a comprehensive, buttoned-up “AI Update,” covering all this month’s AI developments. AI does not mean “the machine is thinking.” ” That’s a real concept, but it has its own term: AGI or Artificial General Intelligence. .”

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In part one of this week’s Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) with SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin, he answered the community’s questions about whether all anyone cares about is AI anymore, investor appetites going into 2024, vertical SaaS, and thriving as a solo founder. Now, everyone wants AI to do it. So, maybe there’s an uptick in 2024. “Do

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

What do enterprise buyers in healthcare care about most when evaluating AI products? We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case. In other words, buyers aren’t seeking AI for AI’s sake.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Revolutionizing Revenue: What is the Role of AI and Machine Learning in Agile Monetization? As businesses strive for agility and precision in their monetization strategies, the integration of these advanced technologies offers unprecedented opportunities for innovation, customization, and efficiency.

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 26, 2024

And here is a passage from their earnings transcript talking about AI: Let's spend some time framing the dimensions of this new AI world. And when you drill deeper into the Gartner forecast between 2023 and 2027, $3 trillion will be spent on AI. … And with regard to Gen AI, the momentum is outstanding.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon on AWS : “…customers are continuing to shift their focus towards driving innovation and bringing new workloads to the cloud. So what you're seeing is much more of that continuous cycles by customers, both when it comes to AI or whether it comes to the traditional workloads.” ” What’s the TLDR?

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 5, 2024

Over recent years, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have become an essential element of SaaS Development Frameworks. Overview of Machine Learning and AI Integration. Problems and Opportunities for Progress in Cyberspace (CCIP). Opportunities for Automation and Optimization.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. David: It feels like we are entering a new platform shift with AI.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

R&D spend is the lifeblood of technology companies—all the more so as companies race to build and incorporate AI into their products to remain competitive. Focus on performance management of your product and engineering teams as early indicators for what R&D investments are working, and which aren’t.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) for sales – buzzword or solution? AI-driven sales tech is emerging as a practical answer for many of the challenges facing sales leaders, trainers, managers, coaches, and sales enablement pros. AI simply helps you make better business decisions. AI simply helps you make better business decisions.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The emergence of generative AI, cloud computing, and new spatial platforms is poised to disrupt 3D creation end-to-end. And with AI, we are only beginning to understand the possibilities. Of course, this vision came to reality through the games industry (which is often the tip of the spear for technological innovations).

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Sixteen Ventures

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Generative Artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT – and now Bing Chat – is transforming the way we communicate and work, especially in Customer Success. These AI-powered tools offer unique benefits to Customer Success Managers (CSMs) and Enablement pros like: enhancing search, language generation, and productivity.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ask anyone in Fintech SaaS about the shifts of the last 18 months and you’ll hear stories about investment shortages, rising churn rates, and market consolidation. It’s our hope that this series not only informs Fintech SaaS founders, but inspires the tidal wave of innovation that's on the horizon. But then came AI. trillion.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Think about the ascendancy of the cloud in terms of technology environments.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The speakers believe that the next 10 years will be better for the region, with opportunities for investment in various industries using technology to solve problems. Latin America has interesting characteristics that make it a viable place for investment, including a high level of internet penetration and social engagement.

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Totango

APRIL 9, 2024

This signifies that fostering an exceptional partnership between CS and sales teams — vital for long-term revenue growth, begins with understanding which customers can derive the highest value from your products and services over time. They unanimously agreed that 2024 is the year of the ICP (Ideal Customer Profile).

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Is that, I realize it’s still early days in terms of what happened, but counter-UAS, counter-drone systems have been a big topic. It’s an area where a lot of companies are trying to innovate. Sharon: Another thing you talked about is just this tremendous amount of private investment venture capital going into defense.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This year, topics ranged broadly from incorporating AI to deliver world-class consumer experiences to defining and measuring different forms of community-powered growth. In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 2, 2024

See my FAQ for my terms, disclosures, disclaimers, et cetera. They continue to rapidly innovate on product. OpenView surprised the industry with an abrupt shutdown in new investing. AI Climbs the Hype Cycle. In While I’m still winning my personal John Henry battle with generative AI, I know my lead won’t last forever.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

AI has been quite overhyped in the past. ML teams tend to invest a fair share of resources in research that never ships. If you want to invest in ML, hire someone with experience on both the tech and the operational side so they can start working with the product team from day one. . What’s up?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Flex is a finance super app built around a credit card with unique Net-60 day terms that enables businesses to make an investment today and pay it back 60 days later with zero percent interest. AI: Google is releasing a new AI-powered tool, ImageFX , for image creation. in order to keep a seat at the revenue table.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

And while you’re answering that, can you unpack the term a little bit for any listeners who are not as familiar with what ecosystem-led growth means? In terms of the book, there’s no reason to write a book unless people are going to show up wanting to read it. EQLs, it’s going to be as common of a term as MQLs.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You can find the original post here Today we’re very excited to announce our partnership and Series B investment in Tabular , the company behind Apache Iceberg. The rise of foundation models and generative AI only furthers this trend. But this isn’t another post about AI, it’s about the future of data infrastructure.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Before 2023, the term “generative AI” was met with blank faces. But over the past 12 months, Open AI’s ChatGPT has gone mainstream, Twitter has become X, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, as did FTX, and WeWork… How many of these did you see coming? Polis Pilavas , VP Engineering at ChartMogul “AI will dominate and disrupt.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Basile Senesi (CRO, Arc – Series A) notes that in the last 12 months, Arc has tripled events / field investments – “bulk of it is private dinners, usually co-sponsored to bring cost down.” SEO is a hot topic with the advances of AI and its inevitable impact.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. It turns out design matters.

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The SaaS Garage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Founded in 2013, riskmethods ’ software as a service (SaaS) solution harnesses cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI), big data and machine learning to protect its customers’ supply chain networks. riskmethods’ software utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to protect its customers’ supply chain network.

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