SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

Joselyn Goldfein , Managing Director at Zeta Venture Partners, which invests in AI and data infrastructure-focused startups from inception through seed stage And see everyone at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! What VCs Are Funding in AI Today The AI funding landscape has evolved rapidly in 2023-2024.

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Technical Review Artificial Intelligence AI Marketplace as a Service 189

SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2025

G2 has its latest Buyer Behavior report out and while most of its take-aways are things we know or should know, it’s a wake-up call for anyone thinking AI isn’t important in their category: 🚀 Top 5 SaaStr Learnings from G2’s 2025 Buyer Behavior Report 1. Align sales comp with net revenue retention, not initial ACV 3.

AI Search 147

AI Search AI Technical Review Software Review 147

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 24, 2025

Subscribe now The Year of “Enterprise AI” One of the biggest challenges facing AI systems in enterprises today is the “last mile” problem: how do you make AI both reliable and accurate for specific enterprise use cases? This is what I’m calling “Enterprise AI.”

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Enterprise AI Cloud Artificial Intelligence 159

SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2024

At SaaStr’s AI Summit during the SaaStr Annual , René chatted with SaaStr CEO and founder Jason Lemkin about how BILL has reached half a million customers and $1.3B The mobile phone user has the highest NPS as a BILL user because it’s super simple and easy, and the clerk does all the data entry, pulling everything in and managing it.

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SaaStr

JUNE 9, 2025

Market Timing Is Everything The Morgan Stanley data reveals something fascinating: 10 of the last 20 tech IPOs happened in 2025 , with the majority clustered in the past few months. If You’re Earlier Stage Use this data to set expectations with investors. Even more telling? The most recent five IPOs are averaging 121.5%

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B2B Marketing Scale Benchmarks 184

Payrix

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

At Payrix from Worldpay, we have an internal team of risk management experts dedicated to helping software companies, like yours, manage payment processing, fraud prevention, and compliance. Mike’s key takeaway: Data modeling has become a cornerstone of effective risk management. Explore risk and compliance advice for platforms.

Merchant Services 130

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 130

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2025

AI tools can help flag bottlenecks or anomalies here. AI can reduce forecasting errors by 20-50%, so if youre still relying on guesswork, its time to upgrade your approach. AI can help refine your ICP and prioritize high-propensity leads. AI can help predict churn and identify expansion opportunities. If so, why?

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Technical Review Sales Forecasting AI 185

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The major areas of AI innovation automate white-collar work. Reviewing the BLS’ data on employment for white collar work, I aggregated the data to these categories. It’s striking that most of them already have a significant number of AI startups pursuing their ambitions to change workflows. Sales Managers 0.4

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Software Review Technical Review Scale Construction 239

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.

AI 292

AI Enterprise Artificial Intelligence compliance 292

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 27, 2024

AI adoption is slower than expected in many spaces. Most leaders wants to inject AI into their business to develop a competitive advantage. The pace of innovation, the early understanding of AI internals, & the non-determinism compound to create doubt. Should a company allow a vendor to train a model using their data?

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Subscribe now “Grouping + AI” for Triage One area I’m quite excited to see AI revolutionize is “grouping + triage” workflows. Generally you need to aggregate data from a number of places to “group.” Many of them AI based. Follow along to stay up to date! Perfect for a LLM!

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Systems Review Cloud AI Artificial Intelligence 146

Tom Tunguz

JULY 27, 2023

AI will automate 25-50% of white collar work including data analysis. Does that will data teams shrink in size? On the contrary, while AI can automate some work, it will also demand much more from data teams. Typical tasks - writing SQL & charting data - will become mostly automated.

AI 186

AI Data Data Analysis compliance 186

SaaStr

DECEMBER 18, 2023

AI adoption has grown exponentially over the past year and it has likely doubled from its more than 2.5x At SaaStr Annual , IBM’s VP of Software and Technology Raj Datta and Director of Startups Kylie Rutherford shared how AI is changing the game for companies of all sizes. How to scale AI across your business.

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AI Technology Scale Startup 299

SaaStr

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A-LIGN is a technology-enabled security and compliance partner that helps global organizations take a strategic approach to confidently mitigate cybersecurity risks. Mozart Data is the fastest way to set up scalable, reliable data infrastructure that doesn’t need to be maintained by you. appeared first on SaaStr.

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Cybersecurity Data compliance AI 49

Scytale

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Scytale announces its vision for implementing an AI-driven future of compliance, as well as fully supporting AI security and privacy frameworks in its compliance automation platform. However, AI must also be implemented with caution, respect for data privacy, and adherence to ethical standards.

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compliance AI Artificial Intelligence Innovation 52

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2024

Is Generative AI going to be transformative or incremental for your startup? Are you re-vampimg your entire product roadmap, or sprinkling AI in along the way? A panel of AI-driven organizations took the stage at SaaStr Annual to talk about the trends and opportunities of GenAI and how it’s shaped their companies.

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Generative AI AI Cloud Startup 272

Tom Tunguz

MAY 15, 2023

A product manager today faces a key architectural question with AI : to use a small language model or a large language model? the company has no plan/interest to staff a team to manage AI infrastructure or develop deep machine learning experience / expertise in-house. The pace of innovation in the field clouds the answer.

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Artificial Intelligence AI Machine Learning Scale 227

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Keep reading to learn what the four most common SaaS assumptions are, and watch Adam knock each one down with the power of generative AI. They want one that fits their unique needs and integrates with their data sources and third-party things. Now, it’s time to knock over all of these beliefs with generative AI.

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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

What special data, content, APIs, etc., What’s the state of the relationships that brings you that data? Artificial Intelligence Does your application leverage AI in any way? How can we use AI to improve the customer experience? Member Profiles What data is included? What about an AI support assistant?

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Innovation Development CTO Hire Technical Review 780

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

There are 4 questions a startup should ask themselves about building a startup that uses generative AI. The narrative is : AI is a massive platform change that Goldman Sachs projects will increase GDP 300x more than the PC. There are 4 questions startups should ask themselves about building with generative AI. The video is here.

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Generative AI AI GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Startup 228

BetterCloud

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This includes discovery, procurement, user provisioning and deprovisioning, usage optimization, user automation, and data governance. Imagine new hires hitting the ground running on day one, software license automatically optimized, compliance checks a breeze, and IT is no longer bogged down with tedious tasks.

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Trends Cybersecurity compliance AI 105

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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VP of Engineering Trends Sales Hiring Cybersecurity 293

Scytale

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As technology continues to evolve, compliance industry trends and requirements adapt accordingly. Compliance trends in 2025 continue to be influenced by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, blockchain, and cloud computing.

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compliance Artificial Intelligence Trends Cybersecurity 52

Scytale

APRIL 24, 2025

This partnership is driven by one goal: to help organizations tackle AI compliance and governance with ease. “AI is changing the way businesses operate, and as organizations adopt these technologies, ensuring strong compliance and governance is more critical than ever. . ” Guy Horovitz, COO, Scytale.

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Government compliance AI Enterprise 52

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2023

Generative AI has taken the world by storm, and VCs and SaaS founders are looking at new opportunities it can bring. Even considering the more conservative fundraising market in 2023, there are opportunities for startups to get investor attention with AI. About 15 – 25% of tasks can be automated using AI. Sign up for free.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2024

AI is the X-factor for your business, and it can lead to exponential growth. Dawn Herndon, Vice President of EMEA Build & ISV Partnerships at IBM, shares the areas where AI can accelerate your business and the different factors you need to consider as you build products and solutions to sell. Open-source.

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AI Artificial Intelligence Government Scale 176

Payrix

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Takeaway #2: Inflation and surcharging compliance Ella highlighted the rising importance of surcharging as a response to inflation and escalating operational costs. Ensuring compliance in surcharging practices is critical, as violations can lead to substantial fines.

Payments 130

Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services Payment Services 130

Scytale

APRIL 30, 2025

When you think about AI, whats the first thing that comes to mind? With 72% of businesses globally already integrating AI in some form, its no wonder so many are scrambling to get a handle on the risks that come with it. In the spotlight today are two key players in AI risk management – NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001.

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AI Government compliance Artificial Intelligence 52

How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

In an era when executives are bombarded with tech buzzwords, it’s vital to focus on real-world AI uses that deliver business impact. This vivid idea captures AIs potential to act as assistants and insights machines, boosting efficiency and innovation. Executives also leverage generative AI for idea generation and reporting.

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Artificial Intelligence Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 59

Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Couple takeaways for me: 2024 is shaping up to be the “prototype to production” year for AI. There were also quite a few questions around cost and compliance. And on the latter - there will be more guardrails and structure in place to appease some of the compliance questions. Time will tell if they can execute!

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AWS Cloud AI Search Cost optimization & reporting 302

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The system connects financial and operational data to easily explore historicals, and accurately forecast bookings, revenues, workforce, expenses, and cash flows. Orum leverages AI to detect voicemails, filter out bad numbers, and navigate phone directories to get your reps into live conversations quickly. appeared first on SaaStr.

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compliance Forecasting AI Onboarding 274

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Skyflow ’s data privacy vaults deliver security, compliance, and governance via a simple API. Avoma is an AI Meeting Assistant, Collaboration and Intelligence platform for Sales, Implementation, and Customer Success teams. Join these incredible companies to experience all the value of SaaStr!

Payments 273

Payments Payment Services AI Search Payment Solutions 273

Scytale

JUNE 10, 2025

Scytale’s newest Risk Assessment capabilities simplifies how you identify, manage, and monitor risks, saving time and making compliance effortless. New York, NY, June 10, 2025 We’re excited to introduce our latest update to our compliance automation platform: Scytale ’s all-new Risk Assessment feature.

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AI Management compliance Software Review 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2024

In the latest episode of our What’s New series, Founder and CEO at Secureframe, Shrav Mehta, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Secureframe, a rising SOC-2 and compliance software company breaking out in SaaS. and letting it mine the data. “These are having real-world impacts.

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AI SMB Sales Hiring compliance 157

SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2022

6sense Revenue AI captures anonymous buying signals, targets the right accounts at the ideal time, and recommends the channels and messages to boost revenue performance. Our mission at Vanta is to be a layer of trust on top of cloud services, to secure the internet, increase trust in software companies, and keep consumer data safe.

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Forecasting compliance Finance Cloud 273

SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2023

Update your revenue data from anywhere, all within Slack or MS Teams. Remote makes it easy to manage international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance in 50+ countries. We empower companies of all sizes to pay and manage full-time and contract workers around the world.

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Scale Banking compliance Forecasting 244

Blulogix

MARCH 27, 2025

By BluLogix Team How AI is Transforming Billing Billing has long been a complex and manual process, prone to errors, inefficiencies, and revenue leakage. AI is addressing these inefficiencies, transforming billing into a data-driven, automated, and predictive process.

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Payments AI Search Payment Services SaaS Payments 59