SaaStr

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Venture capital is more than just funding. Instead, companies should carefully gauge their need for venture funding and evaluate the right amount of capital to raise. Reiterating the key point, Jason underlined that startups need to think beyond raising a maximum amount of money at the most attractive pricing.

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B2B Investment Venture Capital Scale 208

SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The company is an AI platform that empowers teachers to give instant, personalized feedback to students, based in San Francisco. We were really impressed with Class Companion’s founder Avery Pan’s clear vision and mission to help teachers leverage AI to improve education. Our current set of funds totals $3.4B. #3.

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Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions Venture Capital 199

SaaStr

AUGUST 31, 2023

Navigating Corporate Venture Capital: Strategic Benefits for Early-Stage Founders with Erin Yang, VP and Chief Technologist Workday Savannah Greene, Principle @ Workday #2: How Expensify Grew to 10M Users Through Word of Mouth Joanie Wang, Director of Marketing and Brand #3. The Most Popular 2023 Annual Braindates So Far: #1.

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Venture Capital Acquisition AI Innovation 208

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2024

Our most recent disclosed investment is in Pika.art, a company redesigning the entire video-making and editing experience utilizing AI. Before heading to Silicon Valley for Google, he worked for DoubleClick, in venture capital and as a strategy consultant. What’s your most recent disclosed investment? Why did you do the deal?

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Marketplace as a Service Venture Capital Entertainment Construction 221

SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Generative AI is spawning new companies and accelerating existing ones. What’s your pulse check on the venture markets right now, today? Venture is cyclical. Historically, the headlines read “venture capital is dead ” every 7 to 10 years. What’s the #1 bit of advice you’d give to SaaS founders today?

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Scale Venture Capital AI Generative AI 218

SaaStr

MAY 26, 2022

Acton Capital. Aldea Ventures, S.A. All Iron Ventures. ALVEN CAPITAL. Armilar Venture Partners. BASF Venture Capital. Battery Ventures. Beyond Capital. Blossom Capital. BMC Ventures. Caixa Capital Risc SGEIC SA. Connect Ventures. Connected Capital.

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Venture Capital AI Investment SaaS 232

SaaStr

AUGUST 28, 2023

If you were in AI, if you were in hospitality, if you were in parts of e-commerce, if you were in mobile … things mostly have been Pretty Normal. All of a sudden, massive changes had to be made when it was clear another round of venture capital was never coming. But other segments have been hit with a sledgehammer.

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Venture Capital AI Startup Mobile 204

Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 4, 2024

As the cofounder of one of the original digital health companies, Sean has unique insight into the growth of both the digital health field and the changing venture capital environment.

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Venture Capital AI Technology Healthcare 88

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sharing our mental model on gen AI in SaaS Over the past twelve months, like many others, I’ve been diving deep into generative AI and its implications for SaaS companies, as well as what it means for us as early-stage SaaS investors. Where are the opportunities for new startups in generative AI?

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Generative AI AI Artificial Intelligence Startup 122

SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Catch up on part one here , where he deep dives into what he really thinks about AI, Sales and lead Gen for SaaS in 2024. Venture capital is a niche niche niche asset class only designed for outliers. A first-time founder of a Generative AI startup is struggling with the question of going vertical vs. horizontal.

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Sales Hiring Scale Venture Capital Generative AI 234

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

Generative AI 90

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2023

Klaviyo is a customer data platform company which ingests marketing data & empowers their customers to automate their marketing with data & AI. The company raised $455m in venture capital, but has used only $15m, growing nearly entirely on profits.

Benchmarks 175

Benchmarks Venture Capital Marketing SMB 175

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Chinese startups raise nearly half of all venture capital dollars and nearly 100 are valued at $1B. Kai-Fu Lee’s book, AI Superpowers , provides some of the best history and perspective on the Chinese startup ecosystem I’ve read. The first is his view of the influence of machine learning in the world.

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AI Startup Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 154

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2023

Klayviyo is a customer data platform company which ingests marketing data & empowers their customers to automate their marketing with data & AI. The company raised $455m in venture capital, but has used only $15m, growing nearly entirely on profits.

Benchmarks 162

Benchmarks Venture Capital Marketing SMB 162

Kellblog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Just a quick post to highlight my recent appearance on the AI and the Future of Work podcast hosted by my friend Dan Turchin. We start out by reviewing a few of my 2022 predictions , where Dan takes a somewhat European angle in his questioning given my work with Balderton Capital.

AI 112

AI Venture Capital Startup Strategy 112

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2024

Identification of the major beneficiaries of the AI revolution. 16:15) The biggest winners of the AI revolution in 2024. (20:34) 20:34) The flight to quality in Venture Capital. 16:15) The biggest winners of the AI revolution in 2024. (20:34) 20:34) The flight to quality in Venture Capital.

Venture Capital 81

Venture Capital Technical Review AI Acquisition 81

Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 18, 2024

As the cofounder of one of the original digital health companies, Sean has unique insight into the growth of both the digital health field and the changing venture capital environment. You can listen to more episodes of Raising Health here: [link]

Venture Capital 54

Venture Capital AI Technology 54

SaaStr

MAY 25, 2023

ARR, You Can Get Offers of $25m or if you are in a hot space (maybe generative AI today), sometimes even $100m. A nice example of a sale at this Local Maximum is Pardot selling for $100m to ExactTarget — on zero venture capital. But then — The $30m Venture Round Sort of Ends That Local Maximum.

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Acquisition Venture Capital Generative AI Scale 361

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 52

SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

It is a venture capital firm based in Brazil and Silicon Valley. Its partners boast diverse venture experience and have previously invested in more than 70 companies. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed. Kaszek Ventures. Kaszek Ventures is among the biggest venture capital firms in Latin America.

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Venture Capital SaaS Healthcare Finance 155

SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The article highlights the potential for Latin American startups to utilize AI to improve efficiency, generate global innovation and economy, and expand internationally. Companies should avoid redundancy in their tech stack, consider AI adoption, and recognize the potential for Latin American founders to compete globally in the tech industry.

Technical Review 90

Technical Review VP of Engineering Development Team Review Software Review 90

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 22, 2023

While the worlds of investing, venture capital, and technology may seem daunting, a running lesson that leaders shared was to dive in head first: meet new people, ask the questions, follow up, get as much information as possible. Embrace AI’s Potential for Creativity & Growth, for Everyone AI is on everyone’s mind!

Leadership 52

Leadership Entertainment Venture Capital AI 52

SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Today Carman is Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures, the globally renowned Hong Kong venture capital firm. With more than 15 years of solid experience, today she is the Chief Operations Officer at the Ping An Health Cloud, known as the most advanced AI healthcare technology. The reason? Maxine Ryan.

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VP of Engineering CTO Coach Venture Capital SaaS 264

Point Nine Land

MAY 17, 2023

With everything that’s been happening in AI in the last few months, that feels like a very long time ago. :-) I had totally forgotten about the draft, but it just occurred to me again, so I’m returning to it now. Competition: As mentioned, tech giants like Google and Microsoft are already investing heavily in AI personal assistants.

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Artificial Intelligence Venture Capital AI ChatGPT 52

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 12, 2024

Every type of investor was broadly operating in a “risk on” mindset given the ZIRP environment, and the venture capital ecosystem was no exception. And I do see investors and founders repeating a lot of the mistakes from 2021 today, especially in the AI domain. Normal round sizes doubled or tripled.

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Cloud Venture Capital Acquisition Metrics 284

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 27, 2024

Take a look at these contrasting statements: GTMfund is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed to series A software companies. Read more about Google Chrome’s 3 AI features here. GTMfund is an exclusive network of proven revenue leaders investing in the next wave of SaaS.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Generative AI Social Media 88

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Dulma Altan Content pillars: Creator economy, tech, startups, and venture capital Dulma Altan 's venture into podcasting was a natural extension of her TikTok presence, where she explored topics revolving around the creator economy, tech, startups, and venture capital.

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Social Media Venture Capital AI Search Banking 117

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 2, 2023

I was working at a Venture Capital firm and was feeling the itch to create something new on my own. After some time in Venture Capital, I took the knowledge I built around market research and started applying it to my personal life. The Rundown did the same when AI took off.

Business 88

Business Venture Capital Technical Review Trends 88

OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Where are venture investors focusing their technology bets? Several patterns have emerged in this race.

Technology 40

Technology Venture Capital Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments 40

OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Where are venture investors focusing their technology bets? Several patterns have emerged in this race.

Technology 40

Technology Venture Capital Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments 40

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.

SaaS 120

SaaS Finance AI Social Media 120

SaaSHolic

MAY 12, 2023

The session focuses on emerging technologies such as bioengineering, metaverse, and generative AI, and their potential to disrupt various industries. Amy expresses concerns about the concentration of power among cloud and AI companies and the potential dangers of generative AI, such as deep faking medical scans.

Blockchain 52

Blockchain Generative AI Telecommunications Venture Capital 52

Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In many ways, 2022 (Q2-ish) marked the end of the glory days and we entered the “SaaS slump” We saw new business plummet and an 82% year-over-year drop in venture capital investment in 2022. Pico Framer leaned into AI early. Exploring how useful it could be as an extension to their product they built Framer AI.

AI Search 52

AI Search Benchmarks Venture Capital AI 52

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 2, 2023

I was working at a Venture Capital firm and was feeling the itch to create something new on my own. After some time in Venture Capital, I took the knowledge I built around market research and started applying it to my personal life. The Rundown did the same when AI took off.

Business 52

Business Venture Capital Technical Review Trends 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. Q: Should Early-Stage Companies Sprinkle in AI? If you’re going to do AI, you should do so thoughtfully.

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Scale Sales Hiring AI Sales Recruiting 232

SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes.

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Payment Methods Blockchain Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 52

Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

Moreso, it also speaks to your specific business goals as a startup, which could include scaling your business, finding a foothold into new markets, or securing venture capital funding, and the role that compliance plays in it all.

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