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Battery Ventures: Startups Are Actually Far More Overvalued Now Than in 2021

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There’s a lot of great data in the report, but one analysis helped answered a question I’ve been wondering the past 12-18 months: Are start-up actually more overvalued today than at the peak of Cloud mania in 2021? in 2021 to 23.4x in 2021 and 2.1x The answer in my experience is actually Yes. from 21.2x

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How 1,000+ B2B Startups Are — And Aren’t — Growing. The Real Data.

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This isn’t your typical “here’s what public companies are doing” report – this is real data from real private companies dealing with real challenges in 2025. The survey reveals we’re returning to “pre-pandemic levels”, we’re normalizing after the artificial highs of 2021-2022.

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Will Buyers Ultimately Pay More for AI? Vendr’s Data Says … Maybe Not

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Vendr’s latest data suggest overal l, net net, ACVs aren’t going up from AI. The Old SaaS Products of 2021 are looking very creaky and dated. Vendr’s Data Says … Maybe Not appeared first on SaaStr. Salesforce is going big here with AgentForce at $2 per usage. Others are more cautious.

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We’re Back. Q1 Was a Record for Tech Acquisitions in Dollars. But Deal Count? It’s Doubled But Isn’t Close to 2021.

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So Bloomberg and CB Insights have the latest data out on start-ups getting acquired, and 2025 is off to a record start : Wiz’s record $32 Billion acquisition by Google pushes the dollar value to a record, but you may have also missed there were 11 VC-backed $1B+ exits already in 2025, worth $54.5 based start-ups just in 2021!

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The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data: How to Go From Concept to Reality

Speaker: Dr. Joe Perez, Senior Systems Analyst at NC Dept. of Health & Human Services, and Chief Technology Officer at SolonTek

Do you have the vision to combine beauty with brains, thereby driving decisions with data? What value do you see in your data? Joe Perez will go over the five "Stages of the Spectrum" in action while discovering the difference between impact and influence, and how that difference plays into making data actionable.

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Carta: Pre-Seed to Series A Funding is Down -9% in 2024

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So it’s interesting how folks craft headlines from data. Carta release its latest funding data the other data for 2024 Year-To-Date here : What you can see is that large, hot AI later stage deals overall are indeed driving venture capital deployments up ~ +17% the year. But that’s for late-stage capital.

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Snowflake Buys Crunchy Data for $250m, Databricks Buys Neon for $1B. The New AI Database Battle.

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Billion PostgreSQL Battle for AI Agent Supremacy Brief Overview : Two data giants are making strategic moves to dominate the AI agent infrastructure market through major PostgreSQL acquisitions. Databricks: The $1.25 With this news, we will be introducing Snowflake Postgres: enterprise-grade, AI-ready, and fully managed.

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Storytelling: The Secret Weapon to Turning Your Data into Meaning

Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates

Storytelling is critical for turning data into meaning - your data (hopefully) helps you tell a story, that you can use for influence, persuasion, or simply decision-making. February 25, 2021 at 11:00 am PST, 2:00 pm EST, 7:00 pm GMT. Storytelling is a way to keep everyone focused on the customer and their needs.

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Are You Ready For Predictive Analytics?

Speaker: Anita Lauper Wood, Product Strategist

Having insights about people, such as understanding purchase intent or pinpointing future inventory needs, gives products the ability to leverage that data and provide significant added value. How to de-risk predictive analytics such as how to avoid a lawsuit that might come out of bias in data and algorithms.

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Your Team's Pragmatic Guide to Security

Speaker: Naresh Soni, CTO, Tsunami XR

The pandemic has led to new data vulnerabilities, and therefore new cyber security threats. What methods and architectures you should consider to proactively protect your data. Tuesday February 16th, 2021 at 9:30AM PST, 12:30PM EST, 5:30PM GMT As technology leaders, it's time to rethink some of your product security strategy.

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Best Practices for Creating Long-Lasting and Continuous Discovery Habits

Speaker: Teresa Torres, Internationally Acclaimed Author, Speaker, and Coach at ProductTalk.org

Data shows that the best product teams are shifting from this mindset to a continuous one. June 24, 2021 at 12:30 pm PDT, 3:30 pm EDT, 8:30 pm BST. As a result, many of us are still stuck in a project-world rut: research, usability testing, engineering, and a/b testing, ad nauseam.

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The Forrester Wave™: B2B Marketing Data Providers, Q2 2021

In our 24-criterion evaluation of B2B marketing data providers, we identified the 11 most significant vendors — Data Axle, Dun & Bradstreet, Enlyft, Global Database, InsideView, Leadspace, Oracle, SMARTe, Spiceworks Ziff Davis, TechTarget, and ZoomInfo Technologies — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.

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10 Keys to AI Success in 2021

In our 10 Keys to AI Success in 2021 eBook, we draw from the engaging conversations we’ve had with guests on our More Intelligent Tomorrow podcast series to show how organizations are overcoming hurdles and realizing the enormous rewards that AI can bring to any organization. How MLOps streamlines machine learning from data to value.

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How To Design Your Next Roadmap with Data-Driven Pit Stops Masterclass

Speaker: Sonia Singhal, Product Manager at eBay

These days, a simple A/B test can seem to incorporate the whole alphabet, and making a decision from that data isn't as easy as A, B, C either. How can we shorten the time it takes to do the tests while gaining larger amounts of data? Are we even gaining any new insight into the data we are receiving?

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Everyday Behavioral Science and Web Design for Marketers

Speaker: Brian Massey, Founder of Conversion Sciences LLC

Brian Massey will show you how data gathering during design will ensure your campaigns have high conversion rates and fast ROI on your spend. In Brian’s session, you’ll learn: How a data-driven landing page is crafted. How to make design and copy decisions with data. Data you already have but aren't using.