SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2022

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. And they say 2023 will be a banner year for enterprise software spend at least — growing a stunning 11% to $880 Billion. That’s not 100%.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

No incoming martech makes a better case for this sort of incremental innovation than artificial intelligence. Marketing and AI: A “Meet Cute” For marketers interested in learning what AI can do for them, right now , debates and philosophy about artificial intelligence can be heady stuff.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2023

In June 2023, we’re heading back to London for SaaStr Europa and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of the companies that will be there with us! Outreach is the only company to offer sales engagement, revenue intelligence, and revenue operations functionalities in a unified platform. Grab tickets here.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2025

Their artificial intelligence platform (AIP) is driving significant commercial demand, with companies like Wendy’s and Heineken showcasing dramatic efficiency improvements at their AIPCon event.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

The transcript highlights the major trends in software of 2023. Segment Expected Growth Productivity 12% Office Commercial 6% Office On-Premise -25% LinkedIn 5% Dynamics 13% Intelligent Cloud 18% Azure 26% Server -3% Services -3% 2. Machine learning shines as the one bright spot amidst declining growth.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 22, 2022

SaaStr events couldn’t happen without our partners, and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of our newest sponsors for SaaStr Annual 2023. There is no coding required, and the platform utilizes Machine Learning and patented technology to make the creation and implementation of automations 10X faster than traditional platforms.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 3, 2023

These are the top 10 posts by engagement for 2023 at tomtunguz.com. The next five posts all mentioned major exits : Klaviyo, Loom, & the many take-privates in 2023. The Typical Startup Saw a 24% Increase in Sales Cycle in 2023. How Markets Value SaaS in 2023. Operating in the Dark.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2025

Defense Tech Has Quietly Become a Major VC Category The Surprise : Defense tech VC investment jumped 2x in 2023 and stayed at that level in 2024 , with 15 active unicorns now valued at $50B collectively. This affects everything from GP compensation to LP allocation strategies. #5.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2024

.” The SaaS Market Has Turned a Corner According to Brian, who sees the market through multiple lenses as HubSpot’s Chairman and through his role at Sequoia Growth and Propeller VC, the SaaS downturn that dominated 2022-2023 ended recently. “It felt like we came out of the recession in Q3 of 2024,” Brian noted.

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SaaStr

MARCH 2, 2023

In June 2023, we’re heading back to London for SaaStr Europa and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of the companies that will be there with us! With predictive machine learning, we help growth teams take the guesswork out of their day-to-day – and focus on spending their time where it matters.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 24, 2023

In the late 2010s, machine learning inflated demand. Nvidia has more than doubled its capex in 2023 & the latest earnings release suggested the business plans to invest more. In a decade, the business increased in value about 250x, compounding at about 74%. Nvidia’s most recent breakout occurred in the last two years.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 16, 2024

With embedded applied AI and machine learning technologies built specifically for Finance, our platform automates and streamlines workflows, accelerates analysis and improves forecast accuracy, equipping the Office of the CFO to report on, predict and guide business performance. months and 23.4 months, respectively.

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 25, 2023

Our modern and intuitive SaaS platform combines our proprietary data and application layers into one vertically-integrated solution with advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities.

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The Moz Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The topic of Artificial Intelligence has dominated the industry over the past year, and our Whiteboard Friday presenters in 2023 did not shy away from answering many of the questions we all have.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Since we launched Theory in 2023, we’ve gathered a wonderful team : Lauren , Spencer , Andy , Rafa , Amber , Arjun , & Kristin. We have partnered with 8 marvelous founding teams, all using data to power the next wave of innovation across the Modern Data Stack, Artificial Intelligence, & Web3.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

Benjamin Mann, co-founder of Anthropic added: “ For example, one large bank that we were talking to came to us and said, ‘we’ve talked to everybody in our company, and we have 500 different use cases that we want to apply large language models to.’ ’ That’s really incredible.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Yesterday, at the Monte Carlo Impact Summit I shared my 9 Predictions for Data in 2023. The second fork, the machine learning stack, is identical save for the outputs: model serving & model training. Large language machine learning models will change the role of data engineers.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

On October 25th, I’ll share my 10 predictions for data in 2023 at The Impact Data Summit. Around & atop those databases, an ecosystem has developed that transmogrify data from raw ore to into a finished product consumed by analysts & operators or highly refined fuel injected into machine learning systems.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It’s the 10th in 2023. With hundreds of billions of dry powder, plenty of healthy cash flows generated by SaaS publics, & the leverage of the inevitable shareholder lawsuit if a board rebuffs the 30% premium of a tender offer, private equity becomes the dominant M&A option in dollar terms for 2023. Coupa 8 New Relic 6.5

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2025

This acquisition builds on previous AI investments, including the 2023 purchase of Neeva, a generative AI search startup. 5 Interesting Learnings from Snowflake at ~$4 Billion in ARR Implications for SaaS and B2B Software 1.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 22, 2024

42% 2023 4.4 “Meta’s announcement of Llama 3, their latest large language model, which was trained on a cluster of 24,000 H100 GPUs.” As the prices for GPUs increases, so do NVIDIA’s profits, to a staggering degree - nearly 10x in dollar terms in 2 years. Is this a problem for the clouds?

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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. Best AI tools to analyze data: Microsoft Power BI: business intelligence tool using machine learning. MonkeyLearn: analyze your customer feedback using ML. Brand24: AI tool for social listening.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2023

Even considering the more conservative fundraising market in 2023, there are opportunities for startups to get investor attention with AI. Why AI Matters to VCs Over the last decade, each type of machine learning has developed and grown, with generative AI becoming the most recent. Sign up for free.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. The surge in pipeline is notable given the uncertainty in the market but the close rates are low & sales cycles slow : another confirmatory data point for startups to plan cautiously in 2023.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 29, 2023

I’ve been using large-language models (LLMs) most days for the past few months for three major use cases : data analysis, writing code, & web search 1. Second, coding LLMs struggle to solve problems of their own creation, turning in circles, & debugging can require significant work. .

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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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How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

The era of large language models (LLMs) is booming. In 2025, foundation models or generative AIs like GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and open-source LLaMA are reshaping AI research, software development, and SaaS products. OpenAIs GPT models set the standard for commercial LLMs.

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User Pilot

MAY 16, 2023

Looking to implement the top customer engagement trends in 2023 for your SaaS business? This article has compiled the top 13 SaaS customer engagement trends you should follow in 2023 to help you navigate the emerging trends. Leverage predictive customer analytics and machine learning to boost customer retention.

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Panintelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

How SaaS companies are approaching innovation , which sheds light on the buzz surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and how SaaS technology and product leaders are navigating the delicate balance of resource allocation while delivering on innovation promises. Today marks the launch of Panintelligence’s report AI value or vanity?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

However, it’s tough to predict the future alone — so we asked Customer Success leaders across the industry to share their top trends for 2023. 2023 will be a breakout year for digital Customer Success, customer intelligence, and AI-fueled outcomes at SaaS companies. A few common themes emerged. AI is real and it works.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Here are my predictions for 2022: Web3 consumer products go fully mainstream with more than 35% of Americans, about 100m people, engaging with them by 2023. Large software companies accelerated growth this year, despite their scale reinforcing the notion that users write data into systems but rarely delete it. MAU growing quickly.

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Unbounce

JUNE 15, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the way we live. So far in 2023, we’ve seen the fastest advances in conversational AI since the first iteration of ELIZA was created by Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s. Interestingly, Flan-PaLM (another AI large language model—“Dr. Like, wildly fast. That’s ‘Dr.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 7, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) tells a story about technology’s evolution—productivity, innovation, and the relentless push forward. Machine learning Quick definition: learns what you teach it, studies it, then tries to operate on its own Gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly “told” (i.e.,

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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. In 2023, the average spend across foundation model APIs, self-hosting, and fine-tuning models was $7M across the dozens of companies we spoke to. Budgets for generative AI are skyrocketing.

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IT World

MAY 23, 2023

Microsoft is all in on artificial intelligence (AI) for a very simple reason: it believes its lead in the technology will make it the tech world’s top dog again. In the first quarter of 2023, Google had an 85% search market share, compared to 9% for Bing. The stakes couldn’t be higher. And that’s just in search.

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