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

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With this news, we will be introducing Snowflake Postgres: enterprise-grade, AI-ready, and fully managed. .” ” Snowflake is “tackling a massive $350 billion market opportunity and a real need for our customers to bring Postgres to the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.”

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The Wild Ride of Informatica: 32 Years, 2 IPOs, to $8 Billion Acquisition by Salesforce

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private equity buyout (Permira + CPPIB) Company needed to transform for the cloud era Classic “take private to modernize” playbook 2021: Second IPO on NYSE at $27.55/share The Strategic Acquirer Playbook Why did Salesforce pay $8B when they walked away in 2024? The biggest outcomes often take decades.

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Rubrik: Benchmarking the S-1 Data

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There’s a lot of info to digest, so in the sections below I’ll try and pull out the relevant financial information and benchmark it against current cloud businesses. We built Rubrik Security Cloud, or RSC, with Zero Trust design principles to secure data across enterprise, cloud, and software-as-a-service, or SaaS, applications.

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RAG Explained: What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation?

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In fact, Gartners 2024 AI report advises organizations that want to use generative AI on private data to prioritize RAG investments. All retrieval can be done behind your firewall or within your cloud, so data stays secure. While the acronym might sound funny, the concept has proven incredibly powerful.

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The Playbook for Going Upmarket with Stripe’s CRO and Checkr’s COO

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Jean Dwit (Chief Business Officer at Stripe) and Lindsay Scrace (COO at Checker) have done it multiple times at companies like Google Cloud, Stripe, and Checker. They came to SaaStr Annual to share what theyve learned about making the move to go more enterprise actually work. It’s down to 30%.

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DeepSeek vs Claude vs Mistral: Top GPT Competitors in 2025

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Access and integration : Some LLMs offer public APIs or cloud deployment (ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral on Azure), while open models can be self-hosted. This changes procurement and architecture: SaaS teams can avoid vendor lock-in by using open weights or multi-cloud APIs. As a result, GPT alternatives now come with trade-offs.