SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In my own portfolio , more of my investments had a record month in October than a rough month. They aren’t perfect, but given how many CIOs they interview — over 2,200 for this survey — they’re one of my favorite sources for what’s happening in 2023. to $880 Billion in 2023 appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Making it simple to implement, Ramya Periyagaram Chandrasekaran, Co-Founder at Datalligence AI Private Limited Why Is NRR the Most Important Growth Metric? The post Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023! with Dumindu Tennakoon, General Manager at appiGo International Pvt Ltd How to achieve more with OKRs? Happy Brain-dating!

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Given the massive downturn that started 18 months ago, many SaaS founders are nervous about what it takes to raise capital in SaaS in 2023 / 2024. Christoph Janz, General Partner of Point Nine Capital, shares what it takes to raise capital in SaaS, overall investment activity in 2023, and how to develop a convincing AI strategy.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2023

G2 CEO Godard Abel deep dives into his original vision for G2, going multi-product, selling with multiple sales teams, demand gen spend, and why AI is the most important thing right now. Many investment banker pitches say that everyone is number one at something. AI is just a better interface than forms-based searching.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In 2023: GenAI funding was up a stunning +271% (!) Top SaaS VCs are investing 80%+ in AI-first startups: This is where the VC frenzy is right now. With public SaaS multiples frozen around 6x, there just isn’t a ton of later-stage excitement outside of AI. Sapphire Ventures has the latest data. Everything Else?

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SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

If you look, the indexed returns of those names were up 71% throughout 2023, and if you’ve followed NVIDIA, they’ve gone even higher. It was a small sign that we might be bottoming out, and software selling might be getting incrementally easier than it was throughout 2022 or 2023. What does that mean for the B2B market?

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2023

Founders of 2023 ask themselves, “What does it take to raise money right now in this uncertain market environment?” 2023 is a bit more cautious and awkward. You can see how the market builds up until Q4 of 2021 with almost $63B of cash raised, and then fell to around $43B raised in Q1 of 2022 and $10B in Q1 of 2023. and $4M ARR.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Unveiling the 2023 SaaS Funding Napkin At the annual SaaStr conference in San Mateo three weeks ago, I delved into fundraising trends in 2023, discussing the implications of investors’ new-found love for efficiency vs. growth at all costs for founders, and why you should expect AI to come up in (almost) every pitch meeting.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2024

Growth slowed for everyone in 2023 and they now need to buy growth. Will AI Change the Game for Enterprise Software? CFOs do not have an AI line on their budget. What does Jason Know Now That He Wishes He Had Known Earlier in Investing: If you don’t know in 20 minutes that this is one of the best founders you’ve met.

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SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2023

Vendr SaaS Consultant Katie Oates and Vendr Vice President of Customer Team Jeff Swank share eye-opening data and insights into buyer trends from 2023. SaaS Market Snapshot In Q1 of 2023, Vendr gathered data on SaaS Spending and yielded some pretty interesting results. So, what’s driving these purchasing trends? weakest link.

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Totango

JANUARY 3, 2024

With Totango, businesses can integrate data to get a 360° view of customer health, collaborate to manage their customer portfolio , engage with customers when and where it matters, monitor and improve the metrics that matter , and scale CS faster with the power of people + AI. Plus, industry experts agree.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Over the past year, we’ve had tons of founders ask where they should be prioritizing their marketing dollars and resources considering the wild economic year that 2023 has unfolded as. The annual Gartner 2023 CMO Spend and Strategy Survey was conducted in March and April 2023. Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter!

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

In the last two years, M&A has totaled about $49b & it surges to above $60b driven by AI acquisitions. AI & data continue to dominate the funding landscape as founders & investors seek novel applications of the technology. SaaS did see a second wave fueled by AI, but the productivity gains remain to be seen.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As the year winds down, it's time to stroll down memory lane and revisit the moments that defined 2023 on social media.   Let’s give 2023 a quick rewind. The big screen 2023 was a landmark year for cinema, with the big screen offering a mosaic of storytelling that captivated audiences worldwide. So many memes. 

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SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2024

VCs are minting AI unicorns at a strong clip, and investing in AI at as fast a clip as they can. Yes, AI has fueled Nvidia and Google Cloud and Microsoft and AWS to massive growth, and growth that has accelerated the past few quarters. Are some of these AI deals done at extremely high ARR multiples?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? My most recent was a $4M seed round in Class Companion, announced in October 2023. The company is an AI platform that empowers teachers to give instant, personalized feedback to students, based in San Francisco. What’s different about your fund / how you invest and support founders?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

2024 may not be great, but for folks who are leaders in their categories, everyone likely will point to some quarter in 2023 as the low point. There is an “AI Innovation Pause” in B2B SaaS AI overall is one of the greatest forces of nature we’ve seen in technology and software.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2023

? Now that I have 5 investments at $200m+ ARR, and they are all basically cash-flow positive (which is necessary today), I’ve seen one clear trend in today’s new efficient world: Just about everyone at $200m ARR now has about 700 employees or so. 18-24 months ago, it was all over the place. This starts to get tough.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

SaaStr 684: A Deep Dive Into G2, The Power Of AI, Going Multi-Product, And The 2023 Ecosystem  4. LIVE from SaaStr Annual 2023 Stage A Masters: What The Top Founders Do Better to Scale Even Now with Y Combinator’s Managing Director Michael Siebel 3. The Next Best in About 5 Years.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

jasonlk) December 19, 2023 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. From 60 Million Users in September 2021 to 170 Million in December 2023 It certainly helps that Canva in many ways is as B2C as it is B2B, as it fuels a huge TAM. 300 Employees Working on AI Not a surprise, but interesting to see the scale of investment here. #5.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Can you run a social media account only using AI? We’ve even covered this before while addressing how the Buffer Content team uses AI in our creative process. We’ve even covered this before while addressing how the Buffer Content team uses AI in our creative process.

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SaaStr

JUNE 24, 2023

AI has driven a number of rapid unicorns, and at SaaStr Europa 2023, Iconiq Growth noted that while they did 0 brand new growth investments in 2022, they’d already done 5 in the first half of 2023. So the markets are still down and multiples are still low, but growth rates in SaaS and Cloud are slowly creeping back.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

So 2023 was a weird year. And 2023? On the debit side: Growth at public SaaS companies fell to all-time lows, averaging just 16% Public ARR multiples remained low, at 6x, for the second straight year Late stage VC fell dramatically, outside of AI investments Start-ups failed, and/or saw much tougher times.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 1, 2024

Anything AI related has always been “hot,” but it has really hit a fever pitch in the last few months. What’s most interesting about this, is a lot of the darling AI companies from last year have really slowed down, but everyone seems to have forgotten this and is ready to “find the next big thing.”

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But in contrast to their bigger customers, the macro environment — or perhaps market saturation — has led to slowing growth in this segment in 2023. #2. Automation / AI is Already a Big Deal. The contact and support spaces have rapidly adopted as much of AI as they can.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2022

11% said they would maintain their SEO budget going into 2023. And 9% said they are decreasing their content creation budget due to AI tools helping them create content more affordably. Speaking of AI tools… they are the talk of the town these days. A staggering 98% said they would invest in AI tools in 2023.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? Canvas Ventures manages $835 million in AUM, currently investing out of our third, $350 million fund.

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 26, 2024

There have been many companies who’ve seen their quarterly net new ARR decrease each quarter through 2023. 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 with regard to Gen AI, the momentum is outstanding.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2024

SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin also wrote how Customer Success has now morphed into part of the sales team and that the 2024 trends in CS include everyone wanting to eliminate humans from support to replace that headcount with AI and bots. So e ven if you had a hard 2023, there’s magic in this chart. From 2022 to 2023, it grew 0%.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

Generative AI has changed how tech companies do business. companies use AI in their operations and the number of jobs requiring AI has increased by 450% since 2013. In 2023, over 26% of investments in American startups were directed toward AI-related companies. How to implement AI to build better products.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 25, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. There are two forces in tension : overall cost reduction efforts by companies & the desire to invest in AI. The desire for AI is broad. Yesterday, Microsoft & Google announced earnings.

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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. But there will be more breakthroughs because now all the AI scientists in the world are working on making the stuff better. Noam Shazeer, Character.AI

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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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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In January, venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote “Surviving is thriving in 2023” and I think he couldn’t have been more right. SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin referencing ChartMogul research in his opening keynote, SaaStr 2023 Our SaaS Retention Report exposed that companies with best-in-class retention grow at least 1.5

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

Software is better, and AI makes it more so. GTM Mistake #5: Not Properly Jumping on the AI Bandwagon AI can be confusing in B2B because adding a lot of hallucinations into your app next week doesn’t make it better, or you don’t need to make text into cartoons. AI is where all the budget is right now.

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Unbounce

JUNE 15, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the way we live. From virtual assistants to self-driving cars, AI-powered technology is transforming us into a more efficient species by automating mundane tasks, providing personalized recommendations, and helping us make informed decisions. AI is coming to search. GPT’ to you.”).

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Share Alright, AI continues to be the biggest talking point of 2023 ( are we sick of talking about it yet? ) – with every SaaS company on the face of the earth looking to experiment with some kind of AI integration into their software; It’s become quite apparent that less is more in today’s world.

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