Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

I believe competition is a major driving force, especially since venture capital is conspicuously copious. Machine learning, broad consolidation, category creation, and new distribution models each will change the SaaS ecosystem in fundamental ways. SaaS company formation has fallen by 44% in the last 3 years.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 22, 2017

Next-generation machine learning tools are also available by API and improving all the time. The surge of venture capital in the last five years worsens this predicament. First, the technology barriers to starting a SaaS company continue to fall. Second, the customer acquisition playbook is well known. I will add another.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Using advanced machine learning techniques, Loyalty Prime’s AI will maximise efficiency and effectiveness of loyalty program business rule creation, segmentation and personalisation, next best offer management, and fraud prevention, to name a few.” The venture capital portfolio currently consists of 31 technology companies.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Greater integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies Artificial Intelligence has been a part of the product management landscape for at least a couple of years now. Tuning large-scale LLM models is very different than core product for a news feed.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Race for Artificial Intelligence With Micro Startups. Another major trend in micro startup acquisitions is artificial intelligence. Companies in almost every sector are looking to take advantage of machine learning and integrate it into their products. Tiny Capital.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

I am a partner at Accel, the Global Venture Capital Fund, and I’m very happy to be here with one of these mythical creatures that people were talking about earlier. You apply your machine learning and voila, you’ve turned a process from rules-based to experience-based, right?

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2017

The ability to gather large amounts of data from the entire user base, and use that data along with AI/ML to make your software smarter, is one of the big themes at the moment. For what it's worth, I know AI and Machine Learning are a hyped topic but I think the hype is justified.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

Today, you won’t fail if you’re not T2D2, and for venture capital, you can’t burn $700M while doing it. You probably have to triple at a million to three and go from three to nine, nine to 18, and 18 to 36. Most startups don’t do this. You have to grow just as fast as in 2021 and burn less.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Engineers measure application performance and build machine learning models. Venture capital is no different. If a relationship business like venture capital can benefit from statistics, imagine the impact to a performance oriented startup. CEOs measure key company metrics. PMs measure engagement.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It’s great to see startups rethink categories and UIs with an “LLM first” lens, and some of these companies are growing very fast, but the jury is still out on whether any of them will get huge mainstream adoption. and Tome for presentations, Rows for spreadsheets, and mem for note-taking.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In 2018, however, there’s finally an alternative to doing this by hand: machine learning. You probably associate machine learning with dystopian AI or Google’s bot beating the world’s best Go player, but it’s actually becoming central to the marketing industry today. Alternatives: Salespanel, Infer.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

This is counterintuitive considering the broader venture capital backdrop of near record venture investment in software. Machine learning in SaaS is nascent. Perhaps there a substantial delay between when the business is founded and when it appears in Crunchbase. However, Pitchbook analysis corroborates this trend.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 14, 2016

Advances in machine learning and natural language processing will be key ingredients in the software applications of the future. For example, Numi could use these technologies to begin to learn venture capital jargon and math like calculating the dilution for an employee stock option plan increase.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 14, 2013

With more than 80% of venture capital investments occurring in enterprise and with the public markets disproportionately rewarding SaaS companies with huge enterprise value-to-revenue multiples ( median is 7.6 ), it’s no surprise that interest Software-as-a-Service is booming. Not every company has ML expertise.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. Is it venture capital that puts so much money into some of these software organizations and they’re forced to grow, grow, grow, and it’s literally just a body’s game, right?

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Using advanced machine learning techniques, Loyalty Prime’s AI will maximise efficiency and effectiveness of loyalty program business rule creation, segmentation and personalisation, next best offer management, and fraud prevention, to name a few.” The venture capital portfolio currently consists of 31 technology companies.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

VCs Want To Invest, But There’s Stress In The System As a community, we over-talk about venture capital, but it’s important if you’re fundraising and to understand the pulse of the system. This makes it hard for VCs to make money. Things won’t get easier until about 8x, with a 20-30% reflation of multiples. Every VC wants to invest.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2024

To close out SaaStr Europa 2024, Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO and Founder took the stage to answer the audience’s most burning questions. AMA’s with Jason are wildly popular for his expertise and no-holds-barred delivery. Let’s find out what people are asking in H2 2024. How Do You Sift Out the Bitter and Broken Individuals When Hiring?

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The SaaS Garage

APRIL 26, 2017

“With this new injection of capital, riskmethods is taking a major step towards achieving our goal of global market leadership in the segment of supply chain risk management,” said Rolf Zimmer, CEO and co-founder of riskmethods. Senovo is an independent venture capital company based in Munich. www.eqtventures.com.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. All right, so the answer is there are actually 61 a cloud unicorns, and we’ll flash them up. How long can this last?

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Point Nine Land

MAY 17, 2023

It would require the integration of several AI technologies, such as natural language processing (NLP) to understand and generate text, machine learning (ML) to learn from user actions and preferences, and automation to perform tasks. The security and privacy concerns mentioned are real.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

And then the second was this period of, I would say, limited engagement between the defense community and at least some of the venture firms in the Valley and how that worked. It’s completely acceptable in California, and actually in most of the country today, to say that you’re working on inventing artificial intelligence.

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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?

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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?

Technology 40

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

Years later, he’s got a thriving business that is not venture capital backed. Years later, he’s got a thriving business but one that is not venture capital backed. Matt launched his business from his proverbial garage while his wife was pregnant with their first child.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 29, 2018

Category owners or “kings” are often lauded in the SaaS industry where they take a disproportionately large chunk of market revenue. This means that owning a category is in most cases a requirement for the level of growth and investment multiples that venture capital demands. Oh how far we’ve come. So what’s left?

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

The session also talks about the challenges of working with a large amount of data in the context of a company, and the use of AI to efficiently route orders, optimize pricing, and improve customer experience. There is a need for deeper investments in the Brazilian market and better budget allocation in learning and development.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Sharon: Another thing you talked about is just this tremendous amount of private investment venture capital going into defense. We have Project Lima right now, which is looking at large language models. We recently wrote about the 100 billion that’s gone in since 2021. Safety is vital to effectiveness for us.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 9, 2019

That said, we’re still having trouble hiring machine-learning engineers and are nearly 5 heads behind plan to-date. Finally, I did want to point out — given the concerns about sales hiring — that we ended the quarter with 12 quota-carrying reps (QCRs), only 1 behind plan.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

There are a number of funding types that serve the SaaS business model, including: Venture Capital: The glamour means of procuring funds for your startup, venture capital is provided by firms or funds that see high growth potential or a strong track record of recent growth in a SaaS company, enough to merit substantial financial assistance.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, responsible communication for each prospect every time. I started my career actually in venture capital, specifically in SAS venture capital.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’m a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, which is a venture capital firm, which was very lucky to be a part of SendGrid’s journey. You needed to understand how do we keep the bad actors out and use machine learning to prevent spammers and phishers from taking advantage of our system.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2025

A deep dive with three leading AI investors who collectively manage billions in venture capital and have backed some of the most innovative companies in artificial intelligence.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously not even imaginable, it was unthinkable. And went back to work and we grew that company very successfully.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

A discussion about venture capital and the effects Covid-19 has had on in the industry. Join Nicole Quinn, General Partner at Lightspeed Ventures, Ann Miura-Ko, Founding Partner at Floodgate, and Alex Konrad, Senior Editor at Forbes as they talk about what they have seen in the industry lately and how they are moving forward.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Chris Orlob is the senior director of product marketing at Gong.io, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform to provide sales analytics. She is an active speaker on startups, venture capital, inbound marketing, remote work, and spacetech. He tweets on product design , investments, venture capitalism, and technology.

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Hitenism

JANUARY 16, 2017

Optimizely CEO Dan Siroker wrote in this Quora post : “This was a journey we committed to back in August 2015 to put us on a path to sustained growth and profitability without additional venture capital. Use venture capital to scale an inside sales team and dial for dollars to gain market share. Have we hit peak SaaS?

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