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 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

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

JANUARY 17, 2024

At Saastr Annual, we hosted an Enterprise panel of AI leaders to share their experience and knowledge to help others understand how big companies think about and leverage AI. While the first generation of Generative AI is great, it’s not quite ready to solve Enterprise problems. Enterprises are looking for two big themes.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Generative AI took the consumer landscape by storm in 2023, reaching over a billion dollars of consumer spend 1 in record time. Over the past couple months, we’ve spoken with dozens of Fortune 500 and top enterprise leaders , 2 and surveyed 70 more, to understand how they’re using, buying, and budgeting for generative AI.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 8, 2024

Ever since ChatGPT catapulted generative AI into public consciousness over a year ago, we’ve been introduced to thousands of new consumer products that incorporate the magic of AI — from video generators to workflow hacks , creativity tools to virtual companions. More on what’s behind the spike in AI companionship below.)

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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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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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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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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the lessons I, along with many other founders and investors, have learned in my roughly 15-year journey in SaaS investing is that most businesses adopt new technologies at a painfully slow pace. Who will leapfrog the pre-AI Cloud? AI will be everywhere. AI can create magical user experiences. restaurant locations.

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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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Tom Tunguz

MAY 22, 2024

NVIDIA’s growth is an index on the growth of AI. “Large cloud providers continue to drive strong growth as they deploy and ramp NVIDIA AI infrastructure at scale and represented the mid-40s as a percentage of our Data Center revenue.” 42% 2023 4.4 Fiscal Year Profits, $b Net Income Margin 2020 2.8 26% 2021 4.3

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User Pilot

JULY 20, 2023

The undeniable advances in artificial intelligence have led to a plethora of new AI productivity tools across the globe. If you’re looking to accelerate product growth and adoption with the help of AI, you’re in the right place. SurferSEO: AI-generated blogs, SEO optimized. Synthesia: AI video generator.

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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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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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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

You Mon Tsang, CEO and co-founder of ChurnZero, Colleen O’Sullivan, VP of Integrated Customer Experience at Hubspot, and Jason Lemkin, SaaStr founder and CEO, give their take on where the customer success industry is headed and shares data from the Customer Success Leadership Study done by ChurnZero at the close of 2023.

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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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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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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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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

What’s Actually Working For SaaS PR In 2023 … And What Isn’t Back when Jason wrote his SaaS founders’ guide to PR , he put out one of the most tangible and pragmatic guides to what makes hiring a PR firm truly worth it. I asked him to put together a primer on just what PR really is. Jason – ed.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2024

If it wasn’t clear before, AI is the single biggest revenue driver in cloud. ” Much of the AI spend is at the enterprise, where a 50% reduction in customer support cost or a 75% increase in engineering capacity filters billions to the bottom line. 5b AI product suite. 5b AI product suite. “We now have 1.8

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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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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In 2022 we were all playing catch-up and in 2023 we all had to become radically efficient. The $300,000 Employee So what will all the efficiencies we gained in 2023 mean for 2024? The Generalist Role is Dying in SaaS Whether we like to admit it or not, everyone’s trying to use AI for support and customer success in 2024.

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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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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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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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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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How To Buy Saas

MAY 30, 2024

But the newest innovative AI-powered image generation tools will save your day! In this blog, we will introduce you to the world of AI image generation, and also suggest 6 best AI image generator tools for you to test out. What are AI Image Generator Tools? Well, we have all been there. So, let’s get started!

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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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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? joined forces with the incredibly talented Eiso Kant to build the world’s most capable AI for software development. What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? We are currently investing out of our 9th Early Stage fund, a $650M vehicle.

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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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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

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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